WEEK 7 COMPUTATIONAL THINKING

Your name: Madison Vince

Your classroom (Provide a brief description of your classroom/grade/subject/specialization, etc): 1st

grade classroom with all subjects taught.

Based on the definitions provided by this week and last weeks articles, along with the
examples on p. 52 of this weeks article, complete the chart below to provide specific
examples of how you would encourage CT and problem solving in your classroom.

CT Principle How you would define it How would it manifest in your

(in your own words) class

Collecting information on Collect data from a science

Data Collection students in classroom in
different subjects. Lets you know
what there strong and weak
areas are.
Reading the data collected and
Data Analysis interpreting what it means.
How the data is shown or
Data Representation recorded.
See what the main functions and
Problem Decomposition purposes of the methods are.
Using different procedures and
Abstraction repeating these steps in order to
perform a task.
The formula used to solve
Algorithms and Procedures problems and implement in
problem areas.
experiment done in class. Keep
track of each students ability to
read (reading level, sight word
tests)
Identifying patterns and trends in
the data collected above. Seeing
if there is any reason some
students are at similar levels of
thinking.
I will have students use different
graphs when doing a science
experiment.
I will break down math problems
into specific steps. Students will
complete each step to get the
answer.
Read a nonfiction story then
read a fiction story and look at
similarities and differences.
This will be seen in my
classroom through math lessons
using different algorithms. Also
 in instructions and when solving
real-world math problems.
Tools or technology used in Using spell check when writing
Automation order to complete problems. instructions.

Dividing up data so that it can be Using excel then sharing it with

Parallelization processed side by side. a peer to look over and edit.

Acting out or recreating different Animated read aloud acting out

Simulation problems to teach something. the different characters in the
book. (voices, accent, prosody)