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Use short video lessons for middle school age students to keep their attention on the content because students struggle to focus on demos at the board at this age.

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Use some of the following real world constructs to help beginning students form better understandings of abstract object-oriented principles.

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Use Potato Head Toys to teach classes, objects, methods, and properties so that students develop hands on experience with abstract topics.

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Check out Professor Colleen Lewis’ online Scratch curriculum for ready-to-use CS classroom activities and for ideas for your own curriculum.

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Install the offline editor on student machines in your Scratch course in case the online editor is not available.

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Give students guided notes (i.e., partially-completed notes that students complete) to help them stay engaged and learn from lectures or readings. It may be especially helpful to include vocabulary lists.

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Use worked examples (step-by-step demonstrations of how to perform a task) to introduce new problem solving skills to students.

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Use popular, repetitive music to teach loops in a beginning course because this motivates the purpose and application of loops while keeping students engaged by referencing popular culture.

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Reinforce introductory drawing in Processing by having students draw a simple logo students are familiar because using a recognized cultural icon students helps keep students motivated.

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Check out the Computing At School website for resources for a variety of CS courses.

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