Utah Interdisciplinary Computer Science: Kindergarten

This course is aligned to UT standards and is designed to provide computer science instruction for Utah kindergarten students. This course integrates coding into math, science, ELA, and social studies lessons. It is meant to be taught approximately once a week by the general education teacher.

Overview & Highlights

Elementary School

Overview of Lessons

Getting Started with Coding

Welcome to CodeHop!

Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHopJr Playground. This short introductory lesson can be used on its own or right before a full lesson.

Scout Adventures 1: Introducing Scout

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to explore the programming 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 a program.

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 a program.

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 a program.

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 by adding characters, pages, backgrounds, and sequences of motion blocks with events.

Coding in Math

Counting and Sequences (Unplugged)

Students will be able write a sequence to solve a maze by counting objects.

Counting with Mazes

Students will be able to use counting skills to design a maze requiring a specific number of steps.

Decompose Numbers Up to 10

Students will create an interactive program using events to visualize algebraic thinking and decomposing numbers.

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.

Story Problems: Add and Subtract within 10

Students will be able to create a scene in CodeHopJr that represents an addition or subtraction story problem.

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.

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.

Coding in Science

Living and Nonliving

Students will be able to classify items as living or nonliving and use tap events to trigger a character's actions.

Comparing Organisms

Students will create a program that groups animals by similar characteristics.

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.

How Living Things Survive

Students will be able to illustrate and explain how living things survive in their environment.

Types of Motion

Students will be able to use events to program an animation displaying types of motion.

Weather and Seasons

Students will use sequences to program an animation displaying the weather during different seasons.

Coding in ELA

Phonics: Letter Sounds

Students will be able to create a phonics game using the “on tap” event and "record audio" block.

Draw and Tell

Students will be able to create a short scene in CodeHopJr and write/dictate a sentence about the scene they created.

Storytelling Animations

Students will be able to create a program that retells the details of a story in the correct order.

Careers in CS: Spacecraft Design

Students will be able to explain advantages of using technology in different careers and create a space program to animate an astronaut and spacecraft.

Coding in Social Studies

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.

More Coding Lessons & Projects

Coding Card Game: Sequences

Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions to move Scout through a maze.

Coding Card Game: Sequences 2

Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions to move Scout through a maze.

Drawing Tools: Fairy Tale Painting

Students will be able to use painting tools to create a fairy-tale scene.

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 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 Pages

Students will be able to create a program with multiple pages.

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.

All About Me!

Students will be able to create a program that tells information about their favorites.

Chicken Crossing Game

Students will be able to program an interactive player character and adjust the difficulty of play in a game.

Digital Literacy

Computer Basics: Introduction

Students will be able to learn what a computer is, how we use it, and what to do when it doesn’t work. They will also be able to identify input, output, hardware, and software.

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.

What Can Data Tell Us?

Students will be able to collect, organize, and analyze data about school transportation.

Using Networks to Connect

Students will be able to describe how people and devices connect and share information using a network, with and without wires.

Introduction to Research

Students will be able to find information using research sources and create a program to communicate their research visually.

Artificial Intelligence

What is AI?

Students will be able to identify two examples of AI in their daily lives and explain one way a smart machine is different from a regular tool.

Sorting with Decision Trees

Students will be able to explain how AI uses data to learn and make decisions and create a simple decision tree to sort items based on rules.

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