Colorado Computer Science: 3rd Grade
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 35
- Grade 3rd
This course is aligned to the Colorado 3rd grade Computer Science standards and is designed to provide computer science and digital literacy instruction for Colorado 3rd grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
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UNITS - 5 (35 lessons)
Students get oriented to the CodeHop Playground, use computational thinking to design an obstacle course, and learn about computing systems.
Through a sequential Scout story, students use drawing tools and basic programming commands including sequences, loops, events, and motion/look blocks to animate a story.
Students explore digital literacy topics including cyberbullying, digital footprints, cybersecurity, data analysis, file management, networking, and the ethics of AI products.
Students build core programming skills spanning sequences, events, broadcast messages, loops, debugging, conditionals, variables, comparison operators, functions, and lists.
Students apply programming concepts to interdisciplinary content in social studies (geography, communities), science (weather, adaptations), ELA (poetry), and math (multiplication, addition, geometry).
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