Unit 8 of 11 in a semester-long Middle School Computer Science course in Scratch (Units 1-9) and JavaScript (Units 10-11). Activities easily level for students of different levels of comfort and ability. Activities easily level for students of different levels of comfort and ability. This unit features Scratch starter code custom-made for students to translate their offline algorithm for Tower of Hanoi into Scratch code.

Includes lesson plans and all necessary course materials, including a presentation, activity handouts and solutions, starter code, and Tower of Hanoi solution code and explainer

Topics include:

• Introduction to Functions
• Functions with parameters
• Efficiency with functions
• Computational thinking with algorithms
• Tower of Hanoi puzzle
• Translating offline algorithms to code
• Explaining computational concepts
• Filming a code walkthrough