COMPUTATIONAL THINKING

Your name: Hayley Crouchman

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

My class is a second grade class that is focusing on conducting their own research. This way of thinking
allows for students to come up with their own questions(research) and formulate their own conclusions.
After they have conducted their research, they will be able to put their information into a bar graph (a
new concept) and visualize the conclusions. This works on both math and science practices.

Based on the chart 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. For those of you teaching secondary, you may pick one subject in particular.
For those of you teaching elementary, your examples can range from general practices
in your class to specific assignments or activities.

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

(in your own words) class (give an example)

Generating numbers/information Asking students questions

Data Collection to show a specific trend
Reviewing data to come to a
Data Analysis conclusion.
How the data(numbers or
Data Representation information) is organized in
order to best show the results of
the study
Breaking a problem down into
Problem Decomposition smaller problems in order to
make them easier to solve.
Breaking down questions in
(whats your favorite color,
animal). They will be shown
using a bar graph so students
can visualize the data that they
collected
Goes with the data collection,
they come to a conclusion of the
data that they collected. (Ex:
Dogs had the most answered for
the favorite animals graph, so it
is the favorite animal of the
class)
In this case, a bar graph will be
used in order to show the
numbers
Make a list of questions that you
would want to know about
someone. This will be the goal of
your research.
Break the questions down based
Abstraction order to determine different
concepts or ideas within the
original question
A way of solving a problem that
Algorithms and Procedures uses a specific way and results
in the same conclusions every
time (when done correct)
The help of an outside source in
Automation order to come to a correct
conclusion
Finding an equal way of
Parallelization completing a task
The imitation of a process
Simulation
off of what they are asking. This
will help to determine the goal of
the research as well as the title
of the graph and names of the
axis.
Write out step by step
instructions on how you will
conduct your research.
Figuring out a way to
formulate/ask your question so
that it will be taken the same
way every time.
Determine the answers that
could be given and figure out a
way that could best represent
this idea through your
graph(typically a bar graph is the
best way to do this, but other
graphs could be used as well)
In order to test their
understanding, I will allow the
students to come up with their
own questions to try at home!
They can ask family members,
friends, and neighbors in order
to generate their own
conclusions of their research