Booleans Lesson Plan: Computational Thinking

Grade Levels: 2-3

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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic Booleans, and supports the standard of developing strategies to solve problems. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.

Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Display this image:

Ask: 

  • Is this umbrella red?
  • Is this umbrella closed?
  • Is this umbrella red or closed?
  • Is this umbrella red and closed? 

Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE

  • Play the Booleans movie.  
  • Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it. 

TIP: The pause button turns red to remind you to pause. 

Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS

Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz, demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills.

Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND

Students express what they learned about booleans while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.

  • Draw About It: Use what you know about booleans to draw a picture. 
  • Activity: Create booleans to describe a picture. 
  • Talk About It: Write true and false statements about yourself. 
  • Write About It: Describe examples of booleans you could include in a code. 

More to Explore 

Technology Unit: Continue to build understanding around computer science by exploring more BrainPOP Jr. topics.

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Lesson Plan Common Core State Standards Alignments

Filed as:  2-3, Booleans, BrainPOP Jr., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.7, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.4