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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Automatic Floor Cleaner Computer Program Challenge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn more about assistive devices, specifically biomedical engineering applied to computer engineering concepts, with an engineering challenge to create an automatic floor cleaner computer program. Following the steps of the...
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Computer Programming: Meet the Professional

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the diversity in the careers of computer science and computer programmers by meeting people in this field from all over the word.
Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Computer Programming: House Class Demo

For Students 9th - 10th
A class demo to help students visualize and learn how to program drawings using JavaScript.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Is a Computer Program?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Through four lesson and four activities, students are introduced to the logic behind programming using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Computer Programming: Advanced Js: Natural Simulations

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to use JavaScript, ProcessingJS, and mathematical concepts to simulate nature in your programs.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Computer Programming: Advanced Js: Games & Visualizations

For Students 9th - 10th
After learning how to program in JavaScript and make basic drawings and animations, use that knowledge to make games and visualizations with this tutorial.
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Technology: Teach Your Computer

For Students K - 1st
This book introduces the concept of computer programming to young students. Includes audio narration in six additional languages with text in English.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Computer Programming: Intro to Js: Drawing & Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
In these tutorials, you'll learn how to use the JavaScript language and the Processing JS library to create fun drawings and animations.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Computer Programming: Html/js: Making Webpages Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to combine previous knowledge of HTML/CSS with knowledge of JavaScript to make webpages interactive.
Lesson Plan
Code.org

Code Studio: Computer Science: Course 2

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
For readers with no prior computer programming experience, students create programs to solve problems and create interactive games or stories to share with others.
Lesson Plan
Code.org

Code Studio: Computer Science: Course 4

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Middle level students delve deeper into computer programming topics to identify flexible solutions to more complex problems, to ultimately create games and stories they can share.
eBook
Other

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Python Edition

For Students 9th - 10th
Python is a popular programming language for both beginning programmers and seasoned veterans. This free digital book teaches how to think like a computer scientist using the Python programming language.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hurricane! Saving Lives With Reasoning & Computer Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students develop and apply the distance formula and an x-y coordinate plane on a hurricane tracking map, and then use a map scale to determine distance in miles. Then, using MATLAB computer science programming language, students help...
Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Programming Curriculum Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide to teaching computer programming.
Interactive
Other

Code Combat

For Students 9th - 10th
This computer programming game allows students to learn how to write code. Learners write code in real programming languages.
Lesson Plan
University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury: Cs Unplugged: Programming Languages

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Help build the foundation of understanding computer languages with this activity. Demonstrate some of the issues that arise when we try to give precise instructions to achieve a desired outcome.
Article
Other

Exploring Computer Science: Scratch: Programming for All [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A review of how the computer programming game, Scratch, has appealed to people who hadn't previously imagined themselves as programmers. It is an easy interactive activity for everyone of all ages, backgrounds, and interests, to program...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Google for Education: Children and Technology: Programming in Scratch

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students experience what is it like to be computer programmers through the children's computer coding game, Scratch, developed by MIT engineers.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Is a Program?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Using a few blindfolds and a simple taped floor maze exercise, students come to understand that computers rely completely upon instructions given in programs and thus programs must be comprehensive and thorough. Then students learn to...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Do You Make a Program Wait?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Building on the programming basics learned so far in a corresponding Robotics unit, students learn how to program using sensors rather than by specifying exact durations. Working with the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and software, they...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wait Program!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
After completing an associated lesson, students test their understanding in two programming tasks that utilize LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and sound/touch sensors. Students gain practice in the iterative design-program-test-redesign process.
Handout
Other

Ziring Micro Web: Dictionary of Programming Languages

For Students 9th - 10th
A compendium of computer coding methods assembled to provide information and aid your appreciation for computer science history. The dictionary currently has over 120 entries which are searchable in various ways.
Lesson Plan
Code.org

Code Studio: Computer Science: 20 Hour Intro Course

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This twenty-hour course introduces elementary and middle school students core computer science and programming concepts.
Article
Microsoft

Microsoft Developer Network: Coding Techniques and Programming Practices

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides coding techniques and programming practices for improving the quality of source code.

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