Warm Up (5 min)

Getting Prepared

Distribute: Make sure each team has their materials available, especially their Bugs and Features activity guide and post-its from yesterday.

Journal

Prompt: Look over all the post-it notes your team created yesterday. Which one do you think is the most important to complete for your app? Why?

Discuss: Have students journal individually first, then have students share in their teams before asking a few students to share with the class.

Question of the Day: How can I track my work while we make updates to our app?

Activity (35 min)

Distribute: Give each team a copy of the Updating Your Prototype Activity Guide. Optionally, students can copy this guide onto a poster paper or a large whiteboard area to use instead.

Display: Read through the Overview of the Updating Your Prototype activity guide. Have each team member select two post-its to work on throughout today (if they finish these, they can always select more). Those team members should write their names on the post-its and put them in the To-Do column of the chart.

Update Your App: Teams will need to decide how they would like to continue working on their app, since every team member has their own copy of their app after they imported each other’s screens. There are three suggested options below. You can have teams decide which of these three they would like to consider, or you can choose one for the entire class:

• Stay Together on One App: Each team chooses one of their team’s apps to focus on and add updates to - for example, the app they used for testing. During class, the entire team works together to implement one feature at a time using Pair Programming - one team member is the driver while the rest of the team helps navigate
  • Pros: Everyone is working on the same app, and there is one completed app at the end
  • Cons: Won’t be able to implement as many features since everyone is working together, and can be less engaging for navigators when there are large teams.
• Split Off For Some Updates, Then Recombine to One App: Half of the team works together on one app to implement any bug fixes or feature updates on existing screens, and the other half of the team works on new features and new code that requires whole new screens. Before class ends, both teams re-share their project share URL so they can re-import the screens into their projects. They will also have to find a way to share code with each other - this usually involves converting to text mode and sharing with another student, such as via a shared Google Doc.
  • Pros: Easier to implement more features and, after the sharing, there is one completed app at the end
  • Cons: Re-importing screens and sharing code can get messy and takes time away from implementing new features
• Everyone Works on Separate Apps: Each team member works on their own version of the app, implementing their bug fixes and new features just in their app.
  • Pros: Easiest way to implement features and most of the class time is spent updating the app
  • Cons: There is no “unified” app with all of the features in one place, and there's less opportunity for collaboration and teamwork

Code Studio: Have students log into Code Studio and begin working on the updates to their apps.

Circulate: Monitor students as they update their apps, focusing on their use of the “To Do / Doing / Done” chart. Each time a student tackles a new task they should first move the sticky from To Do to Doing, and then finally to Done when they have finished implementation. You can use this chart for an at-a-glance view of how each team is progressing. Make a big deal and encourage celebration when students move a post-it to the “Done” column.

Wrap Up (5 min)

Collect: Collect all the materials from each team in a safe storage location. Try to keep the post-its organized from today’s activity. If teams used a whiteboard for their post-it notes, consider having them take a picture of how they organized their post-its.

Journal

Prompt: Remind students of the five practices of CS Discoveries (Problem Solving, Persistence, Creativity, Collaboration, Communication). Choose one practice you thought was especially important for the activity we completed today. What made it so important?

Discuss: Have students reflect individually, then give them the option to share as a class. Since this is a more personal and introspective prompt, it may not be appropriate to have a full-group conversation.