Grade 8 Computer Science
Grade 8 curriculum includes:
Grade 8 curriculum includes:
App Design, part of the code.org online curriculum, where students develop an app designed for social good. They use market research, paper prototypes and then programming in App Lab using Javascript.
App Design, part of the code.org online curriculum, where students develop an app designed for social good. They use market research, paper prototypes and then programming in App Lab using Javascript.
We follow this up with programming the Micro:bit microcomputer using Python programming language and developing a solution to a real-world problem-based learning project.
We follow this up with programming the Micro:bit microcomputer using Python programming language and developing a solution to a real-world problem-based learning project.
We will also be working on Digital Literacy - internet safety, safe passwords, cyberbullying, digital footprint, how to know if you are being phished and to recognize malware, etc.