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:

• Students draw an activity they do with and without technology and write two sentences that shows how tech helps them in health or PE and what they enjoy about the technology.

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.

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• Have a discussion about rules for home vs school, tech and not tech

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.

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• Draw or create a collage about the technology they see at school and at home

The focus should be on recognizing familiar computing technologies that we use in our lives.

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• Use a T-chart with public and private to have students identify places they like to visit

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).

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• Create posters around 'my computer interactions'

• 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:

• Explore Kodable and how they make their Pets

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

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• Play this simple sequencing games 

• Exploring Critical Thinking Skills

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

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• Create charts around steps taken, water consumed, etc 

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

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• Chalk Coding

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.

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• Formative Assessment Robotics Challenge with SEL

• Lego Architecture using The Day the Crayons Quit

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

Ideas:

• Discuss and try different ways to jump

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:

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

• Play Sim Says following sequences

• Play these PE Games

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:

• Create growth charts to show how things grow over time

• Discuss patterns

• Sort food by color, shape, size, etc to explore data

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

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• Discuss routines like brushing your teeth and getting ready for school

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

Ideas:

• Discuss how to put your shoes and socks on and how it wouldn't work if you tried to put your shoes on first

• Discuss how to brush your teeth, build a tower, etc and how it has to be done a certain way to work

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

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• SEL

• SEL with Code Snaps

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

Ideas:

• Discuss how input and output work on a computer

• Introduce students to simple health-related apps or devices, such as step counters or heart rate monitors. Explain how these devices collect input (like heartbeats or steps taken) and provide output (like numbers or graphs showing health data).

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

Ideas:

• Use computers to research healthy foods or using fitness trackers as part of a healthy lifestyle. 

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

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• Emphasize the importance of problem-solving skills in everyday life, including staying healthy and safe with technology

• Match tech problems to solutions

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:

• Emphasize the importance of clear communication in health contexts, such as sharing feelings, asking for help, or discussing health topics with family

• Discuss rules for communicating with different people

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

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• Provide craft supplies and have students create their own model of a storage device. They can choose to make a USB drive, a CD, or a memory card using construction paper and decorations

• Discuss different physical devices that can store information and their importance in keeping our data safe

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).

Ideas:

• Create 'personal' boxes and discuss why you keep things private vs share with the world

• Create a privacy promise as a classroom

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

Ideas:

• Discuss how we keep information secure

• Create secure badges and have students add tips to their badges to teach others

• Digital Safety

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.

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• Create coded messages and have others try to decode them.

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

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• Create a chart to discuss when to click and when not to click

• Digital Wellbeing

• Media Literacy

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:

• Any keyboarding tech tool will work to cover this standard

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:

• Use a collaborative doc for any subject and content and have students create together

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

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• Use safe search platforms and have students practice searching for content

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

Ideas:

• Use a tech tool that your district has available to have your students create something digitally

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:

• Create a T chart of good vs bad behavior in different scenarios both on and off line.