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D ue to the increasingly computational nature of professions, computational thinking (CT) is of growing importance to authentic science learning and the education of future scientists To meet this need, CT integration is expanding within classrooms We provided professional development (PD) for pre-service and in-service teachers focused on integrating CT into elementary science At the PD culmination, 36 teachers wrote and enacted 22 unique CT-integrated science lessons, individually or with teaching partners Waterman et al (2020) suggested three levels of integrating CT within lesson plans: exist, labeling already present CT; enhance, adding CT components; and extend, adding activities supporting science learning with CT Using this framework, we examined these lesson plans, their alignment to CT practices, and the level of CT integration Our results indicated 833% of teachers successfully integrated CT within their lessons, focusing on Using Data, Computational Simulations, and Programming practices Further, we found the level of integration differed by CT practice Data practices generally led to exist level integration, Computational Simulation practices to enhance level

Author

Merijke Coenraad; Lautaro Cabrera; Heather Killen; Jan Plane; Diane Jass Ketelhut

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781450396158