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Compose and Code Lesson Plans

A Partnership to Implement the Inclusive Computer Science Model of Professional Development and a Digital Platform for PK-6 Computer Science teaching for Students with Disabilities

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Here you will find lessons that are specially designed to be used with the Compose and Code platform. These universally-designed lesson plans integrate literacy with computational thinking and coding to help students learn how to animate their written compositions. They are designed to incrementally build computational thinking and coding skills and should be completed in order. They are also designed with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to make them appropriate for all students, including those with disabilities. 

 

Lesson Foci:

Lesson 1: Pattern Recognition

Lesson 2: Sequencing

Lesson 3: Decomposition and Abstraction.

Lesson 4: Algorithms

Lesson 5: Coding and Computational Thinking

Note: if the Scratch website (scratch.mit.edu) is blocked on your school device, follow these instructions to access Scratch projects via the CS First viewer. All lessons can be completed in Scratch for CS First.

Five Lesson Sequence

Important note: Teachers should assign students a project and level in the CoCo teacher dashboard before students work in CoCo

Grades 3 & 4

Grades 5 & 6

Optional Pre-Unit

Unit 1 

Important note: Teachers should assign students a project and level in the CoCo teacher dashboard before students work in CoCo

Unit 2

Unit 3

Unit 4

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