CAS Barefoot Computing: Supported by BT

Created by a team of practing computing teachers, these quality, cross-curricular activities help primary teachers deliver the computing curriculum in engaging and practical ways.

Books

No Fear Coding shows k-5 educators how to bring coding into their curriculum by embedding computational thinking skills into activities for every content area. At the same time, embedding these skills helps students preapre for coding in the middle grades as they build their knowledge.

Creating Coding helps teachers in several core content areas develop activities and projects to encourage computational thinking and coding skills, and to build bridges between those skills and practice.

Teacher Course Work

Computational Thinking

Developed with support from Google, this course will provide educators with a clear definition of CT, explain how it differences from computer science and unpack how it can be integrated into a variety of subject area. You'll increase your awareness of CT, experiment with examples of CT-integrated activates for the subject areas you teach and create a plan to integrate CT into your own curricula,

Beginner's Guide for K-12 Educators

Computational Thinking and Coding for Every Student

Students are avid users and consumers of technology. Isn't time that they see themselves as the next technological innovators, too? Computational Thinking and Coding for Every Student is the beginner's guide for K-12 educators who want to learn to integrate the basics of computer science into their curriculum.

Computational Thinking Resource ISTE Site

Computer science is more than just coding. thinking like a computer scientist involves being creative and thinking collaboratively about a problem in order to solve it.

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