The teacher will read a story to the class and allow for discussion of what has happened and ask for predictions. Students will use hands-on manipulatives and stories to debug algorithms while also working on editing sentences for capitalization, punctuation and spelling.

NASA eClips Real World:  Food Security -- Monitoring Crops from SpaceVideo Description:  Discover how NASA's Earth-observing satellites gather data to monitor food growth. Dr. Inbal Becker-Reshef describes how mathematics is used to interpret satellite data and describe vegetation and crop yield. Dr. Hannah Kerner shares how algorithms and models use NASA data to describe and predict food supply and food shortages. This work through NASA Harvest provides tools for farmers and governments to describe and predict food security worldwide. Video Length:  5:25.NASA eClipsTM is a suite of online student-centered, standards-based resources that support instruction by increasing STEM literacy in formal and nonformal settings.  These free digital and downloadable resources inform and engage students through NASA-inspired, real-world connections.NASA eClips Real World segments (grades 6-8) connect classroom mathematics to 21st Century careers and innovations.  They are designed for students to develop an appreciation for mathematics through real-world problem solving.

Students will engage in a discussion about the concepts of algorithms and loops. They will then apply the pair programming technique to collaboratively create an origami model. During the activity, students will closely examine the algorithm, represented by the origami instructions, and identify the 'loops,' ( steps that are repeated in these instructions).

Want to introduce how to write basic code by hand and review figurative language at the same time? This lesson is just for you! Using Figurative Language task cards and animal figurines, just for fun, students will learn how to correctly create if-then-else statements. This activity can be modified to use whatever items you have around your class in place of the animal figurines. 

In almost everything we do we follow directions in order to complete a task. Following a set of step by step directions show our ability to create and read algorithms. Whether the directions are quick and easy to follow/ remember or involve more steps and require us to practice them for a period of time, almost everything has them. In this unplugged Computer Science, English lesson students will practice creating sequential events necessary to complete an algorithm that aligns to a simple task- making a pizza!

This activity will show the sorting process using the Quick Sort Divide and Conquer algorithm that is used by a computer when sorting data without using a computer.

This is a very quick lesson that introduces the students to computer science vocabulary and connects it to a read aloud. After the read aloud the students are encouraged to summarize the read aloud with peers while using the computer science language they were introduced to.

In this unplugged lesson, students will be learning computer science vocabulary, listening to a read, and summarizing the story from their read aloud. The students will identify where they can see the computer science vocabulary they learned occur in the story. The students will work in partners to complete an unplugged lesson of moving the events in the correct order of the loop of the story.

This video helps explain a simple unplugged algorithmic math game. Students will solve a basic addition or subtraction problem, locate the answer on a checker board or premade mat, and write an algorithm using arrow cards to get their pawn to the correct answer.

Link to Lesson:
https://goopenva.org/courses/algoithms-and-programming

Link to materials:
https://goopenva.org/courses/first-grade-lesson-materials-algorithms-and-programming

The student will develop an algorithm with the use of simple coding cards to direct their peers to an appropriate picture. Students will roll digraph dice and develop an algorithm that uses simple steps to guide their peers to coordinating pictures on a grid (ex. sh- ship).

This activity can be done in numerous ways: during a whole group setting, during a reading small group instruction or during the students Language Arts center rotation time. Students will listen to the story LEXIE the Word Wrangler, by Rebecca Van Slyke. Using this mentor text will allow students to see how easily words and letters within words can be manipulated to form and build new or bigger words. Students will then be using color coded cards with letters (red- vowels, blue- consonants, green- silent e, orange- digraphs) to build words, provided by the teacher, from their spelling content, or come up with word,s using the directed patterns, on their own. This activity will help students to understand and practice the steps of pattern manipulation and coding, just like computer scientists due in so many programs we utilize today!