App Inventor community-problem app projects with storyboarding¶

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Description¶

The deck presents App Inventor as a tool for students to build mobile apps, suggesting app content ideas such as "Build an App that solves a problem for your community", healthcare apps, tourist needs, quiz games, vocabulary practice, and math practice. It references video tutorials and includes a storyboarding step, "Create a storyboard for an App", as planning before building.

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Context¶

Requirements¶

• Teachers need access to App Inventor and the referenced video tutorials; storyboarding precedes app building

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Students in grades 3-8 working on community- or content-oriented app projects

Target Learning Goals¶

• Designing and planning an app that solves a real problem, applying algorithmic thinking to app development

Related Elements¶

• Scratch coding activities expressing content as interactive illustrations, games, or stories
• ScratchJR app for young children to build interactive stories and games
• CT Boosters: 30-minute algorithmic-thinking professional learning sessions for grades 3-8

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Computational Thinking Boosters: Algorithmic Thinking 3-8. (2021). Presentation dated Jan. 12, 2021, supported by NSF grant award #1923314. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1923314