Teacher: Elizabeth Swiatkowski District: HempsteadProblem of Practice: Can DNA be used to teach students about coding? Or can coding be used to teach students about DNA? Grade Level: 8Cross-Curricular Alignment: ScienceSpecific Needs for Lesson Delivery: Coding robots, photocopies Approximate lesson/unit time in minutes: 120CSDF Standards: 7-8.CT.5 Identify multiple similar concrete computations in a program, then create a function to generalize over them using parameters to accommodate their differences.7-8.CT.6 Design, compare, and refine algorithms for a specific task or within a program. 7-8.CT.9 Read and interpret code to predict the outcome of various programs that involve conditionals and repetition for the purposes of debugging.7-8.CT.10 Document the iterative design process of developing a computational artifact that incorporates user feedback and preferences.