Colorado Computer Science: 5th Grade
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 35
- Grade 5th
This course is aligned to the Colorado 5th grade Computer Science standards and is designed to provide computer science and digital literacy instruction for Colorado 5th grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
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UNITS - 6 (35 lessons)
Students review foundational CS vocabulary, the coordinate plane, and drawing tools before beginning the year's units.
Students use computational thinking to design a neighborhood and practice identifying computing system components and issues.
Students use events, debug programs, and collaborate through pair programming to build a keyboard-controlled band.
Students explore digital literacy topics including cyberbullying, cybersecurity and privacy, cybersecurity laws, data analysis, networking protocols, and how AI and machine learning compare to human capabilities.
Students build and refine algorithms and use conditionals, operators, clones, classes/objects, and functions to build games, then apply design thinking to create an app.
Students apply programming to interdisciplinary content in social studies (civics), science (astronomy, ecosystems), ELA (book reports, informational texts), and math (fractions, algebra, rates).
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