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Computer Scientists, Elementary Style

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When you think of a computer scientist what image comes to mind? Do you picture someone super smart? A bit geeky?  Male or female? Happy or serious? See what our Kindergarten through fifth graders thought! Adjectives Describing Computer Scientists by Students in Grades 2-5 Little Learners Move the Flurb Course 1 Activity In December after Hour of Code Coonley coding classes began.  As participants in CPS' CS4All pilot program I co-teach code.org's curriculum to our K-5 students (grades 6-8 are incorporated into existing science and math classes).  There are two courses for beginners; course 1 for Kindergarten & 1st grade students and course 2 for students in grades 2-5.  Both courses begin with "unplugged" activities (offline). Course 1 for our little learners began with some basic directional activities where students cut and pasted cardinal directions to "Move the Flurb" to a piece of fruit.  Since our little learners had already