Welcome to
AP Computer Science Principles
Great
job with your work using the Binary Number System!
This week we are going to be working on the following:
Introduction
to AP Computer Science Principles Class
Introduction
to Unit 1: The Internet
Introduction
to Unit 6: AP Exam and Performance Task
To Think; To Develop Problem-Solving Skills; To Discover; and To
Create;
Learning
to Compute and Computing to Learn
Classroom
Protocol:
This is where you will come every day to find out what we are
going to do in class for that day. Every day you are to come to your Quia class
web page upon arriving to class, go to your class web page, and follow the
directions for today.
Homework
Policy:
All assignments will be due on the deadline date given. It is the
responsibility for all students to complete their assignments on time. Any
assignments received late will not be accepted and a grade will not be given for
that assignment.
Accessing
your Class Weekly Agenda:
Each
week’s agenda and assignments will be updated and posted on your Quia class
web page on a weekly basis. Previous
weeks Assignments/Agendas will be provided with a link at the end of the current
week’s Class Web Page in case you need to revisit due to an absence, or
you’re required to make up, or catch up on your course assignments.
Homework Assignment: Daily homework assignments may be found at the end of each
day’s agenda. Daily Journal Entries as seen in Daily Ticket to Leave are to be
entered as part of your daily homework. All students will receive a homework
grade on a weekly basis, and your journal will receive a project grade each
mid-term and final semester.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Explore Performance Task: 8
hours
To
Be Completed by December 22, 2017
This
Week’s Agenda:
UNIT 1: The
Internet:
This unit begins exploring the technical challenges and questions that arise
from the need to represent digital information in computers and transfer it
between people and computational devices.
Topics
include: the digital representation of information - numbers, text, images, and
communication protocols.
In
the second half of the unit, students solve problems similar ones that had to be
solved to build the real Internet. Students design their own versions of
protocols, each one layered on the previous one, in a process that mimics the
layered sets of protocols on the real Internet. Topics include: the digital
representation of numbers and text, Internet Protocol, DNS, and TCP/IP.
Chapter 1: Representing and Transmitting Information
Big Questions
·
Why do computers use binary to represent
digital information?
·
How does data physically get from one
computer to another?
·
Are the ways data is represented and
transmitted with computers laws of nature or laws of man?
Enduring Understandings
·
2.1 A variety of abstractions built upon
binary sequences can be used to represent all digital data.
·
3.3 There are trade offs when representing
information as digital data.
·
6.2 Characteristics of the Internet
influence the systems built on it.
·
7.2 Computing enables innovation in nearly
every field.
UNIT 6: AP Performance Tasks
·
This unit contains lessons to help students with
preparation and execution of the AP® Performance Tasks: Create and Explore
·
The lessons in this unit are meant to be taken
piecemeal rather than as a typical unit sequence. Instead of a sequence of
connected lessons, these represent a more modular breakdown of the things you
need to do to:
1) Understand the AP Performance Tasks
2) Make a plan for completing the tasks in the
time allotted and
3) Actually doing the tasks and submitting
Week 3:
Monday Day D - 9-18-17 – Friday Day H – 9-22-2017
Lesson
8 – Sending Numbers
Period 6
Objective:
1)
Understand
the explore performance task rubric
2)
Communicate with classmates about computing innovations in their
lives.
3)
Describe positive and negative effects of computing innovations.
Activator:
Open
up your Engineering Journal and review what you entered last class. Review the
Standards, Objectives, above, for today’s lesson. Click on https://studio.code.org/
and log in. Locate the Unit 6: The AP CSP Exam and Performance Task ‘View
course’.
Direct
Instruction and Guided Practice:
1.
Go
to Unit 6: Chapter 2, and reference Lessons: 5,6,7 as a guide to planning and
working on your Practice Explore Performance Task
Online Explore Performance Task Resources:
Explore
PT Prep: Reviewing the Task
Explore
Performance Task Rubric
2.
Continue
working on your Explore Performance Task. Continue researching a Computing
Innovation which you will Explore according to the requirements of the Explore
Performance Task. Be prepared to present to the rest of the class next week.
Students will get a chance to use the Performance Task Rubric and Performance
Tasks Samples to discuss and collaborate on ways in which we can improve on our
task performance.
Assessment
for/of learning: Completion of today’s class assignment.
Summarizer: Mr. PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of tomorrow.
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
1)
Complete
your ticket to leave journal entry.
2)
Continue
working on your Explore Performance Task.
3)
Locate
the Unit 1: The Internet tile and click ‘View course’. Review Chapter 1
Lessons in preparation for taking the Unit 1, Chapter 1 Assessment on Thursday
Period 7
CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards
CD - Computers & Communication Devices
CD.L3A:9 - Describe how the Internet facilitates global
communication.
CI - Community, Global, and Ethical Impacts
CI.L3A:10 - Describe security and privacy issues that relate
to computer networks.
CI.L3A:4 -
Compare the positive and negative impacts of technology on culture (e.g., social
networking, delivery of news and other public media, and intercultural
communication).
Computer Science Principles
6.1 - The Internet is a network of autonomous systems.
6.1.1 -
Explain the abstractions in the Internet and how the Internet functions. [P3]
6.1.1B -
An end to end architecture facilitates connecting new devices and networks on
the Internet.
6.1.1C -
Devices and networks that make up the Internet are connected and communicate
using addresses and protocols.
6.1.1E -
Connecting new devices to the Internet is enabled by assignment of an Internet
protocol (IP) address.
6.2 - Characteristics of the Internet influence the systems
built on it.
6.2.2 -
Explain how the characteristics of the Internet influence the systems built on
it. [P4]
6.2.2E -
Open standards fuel the growth of the Internet.
7.3 - Computing has a global affect -- both beneficial and
harmful -- on people and society.
7.3.1 -
Analyze the beneficial and harmful effects of computing. [P4]
7.3.1A -
Innovations enabled by computing raise legal and ethical concerns.
7.3.1D -
Both authenticated and anonymous access to digital information raise legal and
ethical concerns.
7.3.1E -
Commercial and governmental censorship of digital information raise legal and
ethical concerns.
7.3.1G -
Privacy and security concerns arise in the development and use of computational
systems and artifacts.
7.3.1L -
Commercial and governmental curation of information may be exploited if privacy
and other protections are ignored.
7.4 - Computing innovations influence and are influenced by
the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which they are designed and used.
7.4.1 -
Explain the connections between computing and economic, social, and cultural
contexts. [P1]
7.4.1C -
The global distribution of computing resources raises issues of equity, access,
and power.
7.4.1D -
Groups and individuals are affected by the digital divide differing access to
computing and the Internet based on socioeconomic or geographic characteristics.
7.4.1E -
Networks and infrastructure are supported by both commercial and governmental
initiatives
Students will be able to:
·
Connect a personal experience to one challenge related to the
idea that "The Internet is for Everyone".
·
Cite one example of how computing has a global affect -- both
beneficial and harmful -- on people and society.
·
Explain that the Internet is a distributed global system that
works on shared and open protocols.
Activator:
Open
up your Engineering Journal and review what you entered last class. Review the
Standards, Objectives, above, for today’s lesson. Click on https://studio.code.org/
and log in. Locate the Unit 1: The Internet tile and click ‘View course’.
Direct Instruction:
1)
KWL
– The Internet: Within your engineering notebooks write down what you Know
about the Internet and What you would like to learn. You can fill in what you
have learned about the internet after today’s lesson as part of your Ticket to Leave exercise.
2)
“When
you enter a web address in a browser and hit enter, what happens? At some point
you see the web page in the browser, but what happens in between? What are all
the steps?"
"Write down the series of things that you think (or
have heard) happen right after you hit Enter. What happens first, second, third
and so on. "
"Don’t worry if you don’t know all the pieces or how
they all fit together. If you don't know a step, or you are fuzzy on some
details, or there's a gap, that's okay. Just write down the parts that you know.
3)
Review
as a class to help us to understand “What” we want to know
Guided Practice:
1)
Log
into code.org and go to Lesson 8 –
The Internet is for Everyone
2)
Save
a copy of this lesson’s activity guide to your Google Drive so that you will
be able to submit to the Google Classroom Assignment.
3)
Do
the following:
With a partner, skim the document and look at the 9
"Internet is for everyone - but it won't be if..." challenges laid out
at the end.
With your partner pick one or two of the challenges that are
the most meaningful to you, or relate to some experience you've had in your
life.
Be
prepared to:
a.
Read the statement you chose: “Internet is for everyone - but
it won’t be if….” and then explain in your own words what it means.
b.
Explain why that particular challenge is meaningful to you or
relates to some experience you've had.
The
"Internet is for Everyone" is actually a philosophy about how people
should be connected. That philosophy is expressed in the way the Internet
standards and protocols were engineered. In order to understand that philosophy
over the next several lessons we’ll be learning about the systems of protocols
that work together to make the internet function.
Assessment
for/of learning: Completion of today’s class assignment.
Summarizer: Mr. PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of tomorrow.
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
1)
Complete
your ticket to leave journal entry.
2)
Continue
working on your Explore Performance Task.
3)
Locate
the Unit 1: The Internet tile and click ‘View course’. Review Chapter 1
Lessons in preparation for taking the Unit 1, Chapter 1 Assessment on Thursday
Period 6
Objective:
1)
Understand
the explore performance task rubric
2)
Communicate with classmates about computing innovations in their
lives.
3)
Describe positive and negative effects of computing innovations.
Activator:
Open
up your Engineering Journal and review what you entered last class. Review the
Standards, Objectives, above, for today’s lesson. Click on https://studio.code.org/
and log in. Locate the Unit 6: The AP CSP Exam and Performance Task ‘View
course’.
Direct
Instruction and Guided Practice:
1.
Go
to Unit 6: Chapter 2, and reference Lessons: 5,6,7 as a guide to planning and
working on your Practice Explore Performance Task
Online Explore Performance Task Resources:
Explore
PT Prep: Reviewing the Task
Explore
Performance Task Rubric
2.
Continue
working on your Explore Performance Task. Continue researching a Computing
Innovation which you will Explore according to the requirements of the Explore
Performance Task. Be prepared to present to the rest of the class next week.
Students will get a chance to use the Performance Task Rubric and Performance
Tasks Samples to discuss and collaborate on ways in which we can improve on our
task performance.
Assessment
for/of learning: Completion of today’s class assignment.
Summarizer: Mr. PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of tomorrow.
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
1)
Complete
your ticket to leave journal entry.
2)
Continue
working on your Explore Performance Task.
3)
Locate
the Unit 1: The Internet tile and click ‘View course’. Review Chapter 1
Lessons in preparation for taking the Unit 1, Chapter 1 Assessment on Thursday
Period 7
CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards
CD - Computers & Communication Devices
CD.L2:6 - Describe the major components and functions of
computer systems and networks.
CD.L3A:9 - Describe how the Internet facilitates global
communication.
CL - Collaboration
CL.L2:3 - Collaborate with peers, experts and others using
collaborative practices such as pair programming, working in project teams and
participating in-group active learning activities.
Computer Science Principles
6.1 - The Internet is a network of autonomous systems.
6.1.1 - Explain the abstractions in the Internet and how the
Internet functions. [P3]
6.1.1C - Devices and networks that make up the Internet are
connected and communicate using addresses and protocols.
6.1.1D - The Internet and the systems built on it facilitate
collaboration.
6.1.1F - The Internet is built on evolving standards,
including those for addresses and names.
6.1.1H - The number of devices that could use an IP address
has grown so fast that a new protocol (IPv6) has been established to handle
routing of many more devices.
6.2 - Characteristics of the Internet influence the systems
built on it.
6.2.1 - Explain characteristics of the Internet and the
systems built on it. [P5]
6.2.1C - IP addresses are hierarchical.
6.2.2 - Explain how the characteristics of the Internet
influence the systems built on it. [P4]
6.2.2D - Interfaces and protocols enable widespread use of
the Internet.
6.3 - Cybersecurity is an important concern for the Internet
and the systems built on it.
6.3.1 -
Identify existing cybersecurity concerns and potential options to address these
issues with the Internet and the systems built on it. [P1]
6.3.1A - The trust model of the Internet involves tradeoffs.
Students will be able to:
Activator:
Open
up your Engineering Journal and review what you entered last class. Review the
Standards, Objectives, above, for today’s lesson. Click on https://studio.code.org/
and log in. Locate the Unit 1: The Internet tile and click ‘View course’.
Direct Instruction:
So far we have only
solved Internet problems when you are connected to one other person (so-called
"point-to-point" communication). Obviously, the Internet is bigger
than that, and today we're going to look at problems that involve multiple
people.
Guided Practice:
1)
Log
into code.org and go to Lesson 9
2)
You
connect to a “Room” with other people, instead of an individual partner.
3)
Every
message that is sent gets broadcast to everyone in the
"room", including you!
4)
Finish
your game using the internet simulator – NO Talking Allowed
Once the game is over each group should discuss standardizing
their protocol for sending messages. Things to consider:
After groups have had a chance to coordinate and refine their
protocols, give them a chance to try it out on a fresh game.
NOTE:
We
will continue and complete this Lesson next week!
Assessment
for/of learning: Completion
of today’s class assignment.
Summarizer: Mr. PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of tomorrow.
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
1)
Complete
your ticket to leave journal entry.
2)
Continue
working on your Explore Performance Task.
3)
Locate
the Unit 1: The Internet tile and click ‘View course’. Review Chapter 1
Lessons in preparation for taking the Unit 1, Chapter 1 Assessment on Thursday
Period 6 and Period 7
1)
Locate
the Unit 1: The Internet tile and click ‘View course’. Take the Unit 1,
Chapter 1 Assessment. You may use any resources you can find to help you to
answer the questions.
2)
When
you are done with the assessment make sure to ‘Submit’. You may use the rest
of today to work on your Explore Performance Tasks which you will begin to
present on Monday.
Period 6 and Period 7:
Last day to complete your Explore Performance Task in Class
Objective:
1)
Understand
the explore performance task rubric
2)
Communicate with classmates about computing innovations in their
lives.
3)
Describe positive and negative effects of computing innovations.
Activator:
Open
up your Engineering Journal and review what you entered last class. Review the
Standards, Objectives, above, for today’s lesson. Click on https://studio.code.org/
and log in. Locate the Unit 6: The AP CSP Exam and Performance Task ‘View
course’.
Direct
Instruction and Guided Practice:
1.
Go
to Unit 6: Chapter 2, and reference Lessons: 5,6,7 as a guide to planning and
working on your Practice Explore Performance Task
Online Explore Performance Task Resources:
Explore
PT Prep: Reviewing the Task
Explore
Performance Task Rubric
2.
Continue
working on your Explore Performance Task. Continue researching a Computing
Innovation which you will Explore according to the requirements of the Explore
Performance Task. Be prepared to present to the rest of the class next week.
Students will get a chance to use the Performance Task Rubric and Performance
Tasks Samples to discuss and collaborate on ways in which we can improve on our
task performance.
Assessment
for/of learning: Completion of today’s class assignment.
Summarizer: Mr. PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of tomorrow.
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
1)
Complete
your ticket to leave journal entry.
2)
Continue
and complete working on your Explore Performance Task. Presentations will begin
on Monday
Thanks for a great
week!
Mr. PC
Explore
Performance Task Rubric
More Resources for
finding computing innovations:
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
Tools
for building computing artifacts:
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
To Do: Create Digital
Portfolios for Performance Tasks Submissions. Our goal is to complete our
Explore Performance Task before the end of 2017.
·
Begin
preparing for the May 11th Exam with practice exam questions from AP training
google drive and the career board. Use online student response system for class
review and discussion.
Unit
1 Vocabulary