Rock CS 2022 | Rocky Mountain Computer Science Conference for P-12 Educators

CSTA identifies Perception, Representation and Reasoning as core components in an AI learning progression for K-12 students. This session focuses on how to engage your students with these concepts through a hands-on learning experience where they program and wire a physical computing system to collect and analyze data collected by a BBC micro:Bit and Sparkfun’s gator:bit sensor system.

The session is designed to engage teachers of all experience levels with the micro:bit system; novices will receive scaffolds for supporting their entry while experienced users will have ample opportunities for extensions and applications. After working with fellow teachers on guided activities on wiring and programming a physical computing system, participants will reflect on pedagogical applications and discuss curricular integration strategies. The tools used in the workshop are appropriate for middle school and high school students, with alligator clip connectors for wiring and block-based, Javascript, or Python programming in MakeCode.

Enhance Student Learning
During the workshop, teachers develop skills for collecting sensor data with the BBC micro:bit, enabling instructors to enrich existing curriculum with data collection and exploration. In addition to building skills relating to the physical computing system, teachers will reflect on how they can scaffold the lessons to engage students with computational thinking, debugging, and connecting data collection to the Big Ideas in Artificial Intelligence (Perception, Representation & Reasoning).

• Interdisciplanary Computer Science
• K-5, Middle School, High School
• Curriculum, ideas, resources, discussion!

Are you interested in teaching coding in your math class? Have you considered an interdisciplinary project-based unit with the physics teacher? Are you looking to show your computer science students how relevant CS concepts are in their core subject classes? Do you need project ideas for your computer science classroom?

This session explores how interdisciplinary units can be used to reinforce and extend student learning. It’s also a great way to engage learners who haven’t considered computer science. We’ll present several project units that integrate computer science with math, science, social studies, and art. We’ll discuss how these units might be implemented in a computer science class, core subject class, or somewhere in between. You will leave this session with ideas, curriculum, and resources for your next interdisciplinary computer science project using CodeHS.

This session will focus on projects and strategies for middle school and high school, but everyone is welcome! (UPDATE: Now featuring K-5 Interdisciplinary concepts!!)

Teachers will learn to use the matplotlib library in Python to create graphs and charts.
CS@Mines majors - Jessica Gregory and Colter Snyder will be presenting.
SLIDE LINK:    https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Sbhd-v354bqBor-It7wE39hVhkUNoWYDahioClhcemA/edit?usp=sharing

Activity link: https://replit.com/@cliebe/csv-weather#main.py
https://replit.com/@djdjdj114/RockCSSummer2022CurricDev
https://trinket.io/programmer114-gmail-com/courses/rock-cs-2022-graphs-using-matplotlib#/rock-cs-2022-session/first-graphs 

Resources: https://matplotlib.org/cheatsheets/_images/cheatsheets-1.png