Scratch Coding Lesson Plan
Technology: Scratch
Link to Proficiency: Haiku Scratch (created by someone else): https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/869980/
Scratch created by me: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/254038139/#editor
Targeted Learners/Content area: 6th or 7th grade ELA
Lesson objectives: The objective of this lesson would be to have students become more familiar with the structure and style of haikus. They would have the opportunity to create their own, generate them through the Scratch link and read them to one another.
Lesson context: I would use this in the middle of a unit on different types of poetry. By the time I’d use this lesson, students would probably already have written poetry in various other styles, so it would be a great way to add fun and useful instruction to the poetry unit to have a haiku generator for students to use to help prime their brains to write their own haikus.
Goal of technology use: The goal of this technology in this particular lesson is to have students become used to the sound of a haiku, its length and structure, and the many ways in which they can create them. I’d likely have them explore this Scratch link in partners, so I think it would also be useful for collaborative learning.
Brief description of how technology will be used with students: Students would be given this link to the haiku Scratch program and told to spend the next 10-15 minutes with a partner, generating haikus. Afterward, students would have 10 minutes to write their own haikus to share with their elbow partners.
Link to Proficiency: Haiku Scratch (created by someone else): https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/869980/
Scratch created by me: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/254038139/#editor
Targeted Learners/Content area: 6th or 7th grade ELA
Lesson objectives: The objective of this lesson would be to have students become more familiar with the structure and style of haikus. They would have the opportunity to create their own, generate them through the Scratch link and read them to one another.
Lesson context: I would use this in the middle of a unit on different types of poetry. By the time I’d use this lesson, students would probably already have written poetry in various other styles, so it would be a great way to add fun and useful instruction to the poetry unit to have a haiku generator for students to use to help prime their brains to write their own haikus.
Goal of technology use: The goal of this technology in this particular lesson is to have students become used to the sound of a haiku, its length and structure, and the many ways in which they can create them. I’d likely have them explore this Scratch link in partners, so I think it would also be useful for collaborative learning.
Brief description of how technology will be used with students: Students would be given this link to the haiku Scratch program and told to spend the next 10-15 minutes with a partner, generating haikus. Afterward, students would have 10 minutes to write their own haikus to share with their elbow partners.