This paper shares findings from the program "NM-CSforALL". It's relevant for GUTS teachers as well!
It won a "Exemplary paper" award in the practice strand at the ACM SIGCSE conference in 2017.
This paper describes how CT can be integrated in various content areas. It was published in ACM InRoads in 2014.
This paper uses a profile of a computational thinking research scientist as a framework to assess different modeling and simulation education programs. It was published in the Journal of Computational Science Education (2012).
In this paper, we discuss how we used scenario based interviews to assess students' computational thinking.
This is an early paper of Computational Thinking that has a lot of traction. It's where we first describe the Use-Modify-Create trajectory.
Here's a list of activities categorized by type:
Live-action participatory simulation plus an associated StarLogo model
Computer based activities to introduce programming concepts:
Computer based activities to introduce complex systems concepts:
Live-action participatory simulations to demonstrate complex systems and/or computer science concepts
This summary of Computer Science concepts introduced in CS in Science Modules can be used with either StarLogo Nova 1.0 or StarLogo Nova 2.0. It lists and explains the various concepts, organized by when they are introduced in the CS in Science curriculum.
This is a guided introduction to StarLogo Nova 2.0 designed for teachers and students.
This is a guide to CS concepts in the order they are introduced in the CS in Science modules.