This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for kindergarten students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by a designated computer science teacher.
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for first grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by a designated computer science teacher.
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for second grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by a designated computer science teacher.
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for third grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by a designated computer science teacher.
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for fourth grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by a designated computer science teacher.
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for fifth grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by a designated computer science teacher.
This course integrates coding into math, science, ELA, and social studies lessons for kindergarten students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by the general education teacher. Subject area lessons can be taught in any order; they are listed in approximate order of complexity.
This course integrates coding into math, science, ELA, and social studies lessons for first grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by the general education teacher. Subject area lessons can be taught in any order; they are listed in approximate order of complexity.
This course integrates coding into math, science, ELA, and social studies lessons for second grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by the general education teacher. Subject area lessons can be taught in any order; they are listed in approximate order of complexity.
This course integrates coding into math, science, ELA, and social studies lessons for third grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by the general education teacher. Subject area lessons can be taught in any order; they are listed in approximate order of complexity.
This course integrates coding into math, science, ELA, and social studies lessons for fourth grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by the general education teacher. Subject area lessons can be taught in any order; they are listed in approximate order of complexity.
This course integrates coding into math, science, ELA, and social studies lessons for fifth grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by the general education teacher. Subject area lessons can be taught in any order; they are listed in approximate order of complexity.
This transitional mini-course integrates coding into math, science, ELA, and social studies lessons for sixth grade students. 6th grade students would benefit from moving on to CodeHS Middle School courses, such as CS Explorations.
Karel Adventures 1 introduces students to programming in the JavaScript Karel coding environment. Students learn about sequences and control structures as they follow Karel on two fun-filled adventures. Recommended for 5th or 6th grade.
Karel Adventures 2 introduces students to programming in the JavaScript Karel coding environment. Students learn about sequences and control structures as they follow Karel on two fun-filled adventures. Recommended for 5th or 6th grade.
This course introduces students to coding with Bee-Bot and integrates coding with math and science.
This course provides modular options for integrating micro:bit® programming in the upper elementary classroom with Scratch.
This course introduces students to using block coding to change worlds within Minecraft: Education Edition®.
In this course, students will design 3D projects in Tinkercad.
This course will plan, design and program with the LEGO® SPIKE kits.
This course introduces students to color coding with Ozobots.
This course will teach students to program with the Kibo® Robot. Students will create programs for interdisciplinary subjects as well as computer science-focused lessons.
This course will introduce students to coding with the VEX® robot kits, and integrates coding with math and science
This course introduces students to coding with the Code & Go® Robot Mouse and integrates coding with math and science.
This course introduces students to coding with Finch Robot® and integrates coding with math and ELA.
This course contains access and standards alignment for the Makey Makey Invention Kit.
This course introduces students to coding with the Sphero® Bolt or Mini Robots.
This course introduces students to coding with Wonder Workshop's Dash® Robot.
Students use common productivity software (Google® and/or Microsoft®) and understand their purposes. The course culminates in a project using all types of software: spreadsheets, word processing, and presentations.
This course is on Indiana’s High Quality Curriculum Materials Advisory List. This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Indiana Kindergarten students, and it is aligned to Indiana K-2 Computer Science Standards.
This course is on Indiana’s High Quality Curriculum Materials Advisory List. This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Indiana 1st Grade students, and it is aligned to Indiana K-2 Computer Science Standards.
This course is on Indiana’s High Quality Curriculum Materials Advisory List. This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Indiana 2nd Grade students, and it is aligned to Indiana K-2 Computer Science Standards.
This course is on Indiana’s High Quality Curriculum Materials Advisory List. This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Indiana 3rd Grade students, and it is aligned to Indiana 3-5 Computer Science Standards.
This course is on Indiana’s High Quality Curriculum Materials Advisory List. This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Indiana 4th Grade students, and it is aligned to Indiana 3-5 Computer Science Standards.
This course is on Indiana’s High Quality Curriculum Materials Advisory List. This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Indiana 5th Grade students, and it is aligned to Indiana 3-5 Computer Science Standards.
This course belongs to the CodeHS Nevada K-5 Computer Science pathway. This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Nevada Kindergarten students, and it is aligned to Nevada Kindergarten Computer Science Standards.
This course belongs to the CodeHS Nevada K-5 Computer Science pathway. This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Nevada 1st Grade students, and it is aligned to Nevada 1st Grade Computer Science Standards.
This course belongs to the CodeHS Nevada K-5 Computer Science pathway. This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Nevada 2nd Grade students, and it is aligned to Nevada 2nd Grade Computer Science Standards.
This course belongs to the CodeHS Nevada K-5 Computer Science pathway. This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Nevada 3rd Grade students, and it is aligned to Nevada 3rd Grade Computer Science Standards.
This course belongs to the CodeHS Nevada K-5 Computer Science pathway. This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Nevada Fourth-grade students, and it is aligned with Nevada Fourth Grade Computer Science Standards.
This course belongs to the CodeHS Nevada K-5 Computer Science pathway. This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Nevada 5th Grade students, and it is aligned to Nevada 5th Grade Computer Science Standards.
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Oklahoma Kindergarten students. Students learn programming and principles of computer science, including: computing systems, networks and the Internet, data analysis, algorithms and programming, and impacts of computing.
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Oklahoma 1st grade students. Students learn programming and principles of computer science, including: computing systems, networks and the Internet, data analysis, algorithms and programming, and impacts of computing.
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Oklahoma 2nd grade students. Students learn programming and principles of computer science, including: computing systems, networks and the Internet, data analysis, algorithms and programming, and impacts of computing.
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Oklahoma 3rd grade students. Students learn programming and principles of computer science, including: computing systems, networks and the Internet, data analysis, algorithms and programming, and impacts of computing.
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Oklahoma 4th grade students. Students learn programming and principles of computer science, including: computing systems, networks and the Internet, data analysis, algorithms and programming, and impacts of computing.
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Oklahoma 5th grade students. Students learn programming and principles of computer science, including: computing systems, networks and the Internet, data analysis, algorithms and programming, and impacts of computing.
This course is aligned to UT standards and is designed to provide computer science instruction for Utah kindergarten students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
This course is aligned to UT standards and designed to provide computer science instruction for Utah 1st Grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
This course is aligned to UT standards and designed to provide computer science instruction for Utah 2nd Grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
This course is aligned to UT standards and designed to provide computer science instruction for Utah 3rd Grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
This course is aligned to UT standards and designed to provide computer science instruction for Utah 4th Grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
This course is aligned to UT standards and designed to provide computer science instruction for Utah 5th Grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
This course is aligned to UT standards and designed to provide computer science instruction for Utah 6th Grade students.
| Lesson | Lesson Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sequences (Unplugged) | Students will be able to create a sequence of step-by-step instructions for a dance. | |
| CodeHS Coding Card Game: Sequences | Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions to move Scout through a maze. | |
| CodeHS Coding Card Game: Sequences 2 | Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions to move Scout through a maze. | |
| Acting with Events | Students will be able to act out how an event can trigger an action. | |
| Welcome to CodeHS! | Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHS Playground. | |
| Scout Adventures 1: Introducing Scout | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to explore the ScratchJr interface and add characters. | |
| Scout Adventures 2: Scout Starts Exploring | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to add backgrounds and a page to ScratchJr. | |
| Scout Adventures 3: Scout Meets a Friend | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to delete and modify characters in ScratchJr. | |
| Scout Adventures 4: Scout Explores the Forest | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to explore and use motion blocks to move characters around the stage in ScratchJr. | |
| Scout Adventures 5: Scout and Bluebird Help | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to build a sequence of motion blocks to move characters around the stage to collect objects. | |
| Scout Adventures 6: Scout Celebrates with Friends | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to create a celebration scene in ScratchJr by adding characters, pages, backgrounds, and sequences of motion blocks with events. | |
| Drawing Tools: Fairy Tale Painting | Students will be able to use painting tools to create a fairy-tale scene. | |
| Introduction to Events | Students will be able to create a program using different types of events. | |
| Sequences: Snowball Fight | Students will be able to create a program using multiple sequences. | |
| Events: Submarine Sequences | Students will be able to use event blocks and motion blocks to program an underwater scene. | |
| Introduction to Show and Hide Blocks | Students will be able to use "show" and "hide" blocks in a sequence to make characters appear and disappear. | |
| Introduction to Grow and Shrink Blocks | Students will create a program that uses "grow" and "shrink" blocks to change the size of characters. | |
| Growing Garden | Students will be able to use grow, shrink, and hide blocks to model a garden growing. | |
| Introduction to Pages | Students will be able to create a program with multiple pages. | |
| Pages: Dragon Story | Students will be able to create a program with multiple pages. | |
| Using the Go To Page Block | Students will be able to create a program including a “go to page” block to switch from page to page in an activity. | |
| Introduction to Speed Blocks | Students will be able to create a program that uses different speed blocks to animate characters | |
| Animal Sounds | Students will be able to use "say" or "sound" blocks to program a character to speak. | |
| Transportation Speeds and Sounds | Students will be able to use "say" or "sound" blocks and speed blocks to program modes of transportation. | |
| All About Me! | Students will be able to create a program that tells information about their favorites. | |
| Debugging: Events and Motion | Students will be able to find and correct bugs in sequences. | |
| Bowling Game | Students will be able to apply their coding skills to create an interactive bowling game. | |
| Loops | Students will be able to create a program using loops and explain how loops are used to repeat code. | |
| Loops: Frog and Rabbit | Students will be able to use loops to repeat code in a program. | |
| Forever Loops: Fireworks | Students will be able to create sequences that are repeated while the program runs. | |
| Loops: Play in the Park | Students will be able to use “repeat loops” and “forever loops” in a program. | |
| Chicken Crossing Game | Students will be able to program an interactive player character and adjust the difficulty of play in a game. | |
| Wildlife Scene Project | Students will be able to create a wildlife scene in ScratchJr using events, sequences, and loops. | |
| Mouse Practice | Students will demonstrate mouse skills by dragging and clicking with the mouse in multiple games. | |
| Keyboard Introduction | Students will be able to use the letters, numbers, and basic functions of the keyboard effectively. | |
| Input Devices | Students will be able to identify and use computer input devices. | |
| The Sorting Game | Students will develop an introductory understanding of how computers can learn. |
| Lesson | Lesson Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to CodeHS! | Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHS Playground. | |
| Scout Adventures 1: Introducing Scout | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to explore the ScratchJr interface and add characters. | |
| Scout Adventures 2: Scout Starts Exploring | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to add backgrounds and a page to ScratchJr. | |
| Scout Adventures 3: Scout Meets a Friend | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to delete and modify characters in ScratchJr. | |
| Scout Adventures 4: Scout Explores the Forest | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to explore and use motion blocks to move characters around the stage in ScratchJr. | |
| Scout Adventures 5: Scout and Bluebird Help | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to build a sequence of motion blocks to move characters around the stage to collect objects. | |
| Scout Adventures 6: Scout Celebrates with Friends | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to create a celebration scene in ScratchJr by adding characters, pages, backgrounds, and sequences of motion blocks with events. | |
| Drawing Tools: Nature Walk | Students will be able to use drawing tools to create a nature-walk scene. | |
| Events | Students will be able to explain what an event is in programming and use multiple event blocks in a program. | |
| Sequences: Digital Responsibilities | Students will be able to use sequences to program characters and explain how to be responsible online. | |
| Hide and Seek Game | Students will use the hide block to program an interactive game of hide-and-seek. | |
| Grow and Shrink Blocks in Motion | Students will be able to create a program using motion blocks and grow and shrink blocks to change the size of characters. | |
| Introduction to the Wait Block | Students will be able to use "wait" blocks to cause characters to pause in a program. | |
| Introduction to Debugging | Students will be able to find and correct bugs in sequences. | |
| CodeHS Coding Card Game: Loops | Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions with loops to move Scout through a maze. | |
| CodeHS Coding Card Game: Loops 2 | Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions with loops to move Scout through a maze. | |
| Introduction to Repeat Loops | Students will be able to use repeat loops to run a section of code multiple times. | |
| Loops: Catching Butterflies | Students will be able to use "show" and "hide" blocks and loops to create a butterfly-catching game. | |
| Loops: Predator and Prey | Students will be able to use events, sequences, and loops to program two animal characters to interact with each other. | |
| Forever Loop Dance Party | Students will be able to create a sequence using a “repeat forever” loop to make characters repeat actions. | |
| Introduction to Message Events | Students will be able to program a relay race that uses messages to cause characters to interact. | |
| Message Events: Simon Says | Students will be able to use message events to make one character communicate to many characters in a program. | |
| Debugging | Students will be able to describe what bugs are and find and correct bugs in sequences. | |
| Create an Original Story Animation | Students will be able to create a program to animate an original story. | |
| Speed Block: Bouncy Ball | Students will be able to use speed blocks and messages to program a character to move at different speeds. | |
| Garden Project | Students will use message events, grow, shrink, hide, and show blocks to animate seeds growing in a garden. | |
| Pages: Create a Tapping Game | Students will be able to create a game that moves from one page to the next using "go to page" blocks. | |
| Create a Mini Golf Game | Students will be able to use messages and loops to create a mini golf game. | |
| Impacts of Technology in Our World | Students will be able to create a program to demonstrate how technology impacts our world. | |
| Digital Greeting Card | Students will be able to create a digital greeting card with events and loops. | |
| Grid: Solving Mazes | Students will be able to design a maze and use the grid to program a character to move through the maze. | |
| End Block: Program a Race | Students will be able to complete a project to program a race and use the “end” block in an animation. | |
| Grid: Arctic Animation | Students will be able to use the grid in ScratchJr to create an animation. | |
| About Me Project | Students will be able to plan a program to describe their characteristics and interests. | |
| River Crossing Game | Students will be able to program obstacles in a game and change the level of difficulty using speed blocks. | |
| Space Travel Project | Students will be able to create and explore ways to program a multipage story using messages, loops, and sequences. | |
| Computer Basics | Students will be able to identify what a computer is and understand how technology impacts our lives. Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of input and output devices and explain the difference between hardware and software. | |
| Passwords | Students will be able to explain why strong passwords are used and describe good practices to keep personal digital information safe. | |
| Online Etiquette | Students will be able to make appropriate choices to follow online etiquette rules. | |
| Basic Data and Programming Project | Students will be able to collect data and create a program to present their data visually. | |
| Giving Credit Through Attributions | Students will be able to explain why giving credit for another person's ideas and creations is important. They will reuse parts of a story to make a new story and give attribution to the original creator. | |
| Digital Research 1: Guided Research | Students will be able to identify and collect information from research sources and assess the relevance of information. | |
| Research Presentations | Students will be able to create a program to communicate research findings visually. | |
| Machine Learning: What is a Blorg? | Students will be able to explain how AI can learn information by being trained to identify an alien. | |
| 3D Design: Introduction | Students will be able to add, move, scale, and rotate 3D shapes in Tinkercad® to create a 3D face and personalized keychain. This lesson requires student accounts in an external site. |
| Lesson | Lesson Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to CodeHS! | Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHS Playground. | |
| Introduction to ScratchJr | Students will be able to navigate the ScratchJr interface to create a scene with characters. | |
| Events | Students will be able to explain what an event is in programming and use multiple event blocks in a program. | |
| Introduction to Repeat Loops | Students will be able to use repeat loops to run a section of code multiple times. | |
| Forever Loop Dance Party | Students will be able to create a sequence using a “repeat forever” loop to make characters repeat actions. | |
| Introduction to Message Events | Students will be able to program a relay race that uses messages to cause characters to interact. | |
| Debugging: Events and Sequences | Students will be able to find and fix errors in provided code. | |
| Introduction to the Grid | Students will be able to use the grid feature to move characters to a specific location on the stage. | |
| Tap-a-Mole Game | Create an interactive game using events. | |
| Message Events: Scout Plays in the Forest | Students will be able to use message events to control the flow of a program. | |
| Programming a Cycle | Students will be able to use message events to model a cycle. | |
| Pages: Scout's Travels | Students will be able to use messages to help Scout travel between pages in a program. | |
| Loops: Follow the Path | Students will be able to identify patterns, and create a program using loops. | |
| Debugging: Message Events and Loops | Students will be able to find and fix (debug) message event and loop errors in the provided code. | |
| Original Story Animations - Fiction Story | Students will be able to develop an original story and create a program to animate a story. | |
| Code Block Review | Students will be able to use a variety of coding blocks in a program and explain their function within the program. | |
| Racing Game | Students will be able to create an interactive racing game with events, loops, and messages. | |
| Moving Targets Game | Create a moving target game using sequences, events, and pages. | |
| Maze Game Project | Students will create and explore multiple ways to program an interactive game using events, messages, loops and sequences, as well as revise their program based on feedback. | |
| Design an Adventure Game | Students will be able to create a story-based, multi-page game using Computer Science skills they have learned. | |
| Computer Detectives: Computer Problems | Students will be able to describe basic hardware and software problems. | |
| Get Organized with Files | Students will be able to use a mock desktop environment to modify files, demonstrate appropriate file-naming conventions, and organize files into folders. | |
| Data Storage with Symbols | Explain that computers use, and store data with, symbols, and be able to use symbols to create legends for maps. | |
| Machine Learning: AutoDraw | Students will be able to use AutoDraw to create a picture using AI. | |
| Networks and the Internet | Students will be able to explain what a network is and how people communicate over networks and the Internet. They will model how messages are communicated using the Internet. | |
| Data Patterns and Predictions | Students will be able to identify and describe patterns in data visualizations, then create a program using events to communicate patterns and predictions from a given data set. | |
| Advanced Data and Programming | Students will be able to develop an investigative question, collect data using a survey, and create a program to present the data visually. | |
| Digital Research 2: Choice Research | Students will be able to communicate research findings through programming. | |
| 3D Design: Create a Bubble Wand | Students will be able to create a customized bubble wand by connecting, resizing, and moving shapes in Tinkercad®. This lesson requires student accounts in an external site. | |
| CodeHS Coding Card Game: Conditionals | Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions with conditionals to move Scout through a maze. | |
| CodeHS Coding Card Game: Conditionals 2 | Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions with conditionals to move Scout through a maze. | |
| Variables: Keeping Score | Students will be able to create a program that simulates keeping score using a variable | |
| From ScratchJr to Scratch | Students will be able to navigate the basic interface of the Scratch editor to create a simple program. | |
| ScratchJr to Scratch: Events and Loops | Students will be able to create a program in Scratch that uses an event and a loop. |
| Lesson | Lesson Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to CodeHS! | Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHS Playground. | |
| Scout's Scratch Expedition Part 1 | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will use basic Scratch commands to program a sprite to move and talk. | |
| Scout's Scratch Expedition Part 2 | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will follow along with a story. Students will add sprites in Scratch and create a sequence to animate a story. | |
| Scout's Scratch Expedition Part 3 | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will create an animated Scout story in Scratch using loops, events, looks, and motion blocks. | |
| Scout's Scratch Expedition Part 4 | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will create an animated Scout story in Scratch using events, looks, and motion blocks. | |
| Scratch Drawing Tools | Students will be able to create customized sprites and backdrops using the drawing tools. | |
| Sequences: Parallel Programming | Students will be able to create a program using parallel sequences. | |
| Events | Students will be able to create a program using events. | |
| Costumes, Backdrops, and Animations | Students will be able to create a program that includes animated sprites and interactive backdrops. | |
| Broadcast Messages: Marco Polo | Students will be able to use broadcast messages to trigger action between sprites in a program. | |
| Creative Storytelling | Students will be able to plan and animate a story using events and sequences. | |
| Loops (Unplugged) | Students will be able to explain that a loop repeats a command or a set of commands and interpret the control flow of a program. | |
| Loops | Students will be able to explain that a loop repeats one or more instructions, and use loops in Scratch. | |
| Debugging: Events and Loops | Students will be able to decompose a program to debug and make the program run as intended. | |
| Animating Poetry | Students will be able to create an animated reading of a poem using events and loops. This version of the lesson is focused on Computer Science concepts. | |
| Loops: Falling Objects | Students will be able to create a program using different loops and compare the advantages and disadvantages of each loop algorithm. | |
| Introduction to Conditionals | Students will be able to explain what a conditional is in programming and create a program that uses if/then blocks. | |
| Conditionals: Color Sense | Students will be able to explain what a conditional is and use them in a program. | |
| Conditionals: Changing Effects | Students will be able to create a program using conditionals. | |
| Complex Conditionals: Balloon Game | Students will be able to explain what an “if/then/else” conditional is and use it in a program. | |
| Platform Game Design | Students will be able to implement the mechanics of a platform game for a player to navigate, use keyboard events to add player movement, and use a forever loop to check and respond to game conditions. Students will debug and improve their programs. | |
| Variables | Students will be able to explain what a variable is and create and change the value of a variable in a program. | |
| Introduction to Comparison Operators | Students will be able to use comparison operators as the condition in an if/else block, and use numbers and variables as values in a comparison operator. | |
| I-Spy with Lists | Students will be able to create an I-Spy style activity using variables and lists in Scratch. | |
| Race Track Game | Students will be able to use drawing tools to design their own race car and race track, then program a racing game that tracks players' scores using conditionals, variables, and lists. | |
| Introduction to Functions | Students will be able to create and use functions in a program. | |
| Functions Dance Project | Students will be able to create and use functions to call dance moves in a sequence that aligns with the music. | |
| Digital Pet Project | Students will create a digital pet project using events, conditionals, variables, comparison operators, and broadcasts. | |
| How Computing Systems Work | Students will differentiate between inputs and outputs for computer-based systems and identify types of software used in different technologies. | |
| Computer Detectives: Hardware and Software Problems | Students will be able to solve simple hardware and software problems | |
| Digital Identity | Students will be able to connect their real world identity with their online identity and identify actions that create a positive digital footprint. | |
| Strong Usernames and Passwords | Students will be able to develop a strong username and password and explain how a strong password keeps their information safe. | |
| Research: Effective Keywords | Students will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of different keywords when using a search engine and determine if a source is relevant to their research question. | |
| Machine Learning: Face Sensing | Students will be able to use Face Sensing blocks to explore machine learning in Scratch Lab. |
| Lesson | Lesson Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to CodeHS! | Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHS Playground. | |
| Introduction to Computer Science and Scratch | Students will be able to define important computer science vocabulary and create a simple program in Scratch. | |
| The Coordinate Plane | Students will be able to create an opened-ended animation using the coordinate plane in Scratch. | |
| Events: Dot in Space | Students will be able to create a program using multiple types of event blocks. | |
| Choose Your Own Path: Elements of Culture | Students will be able to identify elements of culture as they create a cultural choose-your-own-path game. | |
| Creating Algorithms | Students will be able to program multiple algorithms and assess which one best meets their needs. | |
| Pair Programming: Create a Band | Students will be able to collaborate through pair programming to design and code a band in Scratch using keyboard inputs. | |
| Broadcast Messages: Tell a Joke | Students will be able to use broadcast messages to program two sprites to tell a knock knock joke. | |
| Loops: Catch the Ball | Students will be able to use two types of loops to create a simple game in Scratch. | |
| Debugging: Mazes | Students will be able to decompose a program to debug and make the program run as intended. | |
| Game Effects | Students will be able to modify a game to add engaging effects and make updates to their game based on peer feedback. | |
| Create a Maze | Students will be able to draw a maze backdrop in Scratch and program Scout to navigate through the maze. | |
| Conditionals: Underwater Exploration | Students will be able to create a program that uses conditionals. | |
| Create a Drawing App | Students will be able to create a drawing app by programming keyboard and mouse inputs, loops, and conditional statements. | |
| Scout's Quest: Conditionals | Students will be able to create a program using if/then conditionals. | |
| Complex Conditionals: If/Then/Else Chase the Star | Students will be able to explain what an “if/then/else” conditional is and use it in a program. | |
| Pong Game | Students will create and use variables to keep score in an interactive pong game. | |
| Scout's Quest: Variables | Students will be able to create and use variables to track points in a program. | |
| Conditionals: Flying Bird | Students will be able to use different conditionals to program a Flying Bird game. | |
| Lists: Spelling Bee | Students will be able to use lists to create a spelling bee game. | |
| Introduction to Clones | Students will be able to create an animation using clones and investigate the limitations of their program. | |
| Snake Game | Students will use variables and clones to create a snake game. | |
| Scout's Quest: Functions with Boolean Inputs | Students will be able to create a function including a boolean input to perform different actions based on whether a password is correct. | |
| Scout's Quest: Functions with Number Inputs | Students will be able to create a drawing using functions with number inputs. | |
| Flower Garden Functions Project | Students will create a function in a program to draw multiple flowers. | |
| Program an AI Chatbot | Students will use lists to create a chatbot to store prompts, responses, and answer questions. | |
| Click-a-Mole | Students will create an interactive Whack-a-Mole style game using conditionals, variables, booleans, and events. | |
| Code Tunes | Students will be able to use variables, operators, and conditionals to create their own custom music player in Scratch. | |
| Internet Positivity (Unplugged) | Students will be able to explain how their actions can spread positivity on the internet. | |
| Research: Informational Programs | Students will be able to examine the information from different resources and creatively communicate the main ideas in those sources by creating a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on healthy sleep habits. | |
| 3D Design: Recreate an Animal | Students will be able to add, move, scale, and rotate shapes in Tinkercad® to create a 3D model of an animal. This lesson requires student accounts in an external site. | |
| 3D Design: Codeblocks | Students will be able to read Tinkercad® Codeblocks, create a simple Codeblocks program, and modify an existing Codeblocks program to develop something new or add more advanced features. This lesson requires student accounts in an external site. | |
| Programming and Data Project | Students will be able to develop an investigative question, collect data, draw conclusions based on the data, and create an interactive program to present data visually. | |
| Technology Timeline | Students will be able to create an interactive timeline to illustrate the key developments in music player technology and explain how music player technology has influenced cultural practices. |
| Lesson | Lesson Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to CodeHS! | Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHS Playground. | |
| Introduction to Computer Science and Scratch | Students will be able to define important computer science vocabulary and create a simple program in Scratch. | |
| The Coordinate Plane | Students will be able to create an opened-ended animation using the coordinate plane in Scratch. | |
| Scratch Drawing Tools | Students will be able to create customized sprites and backdrops using the drawing tools. | |
| Events: Traveling with Scout | Students will be able to use events in a program. | |
| Debugging: Make a Pizza | Students will be able to decompose a program to debug and make the program run as intended. | |
| Creating Turtle Graphics | Students will be able to use the pen tool in Scratch to create looping turtle graphics. | |
| Animation Loops Project | Students will be able to use repeat loop blocks to program an animation with multiple scenes. | |
| Conditionals: Mazes | Students will be able to create a program that uses conditionals. | |
| Plan a Quest | Students will be able to plan and decompose the steps needed to create a quest program. | |
| Operators: Coin Flip | Students will be able to create a coin flipping program using variables and operators. | |
| Variables in Dance | Students will be able to use variables to control pitch and dance speeds in a program. | |
| Game Mechanics with Comparison Operators | Students will be able to use comparison operators and variables to create ending game mechanics. | |
| Lists: Shopping with Scout | Students will be able to create a shopping simulator using variables, lists, and operators. | |
| Pinball Game Project | Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of pinball game design principles and apply their knowledge to create a functional and engaging pinball game. | |
| Clones: Throwing Acorns Game | Students will be able to create a throwing acorns game using clones. | |
| Clones in Games | Students will be able to use clones to program an endless runner game and explain why clones are useful in game programs. | |
| Classes and Objects in Games | Students will learn about classes and objects in programming while they create an interactive game and use randomizers to change the characteristics of objects. | |
| Functions: About Me | Students will be able to create and use a function with input in a program. | |
| Functions: Paint by Numbers | Students will be able to create and use a function that takes input in a program. | |
| Game Design Project | Students will be able to design and create a game using multiple programming skills such as loops, conditionals, and variables. | |
| House Design with Area and Perimeter | Students will be able to calculate and use the area and perimeter of a room to create a house design using functions. This version of the lesson is focused on Computer Science concepts. | |
| Design an App | Students will be able to use the design thinking process to design an app that helps to solve a user's need. | |
| Our Words Have Power (Cyberbullying) | Students will be able to explain what cyberbullying is how it affects others, how to be an upstander by taking action, and that work developed online is the property of the creator. | |
| Data Storage | Students will explain that the amount of space required to store data differs based on the type of data and level of detail. | |
| Using Digital Tools to Create Line Graphs | Students will be able to examine a table of information and convert the values into a data visualization (line graph) that supports a claim. | |
| 3D Design: Keyboard Accommodations | Students will be able to use the align tool to position shapes together as they create an accessible keyboard in Tinkercad®. This lesson requires student accounts in an external site. | |
| Networks, Packets, and the Internet | Students will be able to explain how information is communicated through the Internet. They will model how communication is broken into smaller pieces, transmitted as packets, and reassembled at the destination. They will design and implement a secure communication method within the classroom. | |
| Networks Part 2: Network Protocols | Students will be able to explain what a network protocol is and how protocols allow data transfer over different networks. They will model how information is transferred as a series of packets via a protocol. | |
| Machine Learning: Teachable Machine | Students will be able to explain how training data affects the effectiveness of a machine learning model and train their own Teachable Machine model to demonstrate the role data plays in classification accuracy. | |
| Online Collaboration | Students will be able to explain that collaboration and communication can be done online and offline, and that collaborating with others can provide a diverse perspective. |
| Lesson | Lesson Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to CodeHS! | Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHS Playground. | |
| Scout Adventures 1: Introducing Scout | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to explore the ScratchJr interface and add characters. | |
| Scout Adventures 2: Scout Starts Exploring | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to add backgrounds and a page to ScratchJr. | |
| Scout Adventures 3: Scout Meets a Friend | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to delete and modify characters in ScratchJr. | |
| Scout Adventures 4: Scout Explores the Forest | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to explore and use motion blocks to move characters around the stage in ScratchJr. | |
| Scout Adventures 5: Scout and Bluebird Help | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to build a sequence of motion blocks to move characters around the stage to collect objects. | |
| Scout Adventures 6: Scout Celebrates with Friends | This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to create a celebration scene in ScratchJr by adding characters, pages, backgrounds, and sequences of motion blocks with events. | |
| Decompose Numbers Up to 10 | Students will create an interactive program using events to visualize algebraic thinking and decomposing numbers. | |
| Finding an Unknown in a Word Problem | Students will be able to use events and sequences to create a number story for addition and subtraction. | |
| Story Problems: Add and Subtract within 10 | Students will be able to create a scene in ScratchJr that represents an addition or subtraction story problem. | |
| Creating Shapes | Students will use events to program shapes that can respond to user interaction. Students will combine the shapes to create a more complex shape. | |
| Greater Than and Less Than: Single-Digit Numbers | Students will be able to use events to create a program that tells if a number is greater than, less than, or equal to another number. | |
| Place Value: Ones and Tens | Students will be able to create a program using animation to model using groups of one, five, and ten. | |
| Patterns and Music | Students will be able to create musical patterns using sequences and loops. | |
| Living and Nonliving | Students will be able to classify items as living or nonliving and use tap events to trigger a character's actions. | |
| Weather and Seasons | Students will use sequences to program an animation displaying the weather during different seasons. | |
| How Living Things Survive | Students will be able to illustrate and explain how living things survive in their environment. | |
| Comparing Organisms | Students will create a program that groups animals by similar characteristics. | |
| Types of Motion | Students will be able to use events to program an animation displaying types of motion. | |
| Needs of Plants | Students will be able to decompose a program and use events and messages to create a program that models the needs of plants. | |
| Phonics: Letter Sounds | Students will be able to create a phonics game using the “on tap” event and "record audio" block. | |
| Build a Sentence | Students will be able to create an interactive program that uses events to write sentences and then read them aloud. | |
| Storytelling Animations | Students will be able to create a program that retells the details of a story in the correct order. | |
| Original Story Animations - Personal Story | Students will be able to design a program to animate an original story and describe their program development process. | |
| Who Keeps Us Safe? | Students will be able to create a program that describes the role of an authority figure. | |
| Cardinal Directions | Students will be able to use events to create an interactive compass rose. | |
| CodeHS Coding Card Game: Sequences | Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions to move Scout through a maze. | |
| CodeHS Coding Card Game: Sequences 2 | Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions to move Scout through a maze. | |
| Loops | Students will be able to create a program using loops and explain how loops are used to repeat code. | |
| Introduction to Grow and Shrink Blocks | Students will create a program that uses "grow" and "shrink" blocks to change the size of characters. | |
| Introduction to Speed Blocks | Students will be able to create a program that uses different speed blocks to animate characters | |
| Introduction to Debugging | Students will be able to find and correct bugs in sequences. | |
| Chicken Crossing Game | Students will be able to program an interactive player character and adjust the difficulty of play in a game. | |
| Garden Project | Students will use message events, grow, shrink, hide, and show blocks to animate seeds growing in a garden. |
| Lesson | Lesson Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to CodeHS! | Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHS Playground. | |
| Introduction to ScratchJr | Students will be able to navigate the ScratchJr interface to create a scene with characters. | |
| Drawing Tools: Farm Scene | Students will be able to create and customize characters and backgrounds using the drawing tools. | |
| Sequences: Snowball Fight | Students will be able to create a program using multiple sequences. | |
| Introduction to Events | Students will be able to create a program using different types of events. | |
| Introduction to Repeat Loops | Students will be able to use repeat loops to run a section of code multiple times. | |
| Place Value: Adding Up to 20 | Students will be able to use events in ScratchJr to illustrate how to decompose a two digit number into tens and ones. | |
| Story Problems: Add and Subtract within 20 | Students will be able to use events to create a scene that represents an addition or subtraction story problem. | |
| Telling Time | Students will be able to use sequences and events to create an analog clock and display time in digital and analog forms. | |
| Divide Shapes into Equal Parts | Students will be able to create an animation to partition circles and rectangles into equal parts. | |
| Combining Shapes | Students will be able to create composite shapes then use event and motion blocks to create a scene with the composite shapes. | |
| Algebraic Thinking: Find an Unknown Number Up to 10 in a Number Story | Students will be able to create an interactive program to visualize algebraic thinking and solve for unknown numbers in number stories. | |
| Greater Than and Less Than: Two-Digit Numbers | Students will be able to use events to create a program that tells if a number is greater than, less than, or equal to another number. | |
| Adaptations and Survival: Camouflage | Students will be able to illustrate and explain how living things use camouflage to survive in their environments. | |
| Light and Shadows | Students will be able to identify and communicate the sources and effects of light by creating a program that uses events to trigger a character's sequence. | |
| Sound and Pitch | Students will be able to create and use animation to model sound and pitch, and to explain the relationship between sound and vibration. | |
| Sun and Moon, Day and Night | Students will be able to use loops to model the movements of the sun and moon and show the pattern of day and night. | |
| Phases of the Moon | Students will be able to use message events to model the phases of the Moon. | |
| Animal Life Cycles | Students will be able to use message events to model the butterfly life cycle. | |
| Phonics: Digraphs | Students will be able to create a phonics program with digraphs using events and recordings. | |
| Storytelling Animations Part 2 | Students will be able to design a program to retell the sequence of a story. | |
| Build a Sentence | Students will be able to create an interactive program that uses events to write sentences and then read them aloud. | |
| Punctuation: Write a Great Sentence! | Students will be able to create sequences with loops to write sentences with correct punctuation and spacing. | |
| Original Story Animations - Personal Story | Students will be able to design a program to animate an original story and describe their program development process. | |
| Original Story Animations - Fiction Story | Students will be able to develop an original story and create a program to animate a story. | |
| Our Responsibilities | Students will be able to use sequences to program two characters to explain how to be responsible in school and at home. | |
| Economic Choices | Students will be able to use message events to cause character interaction and describe how people make choices between wants and needs. | |
| Create a Map | Students will be able to create a map and program a character to follow the map. | |
| CodeHS Coding Card Game: Loops | Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions with loops to move Scout through a maze. | |
| CodeHS Coding Card Game: Loops 2 | Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions with loops to move Scout through a maze. | |
| Impacts of Technology in Our World | Students will be able to create a program to demonstrate how technology impacts our world. | |
| Debugging | Students will be able to describe what bugs are and find and correct bugs in sequences. | |
| Forever Loop Dance Party | Students will be able to create a sequence using a “repeat forever” loop to make characters repeat actions. | |
| Hide and Seek Game | Students will use the hide block to program an interactive game of hide-and-seek. | |
| Giving Credit Through Attributions | Students will be able to explain why giving credit for another person's ideas and creations is important. They will reuse parts of a story to make a new story and give attribution to the original creator. |
| Lesson | Lesson Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to CodeHS! | Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHS Playground. | |
| Introduction to ScratchJr | Students will be able to navigate the ScratchJr interface to create a scene with characters. | |
| Drawing Tools: Nature Walk | Students will be able to use drawing tools to create a nature-walk scene. | |
| Events | Students will be able to explain what an event is in programming and use multiple event blocks in a program. | |
| Message Events: Simon Says | Students will be able to use message events to make one character communicate to many characters in a program. | |
| Loops: Follow the Path | Students will be able to identify patterns, and create a program using loops. | |
| Story Problems: Add and Subtract within 100 | Students will be able to create a program to model a math story problem. | |
| Events and Money | Students will be able to create a program that tells the value of a set of coins. | |
| Counting with Mazes | Students will be able to use counting skills to design a maze requiring a specific number of steps. | |
| Place Value: Ones, Tens, and Hundreds | Students will be able to connect a digit’s place in a number to its value and create an interactive program that uses events. | |
| Telling Time | Students will be able to use sequences and events to create an analog clock and display time in digital and analog forms. | |
| Algebraic Thinking: Finding a Two-Digit Unknown | Students will be able to create an interactive program to visualize algebraic thinking and solve for large unknown numbers in number stories. | |
| Create Your Own Story Problem | Students will be able to solve addition and subtraction word problems by using events to create a scene. | |
| Identify Shapes by Attributes | Students will be able to create a program to draw and identify shapes with specified attributes. | |
| Greater Than and Less Than: Three-Digit Numbers | Students will be able to use events to create a program that tells if a number is greater than, less than, or equal to another number. | |
| 3D Shapes | Students will be able to draw 3D shapes and create a quiz game to review attributes of 3D shapes. | |
| Introduction to the Grid | Students will be able to use the grid feature to move characters to a specific location on the stage. | |
| Designing Solutions from Nature | Students will be able to create a program using events that show how humans survive in their environments by mimicking plants and animals. | |
| Changing Landforms | Students will create a sequence to show how a volcanic eruption changes Earth’s surface. | |
| Properties of Matter | Students will be able to use conditionals to program a robot to make accurate decisions and to group different types of matter according to their properties. | |
| Changes in the Environment | Students will be able to identify changes in the environment and their causes, and then use animation to model environmental changes. | |
| Seed Dispersal | Students will create a program using message events and loops to model how an animal can help disperse seeds. | |
| Preventing Erosion | Students will create a program to compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land. | |
| Build a Sentence | Students will be able to create an interactive program that uses events to write sentences and then read them aloud. | |
