Lesson Summary

Tech-savvy Charlotte loves to code, click, and download. When her parents give her a doll, Charlotte is bored! What do you do with a doll? But after her dog mistakes the doll for a dog toy and shakes it apart, Charlotte goes into tinkering mode and creates … Doll-E 1.0. Can you design an upgrade to one of your toys, so that it can talk like Doll-E 1.0?

ELA Standards:

Grade 3 Reading Standards for Literature [RL] 

Key Ideas and Details

3. Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

Computer Science (DLCS) Standards:

Data [3-5.CT.c]

• 3-5.CT.c.1 Describe examples of databases from everyday life (e.g., library catalogs, school records, telephone directories, contact lists).
• 3-5.CT.c.2 Individually and collaboratively collect and manipulate data to answer a question using a variety of computing methods (e.g., sorting, totaling, averaging) and tools (such as a spreadsheet) to collect, organize, graph, and analyze data.

Programming and Development [3-5.CT.d]

• 3-5.CT.d.1 Individually and collaboratively create, test, and modify a program in a graphical environment (e.g., block-based visual programming language).
• 3-5.CT.d.3 Use interactive debugging to detect and correct simple program errors.

Video

Dolle-E 1.0 by Shanda McCloskey