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In Storytelling, students use computer science to tell fun and interactive stories. Storytelling emphasizes creativity by encouraging club members to tell a unique story each day.
In Friends, students are encouraged to sign up with a friend or make a new friend in the club. Friends emphasizes teamwork by allowing club members to tell the story of how their friendship started and imagine a company together.
In Fashion & Design, students learn how computer science and technology are used in the fashion industry while building fashion-themed programs, like a fashion walk, a stylist tool, and a pattern maker.
In Art, students create animations, interactive artwork, photograph filters, and other exciting, artistic projects.
In Social Media, students create fun social media style applications and games while learning about the computer science concepts that enable these programs to work.
In Sports, students use computer science to simulate extreme sports, make their own fitness gadget commercial, and create commentary for a big sporting event.
In Music & Sound, students use the computer to play musical notes, create a music video, and build an interactive music display while learning how programming is used to create music.
In Game Design, students learn basic video game coding concepts by making different types of games, including racing, platform, launching, and more!
Students create fun and complex animated projects. This is an advanced curriculum, which means it teaches new concepts that are recommended for students who have already participated in at least two other CS First themes.
In this sample activity students animate an ocean wave to create a setting, then tell a story that takes place on the high seas.
In this sample activity students tell a story using the characters from Cartoon Network’s "The Amazing World of Gumball."
Be a designer and programmer – bring the Google logo to life using code.
Congratulations on making your animation! Now you can add whatever you think will make your project even better. Here are some fun add-ons to get you started!
In “Where’s the party?,” you’ll add a background and a music track for your dancer.
In “Bounce Around,” you’ll make the sprite bounce around the stage while it dances.
In “Dance Team,” you’ll let the user move the sprite with the mouse and create dancing clones. In “Controlled Movement,” you’ll make the sprite move using the arrow keys. In “Add More Dancers,” you’ll add another sprite to your dance and learn how to draw your own panda sprite.
In the challenge add-on “Puppet Master,” you’ll learn how to switch between dance moves using different keys on the keyboard. In the challenge add-on “Interpretive Dance,” you’ll create your own dance that tells a story.
Choose any that interest you, or come up with your own! Have fun creating and coding!
Storytelling
Friends
Fashion & Design
Social Media
Sports
Music & Sound
Game Design
Animation
High Seas Activity
Gumball's Coding Adventure
