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