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Teach students how the xy-coordinate system works before having them use motion blocks in Scratch so they don’t get confused by positive and negative numbers.

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Introduce young students to degrees, decimals, and percentages so that they can use turn and sound blocks in Scratch.

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Have students create a digital story in Scratch about an interesting scientific phenomenon as a final project to teach them both computer programming and science literacy.

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To engage a wider range of students in intro courses, be sure to highlight the real-world context and applications of CS.

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Establish a gallery of current and past projects to motivate students and to build community as students get to show off their work.

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Emphasize that computer science teaches a way of thinking that can be used in careers in the tech industry and beyond.

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Compare AND/OR gates to series and parallel circuits, respectively, to connect electrical engineering and computer programming.

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Highlight key differences between math, CS, and engineering to give students context for why CS is a distinct field in itself. Let students know that you don’t necessarily have to excel in one field to excel in the others.

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Invite guest speakers to introduce students to the varied professions and people in computer science, especially to encourage girls to see themselves taking up STEM careers.

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Consider using the Finch robot for an interactive coding activity.

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To appeal to students, assign interdisciplinary projects that allow them to combine programming with work from subjects that interest them.

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Have students write end-of-unit reflections to review material, monitor their learning, and integrate writing into your CS course.

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To integrate CS with other disciplines, have students write algorithms for activities they’re already doing for other classes.

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Teach hierarchical task analysis using Requirement Cards to sort through 100 requirements engineers have created for a robot cleaning up a nuclear disaster.

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Situate projects in your students interests and the real world.

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Give students a caesar cipher to reveal a picture or message in order to teach how characters can be treated as numbers and to reinforce string manipulation.

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Bring in real stories about software, specifically games, sometimes going wrong! It is important for students to learn that development usually takes more than just a day and there is no ultimately correct solution.

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Give students assignments where students have to make their computational results understandable to their customer, an important skill for industry computation across fields.

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Have students design projects based on content from their other courses, and have them brainstorm how the code they write might be useful in a variety of fields. This broadens their understanding of CS’s many applications.

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Motivate computer science for students who have an interest in the medical field by telling them...

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