Helen Caldwell (EDT), Neil Smith (EDT) Teaching Computing Unplugged in Primary Schools

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Teaching primary computing without computers?The Computing curriculum is a challenge for primary school teachers. The realities of primary school resources mean limited access to computer hardware. But computing is about more than computers. Important aspects ofthe fundamental principles and concepts of computer sciencecan be taught without any hardware. Children can learn toanalyse problems and computational termsandapply computational thinking to solve problemswithout turning on a computer.This book shows youhow you can teach computing through 'unplugged' activities. It provides lesson examples and everyday activities to help teachers and pupils explore computing concepts in a concrete way, accelerating their understanding and grasp of key ideas such as abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation. The unplugged approach isphysical and collaborative, usingkinaestheticlearning to help make computing concepts moremeaningful and memorable.This book will help you to elevate your teaching, and your childrens learning of computing beyond the available hardware. It focuses on the building blocks of understanding required for computation thinking.