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Google for Education: Cell Biology: Filters
Young scholars learn the characteristics that comprise a filter, and then use their computational thinking skills to design their own filters. The goal is to ultimately learn how these filters are related to many biological processes.
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Google for Education: Sorting Data
In this example students use data collected from their class and learn to sort it before calculating the mean, median, and mode. Additionally, students learn how to use spreadsheet functions to sort based on different criteria, leading...
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Google for Education: Ciphering a Sentence
In this instructional activity, the students have a goal to map each alphabet letter to a number in the range 1-26. They use some simple rules to create this mapping and then use this mapping to encode a sentence.
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Google for Education: Ratios and Proportions
Students use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and math problems by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.
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Google for Education: Slope and Y Intercept
Students calculate the slope and y-intercept of a line passing through a given set of points. Use Python to solve various challenging slope and y-intercept exercises.
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Google for Education: Linear Association
This student activity allows for practice in graphing data in a spreadsheet and relate the "slope" of their graphs to the association between two sets of data.
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Google for Education: Describing an Everyday Object
In this activity, students act like inventors of an object that does not yet exist, and they try to describe what need would be fulfilled by this object, and how specifically it functions.
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Google for Education: Degrees and Radians
Students label key points on the unit circle in both radians and degrees. They count their way around the circle in 30-degree increments, and then again in increments of radians. Finally, students go through a similar process for angles...
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Google for Education: Working With Large Tables of Data
Students work with large tables of GPS data and sort, manipulate, and visualize the data so it can be easily understood.
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Google for Education: Common Fractions and Equivalent Percentages
Example problems where students look for patterns in the chart to understand and remember certain common fractions and their equivalent percentages.
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Google for Education: Patterns in the Periodic Table
Students study trends in the periodic table of elements, supplemented by the use of spreadsheet functions. The spreadsheet functions presented can be used on any data set.
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Google for Education: Multiplying by Numbers Between Zero and One
Example problems practicing multiplying by zero and one where students apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division of fractions.
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Google for Education: Finding Patterns in Spelling Errors and History
In this lesson, learners analyze spelling errors and large sets of data to find patterns, develop abstractions, and discover how large amounts of data can tell us much about our society.
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Google for Education: Percent Change
Students analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems. Here, look for patterns to understand and solve percent change problems.
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Google for Education: Combinations With Repeats
In this class activity students learn how exponents can be used to calculate the number of possible arrangements of letters and numbers on a license plate.
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Google for Education: Sorting the World's Cities (Excel)
Students learn to organize, sort, and display data in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using latitude data for 120 major world cities.
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Google for Education: Machine Testing
Students test the functionality of a mysterious new machine whose operations are described to the class, but cannot be opened up for further investigation. Students come up with a testing strategy for this machine, test it according to...
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Google for Education: Measuring Complexity of Function or Algorithm
In this instructional activity, students learn how to measure the complexity of the function or algorithm in a math problem and understand how this applies to real world situations.
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Google for Education: Solving a Guessing Game With Data
In this exercise students play a guessing game trying to guess what an object is. They use logical reasoning and learn about the need for efficient searching by analyzing the questions and responses to reduce the steps necessary to guess...
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Google for Education: Stochastic and Deterministic Modeling
Computers provide humans with fast and repeatable processing to create algorithms that model real world phenomena. Developing models allows learners to apply their understanding and make predictions.
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Google for Education: Factorials With Names
Students investigate how many unique arrangements of the letters in the name Bryant are possible as an introduction to factorials. Bryant can be replaced by any name, keeping in mind that if there are any repeated letters some of the...
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Google for Education: Functions and Algorithms
In computational thinking, patterns in the world can be abstracted into functions. Students learn to develop algorithms into functions so that they can better understand and utilize the laws of our world.
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Google for Education: Applyng Discrete and Continuous Data in a Spreadsheet
Students collect data in a spreadsheet and learn to use various functions and analysis tools to better see patterns in their eating habits.
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Google for Education: Data Aggregation and Decomposition (Python)
Young scholars learn how to use and analyze data to draw conclusions about information collected from classmates. Then they use computational thinking by collecting and aggregating data onto a spreadsheet, identifying patterns in their...