Students build on foundational visual coding skills to create interactive, multimedia programs that combine sprites, animations, text-to-speech, and sound. The unit emphasizes event-driven programming, debugging practices, code organization (comments, strings, cloning), transferring projects to micro:bit, and sharing finished work.
Learning Objectives
- Apply event-driven and parallel-processing concepts (green flag, shake, cloning) to implement coordinated sprite behaviors and timed animations.
- Demonstrate integration of text-to-speech, instrument/sound blocks, and costume changes to produce accessible, multisensory projects with correct sequencing.
- Analyze and debug programs using commenting, iterative save/test cycles, and targeted tests to identify and fix logic and runtime errors.
- Evaluate readiness for deployment by transferring projects to micro:bit, documenting code and string operations, and preparing projects for sharing.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 17 Lessons
- 30 hours
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- Unit 3 — Interactive Emoji and Sound Projects17
- 1.1Code on shake20 mins
- 1.2Prepping Yourself to Code20 mins
- 1.3Commenting Out Code when Debugging20 mins
- 1.4Add a Singer Sprite and Modify Its Costume20 mins
- 1.5Code the Green Flag for the Emoji Sprite20 mins
- 1.6Add Text-to-Speech Commands20 mins
- 1.7Save, Test, and Debug Your Program20 mins
- 1.8Coding Cool Stuff20 mins
- 1.9Code Each Instrument to Play a Sound20 mins
- 1.10Sidebar: Cloning and Inheritance20 mins
- 1.11Sidebar: Strings and String Operations20 mins
- 1.12Transfer Your Program to the micro:bit20 mins
- 1.13Sidebar: Parallel processing20 mins
- 1.14Code the makeEmojis Block20 mins
- 1.15Code the Mascot Sprite to Greet20 mins
- 1.16Share Your Program with the World20 mins
- 1.17Save, Test, and Debug Your Program20 mins
Instructor
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