This lesson is designed to engage students in a meaningful and fun coding experience, while investigating sanitation practices, food, and kitchen safety. Students will create an animated story using block-based coding in Scratch. This overarching lesson idea (research – storyboard – code) can be applied to any subject.

Students will develop a website to gain and provide an awareness of the emerging technologies and careers related to the internet in today’s world, through research and group presentations of the website(s).

Vocabulary posters for the Computing Systems strand for Grade 6. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.

Vocabulary posters for the Computing Systems strand for Grade 7. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.

This resource is a fill-in-the-blank notes set is for Grade 7 Computing Systems & Networking and the Internet strands. The information is taken directly from the Curriculum Framework's context of the standard. Answer key included.

In this lesson the concept of a list (sorted and unsorted) and sorting algorithms will be explored.

After completing background research on what it was like to live during the colonial times students will be placed in a Minecraft world where they will have to collaborate with a group of classmates to build a colony that provides food and protection since the game will be played in survival mode.

Students are taking everyday items, describing them, and using the proportions and conversion factors they will create a 3d model to replicate their description and create a 3d printed version. 

Students will formulate questions that require the acquisition of data. They will collect data and display it in histograms.

Lesson Plan for CS 7th grade. OBJECTIVES 1. At the end of this lesson students will be able to create and execute an algorithm that “programs” a partner to move from point A to point B, avoiding obstacles . 2. Students will plan independently and collaboratively to create a program 3. Students will share their pseudocode in Google Classroom or print completed pseudo code. 4. If time allows, students will begin to code their programs using a text based programming language.

Following Curiosity and Perseverance on Mars often means roving to places with interesting materials  to study, places away from the initial landing site. In this lesson, students experience the processes involved in engineering a communication protocol. To  reach their goal, students must create a calibrated solution within constraints and  parameters of communicating with a rover on Mars. Students will explore the opportunities and challenges of remote robotics by framing the problem around the idea that scientists and computer scientists must work together to successfully program rovers in remote locations like Mars. Students will also explore the idea that a robot simply follows a set of well defined algorithms.  Students will be provided a set of possible courses that their robot must navigate. Students will code their robot to navigate around the obstacles within the course to arrive at a set location.

Students are practicing using Scratch programming to program microbit sensors to continually read temperature.  Doing this will familiarize students with the Scratch programming software to program TDS and Temperature sensors for the fishtank in the hallway.

Students will publish a class website about visiting a country after completing research on the internet. Students will use a variety of resources to explore how we stay connected globally, as well as look at how technology has changed the way information is shared around the world. Students will describe how their website might be viewed or accessed around the globe and how it might impact those who see it.