Elementary Summer 2024

Elementary Summer 2024

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Subjects

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Apps

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Lesson

Food Pop Culture

Subject: History
Created By: Alyssa Shelly

This lesson guides 6th-grade students in designing and coding a culturally relevant app using Code.org’s App Lab, incorporating buttons, text, images, sounds, and screens to showcase foods from their cultural backgrounds. Through modeling, scaffolding, and team learning, students will remix a provided template, receive individualized support, and be assessed using a rubric based on coding, design, and cultural relevance.

Keres Language

Subject: Language
Created By: Patrick Keyope

This lesson plan aims to teach students about colors in the Keres Language.

Sheep Counter Design

Subject: Cultural Awareness
Created By: Marwin Smiley

This semester-long lesson guides 6th–8th grade students in collaboratively designing and building culturally relevant apps using Code.org’s App Lab, incorporating buttons, text, images, sound, and screens. Through role-based teamwork, iterative prototyping, and structured assessments, students will create apps that address personal, community, or educational needs while developing coding, problem-solving, and project management skills.

Elements of Art

Subject: Art
Created By: Rodney King Lisondra

Focuses on teaching the elements of art through coding with AppLab, integrating Native American arts and culture. The lesson emphasizes cultural awareness, digital skills, and student autonomy, with assessment based on content presentation, digital skills, organization, and presentation confidence.

So’ Dine’é

Subject: Culture
Created By: Cornelia Kedelty

Students will explore constellation history, create their own star patterns, and develop an app-based project, using Navajo terminology and inclusive instructional methods to support diverse learners.