The student will learn a dance and identify the pattern, then create a dance routine in both repeating and growing patterns. Students will also understand and identify simple loops.
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Students will categorize attribute blocks based on their color, thickness and/or size. Optionally, connections to categorizing will be related to robots (e.g. looks, motions, sounds) and coding.
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Students will understand the importance of telling stories in order both verbally and with a graphic organizer.
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Creating, correcting, extending and growing a repeating pattern.
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Students will explore computing parts and use oral language and content area vocabulary to describe items, then write a descriptive sentence to describe a technology problem.
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The student will write a step by step list and begin to practice/understand sequencing and order of events.
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Students will review the continents, oceans, and Cardinal directions by traveling across the world using BeeBots (i.e., robots) or grid paper. Students will plan routes to get from one continent to another by making a step-by-step description.
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The students will collaboratively create a dance using the Dance Party Hour of Code Activity.
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This lesson teaches students how to use the correct terminology when encountering a computer problem.
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From Common Sense Education: “The Internet is filled with all kinds of interesting people, but sometimes, some of them can be mean to each other. With this role play, students understand why it’s often easier to be mean online than in person, and how to deal with online meanness when they see it.”
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Students will construct and analyze data from a Skittle bag in bar graphs.
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Students will use knowledge of cycles, specifically the water cycle, to connect to the function of programming loops.
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Students will be challenged with researching various problems that may occur with hardware and software for computer usage and then turn their research into posters for the class to use later if they have a problem occur past our lesson.
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Introduce cause/effect and input/output to students, then complete a related scavenger hunt.
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Students will learn about cybersecurity and the importance of passwords to create a poster and commercial to show their NetSmartz, over a two-day lesson.
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Interpret graphs and data collection to create a bar/chart graph in Google Slides.
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The students will identify how computing technologies have changed the world and how they are influenced by cultures by group activities, critical activities, problem solving skills and researching.
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Observe how computer networks function and make connections to the different ways we communicate (both in written form and modern forms). The students will discuss, in a whole class setting, how information can be communicated electronically and transmitted using computing devices via a network (e.g., email, social media, video conferencing, blogging).
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Students will plan out their family’s vacation to visit important water features in Virginia, then write a fiction story about their vacation.
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Students will create a fictional story using a graphic organizer to plan details by breaking the story down into smaller parts before writing.
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