March 30 2016 Lesson Notes

Python programming language

Date this lesson was delivered

March 30 2016

Explore

Describe what kinds of hands-on/minds-on activities students will be doing?

Explain

List higher order thinking questions which teachers will use to solicit student explanations and help them to justify their explanations.

Extend

Describe how students will develop a more sophisticated understanding of the concept

Evaluate

How will students demonstrate that they have achieved the lesson objective?

Homework

None.

As a computer scientist, you have

Confidence in dealing with complexity Persistence in working with difficult problems Tolerance for ambiguity The ability to deal with open-ended problems The ability to communicate and work with others to achieve a common goal or solution

Standards

Apply analysis, design, and implementation techniques to solve problems (e.g., use one or more software lifecycle models). Describe a software development process used to solve software problems (e.g., design, coding, testing, verification). Use collaborative tools to communicate with project team members (e.g., discussion threads, wikis, blogs, version control, etc.).

Undertake a systematic process of discovery

Give a detailed account or picture of a situation, event, pattern or process.

Give a detailed account including reasons or causes.

Give a sequence of brief answers with no explanation.

Give valid reasons or evidence to support an answer or conclusion.

Assess the implications and limitations; make judgments about the ideas, works, solutions or methods in relation to selected criteria.

Prove or make clear by reasoning or evidence, illustrating with examples or practical application.

Use an idea, equation, principle, theory or law in relation to a given problem or issue.

Produce a plan, simulation or model.

Apply knowledge or rules to put theory into practice.