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 identificationdecompositionpattern 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.