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

Ideas:

• Play Would You Rather to discuss these topics.

• Addiction Lesson

• The World of Gaming Lesson

• Digital Footprint Lesson

• Inquiry Projects

• Social Media and Friendships

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

Ideas:

• Secrets in Your Data

• AI Ian

• Is Your Brain Ready for Social Media?

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

Ideas:

• PBS Learning Media Lessons

• PBS Social Media and our Health

• Media Literacy

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

Ideas for Grade 4:

• Explore your digital footprint

• Explore how AI influences what we see

• Explore how accessibility creates equity

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

Ideas:

• Physical Fitness and Learning How to Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle

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.

Ideas:

• Sleep Contributors vs Disruptors

• Social Media Judges

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

Ideas:

• Explore these Code.org videos to see different careers that use computer science

• Career Exploration with PBS

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

Ideas:

• Self Awareness - SEL

• Programming Poetry

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

Ideas:

• Use a heart rate monitoring app and discuss how it relates to exercise and have them create a way to visualize that data

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

Ideas:

• Using Computational Thinking to Find the “Recipe for The Ideal Recipe”

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:

• Designing Your Health Activity

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.

Ideas:

• Have students create a list of healthy activities and then keep a journal of how often they do these activities

• Explore patterns in their health practices

• Invention Station

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

Ideas:

• Try these different activities related to sports, dance, and computer science

• Play these PE Games

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

Ideas:

• Explore variables in fitness, graph simple changes in their fitness and see how it relates to heart rate, breathing rate, temperature, hydration, energy etc.

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:

• Play these simple sequencing games

• Explore Pixar Shorts to learn algorithms, loops, and more

• When Life Gives You Lemons-Building Resilience

• Algorithm Tic Tac Toe

• MakeCode

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

Ideas:

• Create 'algorithm' exercise plans that showcase how many of each exercise and then 'loop' them with how many times they repeat the exercises

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:

• Create weekly guides for eating nutritionally by surveying taste preferences, prep time, etc and adjust the guides based on feedback and implementation strategies.

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

Ideas:

• Punctuation Skits

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

Ideas:

• Hardware and Software Systems at School

• What is a Network?

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.

Ideas:

• Troubleshooting Technology

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

Ideas:

• Create an obstacle course that sends messages (like a telephone game) over long distances

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:

• Have students sort items by color or a certain trait in a relay race to simulate how data is stored.

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:

• Create a cybersecurity scavenger hunt about how to protect data online

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.

Ideas:

• Explore different types of PII and the risks associated with them. 

• Create a risk chart and organize it by severity

• Be Internet Awesome Magazine

• Digital Wellbeing

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

Ideas:

• Have students create a pledge for keeping their information safe

• Digital Safety

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

Ideas:

• Why and How is Information Protected

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

Ideas:

• Research health applications and rate which ones have the best security/risk.

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

Ideas:

• Have students practice keyboarding

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:

• Intro to Apps

• Learn how to use Nearpod

• Digital Safety

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:

• Use an AI tool to come up with 5 good prompts to begin a research project

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

Ideas: 

• Create a digital awareness campaign

Many digital technologies have similar features and functionalities. The focus is on identifying the similarities between different programs or applications, such as word processing tools on different platforms. 

Ideas:

• Compare and contrast social media apps for the features, use, etc.

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:

• Complete Common Sense EDU lessons

The focus is on identifying and describing potentially unsafe behaviors, and actions to take if they are witnessed or experienced, including cyberbullying.

Ideas:

• Discuss the permanence of online artifacts

• Play Lego Gloombusters to explore how to protect yourself from cyberbullies

• Chatting Safely Online Lesson

• Evaluating Online Searches