Free Computational Thinking Workbooks for 3rd - 6th class

[Taina Lehtimäki]

Dear Teachers,

Copies of Computational Thinking Workbook for 3rd-6th class are available to order!

The workbook can be used as a 10 lesson introduction to computational thinking for primary school pupils from 3rd through 6th class, or it can serve as material for an after-school science club activity.
It consists of 10 carefully selected computational thinking tasks from the international Bebras Challenge, plus an associated extra work page for each task.

We have a batch of 4000 professionally printed copies to post to schools in Ireland. If you are interested to get them for your school, please fill in the order form at: https://forms.office.com/r/YEYb8BvTv5 . 
The books will be posted on a first-come-first-served basis. The workbooks are free, but we would greatly appreciate the teacher giving us feedback after using them in the classroom.
We would also appreciate if one teacher can collate all orders from each school because it is faster and cheaper to post them in bigger batches.

Although the workbook is aimed at primary schools, we have got feedback from secondary school teachers that some of the lessons are also suitable for secondary school level.
To decide if the lessons would work for your students, please have a look of the PDF copy of the workbook, which can be downloaded from our website: https://pact.cs.nuim.ie/pages/workbooks.html.

An accompanying Teacher Notes book has lesson plans, solutions, and suggestions for extension activities. It can be downloaded from the same website.

Kind regards,

Taina Lehtimaki & PACT team

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PACT team - Programming, Algorithms, Computational Thinking, Maynooth University, Department of Computer Science

The PACT team at Maynooth University Department of Computer Science develops computer science resources and supports for teachers at both primary and secondary school level. All our workshops, school visits and materials are free of charge and teachers do not need any prior knowledge of computer science to attend our teacher CPD workshops. Our “unplugged” teaching materials are adapted from our involvement with the International Bebras CT Challenge, through the Irish Computer Society’s National Bebras Challenge. Our teacher training and school visit programme is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and Maynooth University.

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