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

Ideas:

• Compare and Contrast tech from the past to now

• Explore how we get ready for school now vs 50 or 100 years ago and how advances have made our lives easier

• Explore the use of GPS and how it tracks. Extend by having students code a robot to find best paths through a cardboard neighborhood. 

• Read about the Inuit using an app and discuss the implications

• Electrified Play dough Squishy Circuits

• Patterns in Nature

• STEM and Media Making - Ben Franklin Engineering

• Recycling Field Trip

• Peanut Farming

• The Way Hip-Hop Artists Use AI

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

Ideas:

• 5 Clue Challenge

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

Ideas:

• PBS Learning Media Lessons

• NASA Kids Club

• Podcasts

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

Ideas:

• Use these live cam footage to explore habitats and animals globally

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

Ideas:

• Explore the UN Sustainable Development Goals and consider the impact technology can have on the success of them.

• Women in CS

• Katherine Johnson and the Human Computer

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

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 the Engineering challenges from Future Engineers

• Play Engineering Games

• Astronaut Scientists

• Build to Launch Mission Control

• Alan Turing Brain Pop

• Career Exploration with PBS

• Studios Virtual Field Trip - Broadcast and Engineering

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

Ideas for Grade 4: 

• Simulate science experiments to explore models (ie: in Waves unit use spring coil and slinky to simulate types of waves and inputs)

• Create a model that showcases the water cycle

• Create a model that demonstrates rainfall distribution

• Record sunrise/set times for amonth and observe changes.Collect the data and then graph the data

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

Ideas:

• Collaborative Gardens

• The Power of the Corn Kernel

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

Ideas:

• Explore data sets while fishing

• What about Pluto? Lesson

• Identifying Patterns in the Periodic Table

• Tinker Ball

• Lego Bridge Building

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:

• Try the routing and deadlock game from Computer Science Unplugged

• Effects of Pollution on Earth's Systems

• Physical and Behavioral Adaptations of Animals

• Magnetism

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:

• Explore 3D shapes and measurements

• SWBAT use Mindcraft in EDU to create a robot with specific volume parameters given.

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

Ideas:

• Using Microbits to demonstrate an Earth’s System and Processes

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

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. 

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

Ideas:

• Explore nature's algorithms

• Adventures of Dash and Dot: Space

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

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

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

Ideas:

• Plant Structures and Functions

• How animals use their senses

• Learn about counterbalance with Hang off the Table Lego activity

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.

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

Ideas for Grade 4:

• Use tools or toys to send morse and binary code messages Explain how these tools could be changed or improved 

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:

• How Animals Use There Senses

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.

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.

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

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

Ideas:

• Use Cryptii to explore different types of ciphers

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

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

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 for Grade 5:

• Use an online platform to create a collaborative project showing the difference between chemical and physical changes

• Ancient Egypt Lesson

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:

• Internet Searching for Informational Writing Project

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

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:

• National Parks in VR

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.

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