Similar to the meal plans such as Hello Fresh and Chef’s Plate, Cobblestone Crate lesson plans are equally easy to prepare, where most of the ‘ingredients’ are included, yet will still allow you to ‘spice it up’ with ingredients from your own pedagogical pantry.
Added bonus: Unlike Hello Fresh, our ingredients won’t expire, so you can use these lesson plan ideas whenever it fits your schedule best.
Each activity inside the Crate is designed to take approximately 1-2 hours to complete. You may choose to work through all of the activities together as a class or assign them as an independent study for your students – both options work!
A subject-specific, multi-activity pack designed to be implemented on your class schedule
Activity videos which provide step-by-step instructions for your students and prompts to continue their learning
Asynchronous student engagement opportunities
Reflection activities and suggested sharing options
Asynchronous support via email at help@cobblestonecollective.ca
This Cobblestone Crate, designed for Grade 4-6, will help students expand their storytelling abilities into a digital platform. You and your students will learn how to use code to tell an interactive story. After exploring the coding options in Scratch for CS First, your students will be able to get creative and bring their own stories to life. This Crate has a focus on builds and creativity and would be a great supplement to teachers looking to develop and expand students knowledge and understanding of story creation.
The 5 Activities included are:
This Cobblestone Crate, designed for grade 4 to 6 teachers, will help you integrate CS First activities to supplement your current Science unit. This series of Activities would be a great challenge for students in grades 4-6 studying habitats and the environment. Prior knowledge of key terms (i.e. herbivore, omnivore, carnivore, predator, prey, etc.) is required to boost their creativity and build in Scratch.
The 5 Activities included are:
This Cobblestone Crate, created and intended for grade 4-6 teachers, will walk you through integrating the CS First Music and Sound unit in order to complement your Music class activities! During these 5 activities, students will have the opportunity to directly explore and integrate the components of the music curriculum by coding talent contests, dance parties, a DJ battle or even a music video! Moreover, the notions of coding loops, conditionals, functions and more will subtly be integrated into these activities!
The 5 Activities included are:
This Cobblestone Crate, designed for Grades 4 to 6 will bring probability and computational thinking to life with CS First. You and your students will explore 5 essential probability math lessons that help not only help develop the ability to code and learn mathematics but also enhance problem-solving and creativity. During these lessons, students will explore probability concepts starting with vocabulary and building up to designing various experiments within the CS First environment. This lesson series would be a great supplement for teachers looking to enhance Math and CTF in their junior classrooms.
The 5 Activities included are:
Ce coffret Cobblestone, créé et destiné pour les enseignants de la 4e à la 6e année, vous accompagnera dans l’intégration de l’unité Musique et son de CS First afin de complémenter vos activités du cours de Musique!
Au cours de ces 5 activités, les élèves auront l’occasion d’explorer et d’intégrer directement les composantes du programme-cadre de musique en codant des concours de talents, des soirées dansantes, une bataille de DJ ou même un clip vidéo! De plus, les notions de codage des boucles, des conditions, des fonctions et plus encore seront exploitées sournoisement (!) dans la construction de ces activités!
Les 5 activités incluses sont :
This Cobblestone Crate, designed for grade 7 to 9 teachers, will help you integrate CS First activities to supplement your current Science unit. This series of Activities would be a great challenge or review for students in grades 7-9 studying atoms, elements and compounds. Consider spending time, prior to utilizing this crate, with your students developing background knowledge on key terms (i.e. atoms, compounds, mixtures, etc.) in order to boost their creativity and build in Scratch.
The 5 Activities included are:
This Cobblestone Crate, designed for grade 7 to 9 teachers, will help you integrate CS First activities to supplement your current Mathematics unit. You and your students will explore 5 Algebra math lessons that will not only help develop the ability to code and learn mathematics but also enhance problem-solving and creativity. During these lessons, students will explore probability concepts starting with vocabulary and building up to designing various experiments within the CS First environment. This lesson series would be a great supplement for teachers looking to enhance Math, and CTF in their intermediate classrooms.
The 5 Activities included are:
All of your lessons are packaged into a concise video, typically between 15-30 minutes. We encourage you to preview them beforehand to ensure a basic understanding of the concepts being discussed.
Pro-Tip: Open the video directly in YouTube, speed up the playback speed and open the transcripts for quicker viewing!
We encourage you and your class to pause the videos at certain times for class discussions, student reflections and practice/creativity time.
Each lesson plan has the length of the co-taught lesson video as well as our suggested supplemental time to complete the activties.
Reflection activities and sharing strategies will be provided for each activity, but we’ll leave any assessment techniques up to you, recognizing the many different assessment options that are out there.
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