Texas Tech Apps: 4th Grade
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 35
- Grade 4th
This course is aligned to TX standards and is designed to provide computer science instruction for Texas 4th Grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
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UNITS - 9 (35 lessons)
Students review foundational CS vocabulary and use the coordinate plane to create an open-ended animation.
Students explore the parts of a computing system and apply computational thinking to design a school.
Students use event blocks and broadcast messages to program interactive character behaviors, including a joke-telling scene.
Students use different types of loops to build games, compare loop algorithms, and debug maze programs.
Students use conditionals and game effects to build maze and chase games, refining their programs with peer feedback.
Students create variables to track scores and use lists to build a spelling bee game.
Students use clones and functions with inputs to build a snake game and other reusable, dynamic programs like a flower garden project.
Students apply design thinking for accessibility and combine variables, operators, and conditionals to build a music player and data visualization project.
Students evaluate data reliability, examine technology's cultural impact, practice digital etiquette and cybersecurity, manage files, and build presentations while learning to give proper credit online.
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4th grade students build programs using events, broadcasts, loops, conditionals, operators, variables, lists, clones, and functions, with projects like a maze game, a pong game, a spelling bee game, a snake game, and a flower garden functions project. They also design a game for accessibility, create music with code, complete a data bar graph project, explore digital etiquette and cyberbullying, practice cybersecurity, and learn to create presentations and credit sources.
Yes. Students learn to create presentations using Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint, so teachers can choose the version that matches the tools their school uses. Students will need access to those tools on a classroom device.
The course includes 36 lessons, each about 45 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 review lessons at the start of the course are not counted in the 36 lessons.
No. There are no prerequisites, and the course is designed to support all learners regardless of prior computer science experience. Optional review lessons at the start of the course help students who are new to CodeHop learn the basics before moving into grade-level content.
Texas Tech Apps: 4th Grade 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.
