Lesson Overview

This lesson gives students a chance to make something that is personally relevant and which might be shared with someone else. Costumes are a core focus of the lesson. Students first use the costume editor to customize the message in their cards, and then learn to change costumes in a loop to produce flipbook-like animations.

Prep & Materials

You will need:

Welcome to CS First Unit Plan (Gandi IDE Edition)

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Gandi IDE Vocabulary (basics)

Gandi IDE Vocabulary

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Animated Card Activity Guide (Gandi IDE Edition)

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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Use loops to repeat code
• Change the way a sprite looks with code

Computer Science Topics Covered

• Loop: A structure that repeats a sequence of instructions

CSTA, Common Core, and other standards available in the standards alignment sheet.