CSD U01L08 Propose An App With Warm Up

Problem Solving and Computing

Lesson 8

Project: Propose an App

Prompt:

Of the apps we've seen in this unit, what was your

favorite? What problem did it solve?

Problem Solving and Computing Lesson 8 - Warm Up

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Of the apps, Clever: Code.org: Lessons 5 - 7, you've seen in this unit, what was your favorite? What problem did it solve?

Question of the Day

How can the IOSP model help us to
design an app that solves a problem?

Problem Solving and Computing Lesson 8 - Warm Up

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Question of the Day

How can the (Input, Output, Storage, Process) IOSP model help us to design an app that solves a problem?

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Project Overview

You will…

• Work with a partner or yourself for this lesson

• Define a real world problem

• Brainstorm ways an app could help solve that problem

• Identify the inputs/outputs/storage/processing your app uses

• Share your ideas with another group for peer feedback

• Incorporate feedback to create a final version of the app

• Create a Google Drawing of your app to share with the class

• Explain the Project Overview:

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Brainstorm Problems

You might think about...

• Things you’d like to improve in your school, neighborhood, or community

• A task in your everyday life that you wish could be completed more easily

• A cause that you feel strongly about

• Something that is currently inconvenient or annoying to do

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Choose Your Problem

Your problem should be...

• Interesting: Both group members are interested in the problem

• Well-Defined: You can explain who specifically the problem affects, what needs to change, and how you’ll be able to tell that the problem had been solved 

• Computing is Relevant: The problem is an “information problem” that can be solved with “thinking work.”

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Define

• What is the problem?

• Who does the problem affect?

• How will you be able to know that a solution has worked?

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Prepare

• What will your app do?

• What will it look like?

• What inputs and outputs will it use?

• What processing will it use?

• What types of information will it store?

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Peer Review

• Fill out the top part of the peer review guide, then swap project and peer review guides with another group.

• Read over the other group’s ideas and give them feedback in the peer review guide.

• Trade back and look at the feedback you got on your app.

• Reflect on the feedback and decide what changes you will make based on the other group’s ideas.

• What is a Peer Review? Explain

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Try

• Finalize your app .

• Create a Google Drawing based on your app.

• Get ready to present your ideas to the class.

Explain your app with a drawing and text.