Texas Tech Apps: 1st Grade
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 41
- Grade 1st
This course is aligned to TX standards and is designed to provide computer science instruction for Texas 1st Grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
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UNITS - 10 (41 lessons)
Students review foundational CodeHopJr skills through a six-part Scout Adventures story, practicing character creation, backgrounds, pages, and motion blocks.
Students learn computer basics and responsible technology use, apply computational thinking to daily routines, and use drawing tools to create a scene.
Students build programs using events, sequences, and wait blocks while practicing debugging, exploring a CS career, and reinforcing positive online behavior.
Students collaborate with unplugged coding card games to build loop-based instruction sequences that move a character through a maze.
Students use repeat and forever loops to create games and animations where characters repeat actions and interact with each other.
Students use message events and speed blocks to coordinate communication between characters and animate an original story.
Students use "go to page" blocks along with messages and loops to build multi-page games and a digital greeting card.
Students use the grid feature to design and solve mazes and to program a race with a defined end point.
Students apply the design process and prior programming skills to create personal, game, and data-visualization capstone projects.
Students explore presentation software, learn how computers store data as files, practice password safety, and conduct guided research.
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