Students discuss and review the hardware and software that makes up a computer.
Computer Hardware
Computer Software
1B-CS-01, 1B-CS-02
Teach students about the various devices that qualify as computers along with how to troubleshoot any basic issues that may arise.
Computing devices
Troubleshooting strategies
1B-CS-03
Students will learn how computers function as a system and how the internet works.
How the internet breaks down information
1B-CS-01, 1B-NI-04
Teach students what they can do to make things more accessible in app development.
Improving accessibility and usability for users
Drafting apps with accessibility in mind
Improving computational artifacts based on feedback
1B-AP-13, 1B-IC-19, 1B-IC-20
Students learn how to manage files on the computer in this lesson.
Saving files
File extensions and each of their purposes
Version control
Finding files
Guide a discussion about how computers affect culture and how culture can have an effect on technology.
Ways to access technology
What defines a computer
Technology's impact on our lives
1B-IC-18
Students learn what a digital footprint is and how they can have a positive and private footprint on the computer.
Being positive and private online
Contributors to digital footprints
Kindness is a valuable trait that all students can benefit from revisiting. This lesson will stand as a foundation for future lessons on digital citizenship.
Showing kindness
Teach students what they can do to stand up against cyberbullying and how they can be kind online to others.
Responding to cyberbullying
Showing kindness
Cyberbullying
This lesson explains intent vs impact in decision making. This can be a helpful social and emotional learning concept for students to learn as they enter the digital citizenship world.
Intent v. Impact
Introduce the basis of digital health by reviewing these impacts of computing with your students.
Positive effects of computing
Negative effects of computing
Finding a balance in life
1B-IC-18
Teach students strategies to keep them safe when using the computer.
Scams
Strong passwords
Keeping personal information private
1B-NI-05
Teach students cybersecurity strategies to keep them and their information safe when using the computer.
Password Safety
Downloading
Logging out of computers
1B-NI-05
Giving credit to others for their work and ideas is important. Teach students how they can respect and honor property rights.
Giving proper attribution
1B-AP-14, 1B-IC-21
Review with students what data is in this lesson.
Identifying patterns
Collecting, sorting, and presenting data
Analyzing charts
1B-DA-06, 1B-DA-07
Teach students what data is in this weather tracking activity.
Research
Collecting, sorting, and presenting data
Analyzing charts
Identifying patterns
1B-DA-06, 1B-DA-07
Provide students with more practice to solidify their skills in reading and interpreting bar graphs.
Collecting, sorting, and presenting data
Identifying patterns
Analyzing bar graphs
1B-DA-06, 1B-DA-07
Students will learn about sequencing and algorithms in this activity.
Algorithms
Sequences
Debugging algorithms
Decomposing steps
1B-AP-08, 1B-AP-10, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15
Guide students through this activity to determine and reason which algorithms are best.
Algorithms
Efficient programming
1B-AP-08, 1B-AP-10, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15
Teach students how to debug effectively in this activity.
Algorithms
Sequences
Debugging algorithms
1B-AP-15
Students will collaborate to program puzzles with a partner.
Algorithms
Sequences
Debugging algorithms
Program planning
Collaboration
1B-AP-08, 1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-10, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-13, 1B-AP-14, 1B-AP-15, 1B-AP-16, 1B-AP-17
Students learn about events in computer science in this puzzle coding activity.
Algorithms
Sequences
Events
1B-AP-08, 1B-AP-10, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15
Students learn about variables in computer science in this puzzle coding activity.
Algorithms
Sequences
Events
Variables
Conditionals
1B-AP-08, 1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-10, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15
Students learn about conditionals in computer science in this puzzle coding activity.
Algorithms
Sequences
Conditionals
Events
Variables
1B-AP-08, 1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-10, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15
Students learn about loops in computer science in this puzzle coding activity.
Algorithms
Sequences
Conditionals
Loops
Events
1B-AP-08, 1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-10, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15
Teach students what HTML tags are in this activity.
What HTML is
HTML Tags
1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15
Teach students what heading tags are in this coding activity.
Heading tags
Heading hierarchy
1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15
Teach students how to code paragraph tags in HTML in this activity.
Paragraph tags
1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15
Teach students how to style text color in HTML tags in this activity.
Properties and values
Styling tags with text color
Attributes
1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15
Teach students how to code image tags in HTML in this activity.
Properties and values
Attributes
Finding free images to use within copyright
Linking images and creating image tags
Changing image size
1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-14, 1B-AP-15, 1B-IC-21
Students apply the HTML coding skills they have learned thus far in this project.
Improving computational artifacts
Program planning
Heading tags
Paragraph tags
Text colors
1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15, 1B-AP-17, 1B-IC-20, 1B-IC-21
Students collaborate with peers to build a website using the HTML skills they have learned and practiced in previous lessons.
Partner collaboration
Improving computational artifacts
Program planning
Heading tags
Paragraph tags
1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-13, 1B-AP-14, 1B-AP-15, 1B-AP-16, 1B-AP-17, 1B-IC-20, 1B-IC-21
Students apply the HTML coding skills they have learned in this extra practice project.
Improving computational artifacts
Program planning
Heading tags
Paragraph tags
Text colors
1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-14, 1B-AP-15, 1B-AP-17, 1B-IC-21
Students apply the HTML coding skills they have learned in this extra practice project.
Improving computational artifacts
Program planning
Heading tags
Paragraph tags
Text colors
1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-14, 1B-AP-15, 1B-AP-17, 1B-IC-21