Kindergarten & 1st Grade
Kindergarten - 1st Grade Computational Thinking Units
Unit 5: Unplugged Computational Thinking (Coming Soon)
Unit 6: Community Contributors Unit (Coming Soon)
UNIT 1: Needs of Plants and Animals - Beebot Unit
Unit Overview:
In this unit, students will develop the ability to design simple programs (sequences of instructions) and implement them with a simple kid-friendly robot called a Beebot. Students’ goal is to use a Beebot robot to model how bees and flowering plants depend upon one another to meet their needs.
UNIT 2: Stories of Survival Beebot Unit
Unit Overview:
In unit, students have been advising the aquarium director with helping to answer young visitors’ questions about Spruce the Sea Turtle, who will soon be released back into the ocean. Now, the aquarium is partnering with the city zoo and wants to create a new after school program for kids where they use robots to tell the stories of survival of Spruce and other animals!
UNIT 3: Light and Sound Beebot Unit
Unit Overview:
In the Light and Sound unit, students take on the role of light and sound engineers as they are challenged with a design problem to design, build, and then project a scene for a puppet show. Students apply their computational thinking knowledge to create a background scene for a puppet theater, using patterns of light to create the effects they want. After using light to create a scene, students learn that sound also travels from a source and that vibrations cause sound.
UNIT 4: Spinning Earth Scratch Jr. Unit
Standards:
K-1.CT.1: Identify and describe one or more patterns (found in nature or designed) and examine the patterns to find similarities and make predictions.
K-1.CT.4 Identify a problem or task and discuss ways to break it into multiple smaller steps.
K-1.CT.6 Follow an algorithm to complete a task
K-1.CT.8 Identify a task consisting of steps that are repeated and recognize which steps are repeated.
K-1.CT.9 Identify and fix (debug) errors within a simple algorithm.
K-1.CT.10 Collaboratively create a plan that outlines the steps needed to complete a task.
Standards:
K-1.CT.1: Identify and describe one or more patterns (found in nature or designed) and examine the patterns to find similarities and make predictions.
K-1.CT.4 Identify a problem or task and discuss ways to break it into multiple smaller steps.
K-1.CT.6 Follow an algorithm to complete a task
K-1.CT.8 Identify a task consisting of steps that are repeated and recognize which steps are repeated.
K-1.CT.9 Identify and fix (debug) errors within a simple algorithm.
K-1.CT.10 Collaboratively create a plan that outlines the steps needed to complete a task.
Unit Overview:
In this unit, students learn that the primary source of light on Earth is the Sun. This unit builds on in teaching students how to use Scratch Jr. and block based coding in order to represent the patterns that they see throughout the day and year. They will apply computational thinking to create their own models.
Standards:
K-1.CT.1: Identify and describe one or more patterns (found in nature or designed) and examine the patterns to find similarities and make predictions.
K-1.CT.4 Identify a problem or task and discuss ways to break it into multiple smaller steps.
K-1.CT.6 Follow an algorithm to complete a task
K-1.CT.8 Identify a task consisting of steps that are repeated and recognize which steps are repeated.
K-1.CT.9 Identify and fix (debug) errors within a simple algorithm.
K-1.CT.10 Collaboratively create a plan that outlines the steps needed to complete a task.
Standards:
K-1.CT.1: Identify and describe one or more patterns (found in nature or designed) and examine the patterns to find similarities and make predictions.
K-1.CT.4 Identify a problem or task and discuss ways to break it into multiple smaller steps.
K-1.CT.6 Follow an algorithm to complete a task
K-1.CT.8 Identify a task consisting of steps that are repeated and recognize which steps are repeated.
K-1.CT.9 Identify and fix (debug) errors within a simple algorithm.
K-1.CT.10 Collaboratively create a plan that outlines the steps needed to complete a task.