INDEPENDENT STUDY : |
We are starting on Mondays lesson. In this section GREY SECTION you will only find MISSING ASSIGNMENTS.
Please, everyone move over to Mondays section further below.
Trailblazer assignment:
Please see document to the left. For those of you working from home, please print and take a picture of finished work and email it to me at [email protected] |
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Homework, Algo/questions 8/25
- 1. Define Algorithm
- Is there only 1 correct algorithm for the Trailblazer map?
- What is computer programming?
- What strategies resulted in the most successful path in Trailblazer?
- Is there more than one right solution?
- How would you decide which solution is the best?
Assessment Q, 8/18Questions:
1. Is flower turtles a model of a complex adaptive system? Why or why not?
2. What variables were used in Flower Turtles and the extension?
3. What is the difference turning 90 and turning random 90?
4. Is the pointing made by turtles repeatable? If i run the program again, will it produce the same drawing? Why or why not?
1. Is flower turtles a model of a complex adaptive system? Why or why not?
2. What variables were used in Flower Turtles and the extension?
3. What is the difference turning 90 and turning random 90?
4. Is the pointing made by turtles repeatable? If i run the program again, will it produce the same drawing? Why or why not?
Typing club registration:
For those of you that still need to register for the Typing Club, please follow the directions stated on Computer Science, Week 4- Thursday and Friday lesson.
For those of you that still need to register for the Typing Club, please follow the directions stated on Computer Science, Week 4- Thursday and Friday lesson.
Monday/Tuesday - September 13/14, 2021Good day class. I hope everyone had a great break. Today we are going to learn about
problem solving. Please remember to check schoology and complete any missing assignment during your free period. Overview: In this lesson, students work in groups to design paper towers that can stand as high as possible. Groups have two rounds to work on their towers, with the goal of trying to go higher than they did in Round 1. At the end of the lesson students reflect on their experiences with the activity and make connections to the types of problem solving they will be doing for the rest of the course. Objective: This lesson is a fun introduction to the open-ended, collaborative, and creative problem solving students will be using over the rest of this unit and course. Computer science is fundamentally a problem-solving discipline and staying away from traditional computer science problems at this point helps to frame this class as one about problem-solving more generally with computer science being a new "tool" to help attack certain types of problems. Keep the question of the day in mind. Do not answer it until the end. Question of the Day: What can help us to work together and solve problems as a team? Step 1: Do now: Warm-up (10min) Prompt: What makes someone a good problem solver? Be ready to share three ideas with your group. Step 2: Discuss: Allow students to share answers at their table groups or with a partner, then have those who are comfortable share with the whole class. Key points to touch on:
Remarks Most of the problem solving that people do in computer science happens in teams. Today, we're going to work in teams to solve a fun problem that doesn't need computers. While you work on that problem, here's a question that you can think about. Question of the Day: What can help us to work together and solve problems as a team? STEP3: Activity (35 minutes) Building a Paper Tower RemarksToday we're going to be building paper towers. You'll have an opportunity to build at least two towers and use your experience with each one to improve your designs. Before we get started, decide as a group what kind of design you'd like to make with your first tower.
STEP
Distribute: One copy of the activity guide to each group. If you are doing independent study make sure you cut a piece of paper in 4 and have 20 smaller squares to work with. I would recommend sturdy white printing paper, that is what we will be using in class. STEP4 Goal and Rules As a class, read through the Goal and Rules sections of the activity guide and answer questions. STEP5 Develop a Plan Give students a couple minutes to discuss in groups the approach they will be taking with this first tower. Once groups have recorded their ideas and some possible weaknesses they can come to you to get their paper and begin building their towers. STEP6 Test Your Table Once groups are ready, have them test their towers by recording its height and see if it can stand on its own. Remind them of the rules, specifically that they can't touch or adjust the towers once they let go of it. Remarks This first attempt at building our towers was just to get familiar with the challenge. We're all going to build a second tower and see if we can improve the height of our tower without having it fall. Before we get started though, let's see what we can learn from this trial run. STEP7 Share: Have students share the results of their first run with neighboring groups. Ask groups to focus particularly on what the eventual failure of their tower was (e.g. tall but doesn't stand on its own, stands but is really short, etc.) and brainstorm ways to get around those problems. Remember: This is not a competition. Each student needs to challenge themselves first. STEP8 Develop a Plan Remarks Now that you've had a chance to learn from the first round of tower making, let's run the same activity again. First, your group will develop a new plan. Just as before, record it on your activity guide, and once you're ready I'll come around and give you more paper. STEP9 Develop a Plan RemarksNow that you've had a chance to learn from the first round of tower making, let's run the same activity again. First, your group will develop a new plan. Just as before, record it on your activity guide, and once you're ready I'll come around and give you more paper. Test Your Table Groups can test their designs just as before and record the results on their activity guides. STEP10 Wrap Up (5 minutes) Discuss the ChallengeQuestion of the Day:
STEP11 Discuss: Allow students time to share thoughts with the class. Remarks We're going to be doing a lot of teamwork in this class. You may be used to thinking about computer science as being all about computers, but first and foremost computer science is about solving problems, and usually that happens in teams. A lot of other parts of this activity like improving designs, and building things is also going to be a big part of this class. Tomorrow we'll start digging deeper into problem solving itself. |
Wednesday - September 15, 2021
Thursday/Friday - September 16, 2021
ActivityPart 1: We use the term "problem" to refer to lots of different situations. I could say I have a problem for homework, a problem with my brother, and a problem with my car, and all three mean very different things. On a sheet of paper I want you to brainstorm as many different kinds of problems as you can and be ready to share with the class. |
Part 2:
Read the question of the day. We will be coming back to this question at the end of the class. For now, just read it and think about it.
Question of the Day: What are some common steps we can use to solve many different types of problems?
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Part 3:
Join google class room, but period. In other words, join your correct google class room period.
Read the question of the day. We will be coming back to this question at the end of the class. For now, just read it and think about it.
Question of the Day: What are some common steps we can use to solve many different types of problems?
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Part 3:
Join google class room, but period. In other words, join your correct google class room period.
Part 4:
Questions to consider with the video:
Watch the video :
Questions to consider with the video:
- How did you follow the problem solving process in the last lesson?
- How could you use this process on a problem in your everyday life?
Watch the video :
Step 5:
The Problem Solving ProcessHaving a strategy for approaching problems can help you develop new insights and come up with new and better solutions. This process is generally useful for solving all kinds of problems.
The Problem Solving ProcessHaving a strategy for approaching problems can help you develop new insights and come up with new and better solutions. This process is generally useful for solving all kinds of problems.
- Define
- What problem are you trying to solve?
- What are your constraints?
- What does success look like?
- Prepare
- Brainstorm / research possible solutions
- Compare pros and cons
- Make a plan
- Try
- Put your plan into action
- Reflect
- How do your results compare to the goals you set while defining the problem?
- What can you learn from this or do better next time?
- What new problems have you discovered?
Step 6:
Complete the first page of The Problem Solving Process activity guide.
After completion let me know you are finished.
Step 7:
Group discussion about the first page of the activity guide
Step 7:
Do the second part of the activity guide
Step 8:
You saw a lot of different types of problems today, but they all used our Problem Solving Process. For each step of the process, think of one general tip that could be useful no matter what problem someone is trying to solve.
Question of the Day: What are some common steps we can use to solve many different types of problems?
Complete the first page of The Problem Solving Process activity guide.
After completion let me know you are finished.
Step 7:
Group discussion about the first page of the activity guide
Step 7:
Do the second part of the activity guide
Step 8:
You saw a lot of different types of problems today, but they all used our Problem Solving Process. For each step of the process, think of one general tip that could be useful no matter what problem someone is trying to solve.
Question of the Day: What are some common steps we can use to solve many different types of problems?