The focus should be on how computing technologies both influence and are influenced by society and culture.

Ideas:

• Make a connection to the early childhood pathways conversation with elementary guidance counselors

• Play Quick, Draw and explore how others have drawn the simple images.

• Video Game Design, L2, L3

The focus is on how laws regulate the use of computing technologies and what might happen if those laws did not exist. 

Ideas:

• Discuss copyright and plagiarism

• Explore online gaming rules

Explanations should be grade level appropriate to ensure understanding of current events and the related computing technologies.

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• Do an online hunt on a recent story 

• Create collages around big topics

The focus is on identifying different groups who might have access to data stored or posted in different places, including companies. 

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• Create a digital footprint garden where students write on the petals/leaves ways to be positive online

The focus is on explaining a range of ways that humans interact with AI to make decisions.

Ideas: 

• Create mazes and then design the steps to complete it

• Imagineering in a Box

The focus is on identifying the needs and wants of diverse end users and purposefully considering potential perspectives of users with different backgrounds, ability levels, points of view, and abilities.

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• Create a tool that will help others (ie: vision problems, reading difficulties, etc)

The emphasis of this standard is the opportunity to personally identify with a range of diverse people in the field of computer science.

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• Graphic Design

The emphasis is on understanding, at a conceptual level, that models or simulations can be created to respond to deliberate changes in inputs.

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• Create using Brush Ninja to create digital artifacts

• Create your own virtual snowflakes to explore patterns

• Create nature mandalas to explore patterns

• 6 Word Memoirs

• Animate a Name

The emphasis is on using digital tools to collect and organize multiple data points. 

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• Use the creative prompts to explore computational thinking 

The emphasis is on identifying and organizing relevant data to emphasize particular parts of the data in support of a claim.

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• Use this is sand to explore patterns and visualize data

• Spin Draw

• Tessellation Artist

• Cardboard Challenges

• Collaborative Class Design

The focus is on identifying smaller steps that solve a larger problem, recognizing that some of those steps must be broken down further until each step is manageable.

Ideas:

• Can you solve the artist mystery on this podcast?

• Art for Kids Videos - follow the algorithm to draw

The focus is on recognizing that the same general steps are often repeated while solving a problem, even though some of the details may differ.

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• Explore Pixel Art

• Use imagi charms to create designs

Tasks can be unplugged or related to a computer program and reflect a task with a specific result that can be checked.

Ideas:

• Create mazes that have more than one path to get to the end
  
  

The focus is on identifying information that needs to be updated as a computation progresses. 

Ideas:

• Do following directions art drawing

• Use how to draw videos

• Shapegrams

The focus is on having students work with each of conditionals and repetition (loops or iteration), but without having to use them in conjunction with one another. 

Ideas:

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

• Giga Manga

Debugging frequently involves stepping or tracing through a program as if you were the computer to reveal errors.

Ideas:

• Debugging algorithms

An iterative design process involves defining the problem or goal, developing a solution or prototype, testing the solution or prototype, and repeating the process until the problem is solved or desired result is achieved. Describing can include speaking or writing.

Ideas:

• Recreating Nature Patterns

The emphasis is on thinking about how the user interface could be optimized for the purpose of the computing technology and user interactions.

Ideas:

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

A model should only include the basic elements of a computer system, including input, output, processor, and storage.

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• Draw up plans for an interconnected computer with parts labeled

The focus is on trying multiple strategies to troubleshoot problems, including rebooting the device, checking for power, checking network availability, closing and reopening an application, try using a different browser, and checking settings within an application.

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• Technology Troubleshooting

The focus is on understanding that data is broken down into smaller pieces and labeled to travel through a network and reassembled.

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• Use AI generated images that showcases a network map

The focus is on describing that data must be stored on a physical device. Access to remotely stored data is restricted by the networks, and to access non-local data a connection to the network is required.

Ideas:

• Create a 3d model of a city and showcase how data moves between the parts

The emphasis is on discussing different reasons that adversaries may want to obtain, compromise, or leverage different types of information. At this stage, students should be focused on general concepts.

Ideas:

• Design a digital shield to showcase data protection

The emphasis is on describing common safeguards such as protecting devices and accounts with strong passwords, keeping software updated, and not sending sensitive information over SMS.

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• Create password superheroes with Lego, drawings, or online tools

The focus is on considering the trade-offs of data sharing in different contexts.

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• Create a data 'tapestry' about yourself

The focus is on using ciphers to encrypt and decrypt messages as a means of safeguarding data.

Ideas:

• Text-Based Art: Write the encoded message in a large, artistic font on the canvas. Decorate the letters with patterns, pictures, or cut-outs from magazines.

• Symbolic Art: Assign a unique symbol (a shape, animal, object) to each letter in their code. Create a picture using these symbols to represent their encoded message.

• Hidden Message Art: Use watercolors or light-colored paints to write the encoded message on the canvas. Then, paint over it with a different color. Students can later reveal the hidden message by scratching off the top layer of paint strategically.

The emphasis is on describing simple forms of suspicious behavior in common applications and devices, including suspicious data/links, viruses and malware.

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• Create a digital castle with defenses that can protect against cyberhackers. 

The focus is on direct instruction in keyboarding. Instruction should focus on form over speed and accuracy.

Ideas:

• Use old keyboards and create new designs using the keys

Students progress from understanding that people use digital tools to communicate and collaborate to how they use the tools. Communication and collaboration should be purposeful and, when possible and appropriate, with an authentic audience.

Ideas:

• Do an online collaborative art project

• Create an online museum with Art Steps

Focus should be on the quality of results a search generates, and how to improve search results based on the task or purpose by defining multiple search criteria and using filters

Ideas:

• Have students search for different art terms and mediums using teacher guided searches

The focus is on understanding the editing process when creating digital artifacts on multiple platforms.

Ideas:

• 3D Printing Project

In order for students to be able to effectively manage their digital identities, it should be understood that online information doesn’t “go away,” and that information posted online can affect their real lives, even years in the future.

Ideas:

• Create Pixel Art using cyber images

In order for students to be able to effectively manage their digital identities, it should be understood that online information doesn’t “go away,” and that information posted online can affect their real lives, even years in the future.

Ideas:

• Create chalk footprints and add in what data you should keep secure