South Carolina Kindergarten Computer Science and Digital Literacy

This course is aligned to South Carolina Kindergarten Computer Science and Digital Literacy standards and is designed to provide computer science and digital literacy instruction for South Carolina Kindergarten students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.

Overview & Highlights

Elementary School

Overview of Lessons

Getting Started

Welcome to CodeHop!

Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHop Playground. This short introductory lesson can be used on its own or right before a full lesson.

Mouse Practice

Students will demonstrate mouse skills by dragging and clicking with the mouse in multiple games.

Keyboard Introduction

Students will be able to use the letters, numbers, and basic functions of the keyboard effectively.

Computational Thinking: Morning Routines

Students will be able to use computational thinking concepts to identify patterns, break down tasks, sequence steps, and simplify processes in their morning routines.

Computer Basics: Introduction

Students will be able to learn what a computer is, how we use it, and what to do when it doesn’t work. They will also be able to identify input, output, hardware, and software.

Getting Started: Programming

Drawing Tools: Fairy Tale Painting

Students will be able to use painting tools to create a fairy-tale scene.

Scout Adventures 1: Introducing Scout

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to explore the ScratchJr interface and add characters.

Scout Adventures 2: Scout Starts Exploring

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to add backgrounds and a page to ScratchJr.

Scout Adventures 3: Scout Meets a Friend

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to delete and modify characters in ScratchJr.

Scout Adventures 4: Scout Explores the Forest

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to explore and use motion blocks to move characters around the stage in ScratchJr.

Scout Adventures 5: Scout and Bluebird Help

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to build a sequence of motion blocks to move characters around the stage to collect objects.

Scout Adventures 6: Scout Celebrates with Friends

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to create a celebration scene in ScratchJr by adding characters, pages, backgrounds, and sequences of motion blocks with events.

Digital Literacy

Using Networks to Connect

Students will be able to describe how people and devices connect and share information using a network, with and without wires.

Types of Software

Students will be able to compare and select appropriate software applications to complete different computing tasks.

Introduction to Responsible Technology Use

Students will be able to identify ways to use technology safely and responsibly, including understanding an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

Keeping Information Safe

Students will be able to identify private and personal information.

Introduction to Data Storage and Files

Students will be able to recognize that computers store data as files and model how data is collected and stored.

What Can Data Tell Us?

Students will be able to collect, organize, and analyze data about school transportation.

Programming Exploration

Acting with Events

Students will be able to act out how an event can trigger an action.

Coding Card Game: Sequences

Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions to move Scout through a maze.

Sequences (Unplugged)

Students will be able to create a sequence of step-by-step instructions for a dance.

Introduction to Events

Students will be able to create a program using different types of events.

Introduction to Grow and Shrink Blocks

Students will create a program that uses "grow" and "shrink" blocks to change the size of characters.

Introduction to Pages

Students will be able to create a program with multiple pages.

Transportation Speeds and Sounds

Students will be able to use "say" or "sound" blocks and speed blocks to program modes of transportation.

All About Me!

Students will be able to create a program that tells information about their favorites.

Debugging: Events and Motion

Students will be able to find and correct bugs in sequences.

Interdisciplinary Exploration

Economic Choices

Students will be able to use message events to cause character interaction and describe how people make choices between wants and needs.

Our Responsibilities

Students will be able to use sequences to program two characters to explain how to be responsible in school and at home.

Phonics: Letter Sounds

Students will be able to create a phonics game using the “on tap” event and "record audio" block.

Draw and Tell

Students will be able to create a short scene in ScratchJr and write/dictate a sentence about the scene they created.

Needs of Plants

Students will be able to decompose a program and use events and messages to create a program that models the needs of plants.

How Living Things Survive

Students will be able to illustrate and explain how living things survive in their environment.

Story Problems: Add and Subtract within 10

Students will be able to create a scene in ScratchJr that represents an addition or subtraction story problem.

Decompose Numbers Up to 10

Students will create an interactive program using events to visualize algebraic thinking and decomposing numbers.

Creating Shapes

Students will use events to program shapes that can respond to user interaction. Students will combine the shapes to create a more complex shape.

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