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Grade 1 Coding Curriculum: Sequential Events

What is Coding?

Video overview about coding.

What Are Sequential Events?

Video overview covering the concepts of Sequential Events.

Lesson 1: Introduction to Sequential Events

Students will demonstrate an understanding that tasks are broken up into steps and that the steps need to be completed in a specific order.

Lesson 2: Program Your Teacher

The students will be able to tell step-by-step instructions for completing a simple task.

Lesson 3: Lily Pad Hop

Students will use words and/or pictures to give specific directions for how to move a characterto a specified destination on a map. Students will alter existing code to fix the steps that lead a character to a specific destination on a map.

Lesson 4: Musical Compositions

Students will create four rhythm patterns and write the sequence in which the rhythms occur.

Lesson 5: Mystery Structures

Students will provide step-by-step instructions for a classmate to build a structure.

Lesson 6: Food Fight on Scratch

The students will use Scratch to program a picture of a food item to move on the screen.

Chrome Music Lab Tutorial

Video for applying lessons learned on Chrome Music.

Scratch Tutorial

Video for applying lessons learned on Scratch.

Created by a Teacher and Coder

Together, Ace and Emily teamed up to make a practical guide for Ontario teachers to deliver quality coding lessons to students.

Hi, I'm Ace!

I am a UofT Computer Science graduate and have over 10 years of professional programming experience at IBM, TD Bank and Loyalty One. I will teach you coding concepts from the new Ontario curriculum using simple, real life examples.

Hi, I'm Emily!

I'm an Ontario primary teacher with over 8 years of teaching experience and a Masters of Education. I was lost with the new coding curriculum, then Ace taught me the concepts and we teamed up to create a practical guide.

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