Course Details

Instructor

Barbara Peskin

Barbara Peskin has been helping students and teachers integrate technology for over 20 years. She has led many online and face to face staff development workshops. Currently she is teaching Digital Literacy and Scratch Enrichment at Concord Middle School and designed a curriculum for students that lets them both learn Scratch anew and/or challenge those with already strong skills. She has worked closely with the Harvard Ed Scratch team through local Meetups. She is excited to help classroom teachers integrate Scratch in their curriculum because she has seen how rewarding creating with Scratch has been for students.

Course Outline

Week 1 – 3 hours:  

• Learn: Intro to Scratch. Create a Scratch account and join our studio.  
• Create: Build a Race.  
• Explore: CS First’s An Unusual Discovery.  
• Share: Feedback on building the project and projects you found related to your content area.  

Week 2 – 3 hours:  

• Learn: More Scratch Features. Look for Scratch projects related to your content area.  
• Create: Design a ScratchPop (BrainPop style Scratch Animation) or game related to your content and share in our studio.  
• Explore: Look at classmate’s races in our studio. Comment on several using reflection question #2.  
• Share: What ideas do you have for the Week 4 lesson plan. How might you use or assign Scratch to students in your content area.  

Week 3 – 3 hours:  

• Learn:  
  • Scratch and State Frameworks for DLCS
  • ScratchEd’s Curriculum Guide  https://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/resources/creative-computing-curriculum-guidefor-scratch-30.html 
• Create: Start a model Scratch project related to your content area and/or exemplifies a Scratch project you will assign students in your Week 4 lesson plan.  
• Explore and Share: Explore classmates ScratchPops in our studio and comment on reflection question #3. 

Week 4 – 3 hours:  

• Create: A Lesson Plan for students.  
• Create: Include a model Scratch project for the lesson along with any instructions needed for students. This could be based on the Race or ScratchPop you created  in Weeks 1-3 or be entirely new.  
• Share: Explore classmate projects in studio and comment on reflection question #4.  
• Do: Complete your reflection  

Optional Graduate Credit Assignment:

Submit lesson plan and sample projects one week after last class day. Grading Criteria Rubric.  

DESE Standards

This‌ ‌course‌ ‌supports‌ ‌the‌ ‌following‌ ‌standards:

MA: Digital Literacy & Computer Science (2016)

6-8.CAS.a.4 Describe and use safe, appropriate, and responsible practices (netiquette) when participating in online communities (e.g., discussion groups, blogs, social networking sites). 

6-8.CAS.b.3 Apply fair use for using copyrighted materials (e.g., images, music, video, text). 

6-8.DTC.a.3 Integrate information from multiple file formats into a single artifact. 

6-8.DTC.b.1 Communicate and publish key ideas and details individually or collaboratively in a way that informs, persuades, and/or entertains using a variety of digital tools and media-rich resources. 

6-8.DTC.b.2 Collaborate synchronously and asynchronously through online digital tools. 

6-8.DTC.b.3 Demonstrate ability to communicate appropriately through various online tools 

6-8.CT.a.2 Define a simple function that represents a more complex task/problem and can be reused to solve similar tasks/problems. 

6-8.CT.b.1 Design solutions that use repetition and conditionals.  

6-8.CT.b.2 Use logical reasoning to predict outputs given varying inputs. 

6-8.CT.b.3 Individually and collaboratively decompose a problem and create a sub-solution for each of its parts (e.g., video game, robot obstacle course, making dinner). 

6-8.CT.b.4 Recognize that more than one algorithm can solve a given problem. 

6-8.CT.b.5 Recognize that boundaries need to be taken into account for an algorithm to produce correct results. 

6-8.CT.d.1 Individually and collaboratively compare algorithms to solve a problem, based on a given criteria (e.g., time, resource, accessibility). 

6-8.CT.d.2 Use functions to hide the detail in a program. 

6-8.CT.d.3 Create a program, individually and collaboratively, that implements an algorithm to achieve a given goal. 

6-8.CT.d.4 Implement problem solutions using a programming language, including all of the following: looping behavior, conditional statements, expressions, variables, and functions. 

6-8.CT.d.5 Trace programs step-by-step in order to predict their behavior. 

6-8.CT.d.6 Use an iterative approach to development and debugging to understand the dimensions of a problem clearly. 

Registration Information

Sign Up for “Teaching with Scratch for Your Content Area”

July 11 – August 1, 2022

MassCUE Member Cost: $150 Non-Member Cost: $190

Graduate Credit (Optional): 1 Graduate Credit through WSU

Registration Deadline: July 4, 2022

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