Student Final Projects

The course’s peer-graded final assignment requires students to identify a location and natural disaster—either hypothetical or real—and create a preparation plan to address a specific aspect of this disaster. The plan must involve the main elements of CT described throughout the course, namely problem identification, decomposition, pattern recognition, and abstraction. Learners’ final submissions consist of a descriptive problem statement, a graphic organizer, and an algorithm diagram. Examples of the wide range of disasters learners chose include floods (by far the most common), cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, and droughts.