3rd Grade Digital Literacy & AI
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 26
- Grade 3rd
This course contains standards-aligned digital literacy and AI lessons for 3rd grade students.
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UNITS - 6 (26 lessons)
Students log in to CodeHop, learn key computer science vocabulary, and create a simple program.
Students identify parts of a computing system, choose the right software for a task, create documents and presentations, and model how data travels across a network.
Students learn to spot cyberbullying, explore cybersecurity and cryptography, build healthy digital footprints and etiquette, and create a screen time balance plan.
Students explore how technology and culture shape each other, build a music technology timeline, code a health and fitness animation, and practice digital collaboration.
Students search for and credit online sources, evaluate data, and complete an inquiry project that displays survey results in a bar graph.
Students explore how AI changes when given more data and practice writing clear prompts for AI tools.
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3rd grade students learn the parts of a computing system, create documents and presentations, and model how data moves across a network. They build digital citizenship skills, including spotting cyberbullying, basic cybersecurity and cryptography, managing their digital footprint, and creating a screen time balance plan. Students also explore how technology shapes culture, collaborate digitally, complete a data inquiry project with a bar graph, and learn how AI is trained and how to ask AI tools better questions.
Teachers can choose the Google or Microsoft version of the productivity lessons, including Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Docs or Microsoft Word, to match the tools their school uses. Students will need access to those tools on a classroom device.
The course includes 26 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.
3rd Grade Digital Literacy & AI is aligned to state computer science standards and CSTA standards.
