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Activity
Teach Engineering

Automatic Floor Cleaner Computer Program Challenge

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Have your class use the engineering design process to program a vacuum robot. Using computer engineering concepts, teams program an automatic floor cleaner to traverse designated patterns. 
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Lesson Plan
National Woman's History Museum

Getting with the Program

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
A seven-step lesson introduces the emergence of computer sciences and the contributions women made to the profession after World War II. Several science experiments offer pupils a hands-on learning experience that showcases parabolas,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Alice Computer Programming

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore multimedia components. In this science inquiry lesson, students read "Invitation to the Game" by Monica Hughes and they use the Alice Computer Programming System to better understand population dynamics.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Object Oriented Programming

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students engage in a research activity in order to comprehend the intents and dynamics of Object Oriented Programming. They are exposed to the new paradigm of programming in order to develop new skills.
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Project: Build-a-House

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Start with a basic house created in JavaScript code and practice programming with loops as you add rows of windows, grass, flowers, or trees. How about some apples growing in the trees? You get the idea. Your coding students can let...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Project: Make it Rain

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Make it rain on your computer screen with this challenging JavaScript programming project. Modify the existing code of one little drop to create a downpour by using arrays and properties of arrays. But why stop there? How about some...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Challenge: Number Analyzer

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
The JavaScript program you create will answer a simple question about a number. Is it positive, negative, or zero? Create a Boolean expression and use conditional if statements to test the value and then print the results. 
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Challenge: Calculator

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Calculators aren't all that useful if they don't return the correct results. In this JavaScript programming exercise, beginning JavaScript coders are guided to fix the results returned by the functions so they return correct values....
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Challenge: Lined Paper

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Now create your own graph paper with this JavaScript programming activity! First, change the while loop that draws horizontal lines into a for loop. Then, add another for loop that draws the vertical lines. For an added challenge,...
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PPT
Curated OER

Computer Language

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
A thorough and engaging slideshow presentation discusses all things computer, from artificial intelligence programs to text messaging lingo. Computer science students will get a kick out of the examples for ELIZA, Otto Jesperson's...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

TECH:Introduction to Programming (IT)

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students complete an activity that illustrates the concepts of giving accurate instructions and computer programming. They also identify the relationship of the instructions/code to computer programming. Students then create a peanut...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Welcome to the Computer Science Platform

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
You don't need to know how to code in order to teach your students! Show them learning is a lifelong skill by learning along with them. Take this activity for example; the code is on the left, and the result is on the right. Can you...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Problem Solving in Computer Classrooms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss and implement basic problem solving techniques. They define program specifications and write programs. Students work cooperatively on programming problems and brainstorm solutions.
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Challenge: Picture Painter

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Your young coding students will love the result of this programming activity and will be amazed at what they can make the computer do. Using objects and their properties, they will create a paint brush that will redraw an object across...
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eBook
Computer Science Field Guide

Computer Science Field Guide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Imagine computer science all summed up in one book. This resource provides 16 chapters that cover many aspects of computer science, ranging from algorithms to software engineering. The e-book contains links to applets to help explain...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Challenge: Double Rainbow

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Draw a rainbow over the rainbow. The second segment in a series of six has the class practice using functions to edit a program that draws a rainbow. After creating the function, the interactive lesson challenges pupils to create another...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Challenge: Mouse Tracker

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Create a small but useful little program that allows you move a dot with your mouse and see the coordinates change as the mouse moves.  Starting with a dot that moves with the mouse, add to this program the text of the points coordinates...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Challenge: Your First Button

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Practice using conditional if statements, Boolean expressions, and Boolean operators by programming a user-selected button. This activity guides by using a small program that needs some modifications to work correctly. 
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Challenge: Recipe Card

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Anyone hungry? Create a recipe object in this coding activity. Include a title, number of servings, and ingredients. All of this adds up to one delicious practice opportunity for your programming students who are just learning how to use...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Project: Bookshelf

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Start your own virtual library with this JavaScript programming project. Create arrays of book objects, and fill the shelves with different books, different colors, titles, authors, etc. Let coders create their own unique display. 
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AP Test Prep
College Board

GridWorld: A Curriculum Module for Computer Science

For Students 10th - 12th
Stretch out the grid. Teaching modules provide suggestions on how to use the case study, GridWorld, throughout the year as opposed to only right before the exam. The instructional units provide suggestions for presentations, assignments,...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Project: Ad Design

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Let your young programmers' creativity and programming knowledge shine with this culminating activity. Coders put together everything they know about using text commands, drawing, and animation to create a unique ad. This activity could...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Challenge: Exploding Sun

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Animating an object by moving it across a computer screen can be accomplished by drawing the object repetitively, each time adjusting some aspect of the drawing slightly. This activity is an easy introduction to animation in JavaScript,...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Challenge: Bouncy Ball

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Create your own bouncing ball program with this guided activity. Java Script code that sends a ball down the screen is provided. The task is to fix the code to make it bounce up when it hits the bottom of the screen and then down again...

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