SAM Labs' Lesson Strategy Review

Sort the following ideas. Are they examples of instructional strategies you use in your own teaching or are they foundations of computational thinking? After sorting, think about how the SAM Labs lessons incorporate both strategies and opportunities for students to practice their computational thinking skills. Instructional Strategies Debugging Differentiation Developing Grit Creation Collaboration Demonstration Computational Thinking Abstraction Pattern Recognition Decomposition Algorithmic Thinking Now, use your sorted Instructional Strategies and Computational Thinking Skills as a word box to fill in which idea is best exemplified in each tagged component of a SAM Labs lesson. For instance, if you feel a particular portion of the lesson represents algorithmic thinking, click on the tag and type in your response. *Hint: All the flashing tags on the LEFT side represent Instructional Strategies. All the flashing tags on the RIGHT side represent opportunities to use Computational Thinking skills. Use your sort above as a word bank. Feel free to read through each specific section to help gain clarity on what is being presented to the students during each portion.