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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.
Creative Coding is a first-semester course that introduces students to game design and programming. Students use the p5play JavaScript library in order to design, develop, and publish games. Throughout the course, students learn about major programming topics like variables, functions, conditionals, and mouse/keyboard events while building fun and interactive games that they can play and share with others.
The Utah Introduction to Python 1 course teaches students the basics of programming in Python. Students learn Python commands, functions, control structures, and user interaction by solving puzzles and writing creative programs for Tracy to follow.
The Utah Introduction to Python 2 course teaches students extended concepts in Python. Students learn how to use lists, manipulate strings, and work with files by solving puzzles and writing creative programs for Tracy to follow. NOTE: The content taught in the Utah Introduction to Python 1 course must be covered before beginning this course.
The Utah Introduction to Python 1 and 2 course teaches students the basics of programming in Python. Students begin with Python commands, functions, control structures, and user interaction by solving puzzles and writing creative programs for Tracy to follow. Students then learn how to use lists, manipulate strings, and work with files by solving puzzles and writing creative programs for Tracy.
Utah Computer Programming 1 introduces students to the fundamentals of computer programming, with an emphasis on helping students develop logical thinking and problem-solving skills. Students will learn to design, code, and test their programs while applying mathematical concepts.
Utah Computer Programming 2 introduces students to more advanced programming concepts. Students will learn to create more powerful programs using functions, strings, data structures, file i/o operations, and objects.
Utah Computer Programming 1 and 2 introduce students to the fundamentals of computer programming, with an emphasis on helping students develop logical thinking and problem-solving skills. Students begin by learning to design, code, and test their programs while applying mathematical concepts. Students then move to more advanced programming concepts and learn to create more powerful programs using functions, strings, data structures, file i/o operations, and objects.
This first semester course teaches the fundamentals of designing a game using the most widely accessed and preferred editing engine in the world – Unity. The intent of this course is to introduce high school students to the industry related skills needed for the workplace and higher learning environments. By the end of this course, they will understand the design planning process, be knowledgeable of industry related careers, and be able to navigate the Unity environment in order to create 3D games. Note: student devices must be able to download and install the Unity platform (not compatible on Chromebooks).
This course is intended to teach students the fundamentals of web development in a project-based learning environment. Students will learn the basic elements of web development, creating HTML/CSS files, and making multi-page websites.
This course is intended to teach students the fundamentals of web development in a project-based learning environment. Students are taught the basic elements of web development, such as web hosting, file organization, and incorporating Javascript into HTML files.
AP Computer Science Principles introduces students to the foundational concepts of computer science and programming in Python. With a unique focus on creative problem solving and real-world applications, students are challenged to explore how computing and technology can impact the world.
This course is fully aligned to the College Board AP CS A course standards. Learn the basics of object-oriented programming with a focus on problem solving and algorithm development. Take this course and prepare to ace the AP Java test.
Utah Exploring Computer Science is designed to introduce students to the breadth of the field of computer science through an exploration of engaging and accessible topics. The course focuses on the conceptual ideas of computing and helps students understand why certain tools or languages might be utilized to solve particular problems. The goal of Exploring Computer Science is to develop in students the computational thinking practices of algorithm development, problem solving, and programming within the context of problems that are relevant to the lives of today's students. Students will also be introduced to topics such as artificial intelligence, web development, programming, and physical computing.
| 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: Fairy Tale Painting | Students will be able to use painting tools to create a fairy-tale scene. | |
| Skills Practice: Sequences | Students will be able to create multiple sequences. | |
| Skills Practice: Events | Students will be able to create a program using events. | |
| 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. | |
| Decompose Numbers Up to 10 | Students will create an interactive program using events to visualize algebraic thinking and decomposing numbers. | |
| Place Value: Ones and Tens | Students will be able to use events and loops to create an animation to model that 10 is equal to 10 sets of one. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Patterns and Music | Students will be able to create musical patterns using sequences and loops. | |
| How Living Things Survive | Students will be able to illustrate and explain how living things survive in their environment. | |
| Weather and Seasons | Students will use sequences to program an animation displaying the weather during different seasons. | |
| 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. | |
| Comparing Organisms | Students will be able to identify similarities and differences between animals. Students will be able to use events and messages to trigger a character’s movement. | |
| Living and Nonliving | Students will be able to classify items as living or nonliving and use tap events to trigger a character's actions. | |
| Phonics: Letter Sounds | Students will be able to create a phonics game using the “on tap” event and "record audio" block. | |
| Storytelling Animations | Students will be able to retell and program 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Introduction to Speed Blocks | Students will be able to create a program that uses different speed blocks to animate characters | |
| 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 Debugging | Students will be able to find and correct bugs in sequences. | |
| About Me Project | Students will be able to plan a program to describe their characteristics and interests. | |
| Loops | Students will be able to create a program using loops and explain how loops are used to repeat code. | |
| Garden Project | Students will use events, grow, shrink, hide, and show blocks to animate seeds growing in a garden! | |
| Create a Chicken Crossing Game | Students will be able to program an interactive player character and adjust the difficulty of play in a game. | |
| Input Devices | Students will be able to identify and use computer input devices. | |
| 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. |
| 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. | |
| Skills Practice: Sequences | Students will be able to create multiple sequences. | |
| Skills Practice: Repeat Loops | Students will be able to use repeat loops to run a section of code multiple times. | |
| 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. | |
| Adding within 20 and Sequences (Unplugged) | Students will be able to write a sequence to solve a maze while counting up to 20. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Combining Shapes | Students will be able to create composite shapes then use event and motion blocks to create a scene with the composite shapes. | |
| 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. | |
| Adaptations and Survival: Camouflage | Students will be able to illustrate and explain how living things use camouflage to survive in their environments. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Build a Sentence | Students will be able to create an interactive program that uses events to write sentences and then read them aloud. | |
| Original Story Animations - Fiction Story | Students will be able to describe and design a program to animate an original story. | |
| Punctuation: Write a great sentence! | Students will be able to create sequences with loops to write sentences with correct punctuation and spacing. | |
| Storytelling Animations Part 2 | Students will be able to design a program to retell the sequence of a story. | |
| Phonics: Digraphs | Students will be able to create a phonics program with digraphs using events and recordings. | |
| Economic Choices | Students will be able to describe the choices people make between goods that they want and need. Students will be able to use message blocks to cause a character to respond to another character. | |
| Our Responsibilities | Students will be able to use sequences to program two characters to explain how to be responsible in school and at home. | |
| 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. | |
| Debugging | Students will be able to describe what bugs are and find and correct bugs in sequences. | |
| Impacts of Technology in Our World | Students will be able to explain how technology has changed and how it impacts us positively and negatively. | |
| Original Story Animations - Personal Story | Students will be able to design a program to animate an original story and describe their program development process. | |
| 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. | |
| Passwords | Students will be able to explain why strong passwords are used and describe good practices to keep personal digital information safe. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Seasonal Project (Summer): Pop the Balloons | Create a summer-themed game to pop balloons using events and loops. |
| 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. | |
| Skills Practice: ScratchJr Drawing Tools | Students will be able to create and customize characters and backgrounds using the drawing tools. | |
| Math Story Problems: Add and Subtract within 100 | Students will be able to solve addition and subtraction word problems within 100. Students will be able to use events to create a scene that represents a math 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. | |
| Counting with Mazes | Students will be able to use counting skills to design a maze requiring a specific number of steps. | |
| Create Your Own Story Problem | Students will be able to solve addition and subtraction word problems by using events to create a scene. | |
| Events and Money | Students will be able to use events in ScratchJr to illustrate how to determine the value of a set of coins. | |
| Identify Shapes by Attributes | Students will be able to create a program to draw and identify shapes with specified attributes. | |
| Introduction to the Grid | Students will be able to use the grid feature to move characters to a specific location on the stage. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 3D Shapes | Students will be able to draw 3D shapes and create a quiz game to review attributes of 3D shapes. | |
| 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. | |
| Changing Landforms | Students will create a sequence to show how a volcanic eruption changes Earth’s surface. | |
| Seed Dispersal | Students will be able to use message events to develop a simple model that shows how an animal can help disperse seeds. | |
| Designing Solutions from Nature | Students will be able to use events and characters to show how humans survive in their environments by mimicking plants and animals. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 describe and design a program to animate an original story. | |
| Punctuation: Write a great sentence! | Students will be able to create sequences with loops to write sentences with correct punctuation and spacing. | |
| Communities Modify Their Environment | Students will be able create a program that shows how people modify their environment in a community. | |
| Impacts of Technology in Our World | Students will be able to explain how technology has changed and how it impacts us positively and negatively. | |
| 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. | |
| Data Storage and Variables | Students will be able to represent information with symbols by creating a legend for a map. | |
| Moving Targets Game | Students will be able to create a moving target game with multiple screens. | |
| Tap-a-Mole Game | Students will use events to create an interactive Whack-a-Mole Game. | |
| Basic Data and Programming Project | Students will be able to develop an investigative question, collect data using a survey, and create a program to present their collected data visually. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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®. | |
| Computer Detectives: Computer Problems | Students will be able to describe basic hardware and software problems. | |
| Training AI Using Data | Students will explore, understand, and model how artificial intelligence is trained with data to make predictions. | |
| Seasonal Project (Fall): Gathering Apples Game | Students will be able to create a fall-themed collecting game using events and loops. | |
| Digital Greeting Card Project | Students will be able to create a digital greeting card with events and loops. | |
| Seasonal Project (Spring): Create a Chase Game | Students will be able to create a spring-themed chase game using loops and events. |
| Lesson | Lesson Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to CodeHS! | Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHS Playground. | |
| From ScratchJr to Scratch | Students will be able to navigate the basic interface of the Scratch editor to create a simple program. | |
| Introduction to Computer Science and Scratch | Students will be able to define important computer science vocabulary and create a simple program in Scratch. | |
| Skills Practice: Sequences | Students will be able to create multiple parallel sequences. | |
| Skills Practice: Events | Students will be able to use event blocks to cause code to run. | |
| Classifying Shapes by Category | Students will be able to create a program using events to categorize quadrilaterals based on their properties. | |
| Multiplication and Conditionals | Students will be able to create a program that uses "if/then" conditional blocks to review multiplication. | |
| Fractions and Variables | Students will be able to represent fractions on a number line using variables and conditionals. | |
| Adding with Loops | Students will be able to use loops in to repeat commands and add multi-digit whole numbers based on place value. | |
| Measuring Lengths | Students will be able to use events to create an interactive measurement game that has a user measure lengths with a ruler marked in fourths and plot the data on a number line. | |
| Animating Sprites with Multiplication | Students will be able to use multiplication to animate sprites with loops and wait blocks. | |
| Unit Fractions with Variables | Students will be able to use variables, loops, and reporter blocks to create a model that shows that adding unit fractions is equivalent to multiplying a unit fraction by a whole number. | |
| Exploring Adaptations | Students will be able to explain how adaptations help animals survive in their habitats by creating an interactive program using events. | |
| Weather and Climate | Students will be able to use climate data and event blocks to predict and model typical weather conditions for a specific month. | |
| Balanced and Unbalanced Forces | Students will be able to describe how balanced and unbalanced forces impact an object’s speed and model these forces using conditionals and variables. | |
| Nutrition Maze | Students will be able to describe the benefits of healthy foods and will use conditionals to create an interactive nutrition maze game. | |
| Classifying Rocks | Students will be able to use if/then statements to classify rocks based on the Mohs Hardness Scale. | |
| Modeling Life Cycles | Students will be able to program a model of the stages of a frog’s life cycle using broadcast message events. | |
| Fossils and Past Environments | Students will be able to create a program using conditionals and loops to model interpreting data from fossils that show evidence of past environments. | |
| Random Sentence Generator | Students will be able to generate random numbers in Scratch to create simple sentences with nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. | |
| Animating Poetry | Students will be able to break a poem into sections to understand literal and metaphorical meanings and create an animated reading of a poem in Scratch. | |
| Creative Storytelling | Students will be able to plan and animate a story using events and sequences. | |
| Nonfiction Animated Recordings | Students will be able to use events to create a clear, animated reading of a nonfiction text. | |
| Punctuation Game | Students will create a game using “if/then/else” conditionals to add punctuation to dialogue and addresses. | |
| Communities Adapt to & Modify their Environment | Students will be able to use click events to create a scene that shows how communities adapt to or modify their environments. | |
| 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. | |
| Digital Vocabulary Flashcard Quiz | Students will be able to use variables and conditionals to create a vocabulary quiz that changes each time it is taken. | |
| Skills Practice: Costumes, Backdrops, and Animations | Students will be able to use costume changes to animate sprites and use broadcast messages to change backdrops. | |
| Scratch Drawing Tools | Students will be able to create customized sprites and backdrops using the drawing tools. | |
| Skills Practice: Broadcast Events | Students will be able to use broadcast events to trigger action between sprites in a program. | |
| Skills Practice: Repeat Loops | Students will be able to use repeat loops to run a sequence of code multiple times. | |
| Skills Practice: Forever Loops | Students will be able to use a forever loop to animate a sprite. | |
| Skills Practice: Variables | Students will be able to create and use variables. | |
| Skills Practice: If/Then Conditionals | Students will be able to create a program using if/then conditionals. | |
| Skills Practice: If/Then/Else Conditionals | Students will be able to use an “if/then/else” conditional in a program. | |
| Digital Greeting Card Project | Students will be able to create a digital greeting card that uses loops and events. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| How Systems Work (What is a Computer?) | 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 | |
| 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. | |
| Seasonal Project (Summer): Pop The Balloons | Create an interactive summer-themed game using loops, conditionals, and a variable. |
| 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. | |
| Skills Practice: Events | Students will be able to use event blocks to cause code to run. | |
| Skills Practice: Repeat Loops | Students will be able to use repeat loops to run a sequence of code multiple times. | |
| Division and Conditionals | Students will be able to solve grade-appropriate division problems within 100 by using conditionals to program an interactive division game. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Multi-digit Multiplication and Conditionals | Students will be able to use if/then conditionals to multiply multi-digit factors. | |
| Classifying Shapes Using Lines and Angles | Students will be able to create a program using events to categorize shapes based on the properties of their lines and angles. They will use comments to document their code. | |
| Animating Sprites with Factors | Students will be able to use factors to animate sprites with loops and wait blocks. | |
| Multiplying Fractions by Whole Numbers | Students will be able to create an interactive activity to show how to scale up a recipe by multiplying fractions by whole numbers. | |
| Naming Numbers Game | Students will be able to create an interactive game using variables and operators to read and write numbers in number form and expanded form. | |
| Wave Generator | Students will be able to use variables and loops to draw a variety of wave patterns. | |
| How We See: Light Reflection | Students will be able to create a model using conditionals to describe how light reflects to allow us to see. | |
| Sensing and Responding to the Environment | Students will be able to use multiple event blocks to model how animals use their senses to respond to their environment. | |
| Exploring Heat | Students will be able to use events in their program to communicate information about how heat energy from the sun affects objects on earth. | |
| Sound Frequency & Amplitude | Students will be able to use variables to control the rate and strength of the volume and the vibrations of a speaker sprite. | |
| Exploring the Water Cycle | Students will explain the phases of the water cycle using broadcast message events. | |
| Plant and Animal Cells | Students will use broadcast events to create an interactive program about plant and animal cells. | |
| Animating Poetry | Students will be able to break a poem into sections to understand literal and metaphorical meanings and create an animated reading of a poem in Scratch. | |
| Grammar Quiz Game | Students will be able to use conditionals to create a quiz that tests the user’s understanding of standard English grammar usage. | |
| Creative Storytelling | Students will be able to plan and animate a story using events and sequences. | |
| Nonfiction Animated Recordings | Students will be able to use events to create a clear, animated reading of a nonfiction text. | |
| Mad Libs Project | Students will use lists in a program to create a Mad Libs game. | |
| Rights and Responsibilities | Students will be able to use variables and events to create a voting program to demonstrate the rights and responsibilities of citizens. | |
| Digital Vocabulary Flashcard Quiz | Students will be able to use variables and conditionals to create a vocabulary quiz that changes each time it is taken. | |
| State Project | Students will use events to create an interactive project detailing state-specific facts. | |
| Utah Timeline with the BBC micro:bit® | Students will be able to use events, conditionals, variables, and inputs from a micro:bit® controller to create an interactive timeline. | |
| Scratch Drawing Tools | Students will be able to create customized sprites and backdrops using the drawing tools. | |
| Loops | Students will be able to explain that a loop repeats one or more instructions, and use loops in Scratch. | |
| 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 Conditionals | Students will be able to explain what a conditional is in programming and create a program that uses if/then blocks. | |
| Practice with Conditionals Part 1 | Students will be able to explain what a conditional is in programming and create a program that uses conditionals. | |
| Complex Conditionals: If/Then/Else Chase the Balloon Game | Students will be able to explain what an “if/then/else” conditional is and use it in a program. | |
| Digital Greeting Card Project | Students will be able to create a digital greeting card that uses loops and events. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Seasonal Project (Spring): Create a Chase Game! | Students will be able to create a spring-themed chase game using loops and conditionals. | |
| Digital Greeting Card Project | Students will be able to create a digital greeting card that uses loops and events. |
| 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. | |
| Skills Practice: Repeat Loops | Students will be able to use repeat loops to run a sequence of code multiple times. | |
| Skills Practice: If/Then Conditionals | Students will be able to create a program using if/then conditionals. | |
| Classifying Quadrilaterals in a Hierarchy | Students will be able to create a program using events to classify quadrilaterals in a hierarchy, and use comments to document their code. | |
| Decimal Multiplication and Conditionals | Students will be able to use if/then conditional blocks to review multiplication with decimal factors. | |
| Multiplication Quiz Game | Students will be able to create a multiplication quiz game using variables, operators, conditionals, and loops. | |
| Area of a Rectangle with Tiles | Students will be able to use variables and loops to model the fractional area of a rectangle using tiles. | |
| Decimal Division and Conditionals | Solve division problems with decimals and use conditionals to program an interactive division game with levels. | |
| Unit Converter | Students will be able to use variables and conditionals to program a unit conversion calculator to convert between measurements. | |
| Animating Sprites with Division | Students will be able to use division to animate sprites with loops and wait blocks. | |
| Add and Subtract Fractions | Students will be able to use broadcast messages and comparison operators to create a fractions quiz game. They will recognize and use patterns in their program. | |
| Earth Systems | Students will be able to create a program using multiple event blocks to model how wind and rain impact the geosphere. | |
| Cycle of Matter | Students will be able to use events and messages to create an animated model of the cycle of matter. | |
| Constructive and Destructive Processes | Students will be able to create an animation that models how volcanoes change surface features through a constructive process. | |
| Exploring Ecosystems | Students will be able to develop a model using events in programming to illustrate the flow of energy in an ecosystem. | |
| Effects of Pollution | Students will be able to write a program with if/then/else blocks in Scratch to explain how their actions can affect water pollution. | |
| Day and Night | Students will be able to use comparison operators and conditionals to show how the Earth’s rotation causes day and night. | |
| Animal Classification | Students will be able to use events to create a program that models how animals are sorted into groups. | |
| Physical Changes | Students will be able to write a program with variables and conditionals that has the user adjust the temperature of a sprite so it will change between a solid, liquid, and gas. | |
| Animating Poetry | Students will be able to break a poem into sections to understand literal and metaphorical meanings and create an animated reading of a poem in Scratch. | |
| Punctuate a Title | Students will be able to use conditionals and operators to create a game that reviews their understanding of punctuation in titles. | |
| Creative Storytelling | Students will be able to plan and animate a story using events and sequences. | |
| Nonfiction Animated Recordings | Students will be able to use events to create a clear, animated reading of a nonfiction text. | |
| Interactive Map of the 13 Colonies | Students will be able to use events, conditionals, variables, and keyboard inputs to create an interactive map of the 13 colonies. They will be able to break a large program into smaller tasks to ease program development. | |
| Revolutionary War Timeline | Students will be able to create and control an interactive timeline using inputs, events, conditionals, and variables. | |
| Digital Vocabulary Flashcard Quiz | Students will be able to use variables and conditionals to create a vocabulary quiz that changes each time it is taken. | |
| The US Government | Students will be able to use “if/else” conditionals in a program to model how a bill becomes a law. | |
| Simple Algorithms | Students will be able to create a simple algorithm for one specific task. | |
| Multiple Algorithms | Students will be able to program multiple algorithms to complete a task, and compare algorithms to assess which one best meets their needs. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Skills Practice: Operators | Students will be able to create a game using Operators. | |
| Game Mechanics with Comparison Operators | Students will be able to use comparison operators and variables to create ending game mechanics. | |
| Digital Greeting Card Project | Students will be able to create a digital greeting card that uses loops and events. | |
| Game Effects | Students will be able to modify a game to add engaging effects and make updates to their game based on peer feedback. | |
| 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. | |
| Our Words Have Power (Cyberbullying) | Students will be able to explain what cyberbullying is, how it affects others, and what to do if they see cyberbullying. | |
| Data Storage | Students will explain that the amount of space required to store data differs based on the type of data and/or 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®. | |
| 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. | |
| Training AI Using Data | Students will explore, understand, and model how artificial intelligence is trained with data to make predictions. | |
| Seasonal Project (Fall): Gathering Apples Game | Students will be able to create a fall-themed collecting game using loops, conditionals and variables. |
