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Unplugged Activity: Computational Thinking

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This video introduces one of code.org's unplugged activities. It discusses a lesson on Computational Thinking, designed to show you how to take a big difficult problem and turn it into several simpler problems. The goal of the lesson is for a group of students to write a set of instructions for another group of students to draw particular monsters. Students write the instructions using the four steps of Computational Thinking: decomposition, pattern location, abstraction and algorithms. For more information on the activities introduced in this video, visit http://learn.code.org

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3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8

Topics Decision making Design Problem solving Computer programming Iteration Algorithms Branching Computational thinking Programming languages Visual programming

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Digital Technologies

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