Utah Interdisciplinary Computer Science: 2nd Grade
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 46
- Grade 2nd
This course is aligned to UT standards and designed to provide computer science instruction for Utah 2nd Grade students. This course integrates coding into math, science, ELA, and social studies lessons. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by the general education teacher.
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UNITS - 8 (46 lessons)
Students learn to log in to CodeHop, create their first programs, and debug events and sequences.
Students use coding to explore adding within 20, three-digit place value, story problems, money, and shapes, and create their own story problem.
Students model changing landforms, erosion, seed dispersal, and properties of matter, and design solutions inspired by nature.
Students animate stories, practice punctuation, create an original fiction story, and explore a fashion retail career.
Students explore how communities modify their environment and how technology impacts the world.
Students use the design process, message events, pages, loops, and variables to build games, an adventure game, and a digital greeting card.
Students explore how computers connect, create strong passwords, manage files, explore networks, and analyze data and research.
Students see machine learning in action with an AI drawing tool.
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2nd grade students build games and animations using message events, pages, loops, and variables, and practice debugging and the design process. They apply coding to three-digit place value, story problems, money, and shapes, model landforms, erosion, seed dispersal, and matter, animate fiction stories, and explore how communities change their environment. Students also create strong passwords, manage files, explore networks and data, and see how machine learning recognizes drawings.
Most lessons in Utah Interdisciplinary Computer Science: 2nd Grade use coding to teach or reinforce grade-level content in math, science, English language arts, and social studies, so teachers can integrate computer science into the subjects they already teach. Additional strands build core programming skills through games and projects, and Digital Literacy and Artificial Intelligence strands cover computing systems, online safety, data, and AI.
Utah Interdisciplinary Computer Science: 2nd Grade provides about 36 hours of instruction, enough for a full school year. Lessons are organized into strands by subject, so teachers can choose and order lessons to fit their curriculum and schedule. Every lesson is built in a ready-to-teach format, with step-by-step videos that walk students through the lesson. Lessons are designed to be teacher-led, and a self-paced option is also available. Some strands end with a short quiz that can be assigned digitally, played as a QuizBuzz activity, or printed.
No. There are no prerequisites, and the course is designed to support all learners regardless of prior computer science experience. The Getting Started with Coding lessons introduce the CodeHop coding environment before students apply their skills across subjects.
Utah Interdisciplinary Computer Science: 2nd Grade is aligned to the Utah Computer Science standards, and each lesson identifies the standard or standards it addresses to support planning.
