Kindergarten–Grade 2
Students will be introduced to computer science through exploring the world around them. While learning about communication and collaboration, they uncover the skills needed to be a good digital citizen and how to stay safe online. Throughout this course, they will also practice skills such as, taking care of technological devices, identifying the parts of a computer, and using a computer for work and play. In addition, the primary grades work on specificity of instructions, identifying parts of a task, and ordering steps, which all lay the ground work for coding in an online environment. Grades 3-6 Students will learn how computer science interacts in their everyday lives. Students will actively work on skills such as coding in an online block-based environment, keyboarding, and cyber safety. They learn how to research, using only safe and valid websites, for information about adaptive technology, how to stay safe when using social media, and artificial intelligence. The research that they conduct is then used to create projects in the Microsoft Office Online programs Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. In addition to the computer skills, this Technology course integrates standards from Social Studies, Health, Math, and Language Arts with topics in each grade about safety and health (online and offline), bullying/cyberbullying, and being a responsible citizen/digital citizen. The upper grades will complete research projects focused on adaptive technology. The research projects require students to evaluate reliable and relevant websites, organize research, receive and implement feedback, and produce a final product. Collaboration and communication are also focused on in each grade level as integrated language arts standards.
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