UNPLUGGED LEARNING ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP COMPUTATIONAL THINKING SKILL IN THE SQUARE TOPIC FOR 5th GRADE STUDENTS

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Suwimon Ninlapun
Thitiya Bongkotphet

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        The purposes of this research were to study the guidelines for unplugged learning activities and to develop computational thinking skill of 5th grade students on the square topic. The research participants were 36 students in 5th grade in the second semester of 2019 academic year. The research instruments were four unplugged lesson plans which focus on developing computational thinking skill, observation form, worksheets and computational thinking skill interview form. The qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis and the quantitative data were analyzed by percentage. The results were as follows: 1. In the learning management of unplugged activities for developing computational thinking, the teacher should tell the students to consider about sub-condition of a whole problem, give an example of how to write the abstraction of the problem and an algorithm before they are writing it by themselves, give them enough time to deal with an activities in each steps. Moreover, the teacher should let the students to evaluate and check their problem solving before the presentation. 2.The students had developed computational thinking skill after using the learning management of unplugged activities. Most students had computational thinking skill at good level.

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