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I teach computer science in a SoFla High School. I am a Certified FL K12 Educator and FL K12 Computer Science Certified.
In the past I qualified a middle school VEX team to the State of FL level of the VEX competition. I am also part of the State of Florida K12 Computer Science Standards Revisions team.
Classes I teach:
IT Fundamentals
Advanced IT Honors
AP CSP (Advanced Placements): standard College Board driven curriculum with Python, Scratch and pseudo code
Programming languages:
- Python
- Javascript
- JAVA
Block- based / natural language:
- Scratch
- pseudo code
Robotics:
- VEX block code
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Scratch Coding Programming Intro Course | Elementary School | Middle School
This is a new Scratch Course we started to work on. It is an intro course for Elementary and Middle School. Students as young as 3rd or 4th grade can take this course as it is very intuitive and very interactive. Block-based programming is very popular nowadays with Elementary and Middle School students. Some of these students also take robotics classes that are block based such as VEX (which has a version based on Scratch). Students will learn how to move characters around in no time. The cours
3rd - 8th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Scratch Coding | Programming | Elementary School | Your first game | Unit 5
Cats, bears, fish and sharks! In this fun Intro to Scratch Coding Course for Elementary School students. This is Unit 5 on designing your first game where you can control sprites by keyboard, test collisions and keep scores! This fun introductory Scratch track saves the Coding Teacher prep time! In this game you will control the shark with your arrow keys, while the golden fish will randomly move around. You have to try & catch the golden fish! The Course is structured on 12 units and it ha
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Scratch Coding | Programming | Elementary | Loops and Conditionals | Unit 6
Intro to Scratch Coding and Programming Course. Cats, bears, fish and sharks! In this fun Intro to Scratch Coding Course for Elementary School students. This is Unit 6 on sequences, loops and conditionals! We also discuss variables and give examples. This fun introductory Scratch track saves the Coding Teacher prep time! In this game you will control the shark with your arrow keys, while the golden fish will randomly move around. You have to try & catch the golden fish! The Course is structu
4th - 8th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Scratch Coding | Lesson Plan | Making Music | Elementary | Middle School
This is the lesson plan for Unit 4, Intro To Scratch Coding. This unit is on making music in Scratch! Different kinds of musical sprites and their predefined sounds are discusses. Download this awesome resource and try it out with your kids, they will love it! *Licensing policy.* Licence is per teacher, per class. If you teach multiple classes please purchase multiple licenses.
1st - 8th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Intro To Scratch Coding | Making Music | Elementary School | Middle School
Make a mini-orchestra in Scratch! Have fun and play music with simple, straight forward Scratch Coding instructions and the sprites provided by mit.scratch.edu This fun Intro to Scratch lesson can be taught at Elementary or MIddle School level and it will be very engaging for your students. The lesson is suitable for both in class and online instructions. This resource is a part of a full 18 weeks Intro to Scratch Course with lesson plans, lecture notes and exercises. The Unit also contains an e
1st - 8th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Scratch Coding | Elementary | NO PREP | Making Letters and Sounds
This is Unit 2 of a new Scratch Course we started to work on. It is an intro course for Elementary and Middle School. Students as young as 3rd or 4th grade can take this course as it is very intuitive and very interactive. This first unit briefly introduces students to graphical resources, events and code by using a practical example: writing a name and making each letter of this name play a different sound when pushed! Block-based programming is very popular nowadays with Elementary and Middle
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Intro To Scratch Coding | Lesson Plan | Elementary School | Unit 1
Lots of cats and meows in this Lesson Plan for the Units 1 of Intro to Scratch Coding Course for Elementary School students. The Course is structured on 12 units (= 12 weeks) and it has presentation slides, lesson plans, hands-on coding exercises, and EOC projects. The Course is hands-on, enticing, easy to follow and standard. It takes the young students from variables and basic data through operands, control statements, conditionals and loops etc. It moves and meows the cat a lot! This first u
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Intro To Scratch Coding Programming | Elementary School | Move Sprites
Cats and bears in this fun Intro to Scratch Coding Course for Elementary School students. This is Unit 3 on choosing and moving sprites, backgrounds, moving things around etc. The Course is structured on 12 units and it has presentation slides, lesson plans, hands-on coding exercises, and EOC projects. The Course is hands-on, enticing, easy to follow. The course is informal and action oriented with the objective of attracting the students to coding! This unit can be taught in about a week b
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Scratch Coding | Programming | Lesson Plan | Parrot Game | Elementary | Unit 7
In this fun Intro to Scratch Coding Course for Elementary School students you will find fish, bears and sharks! This is the lesson plan of Unit 7 on designing your own parrot game! Yay! This fun introductory Scratch track saves the Coding Teacher prep time! Your students will implement a game where a parrot that you will control with your arrow keys "flies" through different worlds and landscapes & collects fruits / points. You have to avoid the enemies so you don't crash! The Course is s
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Scratch Coding | Programming | Lesson Plan | Fluently Game | Elementary | Unit 8
In this fun Intro to Scratch Coding Course for Elementary School students you will find fish, bears and sharks! This is the lesson plan of Unit 8 on designing your own Fluently Game! This fun introductory Scratch track saves the Coding Teacher prep time! Your students will implement a game where a player nicely talks to the computer, solves problems and addresses general knowledge questions. The Course is structured on 10 units and it has presentation slides, lesson plans, hands-on coding ex
1st - 6th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Scratch Coding | Programming | Lesson Plan | Guessistential Game | Unit 9
In this fun Intro to Scratch Coding Course for Elementary School students you will find your friend the cat! This is the Lesson Plan of Unit 9 on designing your own Guessistential Game! This is a short, easy game where the player has to guess a number the cat is thinking of! This fun introductory Scratch track saves the Coding Teacher prep time! The Course is structured on 10 units and it has presentation slides, lesson plans, hands-on coding exercises, games and two EOC projects. A lot
1st - 6th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Scratch Coding | Elementary School | Your first game | Lesson Plan | Unit 5
Fish and sharks! In this fun Intro to Scratch Coding Course for Elementary School students. This is the lesson plan of Unit 5 on designing your first game where you can control sprites by keyboard, test collisions and keep scores! This fun introductory Scratch track saves the Coding Teacher prep time! In this game you will control the shark with your arrow keys, while the golden fish will randomly move around. You have to try & catch the golden fish! The Course is structured on 12 units and
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Scratch Coding | Editable Lesson Plan | Making Letters and Sounds | Elementary
This is the lesson plan of the second unit of this Intro To Scratch Course for Elementary School. It designed to be NO PREP or very little prep, saving you as a teacher time and aggravation. This unit deals with graphical resources, events and basic Scratch code that plays sounds. The Course is structured on 12 units and it has presentation slides, lesson plans, hands-on coding exercises, and EOC projects. The Course is hands-on, enticing, easy to follow and non-scholastic. Download this Scratc
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Intro to Scratch Coding Bundle | Middle School | Programming
Python with Turtles Coding | Functions | Elementary | Middle School | U8
Welcome to our new Python with Turtles Course for kids! This course is thought of as a fun, graphical introduction into coding! These are lecture notes of chapter eight which introduces your students to functions. The audience is elementary and/or middle school students so the lecture notes are kept simple and non-wordy. Lessons are also kept short, to fit into 45 minutes. The bundle also contains a dictionary of terms (which is very interesting as an introduction into coding and computer sc
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Middle School Technology Curriculum
Python with Turtles Coding | Conditions | Elementary | Middle School | U7
Welcome to our new Python with Turtles Course for kids! This course is thought of as a fun, graphical introduction into coding! These are lecture notes of the seventh chapter which introduces your students to conditions. If conditions, if-else conditions, if-elif-else conditions and combined conditions are discussed with practical examples. The audience is elementary and/or middle school students so the lecture notes are kept simple and non-wordy. Lessons are also kept short, to fit into 45 mi
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Middle School Technology Curriculum
Intro to Python with Turtles Coding | Loops | Elementary | Middle School | U6
Welcome to our new Python with Turtles Course for kids! This course is thought of as a fun, graphical introduction into coding! These are lecture notes of the sixth chapter which introduces your students to loops. Both for loops and while loops are presented. The audience is elementary and/or middle school students so the lecture notes are kept simple and non-wordy. Lessons are also kept short, to fit into 45 minutes. The bundle also contains a dictionary of terms (which is very interesting a
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Middle School Technology Curriculum
Introduction to Python with Turtles Coding | Elementary | Middle School | U2
Welcome to our new Python with Turtles Course for kids! This course is thought of as a fun, graphical introduction into coding! These are lecture notes of the second chapter which introduces the Graphical Library Turtle via a simple example. The audience is elementary and/or middle school students so the lecture notes are kept simple and non-wordy. Lessons are also kept short, to fit into 45 minutes. There is quite a bit of code shown and practical exercises. My students had a lot of fun draw
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Middle School Technology Curriculum
Intro to Python with Turtles Coding | Strings | Elementary | Middle School | U5
Welcome to our new Python with Turtles Course for kids! This course is thought of as a fun, graphical introduction into coding! These are lecture notes of the fifth chapter which introduces your students to strings. The audience is elementary and/or middle school students so the lecture notes are kept simple and non-wordy. Lessons are also kept short, to fit into 45 minutes. The bundle also contains a dictionary of terms (which is very interesting as an introduction into coding and computer s
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Middle School Technology Curriculum
Introduction to Python with Turtles Coding | Elementary | Middle School | U3
Welcome to our new Python with Turtles Course for kids! This course is thought of as a fun, graphical introduction into coding! These are lecture notes of the third chapter which teaches kids how to change their programs and also introduces the notion of a variable. The audience is elementary and/or middle school students so the lecture notes are kept simple and non-wordy. Lessons are also kept short, to fit into 45 minutes. There is quite a bit of code shown and practical exercises. My studen
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Middle School Technology Curriculum
Introduction to Python with Turtles Coding | Elementary | Middle School | U4
Welcome to our new Python with Turtles Course for kids! This course is thought of as a fun, graphical introduction into coding! These are lecture notes of the fourth chapter which introduces your students to numbers. The audience is elementary and/or middle school students so the lecture notes are kept simple and non-wordy. Lessons are also kept short, to fit into 45 minutes. The bundle also contains a dictionary of terms (which is very interesting as an introduction into coding and computer
1st - 5th
Computer Science - Technology
Also included in:Â Middle School Technology Curriculum
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About the store
Experience
I teach computer science in a SoFla High School. I am a Certified FL K12 Educator and FL K12 Computer Science Certified.
In the past I qualified a middle school VEX team to the State of FL level of the VEX competition. I am also part of the State of Florida K12 Computer Science Standards Revisions team.
Classes I teach:
IT Fundamentals
Advanced IT Honors
AP CSP (Advanced Placements): standard College Board driven curriculum with Python, Scratch and pseudo code
Programming languages:
- Python
- Javascript
- JAVA
Block- based / natural language:
- Scratch
- pseudo code
Robotics:
- VEX block code
Teaching style
- NGSSS
- emphasis on hands-on and project based learning
- individual and group projects
- diversified testing
- tiers and scaffolding
- I encourage innovation
- I encourage critical thinking
Awards & shining teacher moments
Last year I qualified a middle school VEX robotics team into the State of Florida competition.
My own education history
Master Degree in Computer Engineering
Master Degree in Computers Architecture
Additional biographical information
I've been teaching K12 CS and Engineering for 4 years now and I love it! In a previous life I was a corporate software engineer and I occasionally taught Higher Ed as an Adjunct.
I have a structured but creative approach to teaching coding with an emphasis on project based learning and thinking outside of the box. Creativity, innovation and self confidence are always encouraged.
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