Python 3 Pacing Guide - Codesters Education Guide

General Guidelines

Each lesson: 80 minutes (two instruction days)
Each create project: 80 minutes (two instruction days)
Lessons are intended to be completed sequentially. Skipping, reordering, or jumping between lessons is not advised.
Every three 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 classpage 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: Unplugged Do Now Activity

Days	Lesson	Concepts	Project
4	Lesson 1: Arcade Game	functional programming, docstrings	Maze Game
4	Lesson 2: Animal Classifier	logical operators	Superhero Classifier
4	Lesson 3: Time of Day	importing modules (datetime)	Calculate Days Alive
1	Optional: Gallery Walk, Peer Review, Code Walkthrough	engage with project work
4	Lesson 4: Grade Calculator	list functions, console output	Build Dance List
4	Lesson 5: Alien Whack-a-Mole	dictionaries	Shape Based Art
4	Lesson 6: High Score	read and write to files	Repurpose Game - High Score
1	Optional: Gallery Walk, Peer Review, Code Walkthrough	engage with project work
4	Lesson 7: Enter Password	while loops	Create GIF
4	Lesson 8: Starry Night	error handling	Screen Saver
4	Lesson 9: Ice Cream Shoppe	nested conditionals, loops	Choose your own adventure
4	Lesson 10: Maze Maker	2D lists	Create Art using 2D lists
1	Optional: Gallery Walk, Peer Review, Code Walkthrough	global variables, user controlled movement
Total: 43

Days 1-2	Introduce Lesson: Direct Instruction Slides or Kahoot	10 minutes
	Students complete lesson	70 minutes
Day 3-4	Students explore examples and start Create Project	10 minutes
	Create Project	70 minutes

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