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Create a classroom routine where students write regularly using a discussion board to help students get practice writing in a computer science context for the Computer Science Principles Performance Tasks.

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Pick an article from the ACM TechNews newsletter for students to read, summarize, and write a reflection on to find relevant and appropriate CS articles for AP CSP social implications assignments.

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Have a student write out detailed instructions for performing a basic task, then have another student try to follow these instructions exactly. Engaging, interactive classroom activities like this demonstrate that program instructions need to be explicit.

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Ask your students what they need to know about dice to have enough information about the three aspects of a class to create dice objects building off a common game tool to help students get comfortable with making objects.

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To build intuition about searching and sorting algorithms, have students engage in a kinesthetic activity where they unwittingly reproduce or create binary search and sorting algorithms.

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Introduce the mnemonic “Burger King Makes Great Toast” for memorizing the order of data sizes “Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, and Terabyte” to aid students remembering this information.

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Have students make a multiplication table to practice working with 2D arrays, nested loops, and abstraction using a data construct they’re already familiar with.

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Use physical footprints and fingerprints as a metaphor to different types of imprints students make online because understanding their online presence is important.

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