Interdisciplinary Connections to CS

Motivate for-loops by having students informally describe how to draw a set of 5 shapes, then having them turn this description into pseudocode to practice for-loops.

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Show students many examples of computer science to help them see that computer science isn’t just about programming.

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Model parabolic motion in Scratch to show students (and teachers) that Scratch can handle engaging, complex problems because it is a real programming languages.

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Use the Beauty and Joy of Computing’s kaleidoscope assignment to integrate Art into CS so that students get excited about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math).

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Show a storyboarding video clip from Pixar’s Toy Story to show students that storyboarding is a real world activity and that storyboarding is vital in some careers.

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Watch Computer Science-related TED talks with your class to stimulate interest in the course.

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Use Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery as a source for current CS news to help students understand the cultural importance of the field.

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Ask students if the games they are designing are games they’d want to buy to keep students making progress toward your learning goals for them.

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Tell students that the data structure linked lists were used for the human genome sequencing project to motivate the value of this structure and increase interest.

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Motivate computer science for students who have an interest in the medical field by telling them...

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