Learning Objectives

What We Hope to Teach Students

Upon completion of this lesson plan, we hope your students should be able to create a unique narrative that they will share using a comprehensive coding program called Scratch. Through these outcomes, your students should meet the following standards:

Common Core Writing standards for Grade 3

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

  • Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
  • Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
  • Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
  • Provide a sense of closure.
  • With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to the task and purpose.
  • With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising and editing.
  • With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

(See pages 20 and 21 of the Common Core Standards PDF)

California State Computer Science Standards

https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdesped/accommodationsmanual_ccss_k12_techscope

  • Use a word processing application to write, edit, print and save simple assignments.
  • Use menu/tool bar functions (e.g. font/size/style/, line spacing, margins) to format, edit and print a document.
  • Highlight text, copy and paste text.
  • Inset and size a graphic in a document.
  • Proofread and edit writing using appropriate resources (e.g. dictionary, spell checker, grammar, and thesaurus).
  • Create, edit and format text on a slide.
  • Create a series of slides and organize them to present research or convey an idea.
  • Copy and paste or import graphics; change their size and position on a slide.
  • Use painting and drawing tools/ application to create and edit work.
  • Watch online videos and use play, pause, rewind and forward buttons while taking notes.
  • Use age appropriate technologies to locate, collect, organize content from media collection for specific purposes, citing sources.
  • Identify and analyze the purpose of a media message (to inform, persuade and entertain).
  • Work collaboratively online with other students under teacher supervision.
  • Use a variety of age-appropriate technologies (e.g. drawing program, presentation software) to communicate and exchange ideas.
  • Create projects that use text and various forms of graphics, audio, and video, (with proper citations) to communicate ideas.
  • Use teacher developed guidelines to evaluate multimedia presentations for organization, content, design, presentation and appropriateness of citations.

(See pages 4-7 of the California Standards PDF)