Standards Mapping

6-8.1.a

Students articulate personal learning goals, select, and manage appropriate technologies to achieve them, and reflect on their successes and areas of improvement in working toward their goals.

• 8.5 Showcase and Look Back

6-8.1.b

Students identify and begin to develop online networks of experts and peers to customize their learning environments in accordance with school policy.

6-8.1.c

Students integrate feedback from people and digital tools to improve their learning process, and they select technology to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

• 8.4 Test and Improve

6-8.1.d

Students navigate a variety of technologies and transfer their skills to troubleshoot and learn how to use new technologies.

• 5.1 Buttons and Pictures
• 6.2 Explore Distance and Extensions
• 7.3 Tune It

6-8.2.a

Students cultivate their digital identities and reputations within a digital environment and understand that digital actions are permanent.

6-8.2.b

Students demonstrate and advocate for positive, safe, legal, and ethical behavior when using technology and when interacting with others online.

6-8.2.c

Students demonstrate and advocate for an understanding of intellectual property including copyright, permission, and fair use by including appropriate citation and attribution elements.

6-8.2.d

Students demonstrate an understanding of what personal data is, how it is collected, and how to keep it private and secure, including the awareness of current technology terms and processes.

6-8.3.a

Students practice and improve research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.

6-8.3.b

Students practice evaluating the accuracy, perspective, credibility, and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.

6-8.3.c

Students locate and collect a variety of resources and organize information to make meaningful connections.

6-8.3.d

Students explore real-world problems and issues and actively pursue solutions for them.

• 6.5 Automation at Work
• 8.1 Pick a Problem

6-8.4.a

Students engage in a design process for generating and testing ideas and developing innovative products to solve problems.

• 1.2 Design for Someone Else
• 1.5 Desktop Helper Design Sprint
• 2.7 Cross the Gap
• 3.7 Grabber Challenge
• 4.6 Gear a Useful Lift
• 5.6 Make Your Own Project
• 8.1 Pick a Problem

6-8.4.b

Students select and use digital tools to support a design process and expand their understanding to identify constraints and trade-offs and to weigh risks.

• 1.5 Desktop Helper Design Sprint
• 2.7 Cross the Gap
• 3.5 Optional: Crane on a Budget
• 8.2 Sketch and Build

6-8.4.c

Students engage in a design process to develop, test, and revise prototypes, embrace the iterative process of trial and error, and understand setbacks as potential opportunities for improvement.

• 1.2 Design for Someone Else
• 1.5 Desktop Helper Design Sprint
• 1.6 Which Redesign Helped?
• 2.3 Why Triangles?
• 2.5 Beams, Folds and Trusses
• 2.6 Predict a Bridge Before Building
• 2.7 Cross the Gap
• 2.8 Failure Is Evidence
• 3.5 Optional: Crane on a Budget
• 3.7 Grabber Challenge
• 4.6 Gear a Useful Lift
• 5.6 Make Your Own Project
• 6.4 Creature Stirs
• 7.3 Tune It
• 7.5 Delivery Mission
• 8.4 Test and Improve

6-8.4.d

Students demonstrate an ability to persevere and handle greater ambiguity as they work to solve open-ended problems.

• 2.8 Failure Is Evidence
• 7.5 Delivery Mission

6-8.5.a

Students practice defining and solving problems by selecting technology for data analysis, modeling, and algorithmic thinking.

6-8.5.b

Students find and organize data and use technology to analyze and represent it to solve problems and make decisions.

• 6.1 Explore Sensors with Light

6-8.5.c

Students break problems into component parts, identify key pieces, and use that information to solve problems.

• 7.2 Program a Route
• 7.5 Delivery Mission

6-8.5.d

Students understand how automation works and apply algorithmic thinking to design and automate solutions.

• 1.1 Robots, Machines and People
• 5.4 Make a Celebration Repeat
• 5.5 Finish the Scorekeeper
• 5.6 Make Your Own Project
• 6.3 Make a Servo Move
• 6.4 Creature Stirs
• 6.5 Automation at Work
• 7.1 Meet and Move
• 7.2 Program a Route
• 7.4 Stop by Sensing
• 8.3 Make It Do Something

6-8.6.a

Students select appropriate platforms and tools to create, share, and communicate their work effectively.

6-8.6.b

Students create original works or responsibly repurpose digital resources into new creative works.

• 5.6 Make Your Own Project

6-8.6.c

Students create artifacts using digital tools to communicate complex ideas textually, visually, graphically, and auditorily.

6-8.6.d

Students publish or present content designed for intended audiences and select platforms that effectively convey their ideas.

• 4.7 Where Did the Energy Go?
• 8.5 Showcase and Look Back

6-8.7.a

Students use digital tools to interact with others to develop a richer understanding of different perspectives and cultures.

6-8.7.b

Students use collaborative technologies to connect with others, including peers, experts and community members, to learn about issues and problems or to gain a broader perspective.

6-8.7.c

Students perform a variety of roles within a team, using age-appropriate technology to complete a project or solve a problem.

• 1.3 Safe Teams, Useful Notebooks

6-8.7.d

Students work with others, using collaborative technologies to explore local and global issues and investigate and advocate for possible solutions.