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💻 8th Grade · Computer Science2-AP-11Unit 2: Programming: variables, conditionals & loops

Variables

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🎯 Objective: Students store and change data in variables.

Lesson outline

  1. Unplugged boxes.
  2. Code a score counter.
  3. Test.
  4. Exit: define a variable.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

2-AP-11

CSTA K–12 Computer Science Standards (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use variables, conditionals, loops and functions
  • Decompose problems

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Coding🎹 Touch typing course⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Programming: variables, conditionals & loops”

  1. Variables
  2. Conditionals
  3. Loops
  4. Functions
  5. Project: app or game

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