Fourth Grade Coding students will be guided through the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Launch curriculum in addition to learning about digital citizenship and safety with Common Sense Media. Through PLTW Launch, students become hands-on problem solvers and learn to collaborate with their fellow students.
They begin each module with an engaging ebook story featuring the characters Mylo, Suzi, and Angelina, who introduce the challenge students will work together to solve. Then, in a series of activities that build upon each other, students are challenged to become confident in trying new things, to learn from mistakes, and to apply what they know to find solutions.
PLTW Launch is aligned to Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core State Standards for Math and English Language Arts, and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards.
Here is a sample of one of the projects that students will be working on in class:
Input/Output: Computer Systems
In this exploration of how computers work, students are encouraged to make analogies between the parts of the human body and parts that make up a computer. Students investigate reaction time as a measure of nervous system function. After Mylo suffers a concussion, his friends become interested in how to diagnose concussions and create a reaction-time computer program to assess a baseline before a concussion occurs. Students apply what they have learned to build their own reaction-time measurement devices on tablets.
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