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Personality Quiz Game

Language ArtsCoding

Students write and code a short personality quiz that personalizes a fun result. Perfect creative Hour of Code for Grades 3–8!

Pacing
1 class · 60 min
Grade
Grade 7
Teacher's Kit included — Lesson Plan · Student Kit · Answer Key · Rubric · See what's inside
Personality Quiz Game
Standards-aligned
CCSS · ELACSTAISTEDOK 3
Lesson at a glance
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?Essential question

How can thoughtful planning, design, and code make Personality Quiz Game work for its audience?

The through-line for every task in this lesson.
Students will be able to
  • Write a simple quiz question for a personality result.
  • Create two clear answers and set a text variable for each.
  • Code buttons using Variable = Value blocks to store the player’s choice.
  • Design a short final message that uses their variable with curly brackets.
  • Test the quiz with silly answers to make sure it works and is fun!
Key vocabulary
variableeventnavigationsequence
Assessment
Formative
Use milestone checks, organizer responses, and daily test evidence to guide feedback.
Summative
Assess the published Personality Quiz Game with the analytic rubric.
The student journey

This is a build — not a worksheet packet

Every lesson runs like the story students are about to make: read it, write it, build it, polish it, publish it. The printables scaffold each stage — the published Elementari project is the destination.

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📖

Read

Students read a short, high-interest passage — a real-world hook, not a dry textbook definition — to spark ideas for what they'll make.

📖Read Before You Build: Personality Quiz Game

An interactive quiz combines a clear idea with instructions that respond to an audience. In Personality Quiz Game, each page has a job and each milestone adds one testable part. The designer should make the expected action visible, predict …

SourcesCode.org — Programming Concepts and Tool DocumentationCode.org — Responding to User Input
Read the full passage
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Write & plan

~15 min

On a scaffold built for the lesson, students plan their writing with sentence frames, a word bank, and a glossary — never a blank page.

2Student Kit · sneak peek
Key Words from the Passagevariableeventnavigationsequence
Glossary  a kid-friendly definition for every key term
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Design & code

The main event~50 min

In the studio, students bring the project to life — adding art and following the exact writing and coding steps shown below. The Studio Compass walks them through it, one step at a time.

🧭Studio CompassStep 1 / 6
Plan Your Quiz Question 🧠
Use your Writing Organizer to help plan. Write one fun question with two answers buttons. Decide what each button sets the variable to. Plan the final short message that uses the v
Key words — tap to learncreate text variables
Each step checks off & advances on its own
All 6 studio steps · dynamic to the project
1Plan Your Quiz Question 🧠~10 min
2Design Your Quiz 💬~10 min
3Code Your First Button 🎮~10 min
4Code Your Second Button 🎮~10 min
5Write Your Final Result ✍️~5 min
6Make It Look Awesome 🎨~5 min
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Polish

ongoing

Teacher and peer feedback pin right onto the project — students revise until it's ready to share.

Feedback on the project2 pins
🍎
Add one more sentence here so readers get the full picture.
👍 2Teacher
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The interaction is clear — it helps the reader follow the project!
⭐ 3Peer
One-tap repliesNice work!Add detail
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Publish

The payoff~15 min

Students publish their finished, playable project to the class showcase — each one gets its own shareable link.

🎉Published to the class showcase
A project made by your student
Published🌍 Shareable link — anyone can play
The Teacher's Kit

The printables that power the build

Every page walks students toward publishing on Elementari — the build is the lesson, these printables get them there.

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Lesson Plan

Your teaching plan — standards alignment, the essential question, and the full lesson flow with the build steps, plus coaching notes.

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Before you teach

Set up in about ten minutes

A couple of things to gather, a few quick steps to prep — then you're ready to hand it to students.

What you need
  • A device per student or pair
  • Internet connection
Prep · about 10 min
  1. 1Print the student kits
  2. 2Assign this lesson to your students
  3. 3Skim the build steps
Teacher background

What you need to know

Students connect clear content and purposeful design to tested event-driven code, then revise until the published experience behaves as intended.

Key terms
variable
a named place where a program stores a value that can change
event
a signal such as a click, page start, spoken word, or collision that starts code
navigation
the paths and controls that move a user through pages or screens
sequence
an ordered set of steps or instructions
Watch for these misconceptions
Students decorate before the required behavior works. Return to the milestone order and require one visible test before additional decoration.
Standards alignment

Aligned to the standards you teach

Every task maps to a specific standard, so planning and reporting are covered.

Tracking 7 frameworks: Common Core ELA, Common Core Math, NGSS +4
21st-century skillsCritical ThinkingCommunicationCreativityCoding
CCSS · ELA4CSTA10ISTE73 frameworks · 21 standards · DOK 3
CCSS · ELA
Common Core — English Language Arts
4 standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.5

With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.5

With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

Also addressedCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.6 · CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.6
CSTA
CSTA K–12 Computer Science
10 standards
1B-AP-09

Create programs that use variables to store and modify data.

1B-AP-15

Test and debug a program or algorithm to ensure it runs as intended.

2-AP-17

Systematically test and refine programs using a range of student-created inputs.

2-AP-11

Create clearly named variables that represent different data types and perform operations on their values.

Also addressed2-AP-13 · 2-AP-15 · 1B-AP-13 · 2-AP-19 · 1B-AP-11 · 1B-AP-17
ISTE
ISTE Standards for Students
7 standards
ISTE 1.4.a

Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts, or solving authentic problems.

ISTE 1.4.c

Students develop, test, and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.

ISTE 1.6.d

Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.

ISTE 1.5.d

Students understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.

Also addressedISTE 1.1.c · ISTE 1.6.b · ISTE 1.5.c

Full task-by-task mapping — including Depth of Knowledge — is in the answer key.

Differentiation & accessibility

Built to reach every learner

One lesson, three built-in paths — with accessibility baked into the materials, not bolted on afterward.

Extra support

Emerging readers & writers
  • Read-aloud and multilingual support in the Elementari build
  • Studio Compass highlights one task at a time — including the coding
  • Sentence frames and a word bank so it is never a blank page

On grade

The core lesson
  • The passage and storyboard exactly as written
  • Model answers and “look-fors” in the answer key
  • Self-check chips at every milestone

Ready for more

Extension & challenge
  • Challenge vocabulary and a real-world extension question
  • Deepen one existing page or interaction — without changing the required mechanics
  • A longer, evidence-based reflection prompt
Accessibility, built inPredictable step-by-step structureOne task at a time · Studio CompassHighlighted response areasLow-stimulation printMovement-friendly pacingDesigned so every student can design, write, and code — with ADHD, autism, and dyslexia in mind.
Questions

Teacher FAQ

Do I need to know how to code?

No coding experience needed. Studio Compass guides students through Guided Steps — each names the exact block and checks itself off — while you facilitate.

What devices does it work on?

Any modern browser — laptops, Chromebooks, and tablets. Nothing to install.

Do my students need an account?

No student email addresses required. You roster your class in a couple of clicks, and students join with a simple class code.

Is it standards-aligned?

Yes — each lesson shows national frameworks and supported state codes from your Standards setting, with specific standards and DOK levels called out in the answer key.

Can students work at different levels?

Built-in read-aloud, sentence frames, and task-level word suggestions meet students where they are, and the self-checking steps let each student work at their own pace.

How do students share their work?

They submit to you for review; you publish the best to your class showcase, each with a public link.

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Personality Quiz Game
Grade 7 · 1 class · 60 min