The Creative CoSpaces Curriculum (for teachers of students 9-13 years)

This curriculum for CoSpaces Edu contains lesson plans and student guides for 6 creative projects over 12 lessons (3 optional lessons), covering world creation, coding, animation, game design, and story-telling:

1. Design! Explore! Build! - sign up, explore the gallery, and get building!
2. Code a Treasure hunt - find treasure through clicking and colliding
3. Add a virtual tour/roller coaster to your fantasy world
4. Tell a Story
5. Code & Animate characters/props
6. Turn into Animation
7. Design a building
8. Make a virtual tour
9. Make Rube Goldberg machine with Physics
10. Create Maze | Parkour
11. Add obstacles - Culture Quiz & Info
12. Make an e-Card for Someone

You can use it with younger/older students, but it may require more adaptation. It covers the following computer science coding concepts:

• Loops
• Events
• Variables
• Conditionals

Curriculum Goals

1. Play - having fun, being silly, trying things out
2. Connection - creating meaningful connections with each other, and our cultures
3. Identity - celebrating cultures, shared values & experiences
4. Build Skills & Self-belief - developing confident, thoughtful, and skilled coders/creators; feeling pride in their creations/achievements

Approach

• Assume zero coding knowledge
• Repetition for retention
• Design for equity & inclusion
• Age differentiation through context and delivery (tone, language)
• Provide extension materials

Lesson Plan Structure

Each lesson plan contains detailed information and steps under these headings:

1. Lesson Objectives - a list of the skills, knowledge, and outcomes that students should experience by the end of the lesson
2. Preparation - all the steps needed for a successful lesson
3. Lesson Sequence - step-by-step guidance, with timings, for running the different parts of the lesson with students

View example lesson plan

Not ready for the full-blown curriculum? Try our starter project - the first 3 lessons!

About the Author

Geoff Bentley is a CoSpaces Edu Guru Ambassador & Trainer and has been training students and teachers how to use CoSpaces Edu in the classroom since 2017, creating CoSpaces Edu programmes for clubs and organisations around the world, as well as answering countless questions on the CoSpaces Forum, and contributing over 50 demo projects, tips & tutorials in the CoSpaces Gallery (search for "techleap").

Learn more at techleap.nz