Texas Tech Apps: Kindergarten
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 37
- Grade K
This course is aligned to TX standards and is designed to provide computer science instruction for Texas kindergarten students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
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UNITS - 8 (37 lessons)
Students practice sequencing and event concepts through unplugged activities and coding card games, plus basic mouse skills.
Students learn computer basics, practice keyboard skills, and apply computational thinking to their morning routines.
Students follow the six-part Scout Adventures story to learn the CodeHopJr interface and use drawing tools to create a fairy-tale scene.
Students build programs using events, sequences, show/hide and grow/shrink blocks, and loops to animate characters.
Students create multi-page programs and use the "go to page" block to switch between scenes.
Students explore speed blocks, sound blocks, and patterns to animate transportation and music scenes, and practice debugging.
Students apply the design process to build a chicken-crossing game and a wildlife scene using events, sequences, and loops.
Students learn responsible technology use, how to keep personal information safe, different types of software, and basic research and data skills.
Explore a sample lesson from this course!
Kindergarten students learn computer basics and keyboard skills, then create their first block-based programs alongside Scout the squirrel. Throughout the year they use events, sequences, show and hide blocks, pages, speed and sound blocks, and loops to build animations and stories, practice the design process, and create a Chicken Crossing game and a wildlife scene. Students also learn responsible technology use, keep personal information safe, choose the right software for a task, explore data, and practice simple research.
The course includes 36 lessons, each about 30 minutes long, providing a full year of instruction when taught once a week. Every lesson is built in a ready-to-teach format, with step-by-step videos that walk students through the lesson. Lessons are designed to be teacher-led using an "I do, we do, you do" format, and a self-paced option is also available. Optional unplugged lessons at the start of the course introduce sequences and events through hands-on activities.
No. There are no prerequisites, and the course is designed to support all learners regardless of prior computer science experience. The course includes mouse and keyboard practice and optional unplugged activities before students begin programming.
Texas Tech Apps: Kindergarten is aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Technology Applications. Lessons required to fully meet the standards are labeled in the course syllabus with the standards they address, and all Digital Literacy lessons are required because they cover essential non-programming computer science concepts.
