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University of Washington

University of Washington: Cs: Six Computational Thinking Practices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Underpinning the study of computer science are these six computational thinking practices. These practices are the kinds of activities computer scientists use.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Linear Search

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a definition of linear search in the context of computer science. A number of examples are provided in different computer languages.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Google for Education: Children and Technology: Concurrency and Synchronization

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Through attempts to perform tasks in sync with each other, students experience the computer science challenges of concurrency and synchronization.
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Brown University

Brown University: Game Kit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An environment for learning to program, this guide will help educators foster computational thinking for students in computer science classes.
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University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury: Cs Unplugged

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of free learning activities that teach computer science through games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. The activities introduce students to computational thinking through concepts such...
Online Course
Code.org

Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Course B

For Students K - 1st
Learn the basics of computer science and internet safety. At the end of the course, create your very own game or story you can share.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Google for Education: Presentations on Cs and Technology for Young Children

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teach young children the basics of computer science and computational thinking skills through this collection of ready to use presentations aimed to engage young learners.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Alan Turing

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how Alan Turing became widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
Lesson Plan
Google

Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Animate a Name

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Teaches basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. In this activity, students using coding to animate the letters in a name.
Website
Code.org

Code.org: Careers in Tech

For Students 9th - 10th
Careers in computer science and technology can be fun and rewarding. Find out what a person working in these fields does.
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize: Development and Testing: Types of Test

For Students 6th - 9th
Learn about types of test cases in computer science.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Hexadecimal Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice converting hexadecimal numbers to binary and decimal numbers, in this set of practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
Online Course
Code.org

Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Course A

For Students K - 1st
Learn the basics of computer science and internet safety. At the end of the course, create your very own game or story you can share.
Handout
Agnes Scott College

Agnes Scott College: Biographies of Women Mathematicians: Helena Rasiowa

For Students 9th - 10th
Article highlights the accomplishments of Polish mathematician Helena Rasiowa who worked in algebraic logic and the mathematical foundations of computer science.
Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Expressing an Algorithm

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice computer science problems expressing algorithms.
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Stanford University

Temporal Logic/stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the temporal logic of Arthur Prior, a type of modal logic. After technical definitions, author addresses related philosophical issues. Also summarizes applications in natural language, computer science, and artificial...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mathematical Procedures and Constants

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice using mathematical procedures and constants for programs written in the AP CSP pseudocode, in this set of free practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Building Blocks of Algorithms

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the building blocks of algorithms in computer science.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Khan Academy Practice System

For Students 9th - 10th
Over 800 questions to help prepare for the AP Computer Science Principles exam.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Many Letters?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Can you remember all of your ABC's? Computers need to "remember" letters too. Every time we use a computer to write a story, the computer needs to "remember" the letters in the story by saving them to the computer's memory as a file. In...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Computer Sleuth: Identification by Text Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a project where you can try your hand at being a detective with your computer. In this project you'll write a program to do some basic analysis of features of written text (for example, counting the length of each word in the...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Program to Check a Sudoku Solution

For Students 9th - 10th
Sudoku puzzles have become extremely popular over the past couple of years. You can find books of puzzles for beginners to experts, and many newspapers print Sudoku puzzles daily. This project challenges you to write a computer program...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Robotics Peripheral Vision

For Teachers 11th - 12th
This unit is designed for advanced programming classes. It leads students through a study of human vision and computer programming simulation. Students apply their previous knowledge of arrays and looping structures to implement a new...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Font and File Size

For Students 3rd - 5th
What is your favorite font? In this experiment, you will test how the font style of the letters (or characters) in a file might change the size of the file.

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