Lesson Plans

Teachers from the current CS Principles pilot have provided exemplar lesson plans that highlight key parts of the Big Ideas and Learning Objectives. 

• Cryptography: Students understand both simple and complex encryption algorithms using online simulators 
• Big Ideas: Algorithms, Internet 
• Learning Objectives: 14, 27
• Data as Art, as Science, as a Reason for Being:  Can Visual representations of data be considered a form of art? If your school were to display data in a public place, what would you present?
• Big Ideas: Creativity, Abstraction, Data, Impact
• Learning Objectives: 2, 9, 14, 28
• YouSort: An introduction to Sorting Algorithms. Before learning standard sorting algorithms, students create their own. 
• Big Ideas: Algorithms, Creativity 
• Learning Objectives: 4, 15, 16, 18
• Test Case Template: This activity is done after the students have designed a large project using Scratch, facilitating the design of a test plan for the project.
• Big Ideas: Data
• Learning Objectives: 12,18,19
• Impact of Computing: Group research project investigate the impact of computers in society 
  
• Big Ideas: Impact
• Learning Objectives: 28
• Rainbow Logic: Group project to develop an algorithm on paper. (worksheet)
• Big Ideas: Algorithms
• Learning Objectives: 15, 17