Project-based: 

• Learn while doing (Computers are not used everyday)

• Writing in journals: to reflect and check your understanding, you will practice writing about computer science ideas daily

• Projects using Google Sheets to analyze patterns in our world

• Scratch projects to create with programming

• Robotics projects to practice how to troubleshoot and solve problems 

Tools:  Google Sheets, Scratch, Edison Robots

Homework: N/A (unless a student is absent)

Tests: one for each of the 5 units

Individualized Projects: one for each of the 5 units

Prerequisite: Algebra I, though students may take Algebra I and this at the same time

This course is perfect for someone who has never taken a computer science course and is curious about computer science.