Utah Interdisciplinary Computer Science: 4th Grade
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 58
- Grade 4th
This course is aligned to UT standards and designed to provide computer science instruction for Utah 4th 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 - 9 (58 lessons)
Students learn to log in to CodeHop and practice events, loops, and conditionals.
Students use coding to explore place value, factors, division, fractions, decimals, unit conversion, angles, and area and perimeter.
Students model how animals sense their environment, cells, fossils, sound, waves, light, heat, and rocks.
Students create nonfiction recordings, explore point of view, build a grammar quiz game and Mad Libs project, and create original stories.
Students create a state project, explore rights and responsibilities, and build a Utah timeline.
Students create digital flashcards, Venn diagrams, and cause-and-effect programs, and use computational thinking to design a school.
Students use design thinking, algorithms, conditionals, the coordinate plane, and variables to build games and a drawing app.
Students explore computing systems, impacts of computing, data, how information travels on the Internet, and crediting sources.
Students explore how AI is trained, why people build smart machines, and how to ask AI better questions.
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4th grade students build games and apps using algorithms, conditionals, variables, and the coordinate plane. They use coding to practice factors, fractions, decimals, unit conversion, and area and perimeter, model cells, fossils, sound waves, light, and heat, build a grammar quiz game and Mad Libs project, and create a Utah timeline with the BBC micro:bit. Students also learn how information travels on the Internet, analyze data, credit sources, and explore how AI is trained and how to ask AI better questions.
Most lessons in Utah Interdisciplinary Computer Science: 4th 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. Cross-curricular projects such as digital flashcards, Venn diagrams, and cause-and-effect programs can be adapted to any subject. 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: 4th 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: 4th Grade is aligned to the Utah Computer Science standards, and each lesson identifies the standard or standards it addresses to support planning.
