Best+Practices+-+computer+science

Projects and lessons submitted by attendees:

Michelle Hutton __The Girls' Middle School__ I had the students use python to create a hangman game. They were motivated to learn about conditionals and loops in order to make the game play correctly.

Susan Bauer __Ursuline Academy of Dallas__ Robotic Club

Tom Johnson __The Hockaday School__ K-12, all our teachers strive to integrate science, math, technology and engineering in the broadest sense. Students are always asked to consider how the system under discussion works and often design and build model systems to explore further.

Marci Van Inwagen __Dana Hall School__ Computer Science teacher uses "Storytelling Alice" to introduce Middle School girls to programming language and processes.

Cindy Salkeld __Girls Preparatory School__ Program Legos Robots to travel through a maze.

Jill Pala __Girls Preparatory School__ I use Alice in my Intro to Programming classes to give my students a "soft" introduction to programming in Java. They have really enjoyed making different Alice worlds and animations.

Patrick Lynch __Marymount High School__ We use a lot of digital video to present student work in all parts of our curriculum.

Julie Davidson __CGLA__

Jessica Good __Girls Preparatory School__ Using wikis to design service learning projects.

Karen Douse and Molly Rumsey __Harpeth Hall School__