CS Principles 2017

For the Teachers

• Activity Guide KEY - Bytes and File Sizes - Answer Key

For the Students

• Bytes and File Sizes - Activity Guide

• You should verify that you know how to look at the sizes of files on computers that your students are using (see activity).
• For the getting started activity might want a Word processing program (such as MS Word) and plain text editor (such as Notepad or TextEdit) open and ready.
• The teaching remarks and content corners in this lesson contain lots of little bits of history that you might choose to share at various points in the lesson.

For the Teachers

• Activity Recap - Decode this Message - Activity Recap

For the Students

• Decode this message - Activity Guide
• Activity Guide - Text Compression - Activity Guide
• Video: Text Compression with Aloe Blacc - Video (download)
• Activity Guide - Text Compression Heuristics - Activity Guide

• Test out the Text Compression Widget
• Review the teaching tips to decide which options you want to use

For the Teachers

• Activity Guide KEY - Encode a B&W Image - Answer Key
• Teaching Tips & Tricks Video - Encoding Images - Video (download)

For the Students

• B&W Pixelation Widget - Activity Guide
• Extension: Magnify an Image (optional) - Activity Guide
• B&W Pixelation Tutorial - Video (download)
• Invent a B&W image encoding scheme - Activity Guide

• (Optional) Graph or grid paper for drawing pixel images by hand

For the Teachers

• Teaching Tips & Tricks Video - Encoding Images - Video (download)
• Activity Guide KEY - Encoding Color Images - Answer Key
• Video Guide KEY for "A Little Bit about Pixels" - Answer Key
• Activity Guide KEY - Hexadecimal Numbers (optional) - Answer Key

For the Students

• A Little Bit about Pixels - Video (download)
• Worksheet - Video Guide for "A Little Bit about Pixels" (optional) - Worksheet
• Encoding Color Images - Activity Guide
• Hexadecimal Numbers (optional) - Activity Guide
• Personal Favicon Project - Activity Guide
• Rubric - Personal Favicon Project - Rubric

• (Optional) Consider demonstrating the color pixelation widget instead of showing the video.

For the Teachers

• KEY - File Formats Rapid Research - Answer Key

For the Students

• File Formats Rapid Research - Worksheet
• Lossy Text Compression App - App Lab
• Text Compression - Video (lossy in second half)

• Copies of File Formats Rapid Research worksheet for students

For the Students

• Encode an Experience - Activity Guide
• Encode and Experience Templates - Project Templates

• Determine how you want to collect the project - digitally or on paper - and prepare to explain that to students
• Determine what (if anything) you want to print for distribution to students
• Review the "birthday party" example from the activity guide

For the Teachers

• Class Data Tracker Setup Guide - Google Form Setup (includes template)

For the Students

• How Much of a Left and Right-Brained Person Are You? - Link

• Review the Data Tools Resources for this lesson (including Excel support)
• Teacher Setup for Google Forms (see Teacher Setup in Teaching Guide)

For the Students

• Exploring Trends - Activity Guide
• Google Trends - Link

• Use the Google Trends tool to familiarize yourself.

For the Teachers

• KEY - Digital Divide and Checking Assumptions - Answer Key

For the Students

• Digital Divide and Checking Assumptions - Activity Guide
• Google Trends Video - Video

For the Students

• Data Visualization 101: How to design charts and graphs - Link
• Data Visualization Scorecard - Worksheet
• Data Visualization Collection A & B (in Code Studio)

• Print a copy of Data Visualization Scorecard - Worksheet for each student.

For the Teachers

• KEY - Making Data Visualizations Target Charts - Answer Key

For the Students

• Data Visualization 101: How to design charts and graphs - Link
• MovieRating_avgRatingByAgeByGender.csv - Data Set (download)

• Data Tools Resources (including Excel support)

For the Students

• Activity Guide - Discover a Data Story - Activity Guide
• Data Visualization 101: How to design charts and graphs - Link
• Rubric - Discover a Data Story - Rubric
• Data sets folder - Folder

• Print a copy of Activity Guide - Discover a Data Story - Activity Guide for each student (or provide link)
• Print a copy of Data Visualization 101: How to design charts and graphs - Link for each student (or provide link) NOTE: this may have already been printed for lesson 10

For the Students

• Tell a Data Story - Rubric