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

Ideas:

• Explore Google Trends

• Driving Risks

• Water Scarcity Solutions

• Space Colonization Lesson 1 and Lesson 2

• Climate Change Lessons

• Genetically Modified Organisms

• Who Am I?

• Environmental Impact

• App for Climate Change

• CS Discoveries

• Recycling Field Trip

• Peanut Farming

• The Way Hip-Hop Artists Use AI

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

Ideas:

• 5 Clue Challenge

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

Ideas:

• PBS Learning Media Lessons

• Wind Power

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:

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

• How to Build a Kahoot

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

Ideas:

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

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:

• Genetics Escape Room

• Patterns in Earthquakes and Volcanoes

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

Ideas:

• Explore the Engineering challenges from Future Engineers

• Patterns in Earthquakes and Volcanos

• Career Exploration with PBS

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:

• Explore patterns with bee hives

• Newton's 2nd Law

• Roller Coaster Project

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

Ideas:

• Dichotomous Key Development

• Natural Disasters Lesson

• Weather and Erosion Brochure

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:

• Use sureys to collect data on ecosystems and have them visualize the data using pie charts or scatter plots 

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

Ideas:

• Try the routing and deadlock game from Computer Science Unplugged

• Line following challenge

• Programming a Micro:bit as a Soil Moisture Sensor

• Explore if/then statements in Hypersonics and Newton's 2nd Law

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

Ideas:

• Explore 3D shapes and measurements

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: 

• Separating a Mixture

• Photosynthesis

• Food Consumption and Production

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:

• Explore simulators and how they collect data

• Create a simulator that converts Celsius to Fahrenheit

• Design a health tracker game

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.

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

Ideas:

• Create guess the output games and have students read and interpret information to predict the output

• Have students debug their work

• Create if/else statements for changes in animal populations around the world

• Simulate climate patterns

• Explore NY energy and model friction or air resistance

• Use simulations like those at PhET

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:

• Create a prototype of an app using AI that offers feedback on the design

• Create a biodiversity tracker around local ecosystems

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:

• Design a tool that showcases a native plant identification tool

• Create an online dashboard using AI that showcases energy and conservation ideas 

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 using sensors for a smart gardening system

• Explore technology found in agriculture

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:

• Assessing Soil Saturation Levels to Develop Self-Sustaining Water Systems

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:

• Use centers to complete each part of a science experiment to simulate how data is transferred through a computer

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:

• Create a troubleshooting document for errors found in a science method

• Explore the stems of the scientific method and troubleshoot what happens if a variable is changed

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:

• Frame of Reference

• Cybersecurity Lesson

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

Ideas:

• Explore the use of sensors for light, humidity, and temperature, and discuss how the information transfers and what safety protocols to put in place

• Collect data from a website, such as NOAA or NASA, and discuss how the data is stored and managed, and how cloud storage affects our global temperatures. Explore new technologies being developed to combat this. 

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:

• Discuss the tradeoffs of sharing research publicly vs keeping intellectual property in the scientific process. 

• Explore DNA data and the trade-offs of keeping this data private

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

Ideas:

• Review this lesson about Cybersecurity and Cryptography

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

Ideas:

• Try one of these fun activities around cybersecurity

• Try one of these Cybersecurity Science Projects

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

Ideas:

• Use spreadsheets to collect data and practice keystrokes and keyboard shortcuts

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:

• Electricity and Circuits

• Rising Entrepreneurship

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:

• Use scavenger hunts to find out fact-based science questions like " what is the average global temperature and how has it changed over the past 50 years?"

• Ask the same science questions in several different AI chatbots and compare the answers to the data

• Use Explore.org to examine animals in their natural habitat vs using webcams at zoos

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:

• Create presentations, podcasts, or digital artifacts to showcase learning

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

Ideas:

• Climate Change Lesson

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:

• Discuss trade-offs around privacy and persistent sets of data like DNA

• Explore tracking of endangered species and protections from poachers

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:

• Natural Disasters