cSINO Guiding Principles and Commitments
These principles were developed by the participating teachers and partners (2022-24) and is meant to be a living document.
- Promote learning where all students are supported in leading the “figuring out” of phenomena (while using best aspects from approaches like 5E, PBL, etc.).
- Privilege students’ and their community’s prior knowledge/experience/strengths/languages.
- Engage our budding scientists and computer scientists (i.e., our students) in rich language opportunities/practices (e.g., GLAD) that emphasize concepts over vocabulary.
- Seek to have CT aspects be used in progressively deeper ways over time.
- Foster students’ identity as scientists/computer scientists.
- Materials are doable and are easy to use so that they will actually be used by teachers.
cSINO Lesson “Checklist”
| Grade Level: | FOSS Unit Title: |
| FOSS Part / Lesson #: | Lesson Title: | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Sessions or Days in Lesson: | |||
Use the following scale to review the lesson which may have multiple sessions or days.
| Lesson Feature | Nailed it! | Needs a little help | Whoa, need to take a look again |
| Connects to students’ prior knowledge | |||
| Connects to students’ interests to enhance learning interest | |||
| Connects to a local phenomenon or problem and draws on family interest | |||
| Includes an opportunity for students to extend their learning outside the classroom at some point | |||
| Engages students in rich language opportunities/practices, emphasizing concepts over vocabulary | |||
| Includes multiple ways for students to engage concepts, ideally through different science and engineering practices | |||
| Helps students understand the academic language in the lesson | |||
| Assesses students’ understanding of Computational Thinking concepts (formally or informally) | |||
| Builds on prior Computational Thinking and anticipates Computational Thinking needs of the next lesson / part |
Space to provide additional notes/feedback on this lesson which may have multiple sessions or days.
Notes on Session 1:
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