2nd Grade Computer Science

What Students Will Learn

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UNITS - 12 (36 lessons)

• Optional Review

  This module offers an optional review of foundational ScratchJr programming skills including navigating the interface, events, loops, and message events before 2nd grade content begins.

• Getting Started

  This module builds computational thinking skills by identifying patterns and sequencing steps in a school-day routine.

• Sequences & Events

  This module builds sequencing and event skills using the grid, an interactive tap-a-mole game, and debugging practice.

• Loops

  This module expands loop skills through pattern-following, creating a timer, incorporating peer feedback, and designing algorithms to move characters along a path.

• Message Events

  This module builds on message events to control program flow, model a cycle, navigate between pages, debug errors, and apply the design process.

• Culmination Projects

  This module has students combine coding blocks, events, loops, and messages to build a racing game and a moving targets game.

• Computing Systems

  This module explores how computers work and how networks connect devices to share information.

• Safety & Responsibility

  This module covers digital citizenship topics including digital footprints, cyberbullying, and responsible technology use.

• Data & Analysis

  This module builds data literacy skills through investigative surveys, understanding data storage, and choice-based research projects.

• Impacts of Computing

  This module explores how computing shapes careers like fashion design and how technology changes the way people live, work, and play.

• AI Exploration

  This module introduces AI concepts through examples like AI assistants and AutoDraw's use of a classifier to recognize and suggest drawings.

• Preparing for Next Year

  This module prepares students for 3rd grade by transitioning them to the CodeHop block editor and introducing variables.