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Slesnick, Twila – Classroom Computer Learning, 1984
Presents various programing activities using the BASIC and LOGO programing languages. Activities are included in separate sections with a title indicating the nature of the activities and the "tools" (commands) needed. For example, "Old-fashioned drawing" requires several tools (PRINT, LIST, RUN, GOTO) to make drawings using…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
Dillashaw, F. Gerald; Bell, Samuel R. – 1985
This pilot study tested the hypothesis that the logical thinking skills of middle-grades students are enhanced by teaching them computer programming using the BASIC programming language. A quasi-experimental design was used with 36 students randomly selected and assigned to one of two treatment groups: 18 students received no instruction in…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Intermediate Grades, Logical Thinking, Programing
Classroom Computer Learning, 1985
Presents a collection of teaching activities suitable for students in the upper grades. These activities focus on practical programming projects, use of word processors for learning a foreign language, an Atari program for making a starburst, and a program (with deliberate errors) to determine the thickness of folded paper. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities, Programing
Classroom Computer Learning, 1985
Presents four activities suitable for upper elementary and middle/junior high school students. These activities focus on: (1) a customized spelling program; (2) designing fashions; (3) a student-generated form letter to parents; and (4) computer debates. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
Classroom Computer Learning, 1985
Presents a collection of teaching activities suitable for middle grade students. They include a program for an Apple sketch pad and a Logo procedure to determine what angles produce polygons. Comments related to inputing variables, replicating patterns and figures, and using electronic spreadsheets are included. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
Classroom Computer Learning, 1985
Presents a collection of computer-oriented teaching activities for the middle grades. They focus on Logo activities to sharpen visualization skills, use of spreadsheets, various uses of Apple microcomputer paddles, and writing a program from program output. All activities may be adapted for lower or higher grade levels. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
Classroom Computer Learning, 1985
Describes computer-oriented teaching activities for the upper grades. They focus on the use of databases in history classes, checking taxes, examining aspects of the joystick button on Atari microcomputers, printing control using Logo, and a Logo program that draws whirling squares. All activities can be adapted for lower grades. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Databases, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
Classroom Computer Learning, 1984
Five ideas for computer-oriented classroom activities are presented. They include sending secret messages (while introducing the American Standard Code for Information Interchange- ASCII), conducting a computer survey, playing adventure games, showing why the END command is needed, and using control characters to protect a program. (JN)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Science Education, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Classroom Computer Learning, 1984
Describes five computer-oriented activities suitable for middle grade students. Activities focus on use of spreadsheets to record nutrition data, programs that cause lights to twinkle on a Christmas tree and balloons to burst, an arithmetic problem, and a mathematics exercise using a spreadsheet. (JN)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computer Science Education, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. – 1983
This curriculum guide outlines a course on computer literacy for junior or senior high school students reflecting the technology of the early 1980s. A chart shows computer literacy scope and sequence for students in kindergarten, grades 1-2, grades 3-6, and grades 7-9. Forty lessons for the intermediate grades and high school are then presented,…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Peripherals, Computer Science Education, Curriculum Guides
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Enochs, Larry G. – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1984
Examined effects of beginning computer programing instruction, sex, and home computers on the attitudes of fifth-grade students (N=49). Results of this pilot study showed higher attitudes following instruction and no differences between the sexes or between those who had computers and those who did not. (JN)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Computer Science Education, Educational Research, Elementary School Students
Classroom Computer Learning, 1984
Six practical computer-oriented classroom activities are presented. They include making cryptograms using the search-and-replace function of word processors, making a frame for a Logo picture, examining Atari POKE commands, and comparing equivalent commands on different microcomputers. Also indicates the usefulness of marking on monitors with…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Graphics, Computer Science Education, Intermediate Grades
Papert, Seymour; And Others – 1979
During the school year 1977/78 four computers equipped with LOGO and Turtle Graphics were installed in an elementary school in Brookline, Massachusetts. All sixth grade students in the school had between 20 and 40 hours of hands-on experience with the computers, and the work of 16 students ranging from intellectually gifted and average to learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Graphics, Computer Programs, Computer Science Education
Watt, Daniel – 1979
During the school year 1977/78 four computers equipped with LOGO and Turtle Graphics were installed in an elementary school in Brookline, Massachusetts. All sixth grade students in the school had between 20 and 40 hours of hands-on experience with the computers, and the work of 16 students ranging from intellectually gifted and average to learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Graphics, Computer Programs, Computer Science Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Educational Media. – 1983
Materials appropriate for instruction in the use of computers in the intermediate grades, junior high schools, and high schools are listed in this advisory list by type of media: activity cards; books; books (for teacher use); books (supplementary texts); book (workbook); book (workbook) with disks; filmstrips (sound); kit (including disks, guide…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Audiotape Recordings, Audiovisual Aids, Book Reviews