1st Grade Digital Literacy & AI
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 19
- Grade 1st
This course contains standards-aligned digital literacy and AI lessons for 1st grade students.
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UNITS - 6 (19 lessons)
Students log in to CodeHop, build mouse skills, and create a programmed scene with characters.
Students explore how computers work and create their first document, presentation, and spreadsheet, then learn how networks and the Internet carry messages.
Students practice positive online behavior, create strong passwords, and learn to use technology responsibly.
Students explore how technology shapes their community and create a program that helps collect and sort litter.
Students research a topic, collect and organize data, find patterns to make predictions, and learn how computers store files.
Students explore what AI can and cannot do and use decision trees and charts to see how AI sorts information.
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1st grade students learn how computers work and create their first document, presentation, and spreadsheet. They practice positive online behavior and create strong passwords, explore how technology affects their community, and code a program that helps clean up litter. Students also research a topic, use data to find patterns and make predictions, and explore what AI can and cannot do by using decision trees to sort objects.
The word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet lessons show students how to use Google tools. If your school uses different software, the lessons include guidance for teachers to model the matching tools so students can follow along.
The course includes 19 teacher-led lessons, each about 45 minutes long, organized into six modules, with module quizzes to check understanding. Lessons follow an "I do, we do, you do" format and mix hands-on programming projects with unplugged activities. The course is flexible and can be taught in any order, and because concepts spiral across grade levels, students build on what they learned even if not every lesson is completed in a single year.
No. There are no prerequisites, and the course is designed to support all learners regardless of prior computer science experience. Students who have completed earlier grades of Digital Literacy & AI will revisit familiar topics at a deeper level.
1st Grade Digital Literacy & AI is aligned to state computer science standards and CSTA standards.
