Practical exercise
Write your morning routine in eight ordered steps
Decomposition is the simplest computational thinking move: take one big thing you do without thinking, and break it into the smallest steps a stranger could follow. You will write your own morning in exactly eight steps and then test the steps by giving them to a sibling who will read them out as you act.
15 min·starter
Now try it
Write your morning routine in eight ordered steps
Stretch
Decompose three other daily routines this week: making chai, getting ready for school, going to bed. Compare which routine has the most autopilot steps; that is the one most worth attention.
Goes into your portfolio
A photograph decompose-morning-NN of the final eight step routine, with the gap stars from the test run still visible on the original page kept alongside.