@inproceedings{dcb69988c56e45d58c3724c9a7155e92,
title = "Frog Pond: A code-first learning environment on evolution and natural selection",
abstract = "Understanding processes of evolution and natural selection is both important and challenging for learners. We describe a {"}code-first{"} learning environment called Frog Pond designed to introduce natural selection to elementary and middle school aged learners. Learners use NetTango, a blocks-based programming interface to NetLogo, to control frogs inhabiting a lily pond. Simple programs result in changes to the frog population over successive generations. Our approach foregrounds computational thinking as a bridge to understanding evolution as an emergent phenomenon.",
keywords = "Agent-based modeling, Children, Code-first environment, Design, Evolution, Learning, Natural selection",
author = "Horn, {Michael S.} and Corey Brady and Arthur Hjorth and Aditi Wagh and Uri Wilensky",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1145/2593968.2610491",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450322720",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "357--360",
booktitle = "IDC 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interaction Design and Children",
note = "13th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2014 ; Conference date: 17-06-2014 Through 20-06-2014",
}