March 30 2016 Lesson Notes

Class lesson notes

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Date

When was this lesson delivered?

March 30 2016

Objectives

What are we going to learn today?

• You will review conditionals and abstraction. You will do this through the date fashion problem set.
• You will review your project on our design project. All of you will work on your design project.

Explore

What kinds of hands-on/minds-on activities will we be doing?

Explain

What are some higher order thinking questions I will use to solicit explanations and help you 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?

• students will receive a formative assessment for their problem set work. Please click here to see how you will be graded

Homework

• We must work on our design project. Everyone is required to respond to Mr. MacKenty's feedback on the discussion page for your project.

As a computer scientist, you have

These are the characteristics every computer scientist works towards.

• 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

• Click here for all our 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.).

Produce a plan, simulation or model.

Undertake a systematic process of discovery

Give a detailed account including reasons or causes.

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

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

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.

Apply knowledge or rules to put theory into practice.