A collection of fun programming projects that demonstrate the application of coding to topics in grammar, storytelling, reading, and writing.
- Grades 6-8
- Intermediate
- Web iPad
Description
Once your students have completed at least five lessons of Programming 101 or equivalent coding experience, you can assign these CCSS-aligned projects to complement your teaching on topics in grammar, storytelling, reading, and writing. For example, if you’re teaching a lesson on parts of speech, you can assign the Parts of Speech Sorting project. Your students will use coding to create a fun game where the player needs to sort words into bins based on their part of speech.
With this collection of English projects, you can easily integrate coding and project-based learning into your curriculum. Each STEM lesson walks students through how to make a project about something they’re learning in school with step-by-step instructions. At each step, it encourages them to make their project unique and interesting, emphasizing that coding is a creative medium much like writing or drawing.
We’re constantly updating our STEM courses with new projects, so if there’s something you’d like us to add, send us a message at support@tynker.com.
What Students Learn
- Use programming for English projects
- Build a slide show on a topic
- Build a quiz game
- Make an interactive chart
- Use animation to illustrate
- Narrate using your own voice
- Troubleshoot and debug programs
Technical Requirements
* Online courses require a modern desktop computer, laptop computer, Chromebook, or Netbook with Internet access and a Chrome (29+), Firefox (30+), Safari (7+), or Edge (20+) browser. No downloads required.
* Tablet courses require an iPad (iOS 10+) with Tynker or Tynker Junior app installed and Internet access
Lesson 1 : Fewer/Less
English 201
Time: 45+ minutes
Introduction
Tynker Blocks Introduced
Vocabulary
Objectives
Materials
Warm-Up
(15 minutes)
Activities
(30 minutes)
Facilitate as students complete all Fewer/Less modules on their own:
1. Introduction (Introduction)
2. Fewer/Less Example (Example)
3. Fewer/Less (DIY)
4. Quiz (Multiple-choice)
Extended Activities
(10 minutes)
U.S. Standards
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CCSS-Math:
MP.1
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CCSS-ELA:
L.L.6.3, L.L.6.2.A, L.L.6.2.B, L.RI.6.7, SL.6.1, L.L.7.3, SL.7.1, L.L.7.2.B, L.L.8.2.C, L.L.8.3, SL.8.1, L.L.8.2.A
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CSTA:
2-AP-12, 2-AP-13, 2-AP-16, 2-AP-17
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CS CA:
6-8.AP.13, 6-8.AP.16, 6-8.AP.17
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ISTE:
1.c, 1.d, 4.d, 5.c, 5.d, 6.b
U.K. Standards
Key stage 3
Pupils should be taught to: -
design, use and evaluate computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems
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create, reuse, revise and repurpose digital artefacts for a given audience, with attention to trustworthiness, design and usability
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understand a range of ways to use technology safely, respectfully, responsibly and securely, including protecting their online identity and privacy; recognise inappropriate content, contact and conduct, and know how to report concerns
Class Presentations
These student-facing slide presentations help educators seamlessly run Tynker lessons in a virtual or physical classroom setting.
Each lesson has its own set of slides that introduce the big ideas, suggest unplugged activities, and include a section for each activity module.
While running lesson slides, you can switch back and forth between the activity, the slides, answer keys and other lesson materials.
A sample slide presentation is available for your review. Please log in to view all the class presentations available with your plan..
Lesson 1
Fewer/Less
Lesson 2
Their/They're/There
Lesson 3
Homophones
Lesson 4
Spelling Collector
Lesson 5
Parts of Speech Sorting
Lesson 6
Antonyms
Lesson 7
Verb Tenses
Lesson 8
Book Report
Lesson 9
Root Words
Lesson 10
Sentence or Fragment?
Time: 45+ minutes
Introduction
Tynker Blocks Introduced
Vocabulary
Objectives
Materials
Warm-Up (15 minutes)
Activities (30 minutes)
Facilitate as students complete all Fewer/Less modules on their own:
1. Introduction (Introduction)2. Fewer/Less Example (Example)
3. Fewer/Less (DIY)
4. Quiz (Multiple-choice)
Extended Activities (10 minutes)
U.S. Standards
- CCSS-Math: MP.1
- CCSS-ELA: L.L.6.3, L.L.6.2.A, L.L.6.2.B, L.RI.6.7, SL.6.1, L.L.7.3, SL.7.1, L.L.7.2.B, L.L.8.2.C, L.L.8.3, SL.8.1, L.L.8.2.A
- CSTA: 2-AP-12, 2-AP-13, 2-AP-16, 2-AP-17
- CS CA: 6-8.AP.13, 6-8.AP.16, 6-8.AP.17
- ISTE: 1.c, 1.d, 4.d, 5.c, 5.d, 6.b
U.K. Standards
Key stage 3
Pupils should be taught to:- design, use and evaluate computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems
- create, reuse, revise and repurpose digital artefacts for a given audience, with attention to trustworthiness, design and usability
- understand a range of ways to use technology safely, respectfully, responsibly and securely, including protecting their online identity and privacy; recognise inappropriate content, contact and conduct, and know how to report concerns