Python 1 Pacing Guide - Codesters Education Guide

General Guidelines

Each lesson: 40 minutes (one instruction day)
Each create project: 40 minutes (one instruction day)
Lessons are intended to be completed sequentially. Skipping, reordering, or jumping between lessons is not advised.
Every six lessons, an optional day is included in the pacing guide for additional activities. These activities increase student engagement with project work.
- Gallery Walk: Students display their projects on their classroom computers. Students circulate throughout the room with a chance to try each project or students explore the class page on their own.
- Peer Review: Teacher assigns a student's project to another student for review and that student provides structured feedback to be considered for project revisions
- Code Walkthrough: Students present their projects to the class and explain their code.
Lessons also include optional supplemental materials: Direct Instruction Slides, Unplugged Do Now Activity, Kahoot, Quizlet

Full Module Pacing

Days	Lesson	Concepts	Project
2	Lesson 1: Dance Steps	data types, parameters, programs = linear	dance routine
2	Lesson 2: Dialogue	dot notation, parameters, programs = linear	retell a fable
2	Lesson 3: Robot Design	parameters, comments, dot notation	code an emoji
2	Lesson 4: Night Sky	variables, using variables as parameters	kaleidoscope
2	Lesson 5: My Friends	string variables, string concatenation	"Name Game" song
2	Lesson 6: Madlibs	variables, user input, casting	mad-libs style limerick
1	Optional: Gallery Walk, Peer Review, Code Walkthrough	Engage with Project Work
2	Lesson 7: Roll the Dice	random, casting, string concatenation	random scene generator
2	Lesson 8: Size Shifting Shapes	math operators, integers and floats, stage event	scenic areas
2	Lesson 9: Spirograph	loops	custom spirograph
2	Lesson 10: Robot Factory	changing variables within a loop	video game scene
2	Lesson 11: Wizard Whiz	if statements, random numbers	story starter
2	Lesson 12: Choose Your Adventure	if, elif, and else, user input	code your own adventure
1	Optional: Gallery Walk, Peer Review, Code Walkthrough	Engage with Project Work
2	Lesson 13: Begin Rock Paper Scissors	user input, conditionals, random	(first part of two-part lesson)
2	Lesson 14: Who Won Rock Paper Scissors?	compound ifs (logical operators), updating a string	enhanced rock paper scissors
2	Lesson 15: Guess the Number	nesting code, loops, comparison operators, casting	endangered species quiz
2	Lesson 16: Pet Shop	lists, looping through a list	animated action scene
2	Lesson 17: Password	loop through string, nested conditionals, break	acrostic poem
2	Lesson 18: Piggy Bank Mystery	list of floats, list functions	data analysis
1	Optional: Gallery Walk, Peer Review, Code Walkthrough	Engage with Project Work
1	Lesson 19: Concept Review	concept review
2	Lesson 20a: Midterm: Which Sprite Are You?	conditionals, loops, lists, list functions
2	Lesson 20b: Midterm: Make Your Own Quiz	conditionals, loops, lists, list functions	quiz
2	Lesson 21: Extra Credit Project	practice previous concepts	student choice
Total: 47

Detailed Pacing

Day 1	Introduce Lesson: Direct Instruction Slides or Kahoot	10 minutes
	Students start lesson	30 minutes
Day 2	Students finish lesson or start Create Project	10 minutes
	Create Project	30 minutes

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