A 14 week Introduction to Computer Science course. This course is targeted …
A 14 week Introduction to Computer Science course. This course is targeted to middle school grades 6-8 (ages 11-14 years). It is also written for teachers who may not have a Computer Science background, or who may be teaching an “Intro to Computer Science” course for the first time.
This course takes approximately 14 weeks to complete, spending about 1 week on each of the first 11 lessons, and 3 weeks for students to complete the final project at the end. Of course, teachers should feel free to customize the curriculum to meet individual school or district resources and timeframe.
SFUSD's creative computing curriculum introduces computer science as a creative, collaborative, and …
SFUSD's creative computing curriculum introduces computer science as a creative, collaborative, and engaging discipline to children in kindergarten through second grade.
Across 4 units and 15-20 lessons, students will learn about algorithms and programming, computing systems, the Internet, and impacts of computing, while developing strong practices and dispositions. Lessons are designed to be implemented in 45 to 60-minute periods approximately once per week.
In this video segment adapted from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researchers …
In this video segment adapted from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researchers in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory working to engineer smarter robots are now building a machine that interacts socially with people.
In this video, Michael Hakkarinen teaches us how to add a Time …
In this video, Michael Hakkarinen teaches us how to add a Time to Climb game into your Nearpod lesson. If you haven't heard of Time to Climb, it's a game-based learning experience that students can join from any device.
This a lesson plan to teach elementary students to understand their digital …
This a lesson plan to teach elementary students to understand their digital footprints. It encourages them to purposely create a positive digital footprint.
"Students explore how to keep their digital lives safe, spot cyber scams, …
"Students explore how to keep their digital lives safe, spot cyber scams, and learn the basics of coding in this media-rich lesson plan from NOVA Labs. The lesson begins with students watching the Cybersecurity 101 video and discussing the online safety measures that they currently take. Next, students makes predictions about online safety best practices, complete the Level 1 challenges of the NOVA Cybersecurity Lab, and compare the best practices from the game with their predictions. Students reconvene for direct instruction on the best practices and key computer science terms and then finish the Cybersecurity Lab game. Finally, students complete the video quizzes with short-response discussion questions and can work on the Cybersecurity stories as homework reading assignments."
In this Digital Citizenship lesson, students will explore the legal and ethical …
In this Digital Citizenship lesson, students will explore the legal and ethical dimensions of respecting creative work. Students will explore the basic foundations of legal principles and learn vocabulary related to copyright.
This is an edited Nearpod Lesson originally created by Common Sense Media. …
This is an edited Nearpod Lesson originally created by Common Sense Media. The essential question is: "Should a school or a government be allowed to monitor your social media account? Students are asked to review the social media policy of a local school district. Students are asked to review information about governments accessing private information. Students are asked to discuss the balance between privacy and safety.
This is a lesson plan where students create a project in Apple …
This is a lesson plan where students create a project in Apple Pages on iPads with pictures and labels describing singular, plural, singular possessive and plural possessive nouns.
Advertises itself as "instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital …
Advertises itself as "instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources." Videos, games, audio clips, photos,lesson plans, etc.
This lesson is designed for upper elementary and middle school students where …
This lesson is designed for upper elementary and middle school students where they will identify peripheral input, output and storage devices used within the computer information processing system. Students will take pictures and obtain copy free right pictures of these devices and organize them into an Adobe Creative Cloud Express presentation, formerly known as Adobe Spark. Thumbnail credit: “Computer with mouse and keyboard.png” by Hacker19374. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You can view this image with the following link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Computer_with_mouse_and_keyboard.png
In this lesson students will learn how to use some basic selection …
In this lesson students will learn how to use some basic selection tools, layer panel and tools, transformation tools, some basic shortcuts to create a mandala from a single photograph as they learn to use Adobe Photoshop
This is a lesson plan where students write an informational paragraph about …
This is a lesson plan where students write an informational paragraph about a planet and create a project in Apple Keynote with pictures, audio and labels about the facts they found researching a planet.
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad breaks down an action …
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad breaks down an action into a series of steps in order to program a robot to do what they need it to do.
This lesson plan with help younger students understand their responsibilities to themselves, …
This lesson plan with help younger students understand their responsibilities to themselves, their friends and families, and the larger community in the digital world. This lessons was adapted from Common Sense Media's Nearpods on the Rings of Responsibility.
In this clip from "SciTech Now," we meet a New Jersey parent …
In this clip from "SciTech Now," we meet a New Jersey parent who has created an app to anonymously report bullying, hoping to prevent cyber-attacks among young people.
The Science Experiments lessons are geared for students in middle school and …
The Science Experiments lessons are geared for students in middle school and early high school grades. The lessons are designed help the student gain a greater understanding of the forces and behavior of the physical world. This is done using methods of observation, measurement, and data analysis. By incorporating the micro:bit in the experiments, the lessons are a great way to teach both science and computing in the same activity.
These lessons guide the student in hands-on, practical measurement activities along with using the micro:bit to control and record data for the experiments. Each lesson provides an overview of the activity, outlines expected results, explains the setup of the experiment, and the gives a coding activity to measure and collect the data.
The Utah Core Standard that this lesson incorporates is the College and Career Awareness …
The Utah Core Standard that this lesson incorporates is the College and Career Awareness Core (Strand 4, Standard 2). The goal of this lesson is to teach various self-care skills, have students demonstrate their practice of self-care through taking pictures and creating an Adobe Express poster of at least two images (two activites). This lesson takes approximately 45 minutes and is best taught face-to-face. Students will submit their digital posters via Canvas. Teachers will assess student knowledge through a visual representation of the self-care activities used and creative display of those images by using Adobe Express. Resources for learning, teaching, and practicing this content are included in this lesson plan. Odin by Jenae Wallace is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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