Kindergarten
Fall 2022
Choose the activity below by difficulty: Mild (easiest to implement), medium (slightly more difficult or time consuming), spicy (more challenging & time consuming)
Mild
Connected to the kindergarten study of self, students discuss and express understanding of the question: What computer technologies do you and your family use, and how do they shape your lives?
NYS CS & DF Standards:
K-1.IC.3, K-1.NSD.5
Medium
What is a computer? and That Could be a Computer!
These two introduction to computer science lessons allow students to craft their own computers! Each lesson can be completed in 1 40 minute class period and gets students thinking about what computer really are!
NYS CS & DF Standards:
K-1.IC.3, K-1.NSD.5, K-1.NSD.1
Spicy
This 6 lesson sequence expands on the "medium" lessons by explicitly practicing additional computational thinking concepts including decomposition, algorithms, and pattern recognition through joyful, hands-on activities like creating and designing origami!
NYS CS & DF Standards:
K-1.IC.3, K-1.NSD.5, K-1.NSD.1