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I think you’re over estimating the intellect of the average 3rd grader here. I think a gentle and feedback/visually oriented method would be best

You are correct that the presentation needs to be age-appropriate, but that is orthogonal to the material being taught.

If you want to see how it all comes together, this is a fairly solid representation of how it is approached for kids in the schools: https://code.org/en-US/curriculum/computer-science-fundament...