South Carolina 3rd Grade Computer Science and Digital Literacy
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 34
- Grade 3rd
This course is aligned to South Carolina 3rd Grade Computer Science and Digital Literacy standards and is designed to provide computer science and digital literacy instruction for South Carolina 3rd grade students. It is meant to be taught approximately weekly.
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UNITS - 5 (34 lessons)
Students learn to log in and navigate the CodeHop Playground while building computational thinking and basic computing systems knowledge.
Students use drawing tools, sequences, loops, and events to build an animated, story-driven program.
Students build digital literacy skills, from managing their digital identity and collaborating online to using productivity tools, researching, and understanding data and networks.
Students deepen their programming skills with conditionals, variables, and lists while designing their own interactive game.
Students apply coding to real-world topics across math, science, ELA, and social studies, from early civilizations to multiplication and shape classification.
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The course introduces 3rd grade students to computer science and digital literacy using CodeHop, a block-based programming language. Students build programming skills like sequences, loops, conditionals, variables, and lists, develop digital literacy skills including productivity software, research, and digital identity, and apply coding to math, science, ELA, and social studies.
The course is aligned to South Carolina 3rd Grade Computer Science and Digital Literacy standards, with individual lessons in the Interdisciplinary Exploration module also mapped to specific SC academic standards in math (3.PAFR, 3.MGSR), ELA (SC.ELA.3.F.4.3 and third-grade literary text standards), science (3-ESS2, 3-LS4), and social studies (3.2.3.ER, 3.4.1.PR).
No. The course has no prerequisites and is designed to support all learners, regardless of prior computer science experience.
The course includes 19 standards-aligned lessons and 17 exploration lessons, each about 45 minutes long, for a total of roughly 36 hours. Teaching one lesson per week provides a full school year of material, though teachers can adapt the pace to fit their own schedule.
Students write and run programs in CodeHop, a block-based programming environment embedded directly in their CodeHS accounts, where they can create and debug interactive projects.
