I have noticed a trend with projects dealing with Unit 2 and 3 that they tend to take longer than the amount of time listed. For example, in Unit 3, lesson 7, they only allow 45 minutes for students to come up with a design, name variables, review challenge levels (which are not supposed to be required, even though the rubric asks for 4 different shapes), and then code an entire design… in 45 minutes.
Luckily I taught these lessons last semester, so I can plan out better… but I wish there were more realistic time scales given. Even if all of my students were here every day (and not being pulled out to make up tests in other classes), I don’t see these sorts of mini-projects as being 1 day projects.
Any thoughts on re-evaluating the time scales given for these projects?