Today's tasks
Completing the Introductory Week — SEE, TIPP&SEE, and Save
Today you will finish the introductory week of your unit by working through the final three lessons: SEE, TIPP&SEE combined, and Save your Project. By the end of today you will have a complete picture of the framework this curriculum uses to get students started with Scratch before the real subject-matter content begins.
Working together with your group, work through each of the following lessons. As before, you can move through each lesson in about half the time shown on the curriculum website.
- Work through the SEE Introductory Lesson. (20–25 min)
- SEE stands for Sprites, Events, Explore — the "look inside" half of the TIPP&SEE strategy.
- Pay close attention to the Warm Up questions at the start of this lesson. They are doing more work than they might appear to.
Discuss with your group: TIPP asked students to read a program from the outside (title, purpose, playing it). SEE asks them to look inside (sprites, events, code). Why does the order matter? What would be lost if students started with SEE before doing TIPP?
- Work through the TIPP&SEE Combined Introductory Lesson. (20–25 min)
- This lesson brings both halves of the strategy together for the first time.
- Notice the Warm Up question: "How are sprites similar to characters in a story?" This is the first moment in the curriculum where the subject matter of your unit does real conceptual work, rather than just providing a theme. Think about how your unit handled this connection.
Discuss with your group: In the Warm Up for this lesson, the curriculum draws a connection between Scratch sprites and characters in a story. How did your unit's version of this question connect the CS concept to its subject matter? Did the connection feel meaningful and necessary, or more like a surface-level parallel? What's the difference between those two things?
- Work through the Save Your Project Introductory Lesson. (15–20 min)
- This lesson is more procedural than the previous three, but don't skip the Warm Up. The question "What can you do now with programming that you couldn't do before?" is a deliberate metacognitive moment for students at the end of the introductory week.
For your project document
Make a copy of the reflection document →
Day 2 Reflection Questions
Record your responses to these questions in your reflection document. Be prepared to discuss them with your group before the end of class.
- As you wrap up today, what aspect of the introductory week most changed or deepened your thinking from where you were at the end of Day 1? What question do you still have going into the content weeks?
- TIPP and SEE together form a complete strategy for reading code before writing it. What does the full TIPP&SEE framework ask students to do as readers of a Scratch project? Why might a curriculum designed for elementary students put so much emphasis on reading and understanding existing code before students write any of their own?
- The TIPP&SEE combined lesson includes a Warm Up question that connects Scratch sprites to a concept from your unit's subject area. Looking at that moment as a teacher: was the connection between the CS concept and the subject matter something students genuinely needed the subject knowledge to answer, or could any student have answered it without knowing anything about your unit's topic? What does your answer tell you about what true integration looks like?