Teaching Mobile CS Principles

Welcome to the 2017 edition of the Mobile CS Principles course. To see the updates and changes that were made for this edition, click here.

This course is the teacher component that accompanies the Mobile CSP course for students. The units parallel the student course, but provide lesson plans, reflections, pedagogy and other content to help support the teaching of Mobile Computer Science Principles.

This course and the corresponding student course are used as the basis for a 4-week Professional Development course for high school teachers that run again in summer 2017 [June 19 - July 22 (online) and June 26 - July 21 (regional)]. As of Fall 2016, Mobile CSP is being taught in 230+ schools in 39 states across the country, including over 30 schools in Connecticut and Massachusetts with teacher professional development (PD) in the summer and academic year support.

The content on this teacher site as well as on the student site are openly available and free to use.

If you have any questions about the course, please post them to the forum. The forum will be monitored so that only teachers -- no students -- will have access to it.

Acknowledgement and Disclaimer: This course is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. CNS-1240841 and CNS-1440947. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

License: Unless otherwise noted, the materials on this site are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Staff

Ralph Morelli, Trinity College
Jen Rosato, College of St. Scholastica
Chery Lucarelli, College of St. Scholastica
Chinma Uche, Academy of Aerospace and Engineering, Windsor, CT and CTCSTA
Pauline Lake, Trinity College
Cassandra Beckworth, College of St. Scholastica
Dave Wolber, University of San Francisco
Lawrence Baldwin, Baldwin Associates

Syllabus

Unit 1 - Getting Started: Preview & Setup
Unit 2 - Introduction to Mobile Apps & Pair Programming
Unit 3 - Creating Graphics & Images Bit by Bit
Unit 4 - Animation, Simulation, & Modeling
Create: Programming Performance Task #1 - INSTRUCTOR MATERIALS
Exam 1 - Midterm
Explore: Impact of Computing Innovations Performance Task #1 - INSTRUCTOR MATERIALS
Unit 5 - Algorithms & Procedural Abstraction
Unit 6 - Using and Analyzing Data & Information
Explore: Impact of Computing Innovations Performance Task #2 - INSTRUCTOR MATERIALS
Unit 7 - Communication Through The Internet
Create: Programming Performance Task #2 - INSTRUCTOR MATERIALS
Unit 8 - AP CS Principles Exam Prep
Exam 2 - Final
Unit 9 - Beyond the AP CSP Exam
Unit 10 - Inclusive & Effective CS Teaching
Unit 11 - Moving Forward