5th Grade Computer Science
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 33
- Grade 5th
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction aligned to CSTA standards for 5th grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by a designated computer science teacher.
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UNITS - 12 (33 lessons)
Reviews CodeHop basics, CS vocabulary, the coordinate plane, drawing tools, and computational thinking through designing a neighborhood.
Teaches students to use event blocks in a traveling program and to debug a pizza-making program by decomposing it.
Students use the pen tool and loops to create turtle graphics.
Students plan and decompose the steps needed to build a quest program using conditionals and operators.
Teaches students to create and use variables, lists, and comparison operators through a shopping simulator, a game, and a dance project.
Introduces clones, classes, and objects through building interactive games such as a throwing-acorns game.
Applies a year of programming skills to two culminating projects, designing an app through design thinking and collaborating to build a game.
Teaches students to identify computing system components, troubleshoot simple problems, and model how devices communicate over networks using packets.
Covers screen-time habits, digital reputation and identity, cybersecurity, and giving proper attribution when remixing programs.
Teaches students to collect, organize, and visualize data using spreadsheet tools like Google Sheets and Excel, and through an inquiry line graph project.
Explores how technology and culture influence each other, how inclusion has shaped computing, and careers in mobile app development, including a global collaboration project.
Compares human and machine performance, has students train an AI model, and covers the ethical and responsible use of generative AI products.
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