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CS Discoveries 2019-2020: Problem Solving Lesson 1.8: Project - Propose an App
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To conclude their study of the problem solving process and the input/output/store/process model of a computer, students will propose an app designed to solve a real world problem. This project will be completed across multiple days and will result in students creating a poster highlighting the features of their app that they will present to their classmates. A project guide provides step by step instructions for students and helps them organize their thoughts. The project is designed to be completed in pairs though it can be completed individually.

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Computer Science
Science
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CS Discoveries 2019-2020
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11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: The Design Process Lesson 4.11: Prototype Testing
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The primary purpose of developing paper prototypes is that they allow for quick testing and iteration before any code is written. This lesson is focused on giving teams a chance to test their prototypes before moving to App Lab. Teams develop a plan to test with users before running prototype tests with multiple other students in the class (and potentially outside the class). In order to test the prototype with the users, the students will have to assign roles in the testing (the “narrator”, the “computer” and the “observers”) as well as have some questions prepared for the user to answer after the test is complete.

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Computer Science
Science
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CS Discoveries 2019-2020
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11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: The Design Process Lesson 4.1: Analysis of Design
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To kick off a unit devoted to group problem solving and developing products for other users, students begin by investigating the design of various teapots. Students analyze each teapot, attempting to identify how specific user needs might have informed its design. By considering these design choices, and attempting to match each teapot with a potential user, students can begin to see how taking a user-centered approach to designing products (both physical and digital) can make those products more useful and usable. To conclude the activity, students are asked to propose some changes to one of the teapots that would make it more useful or usable.

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Computer Science
Science
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Code.org
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CS Discoveries 2019-2020
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11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: The Design Process Lesson 4.1: Paper Prototypes
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Before starting to design apps, we need to help students to better scope their expectations. Because students will eventually be prototyping these apps in App Lab, they will be in better shape if their ideas align with the kinds of apps that are easily prototyped in App Lab. Teams start this scoping by looking through several example apps designed to demonstrate apps that can be created with App Lab. Teams then can chose one (or more) of the apps as a basis for their own. From there, teams have some time to discuss the basic functionality of their app before using 3x5 index cards to develop paper prototypes.

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Computer Science
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CS Discoveries 2019-2020
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11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: The Design Process Lesson 4.2: Understanding Your User
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Designers need to understand their users’ needs in order to create useful products. This lesson encourages students to think about how to design for another person by role-playing as someone else using a user profile and reacting as that user to a series of products. Each student is assigned a user profile describing a person, which they then use to choose appropriate products, critique product design, and suggest improvements to design.

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Computer Science
Science
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Code.org
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CS Discoveries 2019-2020
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: The Design Process Lesson 4.3: User-Centered Design Micro Activity
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This lesson guides students through an abbreviated version of the design process they will be seeing throughout this unit. Students first brainstorm a list of potential users of smart clothing. As a class, they then group these ideas into broad categories and each group will choose one category of user. Groups repeat this process to brainstorm needs or concerns of their user, eventually categorizing these needs and choosing one to focus on. Finally, students design a piece of smart clothing, using the specific needs and concerns they brainstormed to guide their decision making. At the end of the class students quickly share their decision-making process and get feedback on how well their product addresses the user need they selected.

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Computer Science
Science
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CS Discoveries 2019-2020
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11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: The Design Process Lesson 4.4: User Interfaces
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Following the mini design project, students look towards the next phase of design - prototyping a product that attempts to address user needs. In teams, students examine a paper prototype for a chat app called "Txt Ur Grndkdz". Through using this paper prototype, students get a chance to see how a simple paper prototype can be used to quickly test ideas and assumptions before we ever get to the computer. After "using" the provided prototype students begin to identify ways to improve the next iteration.

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Computer Science
Science
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Lesson Plan
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Code.org
Provider Set:
CS Discoveries 2019-2020
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: The Design Process Lesson 4.5: Feedback and Testing
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In this lesson students use feedback from "users" of the paper-prototyped app from the previous lesson in order to develop improvements to the user interface of that paper prototype. The lesson begins with a reflection on the fact that designers need to translate human needs with technology into changes to the user interface or experience. Students are then given a collection of feedback and requests from users of the app from the previous lesson. In groups students categorize the feedback and identify ways the needs expressed in the feedback could be met by changes to the interface of the app. Then in groups students will implement some of these changes to meet one of the needs they identified.

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Computer Science
Science
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CS Discoveries 2019-2020
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11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: The Design Process Lesson 4.6: Identifying User Needs
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Up to this point students have focused on designing for users who are, to some degree, distanced from them. Whether through brainstorming, profiles, or text feedback, the connection to an end user has never been direct. This distance is designed to help students get outside their own head when thinking about users, but in order to get information more directly from an actual user, students need to rely on their classmates. In this lesson students pair up to become users (and designers) for each other, allowing everyone to directly interview their end user and ask questions to better inform their design. Each student pair interviews each other, attempting to identify a specific need that could be addressed by an app.

Subject:
Computer Science
Science
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CS Discoveries 2019-2020
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: The Design Process Lesson 4.7: Project - Paper Prototype
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Based on the peer interview from the previous lesson, each student comes up with an idea for an app that will address their user's problem. Students then get to create their own paper prototype of their app ideas by drawing "screens" on individual notecards. A project guide directs students through the process including building the app and testing it with their user to see if their assumptions about the user interfaces they created are accurate.

Subject:
Computer Science
Science
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Code.org
Provider Set:
CS Discoveries 2019-2020
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: The Design Process Lesson 4.8: Designing Apps for Good
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To kick off the app design project that lasts through the end of the unit, students first explore a number of apps designed for social impact that have been created by other students. The class then reviews the Define, Prepare, Try, and Reflect steps of the Problem Solving process as they develop an idea for an app of their own with social impact. Finally, students will form project teams and lay out a contract for how the team will function throughout the development of their app.

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Computer Science
Science
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Lesson Plan
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Code.org
Provider Set:
CS Discoveries 2019-2020
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: Web Development Lesson 2.1: Exploring Websites
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Every website has a purpose, a reason someone created it and others use it. In this lesson, students will start to consider the purposes a website might serve, both for the users and the creators. Students will explore a handful of the most-used websites in the United States and try to figure out how each of those sites is useful for users and how they might also serve their creators.

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Computer Science
Science
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Lesson Plan
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Code.org
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CS Discoveries 2019-2020
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: Web Development Lesson 2.2: Websites for Expression
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In this lesson students investigate ways to use websites as a means of personal expression and develop a list of topics and interests that they would want to include on a personal website. To begin the lesson students brainstorm different ways that people express and share their interests and ideas. Students then look at a few exemplar websites made by students from a previous CS Discoveries course to identify ways they are expressing their ideas. Finally students brainstorm and share a list of topics and interests they might want to include on a personal website which they can reference for ideas as they progress through the unit.

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Computer Science
Science
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Lesson Plan
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Code.org
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CS Discoveries 2019-2020
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: Web Development Lesson 2.5: Digital Footprint
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As students have recently spent some time thinking about the actual content that will go into their personal website, this lesson takes a step back from the unit-long project (publication of a personal website) to help students articulate what personal information they choose to share digitally and with whom. It also reinforces the notion that much of the information that they choose to share digitally falls largely out of their control the moment it is released.

Students begin by individually identifying appropriate audiences with whom they would be comfortable sharing given pieces of personal information. They then look at several social media pages to determine what sorts of information people are sharing about themselves or one another. Last, students reflect on what guidelines they think are appropriate for posting information online.

The ultimate point of this lesson is not to scare students, but rather to experientially bring students to realizing precisely what level of control they don’t have in releasing information into the web.

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Computer Science
Science
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Lesson Plan
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Code.org
Provider Set:
CS Discoveries 2019-2020
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Discoveries 2019-2020: Web Development Lesson 2.7: Intellectual Property and Images
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Starting with a discussion of their personal opinions on how others should be allowed to use their work, the class explores the purpose and role of copyright for both creators and users of creative content. They then move on to an activity exploring the various Creative Commons licenses as a solution to the difficulty in dealing with copyright.

Finally, with a common understanding of the restrictions of various Creative Commons licenses, students learn how to add images to their web pages using the <img> tag.

Subject:
Computer Science
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Code.org
Provider Set:
CS Discoveries 2019-2020
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Fundamentals 1.11: The Big Event Jr.
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Events are a great way to add variety to a pre-written algorithm. Sometimes you want your program to be able to respond to the user exactly when the user wants it to. That is what events are for.

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Computer Science
Science
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Lesson Plan
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Code.org
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CS Fundamentals 2019-2040
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Fundamentals 1.1: Going Places Safely
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In collaboration with Common Sense Media, this lesson helps students learn that many websites ask for information that is private and discusses how to responsibly handle such requests. Students also find out that they can go to exciting places online, but they need to follow certain rules to remain safe.

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Computer Science
Science
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Code.org
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CS Fundamentals 2019-2020
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Fundamentals 1.3: Happy Maps
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This unplugged lesson brings together teams with a simple task: get the "flurb" to the fruit. Students will practice writing precise instructions as they work to translate instructions into the symbols provided. If problems arise in the code, students should also work together to recognize bugs and build solutions.

Subject:
Computer Science
Science
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Lesson Plan
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Code.org
Provider Set:
CS Fundamentals 2019-2024
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Fundamentals 1.7: Happy Loops
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This activity revisits Happy Maps. This time, student will be solving bigger, longer puzzles with their code, leading them to see utility in structures that let them write longer code in an easier way.

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Computer Science
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
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Code.org
Provider Set:
CS Fundamentals 2019-2032
Date Added:
11/06/2019
CS Fundamentals 2.10: The Right App
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This lesson has students recognize that computer science can help people in real life. First, students empathize with several fictional smartphone users in order to help them find the “right app” that addresses their needs. Then, students exercise empathy and creativity to sketch their own smartphone app that addresses the needs of one additional user.

Subject:
Computer Science
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Code.org
Provider Set:
CS Fundamentals 2019-2092
Date Added:
11/06/2019