Kahoot Interactive Lessons for AP CS Principles (WITHDRAWN)K12In-Person
College Board’s Advanced Placement® Program (AP®) enables academically prepared students to pursue college-level studies while still in high school. AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) introduces students to the breadth of the field of computer science. In the trenches, AP CSP teachers need more ready-made resources for students who are absent from class for a variety of reasons. These teachers need a way to convey the most important technical concepts that absent students miss as well as a way to assess these students’ learning to best prepare them for the AP exam. This project entailed the development of Kahoot interactive lessons that AP CS teachers can assign to students to teach, reinforce, and assess important computer science and programming concepts. These interactive lessons consist of terminology, a video to explain the concept(s), and checks for understanding in the form of multiple choice and true/false type questions. Twelve Kahoot interactive lessons were created and published online in November 2021. An instructor guide was developed for classroom teachers and homeschool educators that contain a listing of and links to each of the interactive lessons. For each of the Kahoots, a no-deadline challenge was also set up and links provided so that educators could simply assign the challenge and provide the URL to the student as homework or classwork.