Idaho Computer Science: Kindergarten

This course is aligned to Idaho Technology Standards and is designed to provide computer science instruction for Idaho kindergarten students. It is meant to be taught weekly.

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Overview of Lessons

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Optional Exploration

Sequences (Unplugged)

Students will be able to create a sequence of step-by-step instructions for a dance.

Coding Card Game: Sequences

Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions to move Scout through a maze.

Coding Card Game: Sequences 2

Students will be able to work together to create a sequence of instructions to move Scout through a maze.

Acting with Events

Students will be able to act out how an event can trigger an action.

Mouse Practice

Students will demonstrate mouse skills by dragging and clicking with the mouse in multiple games.

Keyboard Introduction

Students will be able to use the letters, numbers, and basic functions of the keyboard effectively.

Getting Started

Welcome to CodeHop!

Students will learn how to log in and use the CodeHop Playground. This short introductory lesson can be used on its own or right before a full lesson.

Computer Basics: Introduction

Students will be able to learn what a computer is, how we use it, and what to do when it doesn’t work. They will also be able to identify input, output, hardware, and software.

Computational Thinking: Morning Routines

Students will be able to use computational thinking concepts to identify patterns, break down tasks, sequence steps, and simplify processes in their morning routines.

ScratchJr Exploration

Scout Adventures 1: Introducing Scout

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to explore the ScratchJr interface and add characters.

Scout Adventures 2: Scout Starts Exploring

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to add backgrounds and a page to ScratchJr.

Scout Adventures 3: Scout Meets a Friend

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to delete and modify characters in ScratchJr.

Scout Adventures 4: Scout Explores the Forest

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to explore and use motion blocks to move characters around the stage in ScratchJr.

Scout Adventures 5: Scout and Bluebird Help

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to build a sequence of motion blocks to move characters around the stage to collect objects.

Scout Adventures 6: Scout Celebrates with Friends

This lesson is part of a sequential story-driven unit. Students will be able to create a celebration scene in ScratchJr by adding characters, pages, backgrounds, and sequences of motion blocks with events.

Drawing Tools: Fairy Tale Painting

Students will be able to use painting tools to create a fairy-tale scene.

Sequences & Events

Introduction to Events

Students will be able to create a program using different types of events.

Events: Submarine Sequences

Students will be able to use event blocks and motion blocks to program an underwater scene.

Introduction to Show and Hide Blocks

Students will be able to use "show" and "hide" blocks in a sequence to make characters appear and disappear.

Introduction to Grow and Shrink Blocks

Students will create a program that uses "grow" and "shrink" blocks to change the size of characters.

Pages

Pages: Dragon Story

Students will be able to create a program with multiple pages.

Using the Go To Page Block

Students will be able to create a program including a “go to page” block to switch from page to page in an activity.

Block Exploration

Transportation Speeds and Sounds

Students will be able to use "say" or "sound" blocks and speed blocks to program modes of transportation.

All About Me!

Students will be able to create a program that tells information about their favorites.

Debugging: Events and Motion

Students will be able to find and correct bugs in sequences.

Loops

Students will be able to create a program using loops and explain how loops are used to repeat code.

Loops: Frog and Rabbit

Students will be able to use loops to repeat code in a program.

Culmination Projects

Introduction to the Design Process

Students will be able to identify and participate in the steps of the design process with guidance to solve a simple problem through a ScratchJr animation.

Chicken Crossing Game

Students will be able to program an interactive player character and adjust the difficulty of play in a game.

Wildlife Scene Project

Students will be able to create a wildlife scene in ScratchJr using events, sequences, and loops.

Digital Literacy

Keeping Information Safe

Students will be able to identify private and personal information.

Introduction to Responsible Technology Use

Students will be able to identify ways to use technology safely and responsibly, including understanding an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

Introduction to Data Storage and Files

Students will be able to recognize that computers store data as files and model how data is collected and stored.

Using Networks to Connect

Students will be able to describe how people and devices connect and share information using a network, with and without wires.

What Can Data Tell Us?

Students will be able to collect, organize, and analyze data about school transportation.

Sorting with Decision Trees

Students will be able to explain how AI uses data to learn and make decisions and create a simple decision tree to sort items based on rules.

How AI Helps Us

Students will be able to explain how AI assistants answer questions by observing a demonstration and describe how AI helps people by solving problems and changing jobs.

Introduction to Research

Students will be able to find information using research sources and create a program to communicate their research visually.

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Offline Handouts