Texas Tech Apps: Kindergarten
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 37
- Grade K
This course is aligned to TX standards and is designed to provide computer science instruction for Texas kindergarten students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
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UNITS - 8 (37 lessons)
Students practice sequencing and event concepts through unplugged activities and coding card games, plus basic mouse skills.
Students learn computer basics, practice keyboard skills, and apply computational thinking to their morning routines.
Students follow the six-part Scout Adventures story to learn the CodeHopJr interface and use drawing tools to create a fairy-tale scene.
Students build programs using events, sequences, show/hide and grow/shrink blocks, and loops to animate characters.
Students create multi-page programs and use the "go to page" block to switch between scenes.
Students explore speed blocks, sound blocks, and patterns to animate transportation and music scenes, and practice debugging.
Students apply the design process to build a chicken-crossing game and a wildlife scene using events, sequences, and loops.
Students learn responsible technology use, how to keep personal information safe, different types of software, and basic research and data skills.
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