Game Design & Coding (Year 7) | 2-Unit Bundle, 14 Lessons

A 2-unit, 14-lesson Digital Technologies bundle for the start of the school year (Term 1 in Australia; back-to-school/new semester in the US and UK): Game Design + Introduction to Programming. 14 ready-to-teach lessons, full assessment packs, student workbooks, unit roadmaps, and teacher guides in one download – no prep required.

What’s included:

• Game Design: Unit 1 – Designing and Building Your First Game — 7 lessons + assessment pack
• Introduction to Programming: Unit 1 – Writing Your First Python Programs — 7 lessons + assessment pack

Lesson outcomes covered:

• What Makes a Game Fun? Game Design Basics
• Game Mechanics: Rules, Goals, and Feedback
• Planning Your Game: From Idea to Prototype
• Building a Game with Scratch: Sprites and Events
• Adding Interactivity: Controls and Scoring
• Playtesting and Iterating on Your Design
• Designing and Building a Complete Game
• What Is Programming? From Algorithm to Code
• Variables and Data Types: Storing Information
• Input and Output: Talking to the User
• Making Decisions: If Statements and Conditions
• Repeating Actions: Loops in Python
• Organizing Code with Functions
• Writing a Python Program to Solve a Real Problem

Curriculum alignment:
Aligned to the Australian Curriculum v9 Digital Technologies strands (Knowledge and Understanding; Processes and Production Skills – investigating and defining, generating and designing, producing and implementing, evaluating, collaborating and managing) and mapped to equivalent US (CSTA K-12 CS Standards) and UK (KS3 Computing National Curriculum) strands, so it fits a standard scope-and-sequence in any of the three curricula. Suits Year 7 / Grade 7, Middle School / KS3.

Why this bundle:
One download instead of hunting down two separate units – consistent formatting, sequencing, and assessment style across both, so planning the term takes one purchase, not several.