Seeing Patterns
Staff Development Guide
Training Situation: Training (large group)
Length: 95 minutes
Objective: Participants will learn how to help youth reflect and process experiences with patterns and trends in data to assist them in computational thinking.
Agenda:
- Welcome and introduction – 10 minutes
- Define pattern recognition – 5 minutes
- Hands-on learning – 30 minutes
- Discussion – 15 minutes
- Analyze data – 15 minutes
- Describing patterns – 5 minutes
- The reflective process – 15 minutes
- Computational thinking – 5 minutes
- Conclusion – 5 minutes
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