Resources and Further Reading
Resources and Further Reading
Teach CS Plugged & Unplugged Resources for Remote Learning
Teach CS Plugged & Unplugged Resources for Remote Learning
Online Learning
- CSTA’s COVID-19 Resources
- Youtube Channel for CS Unplugged
- Youtube Unplugged Lesson in Action - Computational Thinking
- Sphero is offering complimentary access to a new Computer Science Foundations Course 1 theme of eight lessons every two weeks. These lessons can be accessed through the Sphero Edu app on any device.
- Poll Everywhere is an interactive program that allows students to develop polls, collect data and analyze that data in real time.
- Twitter Breakfast CS-Ideas about computational thinking to chew on with kids over breakfast (or lunch, or in the car) from the K-12 education team from Cornell Tech
Unplugged Learning
- Chicago Public Schools Plugged & Unplugged Repository
- CS Unplugged Project Free resources from the Computer Science Education Research Group (ages 5-14)
- CS Unplugged Activities
- Code.org CS Fundamentals Unplugged Lessons
- STEM.org CS Unplugged Lessons (ages 7-14)
- NCWIT.org CS-in-a-Box Unplugged Lessons (ages 9-14)
- Sequencing and Looping Puzzles
- Compression Code Puzzles
- Pixel Puzzle Pictures and Computational Thinking
Articles
Articles
Web Sites
Web Sites
- What's the Difference Between Coding and Computational Thinking?
- Priming the Computer Science Teacher Science Teacher Pump
- Computational Thinking for Teacher Education
- Pre-College Computer Science Education: A Survey of the Field; 2018
- The 5th ‘C’ of 21st Century Skills? Try Computational Thinking (Not Coding)
- What Universities Must Do to Prepare Computer Science Teachers: Networked Improvement in Action
- For Code.org, Training Computer Science Teachers Isn't Really About Computer Science
- Remaining Trouble Spots with Computational Thinking
- Balancing Teaching CS Efficiently with Motivating Students
- ISTE Standards for Computational Thinking
- Google; Exploring Computational Thinking
- CSforAll
- Computational Thinking; K12 CS Consortium
- BBC Bitesize; Computational Thinking
- The K12 Computer Science Framework
- Jeannette Wing; CT What and Why
- CS For All 2016 White House Initiative
- Hour of Code
- K-5 CS is NOT Just Coding
- Computational Tools for High School STEM
Just For Fun
Just For Fun
Printed directions to make the giant Makey Makey as seen in the video to the right can be found here: Makey Makey Activitites