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This “Top 10” List describes creative strategies for using journals (courtesy of Dan Rhode).

Building a collaborative classroom culture is critical to success in teaching computer science.

As technology continues to blur the lines between learning and play, Tom Heck of Makey Makey and Michael Stone of devX PD shared simple strategies for using emerging cyberphysical systems like Make

ITCH is an online system that brings all the features of Scratch into t

An Evaluator Working Group (EWG) was convened at NSF’s request to lead a community-wide commondata collection effort.

Tip: Provide additional examples for the binary searc

ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO THINK ABOUT WHAT A COMPUTER IS BY USING

Teach students to combine critical-thinking skills and sma

Highlight opportunities to write code on paper to help students

Walk students through clicking on links in Java Docs to figure ou

Break down the structure of the internet and define keywords, even th

Have students make themselves cheat sheets so they are able

Incorporate the Computer Science Principles seven big ideas explicitly

Have students create a visual depiction of the current topic for an unplugged in-cl

Pick an article from the ACM TechNews newsletter for students

Create a classroom routine where students write regularly us

Have students complete practice CSP Performance Tasks so that

Have students practice creating an infographic as an option for

Rotate elbow partners so students get the opportunity to work with

Have students greet you professionally by shaking their hand as they

Lesson plans for Unit 3 Days 12-13

Lesson plan for Unit 3 Day 2

The PB&J activity demonstrates that developing successful algorithms requires students know the following: what data is available what basic functions/methods/o