Topics that could be addressed include, but are not limited to, free speech, communication, and automation. 

Ideas:

• Play Would You Rather to discuss these topics.

• Argumentative Writing and Reasoning

• Online Friendships

The focus is on the potential consequences of laws related to computing technologies.

Ideas:

• Analyze and evaluate how specific laws or regulations have influenced the development and use of computing technologies and digital information.

• AI Ian

• Screen Time

• Is Your Brain Ready for Social Media?

At this level, students may require teacher support to discuss the possible ethical implications of computing technologies.

Ideas:

• Explore AI plagiarism tools to see efficacy and accuracy

• Discuss the use of AI tools in writing and the impact it can have

The focus is on exploring the impacts of data collection, including biases in data collection, and its use by different stakeholders for a range of purposes.

Ideas:

• Data Dilemma Debate

The focus is on understanding different factors that introduce bias into an AI system and how those biases affect people.

Ideas:

• Accessibility and Tech Support

• Writing to Inform

• PBS Learning Media Lessons

The focus is on testing and discussing the usability and accessibility of various technology tools (e.g., apps, games, and devices) with teacher guidance. 

Ideas:

• Research Database Accessibility 

• Play the AI Telephone game

At this level, the focus is on building awareness of the many different computer science-related careers. 

• Learn about coding with Code.org and explore their career resources

• Career exploration with Khan Academy

• Explore Cyber.org Career Exploration

The focus is on understanding that models or simulations are limited by the data that they use, rather than understanding specifically how they use that data.

Ideas:

• Growth Mindset

• Patterns in Poetry with Lego

The emphasis is on designing and following collection protocols. Data sources include, but are not limited to sensors, surveys, and polls. 

Ideas:

• Create an about me project to share personal stories in an abstract way

• Play Semantris and then explore machine learning

• Create a writing assignment on Pressto and discuss how the AI chatbot helps with writing

Refining includes, but is not limited to, identifying relevant subsets of a data set, deleting unneeded data, and sorting and organizing data to highlight trends.

Ideas for Grade 8: 

• Use graphs and charts and statistics in argument essays

The focus is on identifying where there is potential to use a function or procedure to create a reusable computation. 

Ideas:

• Choose Your Own Adventure Story building

The focus is on identifying similar expressions or sequences in code and abstracting them into functions that generalize over the similarities.

Ideas:

• Mad-Lib activities

• Create virtual MadLibs with Flippity.net

Algorithms can be represented in a range of formats, including flowcharts, pseudocode, or written steps. Planning the output of a program, such as with a storyboard or wireframe, is not sufficient on its own.

Ideas:

• Debugging Lesson Plan

• Coding Poetry

The focus is on understanding that variables can be used to track the value of a concept in a program as it changes over time. 

Ideas:

• Choose your own adventure stories

The focus is on having students combine control structures, such as conditionals and loops, in such a way that they work together to achieve an outcome that could not be achieved using only one of them.

Ideas:

• Use Short Stories: Code Commandos: Cracking the Control Structure

Programs can be debugged in numerous ways, including tracing and trying varying inputs. Perseverance is important in finding errors.

Ideas:

• Code CSI; Conditionals and Loops

At this level, the emphasis is on using the iterative design process to create a solution or prototype with the end user in mind and to document the steps taken by the student to gather and incorporate information about the user into the computational artifact.

Ideas:

• Use a randomizer to create stories.

The emphasis is on designing (but not necessarily creating) a user interface. Designs could include things like written descriptions, drawings, and/or 3D prototypes.

Ideas:

• Create reviews of different tech products around these topics as a writing exericise

The focus is on identifying the source of a problem by using a structured process such as a checklist or flowchart to systematically try solutions that may fix the problem. 

Ideas:

• Explore the articles on Wonderopolis that help students learn about computers. 

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:

• Argumentative Writing and Reasoning

• Titanic Research

The focus is on understanding how protocols enable communication and what additional data is necessary for transmission. Knowledge of the details of how specific protocols work is not expected.

Ideas:

• Play Lego Back to Back Game to explore how input and output determine efficiency and correctness. Compare this to adding detail to writing. 

The focus is on explaining where the data associated with different apps, devices, and embedded systems is stored, how the data is synchronized, and how to connect to it.

Ideas for Grade 8:

• Create files within Google Drive to store information 

The emphasis is on identifying personal information and devices that an individual may have access to and that adversaries may want to obtain or compromise. At this stage, students should focus on specific data and devices that they have access to. 

Ideas:

• Compare and contrast personal vs private information

The emphasis is on recommending different types of security measures including physical, digital, and behavioral, for a given situation.

Ideas:

• Build scenarios of real life situations like losing your phone or getting a suspicious email and discuss how to solve the issue and protect identity

The focus is on thinking about how a specific safeguard impacts the confidentiality, integrity, and access of information. Additionally, there should be a focus on discussing whether strengthening one specific safeguard adversely affects another.

Ideas:

• Students can discuss the pros and cons of using different methods of authentication, passwords, biometrics, key fobs etc

The focus is on recognizing that cryptography provides a level of security for data, and some types of encryption are weaker than others.

Ideas:

• Cryptograms

The emphasis is on explaining appropriate actions to prevent and address common security issues for common situations.

Ideas:

• Create real-world scenarios such as system running slow and running a malware application. Do a debate on best ways to protect information and digital privacy best practices

The emphasis is on continuing to improve keyboarding skills, with a focus on increasing speed as well as accuracy

Ideas:

• Using the keyboard on your devices

Students connect with others (students, teachers, families, the community, and/or experts) to further their learning for a specific purpose, give and receive feedback, and created a shared product.

Ideas:

• Create digital stories using a variety of applications and types (podcast vs digital story book, etc)

Mastery of this standard implies an understanding of how different search tools work, why different search tools provide different results, and how and why some websites rise to the top of a search. 

Ideas:

• Play Google A Day to learn ways to narrow your search to be more effective

Teachers should designate a school-approved location for students to publish artifacts for an audience to view. Advanced digital tools may refer to the tool itself (i.e. the tool is more advanced) or to utilization of more advanced features on a tool.

Ideas:

• Analyzing Factual Content in Digital Format

New technologies could include different tools for collaboration, creation, etc. that the student has not used before. 

Ideas:

• Have students use new or emerging technologies and discuss functionality from an older tool to the new one

A focus should be on learning about privacy settings on social media accounts, exploring the concept of a positive online presence/identity, and identifying behaviors and information that could potentially affect them now and in the future. 

Ideas:

• Use Common Sense Education Lessons

Students are able to strategize ways to keep online spaces safe. Identify types of negative online behaviors including cyberbullying, harassment, trolling/flaming, excluding, outing, dissing, masquerading, and impersonation.

Ideas:

• Convert paragraphs from the book you are reading and recreate conversations as texting

• Discuss how tone is sometimes difficult to read in texts

• Watch videos about privacy, safety and well beaing and fill out a graphic organizer

• Join the Global Write to write about the world with the world.

• Share your Hero Stories

• Complete lessons on copyright