Common tasks include sending a letter by email vs. post, taking a picture with a smart phone vs. camera, buying something with an app vs. with cash at a store.

Ideas:

• Compare and Contrast Technology vs not Technology

• Read 'When Charlie McButton Lost Power' and discuss emotions related to video games

• Read 'Old Macdonald had a Phone' and discuss what can and cannot be done with technology

• Exploring CT

• Storytelling with Ozobot

• What is a Task

• Digital Citizenship Lesson

• Parts of A Computer

• Read any of these books:

  • Instructions Not Included

  • A Robot Named Chip

  • Doug Unplugged

  • Doll-E 1.0

  • Computer Decoder: Dorothy Vaughan

  • If You Give A Mouse an iPhone

  • Sometimes I Forget You're a Robot

  • Iggy Peck, Architect

Rules could include when it’s okay to use a device, what programs or apps are okay to use, how to treat the equipment, etc.

Ideas: 

• Compare and Contrast: home devices vs school devices

• Explore: How to take care of school devices

• Common Sense lesson: Media Balance

• Common Sense Lesson: Safety in My Neighborhood

• Create a classroom contract about appropriate use of their devices

• Intro to iPads

• PBIS

• Read any of these books: 

  • A Computer Called Katherine

  • Cami and Wyatt

Rules could include when it’s okay to use a device, what programs or apps are okay to use, how to treat the equipment, etc.

Ideas:

• Morning Meeting - Community Building

• Read "Robots, Robots Everywhere" by Sue Fliess 

• Read any of these books: 

  • Chicken Clicking

  • The Liking Tree: An Antisocial Media Fable

The focus is on recognizing the difference between a public shared space versus a private space.

Ideas:

• Read any of these books: 

  • #Goldilocks: A Hashtag Cautionary Tale

  • The Technology Tail

The focus is on the features of computers and other devices, and the things that make them easier to use (i.e. dropdown menus, buttons, areas to type).

Ideas: 

• Library: Visit the library and discuss how to check out books

• Smart Displays: Practice using the interactive boards in the classroom and the differences between their Chromebooks compared to different devices. 

• EdTech Tools: Explore features in the classroom apps/websites you use in the classroom and discuss how they help and make things more accessible. 

• Students can write a story on paper or dictate using speech to text and then compare the different ways to write a story.

• Students can draw a picture of their favorite animal and then take a photo of their favorite spot in the classroom. They can then compare the differences of the methods

• Read or watch If You Give a Mouse an iPhone together and discuss screen time and balance.

• Read 'Tek: The Modern Cave Boy' and discuss screen time

• Read any of these books:

  • I am Stephen Hawking

  • Layla and the Bots, Built for Speed

• Explore Tate Kids

• Practice Asking an AI Helper

• 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 identifying jobs that utilize computing technology and how technology impacts a range of industries. Doctors, business owners, police officers, auto repair technicians, farmers, architects, and pilots use computing technology in their jobs.

Ideas:

• Students can read books about different occupations and then write a sentence about it

• Bring back career days and have parents share what tech they use in their current jobs

• Read 'The Boy Whose Head Was Filled with Stars, A Life of Edwin Hubble' and discuss exploring our dreams

• Read 'Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do' by Kathryn Heling and Deborah Hembrook to discuss different careers. Have student research or do visits with people in the fields to ask about their use of technology. 

• Read any of these books:

  • Margaret and the Moon

  • Women Who Launched the Computer Age

  • Hidden Figures

  • Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science

• Explore Kodable and how they make their Pets

The emphasis is on identifying patterns and then making predictions based on the pattern. 

Ideas:

• Cipher Coding Lesson

• Dicey Addition with indi Patterns

• Patterns in Poetry with Lego

• Sight Word Game

• Lego Words

• Lego Story Telling

• Collaborative Class Design  or students identify and define problems in their daily lives. (e.g., "How can we combine all our ideas into one coherent drawing?

• Zoo VR - Students identify and define problems in their daily lives. (e.g., "How can we learn about animals we can't see in person?", "How does this VR experience simulate a real zoo?")

The emphasis is on understanding what is data and identifying different types of data, while exploring how data can be collected and sorted.

Ideas:

• Busy Bee Hunt: Finding Data in Everyday Places

• Rock your Read Aloud

Ways to visualize data include tables, graphs, and charts.

Ideas: 

• Picture This: Data Visualization Activity

• Hidden Pictures

• Collaborative Class Design

The focus is on identifying a complex (for the age group) task or problem to break apart into smaller steps. The focus should be on understanding why this process is helpful.

Ideas:

• Following a Sequence Activities

• sight words

• Asking Questions to an AI Helper

• Grid Activities with books

• Decodable Books

Instructions to perform a task can be given with more or less detail but still achieve the same result. 

Ideas:

• Follow the Recipe Games

The task can be a familiar, daily activity or can be designed by the teacher. Algorithms at this stage may be short, though must contain at least three steps, and should focus on sequencing.

Ideas for Grade 1:

• Students can create a sequence of steps for daily activities and then glue them in order on construction paper

• Students can create 'How To' books

• Explore the videos and activities around the book series 'Hello, Ruby'

• Rainbow to Gold Lesson

• Opinions with Robotics

• writing precise instructions

The focus is on observing that people use certain terms/labels to refer to a concept (E.g., Today’s Date, Today’s Weather, Word of the Week, Today’s Line Leader) whose specific value can change depending on the day or time.

Ideas for Grade 1:

• Do a how-to writing unit with step by step directions

• Explore how your morning meetings use a sequence or algorithms

• Read Dude! by Aaron Reynolds 

The focus should be on short tasks where there is repetition and having students identify and describe the repetition.

Ideas:

• Read Gabi's Perfect Patterns and Loops to explore CS vocabulary

• Bee Bot Emulator

• Invention Station

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

Ideas:

• You can have students follow an algorithm to spell their spelling words based on patterns and taps

• Explore CVC words and explore the patterns and algorithms it takes to spell the words

The focus should be on collaboratively identifying a planning process which can be written, drawn, or spoken.

Ideas for Grade 1:

• Work together to create a plan for working in groups on a project

• Plan a class party by creating a task list

• Coding a Halloween Town Tour

• Sight Words

The emphasis is on understanding that humans and computers interact through inputs and outputs and identifying examples in their daily lives.

Ideas:

• Explore the videos and activities around the book series 'Hello, Ruby'

• Input/Output with Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Basic hardware components are the parts that students can see, such as monitor/screen, keyboard, mouse, etc. 

Ideas:

• Build a robot activity

The focus is on identifying the source of a common hardware/software problem (such as low battery, speakers not connected) with teacher guidance.

Ideas: 

• Collect animal research on their school devices, take pictures and then local these items needed to complete the project

• Explore using different tools to highlight, color, and adjust images

The focus is on how information is conveyed from one individual to another and the rules that allow for communication and data sharing, such as envelopes need addresses/emails need email addresses to reach the right person.
Ideas:

• Understand the importance of protocols/rules in sharing information over long distances through storytelling and role-play.

• Play the Telephone Game

• Digital Telephone Game: https://my.aiclub.world/telephone-game-gym

The focus is on recognizing that common computing devices can store information, including computers, tablets, phones, and calculators.

Ideas:

• Explore a variety of information storage devices (e.g., books, USB flash drives, CDs, DVDs, record player vinyls, memory cards) and create stories or guides based on these items. 

The focus should be on discussing the reasons to keep certain information public (information you share with others) or private (information you keep to yourself or only share with your family).

Idea:

• Use a program like School AI to talk about cyber safety: https://app.schoolai.com/spaces/clvwminxj0j6v5f5t3bbh6j2d

The emphasis is on having a basic understanding of ways keep accounts secure, such as having a passwords/pass codes. 

Ideas:

• Print out these fun worksheets from UTSA CIAS to explore Cybersecurity

• Students can use coded messages to learn letters and sounds

The focus is on having students look at a string of symbols and giving them a key to substitute letters for the symbols to spell a word.

Ideas:

• Decipher secret messages using Wilson Reading

• Students can use keywords to identify the sounds they make and then decode the secret message

• Cracking the Code ELA Lesson

• Decoding CVC Words Lesson

The emphasis is on recognizing when it is safe and appropriate for students to open links, with teacher guidance.

Ideas:

• Present students with a series of online links and ask them to determine whether they would click on each one.

• Discuss the potential risks associated with opening unknown links, such as malware, phishing, and misinformation.

• Guide students in developing a checklist of questions to ask themselves before clicking on a link.

The focus is on exploring physical and/or touchscreen keyboards, and for students to be able to identify specific keys such as arrow keys, enter, space bar, backspace.

Ideas:

• Use digital tools to practice typing their name. Focus on letters, shift key, backspace and the space bar

The focus should be on teaching students that people use digital tools to share ideas and work together. Communication and collaboration should be with teacher guidance.

Ideas:

• Have students work collaboratively on a digital tool to create something

• Great Places to Visit Lesson

• Planning a Parade Lesson

• Chrysanthemum

• Be Internet Awesome

• Books to Discuss Digital Literacy

The teacher will provide the keyword to help students conduct basic searches using appropriate tools.

Ideas:

• Students will search for images based on things that start with a given letter

• Find images and share them on a shared doc or Padlet

The focus is on students using at least one digital tool to create a digital artifact, with teacher guidance.

Ideas: 

• Students can use tools like Seesaw to complete online tasks

• News-O-Matic Lesson Plans

Students are able to identify the basic concept of being a “good digital citizen”, and know what actions are and are not safe, responsible and ethical when using technologies.

Ideas: 

• Students can use an online graphic organizer to compare what it means to be a good digital citizen

• Read Sonia's Digital World and do the activities related to the book

• Read Chicken Clicking by Jeanne Willis and tony Ross and then discuss what to share and what not to share online

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

• Share your Hero Stories

• Complete lessons on Copyright

• Explore the books on this Padlet to bring picture books to your digital literacy lessons