Texas Tech Apps: 3rd Grade
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 38
- Grade 3rd
This course is aligned to TX standards and is designed to provide computer science instruction for Texas 3rd Grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
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UNITS - 9 (38 lessons)
Students get oriented to CodeHop, learn the parts of a computing system, and apply computational thinking to design a school.
Students follow Scout's four-part programming expedition and use drawing tools to create customized sprites and animated backdrops.
Students build programs with parallel sequences, events, and broadcast messages to trigger character interactions and tell stories.
Students learn to repeat instructions with loops, debug loop-based programs, and model how devices communicate over a network.
Students use if/then and if/then/else conditionals to build responsive programs like a color-sensing activity and a balloon game.
Students create and change variables, use comparison operators, and manage data with lists in an I-Spy activity.
Students learn to create and reuse functions, culminating in a music-synced dance project.
Students apply design thinking and prior programming skills to build a race track game and an inquiry-based data visualization project.
Students evaluate data reliability, explore technology's cultural impact, practice online safety and etiquette, manage digital files, and use productivity software like Google Docs and Microsoft Word.
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