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Week 11: Become a Coder, Artist, and Musician!

Unit: Creative Computing (Weeks 9-11)

What’s in Store This Week?

Get ready for the grand finale of our Creative Computing unit! This week, you’ll see how coding is a powerful tool for making amazing art and music. You’ll become a digital artist, creating interactive artwork that moves and changes when you touch it. Then, you’ll become a digital composer, programming your own original music beats and melodies. This is your chance to show the world that code isn’t just for solving problems—it’s for creating beauty and expressing yourself!

What You’ll Be Able to Do!

By the end of this week, you’ll be able to:

  • Use your programming skills to create your own digital art.
  • Program a piece of original music.
  • Explain how technology can be a tool for artists and musicians.
  • Combine your art and music into one awesome multimedia project.

Lessons This Week

Get Ready To: Create a piece of art that’s alive! You’ll program a digital painting or sculpture that moves, changes colors, and reacts to the viewer’s touch.

Lesson 11.2: Your Own Coding Orchestra!

Get Ready To: Start a band where code is your instrument! You’ll learn to program different sounds and loops to compose your own original song.

How We’ll See Our Skills Grow

  • The Art Show: Your interactive artwork will show how you can combine design principles with programming logic.
  • The Concert: Your original musical composition will be a testament to your creativity and your understanding of loops and sequences.
  • The Final Masterpiece: We’ll see how you bring art and music together in your final projects, showing off everything you’ve learned!

Connecting to Other Subjects

  • Art & Music: You’re not just learning about art and music, you’re BECOMING an artist and a musician using 21st-century tools.
  • Math: You’ll discover the hidden math behind music and art through patterns, symmetry, and rhythm.
  • Technology: You’ll see how the tools you’re learning are used by real artists and musicians all over the world.

Your Creator’s Toolkit

  • Your device with Scratch Jr. (make sure the microphone and speakers are working!)
  • Examples of cool digital art to get you inspired
  • Headphones for when you’re in the “recording studio”
  • A planning sheet to sketch out your artistic ideas or compose your musical masterpiece
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