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If you like Unplugged then you may be interested in the following: Commentaries on teaching computing Resources for teaching Computer Science - The CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association) repository
- Google's Educators' site, which has lots of ideas for teaching, and a free copy of the teachers' Unplugged book for download.
- The Engineering Pathway website has lots of resources for teaching computer science.
- National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT)
- TECS (Teacher Enrichment in Computer Science)
- MathManiacs
- ETH (Zurich) School education site
- Andrew Begel's work on Kinesthetic Learning for CS - this an excellent site with great ideas. It is very similar to Unplugged but aimed more at university CS classes, and assumes fairly directed/motivated learning for the students.
- The SIGCSE "Non-programming resources" working group in 2000 and 2001 produced some great ideas for offline activities.
- The Center for Discrete Maths and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers has an education site including K-12 material.
- Integrating Mathematical Reasoning into Computer Science Curricula
- Peter Henderson's "Math counts" column
- The "Discrete Mathematics for K-8 teachers" material
- Villanova Magic School Computer Science Education, magic illusion instruction that supports science, and particularly computer science, education.
- Microsoft's Pre-collegiate web site, with lots of ideas for school activities relating to computing.
- Mathcasts - observe other teachers teaching
- Wikiversity is a Wikipedia related site with lesson plans.
- The MegaMath project has some early "Unplugged" activities and some mathematically related ideas.
- Sabrina Sterling's Kinesthetic Computing site, with games and kinesthetic activities relating to computers. The games are particularly suitable for younger children, and introduce computing terms and the parts of a computer.
- MathMania
- A fun animation of old and new disk technologies
- Quotations for Learning and Programming
- Tech Corps: technology volunteers for US schools
- Computer Science Education Research
- Teaching About Computers is a wiki about Computer Science education in primary and secondary schools.
- Gail Carmichael has run a "minicourse" for girls (including Unplugged material) at Carleton University (Canada); the course sounds really worthwhile, and she's offered to send details to anyone who would like ideas.
- Shanon Duval's Computer Science Kindergarten Style and CS Fairy Tales provide some entertaining seasoning for teaching Computer Science.
- The RAFT organisation in San Jose, California, has cool resources from recycled material, and worksheets with ideas for using them (e.g. coding binary numbers in a string of beads).
Computer Science outreach programmes Other programmes relating to computing and schools - The International Olympiad in Informatics is "The premier world-wide high school informatics (computer science) competition". This is primarily a programming competition; it is one of several UNESCO academic Olympiads.
- Edutopia is a George Lucas educational foundation sponsored site with ideas and innovation in education.
- Michael Twidale and Dave Nichol's work on "Computational Sense"
Material relating to the public understanding of science Other interesting links - If you like CS Unplugged... you may enjoy the movie "The Professor and his beloved equation", which is a wonderful story that happens to teach an appreciation for mathematics, but will appeal to a wide range of people due to the great cinematography, intriguing plot, and great acting. The soundtrack is in Japanese, but the DVD has subtitles. It is based on a book by Yoko Ogawa. (The book and film have several translated titles, including "The Gift of Numbers").
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