Oklahoma Computer Science: 1st Grade

What Students Will Learn

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UNITS - 10 (40 lessons)

• Optional Review

  This module reviews foundational CodeHopJr skills through a sequential Scout Adventures story, having students explore the programming interface and add, modify, and animate characters, backgrounds, and pages.

• Getting Started

  This module introduces computer basics such as input, output, hardware, and software, covers responsible technology use, and applies computational thinking to everyday evening routines.

• Sequences and Events

  This module teaches sequence and event programming through drawing tools, wait/grow/shrink/hide blocks, and debugging, while integrating basic data collection and visualization and digital responsibility topics.

• Optional Unplugged Loops Activities

  This module uses unplugged card-game activities to let students practice sequencing instructions with loops to move a character through a maze.

• Loops

  This module introduces repeat and forever loops using show/hide blocks to build games such as catching butterflies and a dance party.

• Message Events

  This module teaches message events to enable character communication, applying them in a relay race, a Simon Says game, a story animation, and a speed-controlled bouncy ball program.

• Pages

  This module teaches students to build multi-page programs using "go to page" blocks combined with messages and loops to create games like a tapping game, mini golf, and a digital greeting card.

• Grid

  This module introduces the grid feature and the "end" block to program characters through mazes, races, and grid-based animations.

• Culmination Projects

  This module has students plan a personalized "about me" program and build an obstacle-based river crossing game with adjustable difficulty.

• Digital Literacy

  This module covers digital literacy topics including research skills, using variables to model data, file storage concepts, and how networks and the Internet enable communication.