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Purpose: Process – The 4 Rules to follow when solving a problem.

Review: Ask the students to reflect on the 3 radio programs they heard the day before and to reflect on what they learned about computers.

Review: Unit 1 Ends & Unit 2 Begins
Have students look into their Journals and walk backwards in time and state the major topics we covered and what we did in each class.

• Artificial Intelligence – Turing Test
• Digital Communication – Data
• Safety & Security – NSA
• How youth use Comm.
• Internet: Search Engines and Browsers
• Computer Components
• Dismantle
• Build a Computer for a client
• The Definition of a Computer

Begin Unit II: Process

Journal Entry: Introduce the “Problem Solving Process” – 4 Steps

• Understand the problem
• Make a plan to solve the problem – This is known as an Algorithm!
• Carry out the plan.
• Review and reflect on how the problem was solved.

Begin The “Cut The Cheese” Game
Materials: cheese stick, knife & napkin.
Rules:

• Partners must cut the cheese stick into 12 pieces, no more and no less. 
• The pieces do not have to be equal in size.
• When the knife breaks through a side…it is considered a cut.
• If you use your hand to break the cheese stick, it is considered a cut.
• The group that uses the least number of cuts to achieve 12 pieces wins.

Process:

• The groups will follow the 4 steps of the “Problem Solving Process.”
• Each group will state how many cuts it took them to break the cheese stick into 12 pieces.
• They will then: 4. Reflect & 2. Make a new plan. They will be handed a 2nd cheese stick.
• Each group will state how many cuts it took them on their 2nd attempt to break the cheese stick into 12 pieces.
• Groups will explain/draw to the class how they cut their cheese.

Conclusion: Yes, when the competition is over, you may eat the cheese!