Lesson Plans
In this section, you'll find lesson plans developed by members of the CS4DLH team.
Art
Elementary: Intro to Coding and Animation
Intro to Coding and Animation is a module composed of two 45-minute lessons and has options for extending into other self-paced activities
Google CS First resources
MDE Standard alignment:
1.3.2.4.2 Document spatial elements of a dance phrase by drawing a picture, using symbols, or utilizing technology.
CSTA Standard:
1B-AP-10 ]Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals.
Middle School: Art & Artificial Intelligence
Art & Artificial Intelligence is a module composed of 5 lessons ranging from 20-60 minutes.
MIT Day of AI resources
MDE Standards alignment:
4.9.2.2.2 Investigate the impact of technology on design choices in a work.
5.7.2.3.2 Describe ethical responsibility when sharing original artwork through the internet and communication formats.
2.7.5.9.1. Analyze how to safely, ethically and intentionally develop digital identity when creating and presenting media artworks, through systematic communications.
CSTA Standards:
2-IC-20 Compare tradeoffs associated with computing technologies that affect people's everyday activities and career options.
3A-IC-30 Evaluate the social and economic implications of privacy in the context of safety, law, or ethics.
High School: Art, Programming, and Digital Images
Art, Programming, and Digital Images is composed of three 60-minute lessons.
Code.org resources
MDE Standard alignment:
2.9.2.2.1 Apply aesthetic criteria in developing, proposing, and refining artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media artworks, considering original inspirations, audience and constraints.
CSTA Standards:
2-AP-14 Create procedures with parameters to organize code and make it easier to reuse.
3A-DA-09 Translate between different bit representations of real-world phenomena, such as characters, numbers, and images.
Library/Media/Technology (K-2)
Code and Go Mice
Code and Go Mice is a module composed of two 20-minute lessons.
MDE Standard:
0E.2.1.1 Students will be able to represent observations and data in order to recognize patterns in the data, the meaning of those patterns, and possible relationships between variables.
CSTA Standard:
1A-AP-09 Model the way programs store and manipulate data by using numbers or other symbols to represent information.
Mathematics
Middle-school:
The Computational Thinkers: Introduction to Image Representation
The Computational Thinkers: Introduction to Order of Operations
Science
Physical Science - Graphing Motion with Spheros
Graphing Motion is a module composed of 2 45-minute lessons. The module integrates computer science and Physical Science concepts to be taught in a Grade 10-12 classroom. In these lessons, students will draw a position-time graph of their motion/walk along an established route and after that program a Sphero robot to execute a similar motion that can produce the same graph.
MDE Standards: 9P.2.2.1.3. Students will be able to use mathematics to represent physical variables and their relationships; compare mathematical expressions to the real world; and engage in computational thinking as they use or develop algorithms to describe the natural or designed worlds.
CSTA Standards: 3A-DA-12 Create computational models that represent the relationships among different elements of data collected from a phenomenon or process. (P4.4)
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Biology: Viral spread simulation (Grades 10-12)
Use Spheros to simulate the spread of a disease across vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. Challenge students to minimize infection of Spheros given a choice to spend money to vaccinate greater portions of the population or enhance the efficacy of the existing vaccine. In this activity, Sphero and his friends will be used to simulate the spread of disease.
MDE Standards: 9.4.4.2.2 Explain how the body produces antibodies to fight disease and how vaccines assist this process; 9.4.4.2.3 Describe how the immune system sometimes attacks some of the body’s own cells and how some allergic reactions are caused by the body's immune responses to usually harmless environmental substances.
CSTA Standards: 1A-AP-08: Model daily processes by creating and following algorithms (sets of step-by-step instructions) to complete tasks; 1B-DA-07: Use data to highlight or propose cause-and-effect relationships, predict outcomes, or communicate an idea.
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