Part 1: Creating a Space Weight Calculator App Using Thunkable

Are you looking for a way to integrate coding within your upper elementary classroom? Do you want to give your students more opportunities to develop creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills?

In this series of video lessons, students will learn how to create a “Space Weight Calculator” app. The finished app will feature an animation that shows gravitational pull on Earth, and will also provide users with the ability to input their weight on Earth and see what it would translate to on other planets.

The Next Generation Science Standard addressed by this series of video lessons includes:

5-PS2-1. - Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

The Common Core Math Standards addressed by this series of video lessons include:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NBT.A.4 - Use place value understanding to round decimals to any place.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NBT.B.7 - Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.

The ISTE Standards for Students addressed by this series of video lessons include:

Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.

Innovative Designer - Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.

Computational Thinker - Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.

Creative Communicator - Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.