The focus should be on how advancements in computing technology have changed careers and lives.

Ideas:

• Explore the activities around the Day of AI for all sorts of CS ideas

• Read The Day the Crayons Quit and Be You, then complete this Book Creator Activity

• Try these Reading and CS Interdisciplinary lessons

The focus is on having students understand why rules around computing technology can change depending upon the setting.

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• Create basic decoding activities

The focus is on examples of computing technology that were invented to solve broader problems in society, or existing technology platforms that can have many purposes.

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• Create a mural about the world wide web to showcase our connectedness

The focus is on identifying digital spaces in the context of sharing or accessing information, such as an online platform where students submit work (private) versus public websites that anyone can access. 

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• sorting activities

• Create drawings of playgrounds and discuss what should be shared and not shared in that space vs online space

The focus is on describing computing technology that relies on a program, settings, and data to make decisions without direct human involvement.

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• Have students create critters that can follow simple instructions 

The focus is on identifying choices developers make when designing computing devices and software and considering the pros and cons when making those choices.

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• Create Pixel Art

The focus is not just on jobs in computer science, but also the skills and practices that are important for careers in the field of computer science.

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• Graphic Design

• Art History and Artists for Kids

• Toy Theater - Art

The emphasis is on essential components represented in the model to achieve desired results and assist in identifying patterns in the world around us, such as cycles in nature or tessellations.

Ideas:

• Create using Brush Ninja to create digital artifacts

• Challenge your students to complete these shapes without lifting a pencil.

• Create your own virtual snowflakes to explore patterns

• Create nature mandalas to explore patterns

• Create Lego Monsters both with physical bricks and then online

The emphasis is on identifying various tools in everyday life that collect, sort and store data, such as surveys, spreadsheets and charts.

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The emphasis is on using the visual representation to make the data meaningful. Options for presenting data visually include tables, graphs, and charts.

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• Use the creative prompts to explore computational thinking 

• Use this is sand to explore patterns and visualize data

The focus is on identifying how to break apart a problem into smaller steps, while understanding that there can be multiple valid sequences of steps that solve the same problem.

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• Can you solve the artist mystery on this podcast?

• Bean Questions

Some details are essential to performing a task, while others are not (E.g., some may be so common that they don’t need to be stated). 

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• Put the steps to a simple project in the correct order

The task can be a familiar activity or more abstract. The focus is on finding more than one way to reach the same goal.

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• Make pixelated selfies

• Sorting activities

• Kano Code

• Coloring

The focus is on identifying key pieces of information, labelling them with a descriptive name, and observing which labels refer to different values each time the instructions are given, and which values stay the same. 

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• Review directions in a sequence

• Have students create a picture following step by step procedures

• Lego Architecture using The Day the Crayons Quit

The focus should be on recognizing that some steps in a task only get carried out some of the time, and that the conditions can be precisely described.

Ideas:

• Have students create pictures showing how to dress for different weather conditions
  
  

The focus should be on identifying small errors within a simple algorithm and fixing the errors collaboratively.

Ideas:

• Basic coding activities where students have to identify their errors 

• Create art stories to showcase how to fix a problem

The focus should be on developing and documenting a plan in writing, using appropriate tools (such as a storyboard or story map).

Ideas:

• Plan a party together

• Create silly pets with a list of parameters

The focus is on choosing and demonstrating different computing technologies to receive and present results depending on the task.

Ideas:

• Explore augmented reality by coloring and drawing using these printable sheets. 

The focus is on understanding how software helps to complete computing tasks.

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• Create a digital art museum

• Use animation or drawing programs

• Try Quick Draw

The focus is on building problem solving techniques for self-help, such as making sure speakers are turned on or headphones are plugged in or making sure that the caps lock key is not on, to narrow down a problem.

Ideas:

• Troubleshoot programs and Chromebook issues

The focus is on understanding that information is converted in a special way so it can be sent through wires or waves through the air.

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• Mystery Messages activities

• BreakoutEDU

The focus is being able to navigate and save a file to a specific location.

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• Create treasure maps where each step is a place you can store data (hard drive, USB, Cloud, etc)

The focus should be on potential effects, both positive and negative, for making information public.

Ideas:

• Create picture passwords that showcase how to keep your information private

The emphasis is on recognizing and avoiding potentially harmful behaviors, such as sharing private information online or not logging off a public computer.

The focus is on explaining how user habits and behaviors should be adjusted based on who shares a device and/or application.

Ideas:

• Create visual stories that showcase how you might share or restrict access

The focus is on having one student encode a word or message, and a different student, using the same key, decode it. You might encourage students to develop their own coding scheme.

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• Create hidden pictures

The emphasis is on recognizing situations in which students should notify a trusted adult when a device or application does not perform as expected (pop-ups, authentication and/or loading issues).

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• Create safety shields that showcases how to protect yourself

Students should be introduced to keyboarding and identify in second grade and begin to receive direct instruction in keyboarding in third grade, with a focus on form over speed and accuracy. 

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• Create a letter land that has the letters in the same locations as the keyboard

The focus is on using digital tools to communicate and collaborate in order to expand knowledge and effectively convey ideas.

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• Do an online project using Google Draw or another online drawing tool.

Students will identify key words with which to perform an internet search using teacher-approved tool(s), to obtain information.

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• Find art and museums online using safe search parameters

Different digital tools are used for different purposes, such as communicating, collaborating, researching, and creating original content.

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• Use online tools to create art

he focus is on how personal information, both public and private, becomes available online and understand ways their information can be shared.

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• Create an online art museum

The focus is on describing actions with students and having them discuss whether those actions would be safe, responsible, respectful, and/or ethical using technology and/or online spaces.

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• Create a 3D treehouse that allows for a safe space that students can work together