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Another computational thinking activity from NCCE

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Another computational thinking activity from NCCE

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Making paracord bracelets

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The skills used to find the important words for solving the lego algorithm can be connected to looking for context clues in a story to understand the authors purpose.

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Have students write instructions on how to get to a certain place in the school. One student is blindfolded and only listens to the instructions. Compare them and edit them and think about how to improve next time!

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K-1 Adaption
Allowing students to use color pens/crayons to express thinking if they don’t know the words along with picture sketches of pre-made pictures.

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It’s also a great way to teach kids how to follow directions. Could be a good start of the year activity

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After the initial activity have student-made algorithms as a 5 minute challenge at the beginning of class
-display just the algorithm and give everyone the legos to construct/recreate the figure
-display a picture of a student-made figure and everyone writes the algorithm

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Specifically and strategically teaching prepositions to newer to English students. This is such a hard concept that comes up all over the place in life and using this CT lesson would be a fun and true meaning making way to teach prepositions.

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My students have been working with terms like perpendicular and parallel and angles and such in 4th grade and I could see using some CT to work in groups to better understand those terms with legos.

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Adjust task to allow students to draw a model of instructions and perhaps SOME words.

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Review lessons think of ways for students to work in small groups to create and discuss their ideas.

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Adapt language choices to purpose, task, and audience when speaking and writing.  (I just got to this part and don't have the slide to answer the questions)

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Ways to include CT in current practices:

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Ways to include CT in current practices:

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- providing opportunities for open-ended scenarios
- 'Shark Tank' where by students need to create an invention
- Analyzing a character's choice and coming up with alternative solutions

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Standard 4

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Add geometry, calculate volume, etc...

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Use the standard as a starting place and then unpack all the steps needed to "get there"

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Communicate with others about "de-bugging" their directions/responses.

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vocabulary building
tier 3 vocabulary and support
reading, writing, speaking, listening domains are covered.

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This would be a good activity for introducing author's purpose and practicing directions and informative texts

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Use productive partnering and pair a less proficient student with a more proficient student to write the step by step directions together.

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I can’t wait to tweak some of our activities to include computational thinking. My 4th/5th graders love things like this...busting out the legos!

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Adapting language to purpose, task and audience.  Sequencing, problem/solution, 

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Adapting language to purpose, task and audience.  Sequencing, problem/solution, 

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Give directions from a picture for those with limited writing abilities.

I could ask students to tell me how to create ....

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Standard 3 talks about speaking and writing about grade-appropriate complex literary and informational texts and topics. This Lego activity incorporates speaking and writing step by step procedures.

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Adjust bell work tasks to be more open-ended/problem oriented as a means of revisiting spoken or written interaction multiple times. Rehearsal/Revision step plays well with this idea.

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Incorporating standard 2 into a lesson where students have to exchange information, we might do a similar activity to the lego activity but possibly adding an element of nonverbal/written exchange only for the first two trials before being able to discuss or help. I'm feeling like I could differentiate by allowing the kindergarten students to possibly use blocks instead of legos and oral directions recorded on an iPad using a word bank of words like "above, behind, below, etc.)

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Incorporating standard 2 into a lesson where students have to exchange information, we might do a similar activity to the lego activity but possibly adding an element of nonverbal/written exchange only for the first two trials before being able to discuss or help. I'm feeling like I could differentiate by allowing the kindergarten students to possibly use blocks instead of legos and oral directions recorded on an iPad using a word bank of words like "above, behind, below, etc.)

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The two standards I focus on for computational thinking would be #2 and #7. This is because I would want my students to focus on adapting language for a specific purpose, and use the 'debugging' process as a way to respond to suggestions from their peers.

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Cooking could teach processes or sequencing

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Having students build in response to verbal instructions vs. written instructions might be interesting as well.

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2. Once students have learned a sequence, have them create their own product. Supply students with a list of requirements and allow them to grapple with the problem and create a product.

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Be open to different  approaches when  sharing information.

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2. Posters, routines, expectations, summarize and sequence, cause and effect

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The questions and sentence frames from the Sequencing function would provide a good starting point for today’s task.

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Writing process
Algebra
Choosing a just right book
Going through cafeteria line