Florida Foundations of Computer Science: 3rd Grade

What Students Will Learn

See the full syllabus for all topics and activities, or explore the course to try it out.

UNITS - 8 (47 lessons)

• Getting Started

  Introduces the CodeHop platform, computing system components and troubleshooting, and computational thinking through designing an obstacle course.

• Programming Exploration

  Guides students through a sequential story-driven unit where they use basic commands, sequences, loops, events, and motion/looks blocks to animate a Scout story, plus custom drawing tools.

• Sequences and Events

  Builds sequencing and event skills, including parallel sequences, animated costumes and backdrops, broadcast messages, remixing with attribution, and an animated nonfiction reading.

• Loops

  Teaches loops for repeating instructions, applying them to debug programs and to build projects spanning poetry animation, place-value addition, network modeling, falling-object games, and multiplication.

• Conditionals and Variables

  Introduces conditionals and variables, having students use if/then logic and comparison operators to model fossil data interpretation and represent fractions on a number line.

• Culmination Project

  Culminates the course with a Digital Pet Project that integrates events, conditionals, variables, comparison operators, and broadcasts.

• Digital Literacy

  Covers digital literacy including keyboarding, positive online behavior, digital identity, cybersecurity basics, machine learning concepts, productivity software, source attribution, and a data inquiry project.

• Interdisciplinary Connections (Supplemental)

  Provides supplemental cross-curricular projects connecting coding to math (measurement, shapes, multiplication, fractions), science (weather, adaptations, life cycles, rocks, forces), and ELA/social studies (grammar, punctuation, community environments) topics.