Exploring Computer Science (ECS)

Teach students to combine critical-thinking skills and smart-searching techniques so they can produce relevant Internet search results.

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Ask students to consider which objects in the room are computers to further their understanding of what computing is. Use the phrasing "What different Computers do you see".

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Rotate elbow partners so students get the opportunity to work with many classmates, which helps create community and trust in the classroom.

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Provide additional examples for the binary search activity in ECS because students struggle to understand this activity and how it connects to binary search.

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Use an activity that introduces minimal spanning trees by having students determine the minimum number of roads to pave between houses.

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Send students on an online scavenger hunt to find pieces of information on the internet so they learn different ways of retrieving data.

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Design class activities that incorporate a student's local knowledge with specific computer science content and practices to enable engagement in deep learning.

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Have students write Knock-Knock jokes in Scratch by making a conversation between sprites to motivate the introduction of broadcast blocks.

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Build a paper airplane instead of the PB&J exercise for a less messy, more extensible algorithms introduction activity.

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Use the "PB&J" sandwich activity to introduce important components of algorithms.

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