DLT:
- Identify elements that contribute to a website's trustworthiness or untrustworthiness
- Use basic web searching techniques to find relevant information online
- debug code to make a fully-functioning basketball game project using the physics engine
Vocabulary:
- Relevant - closely connected to a topic
- Search Engine - A program that searches for items on the World Wide Web.
- Trustworthy - reliable, honest, and truthful
Activities:
- Code.org Lesson 16: Sources and Research - This lesson encourages students to think more about how to find relevant and trustworthy information online. After viewing and discussing a video about how search engines work, students will search for information relevant to their site. They'll need to analyze the sites they find for credibility to decide which are appropriate to use on their own website.
Question of the Day: How do we find relevant and trustworthy information on the Internet?
Scavenger Hunt Download (Pairs)
Download PDFActivity Guide Download (Group Work)
Download PDF- Tynker 202: Basketball - In this lesson, students will create a basketball game using the physics engine! In the last project, students will create a physics-based game that sorts falling objects with a rotating platform.
The blocks we will be learning about in this lesson are ‘on start’, ’forever’, ‘repeat’, ‘next costume’, ‘wait’, and ‘play sound until done’