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Week 2: Get to know your site

Week 2 : Get to know your site

  1. Ice breaker - Rock/paper/scissors within site and then group
  2. Discuss site visits (Bring background check to site, checklist, and fill in contracts)
  3. https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/setting-classroom-tone  (2 minutes)
  4. Role Play: What should you do for first club meeting?
    1. Have kids decorate nametags or table tents while waiting to begin
    2. Introduce yourselves
    3. OPTIONAL: Ice Breaker
    4. AWAY FROM COMPUTERS: What is Computer Science?
      1. CS is about CREATING, developing solutions to problems, studying algorithms
      2. What is an algorithm?  Series of precise step-by-step instructions for solving a problem
      3. Examples of algorithms all around us (recipes, directions for legos, piano music)
    5. Club Rules: Create with the kids
      1. Pay attention when asked
      2. Only school-appropriate projects
      3. Time is for creating Scratch projects, not playing on the computers
      4. Respect others
      5. Have fun
    6. OPTIONAL: Show motivational video What Most Schools Don't Teach Links to an external site.What Most Schools Don't Teach
    7. Show 3 Motivational Scratch Projects (art, story, game)
      1. TIP: Let kids pick which to see...
    8. Show Scratch Overview (e.g., how to make a cat walk)
      1. Show stage, sprites, scripts and costume
      2. Show categories of blocks
      3. Show movement and looks and control
    9. MOVE TO COMPUTERS: Free Scratch Time for Creating (not playing)
      1. Student accounts? https://scratch.mit.edu/educators/faq Links to an external site.
      2. Links to an external site.Give challenge sheet for structure
    10. AWAY FROM COMPUTERS: If 1.5 hours at site: Following Directions Unplugged Activity
      1. Stacking cups or building legos???
    11. Distribute handouts (intro letter you wrote + others optionally)  and collect nametags
      1. https://llk.media.mit.edu/scratch/Learning-with-Scratch.pdf Links to an external site.
  5. Materials
    1. Algorithm Handouts (in Canvas Files)
    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc 
      1. Your motivational projects: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/5340332/ Links to an external site.
      2. Week 1 Handout  in Google Drive
  7. Work time for each Team:
    1. Use laptops for Canvas Peer Review of Scratch Motivational Homework
    2. Finalize transportation for site visit, discuss Download Club Tips
  8. Checkin: Completed background check form, any remaining club matches
  9. Homework: Site visits, intro letter, read portfolios, site demographics ("quiz"); Finish learning Scratch