3-5 Unit Recap

Teacher: Students work in pairs. After they have completed the five challenges, go over the solutions using the studio answer key.

Highlight any alternative solutions students give, so it is clear that there can be alternative solutions.

Allow students time and space to talk about common misconceptions whilst reinforcing the unit concepts.

Students: Discuss testing and debugging practices with a partner. Make note of the similarities and differences in strategies.

Add comments by right clicking on blocks in your scripts. This can help others understand different parts of your program.

Recap slides

Check for Understandings assess student's mastery of CS concepts and common misconceptions. Read the Assessment Guide for more details about the research behind this work..

Google forms: Go paperless and auto-grade the assessment by using the Google Form version. (same content as the paper and pencil version)

• Copy google form so the teacher is the owner, then share the new url to your class,. This way, the only students in your google form results, will be the ones in your class.

• These tests are set up as summative assessments, using the quiz setting in Google forms.
  You can change the settings to make them more formative or collaborative, by changing the settings. eg. use the hint feature or remove the quiz feature.

• • Pseudocode: computer instructions, written in plain language.

  • Boolean: TRUE or FALSE represented in binary as 1 or 0

  • Condition: evaluates to TRUE or FALSE

  • Conditional Statement: a statement that will only run when the condition evaluates to TRUE

  • Computer Simulation: using a computer to model the behavior of a system.

CSTA

• CSTA 2-AP-17: Systematically test and refine programs using a range of test cases.

• CSTA 2-AP-15: Seek and incorporate feedback from team members and users to refine a solution that meets user needs.

Gallery walks are a peer assessment and celebration. Showcasing student work is a pedagogical strategy that increases peer to peer motivation.

Gallery walks can happen at the end of each project, or here at the end of the unit. Capture student feedback, so students can use it to improve their chosen project, or future projects. Feedback can be given informally via post it notes or more formally using rubrics associated with their chosen project.

Showcasing student's work increases motivation, joy and an understanding that there are multiple ways to write and express ourselves through code. It is highly recommended.