APCSP Resources

[David Janzen]

The following is from Jill Westerlund who will be joining us on August 27.  She is providing a treasure trove of resources for free.  FYI, Jill's course starts with Snap! (like Scratch), then introduces App Inventor and then Python.  She lets the students choose their most comfortable programming environment from these for doing the portfolio project.  Even if you don't plan to use these same programming environments, I think you'll find some useful lesson plans and resources (e.g. vocabulary lists, Boolean Bingo, IP layers lesson).  She also has some additional resources that you can pay for if that interests you.

After you download the zip file, I encourage you to look through all the folders. The APCS-A folder is mostly for the traditional Java-based CS-A course, however, I encourage you to look at the README on Abstraction Notebooks that she uses in APCSP.  

David

From Jill:

Here is the information on how teachers may access and download the free teaching resources Gina and I have on our site www.abstractingCS.com   

abstractingCS FREE resources for Summer 2016:

• Go to www.abstractingcs.com
• Select the far right menu "Bit&Bytes Teacher Resources"
• Scroll down past the syllabus info to the bottom item -- a blue hyperlink "APSI Participant Free Resources"
• The password is.....  2016_freebies

Teachers will be able to download a zipped file with 18 units including vocabulary all of which is mapped to the APCSP Learning Objectives.