Colorado Computer Science: 1st Grade
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 40
- Grade 1st
This course is aligned to the Colorado 1st grade Computer Science standards and is designed to provide computer science and digital literacy instruction for Colorado 1st grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
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UNITS - 6 (40 lessons)
Through a sequential Scout Adventures story, students review navigating the interface, adding characters, backgrounds, and pages, and building sequences with motion blocks and events.
Students use computational thinking to break down evening routines and learn basic computer hardware and software concepts.
Students learn to use events and sequences, debug simple programs, and use drawing tools while also learning about responsible online behavior.
Students explore digital literacy topics including online behavior, responsible technology use, giving credit and attribution, data storage, basic data collection, research, networks, and software types.
Students explore programming concepts including grow/shrink blocks, wait blocks, the design process, loops, debugging, message events, pages, the grid, and variables by building games like mini golf and a river-crossing challenge.
Students apply programming skills like events, sequences, and loops to interdisciplinary topics spanning economics, science (light, moon phases), phonics, storytelling, music, and math (comparison, time).
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