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Submitted by Crystal Furman
Published: 28 Jun 2013 - 22:20

Students will learn about the major hardware inside the computer as well as peripherals.  Students will categorize hardware components based on their common level of abstraction.  For example, a video game can use a keyboard, touch...

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Submitted by Sean Morris
Published: 15 Apr 2013 - 14:22

This project is introduced before students begin working with Lists and is then assigned as a pair programming project after work on the Lists curriculum is finished. I have used it with mostly Freshman students taking Beginning Computer...

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Submitted by Sean Morris
Published: 15 Apr 2013 - 15:05

 

This project is introduced late in the year although it mainly emphasizes the use of random positioning, user interface and game design and could be used as an application of sorting. In order to add in sorting, you would need...

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Submitted by Beth Simon
Published: 16 Jan 2013 - 15:32

 

Final Project: Making your Impact with an Alice Movie/Game
 

Overview
In this project you will make a digital contribution to communicate your views on an issue facing...

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Submitted by Barbara Ericson
Published: 16 Jan 2013 - 14:44

In Scratch once conditionals and messages have been introduced you can ask the students to create an interactive story that has at least 2 different endings using at least one conditional (if).  You can use the ask "text" and wait block...

Groups: Creativity
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Submitted by Barbara Ericson
Published: 16 Jan 2013 - 13:04

Open ended assignments encourage creativity.  Once student have learned how to do simple drawing in Python using lines, rectangles, and circles they are asked to draw a house with at least one line, one rectangle, and one circle.  I...

Groups: Creativity