In this lesson, students will learn what is meant by cybersecurity and explore a few news worthy cyber attacks. They will also discuss the Internet of Things and the increase in connected devices.
Cybersecurity is the protection of computer systems, networks, and data from digital attacks. Increased connectivity via the Internet of Things and reliance on computer devices to send and store data makes users more vulnerable to cyber attacks.
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In this lesson, students will learn about The CIA Triad. The CIA Triad is a widely-accepted security measure that should be guaranteed in every secure system. It stands for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.
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In this lesson, students understand how they can control and protect their footprint. As students use the Internet, they are building their digital footprint. This includes social media posts, emails, picture and video uploads amongst other online activities.
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In this lesson, students will learn about and discuss cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication to harass or target someone. Cyberbullying includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else.
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In this lesson, students will learn to recognize online predatory behavior and strategies on how to avoid and respond to it. The Internet is a great place to socialize, but it is important to be aware of risks. Common sense and following safety guidelines can help students stay safe online.
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In this lesson, students will discuss and examine policies regarding privacy and security. Using best practices like setting strong passwords, reading privacy policies, and using https can help in staying safe online.
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In this lesson, students will learn about and discuss information literacy. Information literacy is having the ability to find information, evaluate information credibility, and use information effectively.
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In this lesson, students will learn about the impact of visually representing data to make information easier to analyze and use.
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In this lesson, students learn how computers can be used to collect and store data. They learn best practices for interpreting data that is presented. Data visualizations can be very helpful in recognizing patterns and answering questions, but can also be used to mislead if skewed or full of bias.
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In this lesson, students will learn what copyright laws are and how to avoid copyright infringement. They will explore why copyright laws are important and how they protect the creators.
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In this lesson, students will explore and discuss the ethics and legality around hacking. A security hacker is someone who seeks to break through defenses and exploit weaknesses in a computer system or network. There are white hat hackers, who help companies find and protect exploits in their systems, and black hat hackers who hack maliciously.
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Now that students have learned about digital citizenship and cyber hygiene, they will take what they have learned and create a PSA to inform members in the community about a topic!
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In this lesson, students complete a summative assessment of the unit’s learning objectives.
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When was the first computer made? What did it look like, and what was it used for? In this lesson, students will explore the creation and evolution of computing machines that now permeate our day-to-day life.
Note: This course was updated on October 7, 2020. You can find the original material in the Supplemental Module titled “Original Material: What is Computing?”
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How are computers organized? What are the main components of a computer?
In this lesson, we will explore how different organizational structures of computers interact with each other to make computers functional.
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What kinds of software do computers use and need?
In this lesson, the topic of software is broken down into types of software, how they interact, and the specific functions of the different types of software.
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What is hardware? How does hardware work?
In this lesson, hardware is broken down into the different physical components of computers and how they contribute to the function of the computer as a whole.
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Where is computing headed? What is Artificial Intelligence and what are the potential impacts that this might have on our world?
In this lesson, students learn about Artificial Intelligence and how the landscape of computing might change in the future. Students will discuss how these future developments might impact our society.
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For the final project, students will create a short presentation about a specific model of computer. It could be an early computer model, or a computer model that is still being developed. They may pick any technology where a computer is the main component ? this includes phones, robots, drones, etc.
Students will be able to create and present on a specific model of computer using any technology where a computer is the main component (phone, robots, drone, etc).
In this lesson, students are introduced to CodeHS and how Karel the Dog can be given a set of instructions to perform a simple task.
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Write their first Karel program by typing out all of the Karel commands with proper syntax
Explain how giving commands to a computer is like giving commands to a dog
In this lesson, students learn more about Karel and Karel’s world. Students learn about walls in Karel’s world, the directions Karel can face, and how to identify a location in Karel’s world using streets and avenues. In these exercises, students will begin to see the limitations of Karel’s commands. Students will need to apply Karel’s limited set of commands to new situations. For example, how can they make Karel turn right, even though Karel does not know a turnRight command?
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In this lesson, students will learn how they can create their own commands for Karel by calling and defining functions. Functions allow programmers to create and reuse new commands that make code more readable and scalable.
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turnRight() functionIn this lesson, students learn in more detail about functions, and how they can use functions to break down their programs into smaller pieces and make them easier to understand.
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In this lesson, students will deepen their understanding of functions by learning about the start function. The start function helps to organize the readability of code by creating a designated place where code that is going to be run in a program can be stored:
function start(){
turnRight();
}
function turnRight(){
turnLeft();
turnLeft();
turnLeft();
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In this lesson, students learn about Top Down Design and Decomposition. Top Down Design is the process of breaking down a big problem into smaller parts.
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In this lesson, students learn how to style their programs by including comments. Comments allow students to leave notes on their program that makes it easier for other to read. Comments are written in plain English.
Commenting Your Code Example:
/*
* multi-line comments
*/
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In this lesson, students will learn about abstraction. Abstraction is the act of managing complexity by dissociating information and details in order to focus on relevant concepts.
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This lesson builds toward the following Enduring Understandings (EUs) and Learning Objectives (LOs). Students should understand that?
In this lesson, students are introduced to Super Karel! Since commands like turnRight() and turnAround() are so commonly used, students shouldn’t have to define them in every single program. This is where SuperKarel comes in. SuperKarel is just like Karel, except SuperKarel already knows how to turnRight and turnAround, so students don’t have to define those functions anymore!
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In this lesson, students learn how to use for loops in their programs. The for loop allows students to repeat a specific part of code a fixed number of times.
For loops are written like this:
for(var i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
// Code to be repeated 4 times
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In this lesson, students learn about the conditional statement “if”. Code within an “if statement” will only execute IF the condition is true.
if (frontIsClear()) {
// Code to be executed only if front is clear
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In this lesson, students learn about an additional control structure, if/else statements. If/else statements let students do one thing if a condition is true, and something else otherwise.
if/else statements are written like this:
if(frontIsClear())
{
// code to execute if front is clear
}
else
{
// code to execute otherwise
}
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In this lesson, students are introduced a new type of loop: while loops. While loops allow Karel to repeat code while a certain condition is true. While loops allow students to create general solutions to problems that will work on multiple Karel worlds, rather than just one.
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In this lesson, students learn how to combine and incorporate the different control structures they’ve learned to create more complex programs.
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In this lesson, students get extra practice with control structures. Students will continue to see different ways that the if, if/else, while, and for loops affect their code and what Karel can do.
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In this lesson, students review how they should indent their code to make it easier to read.
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Debugging is a very important part of programming. In this lesson, students learn how to effectively debug their programs.
Students will be able to use debugging strategies to find and fix errors in their code.
In this lesson, students will learn what pair programming is, why it is used, and the appropriate behaviors of a driver and navigator.
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In this unit, students will synthesize all of the skills and concepts learned in the Karel unit to solve increasingly challenging Karel puzzles.
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In this lesson, students will have a high level discussion about what the internet is and how the internet works. The topics of anonymity and censorship will also be discussed.
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This lesson builds toward the following Enduring Understandings (EUs) and Learning Objectives (LOs). Students should understand that?
In this lesson, students will explore the hardware that makes up the internet and the characteristics of that hardware that define our experience on the internet.
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This lesson builds toward the following Enduring Understandings (EUs) and Learning Objectives (LOs). Students should understand that?
In this lesson, students will explore how internet hardware communicates using Internet Addresses and the Internet Protocol.
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This lesson builds toward the following Enduring Understandings (EUs) and Learning Objectives (LOs). Students should understand that?
In this lesson, students will explore the DNS system and how it maps human readable domain names into actual accessible IP addresses.
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This lesson builds toward the following Enduring Understandings (EUs) and Learning Objectives (LOs). Students should understand that?
In this lesson, students explore how messages get from one address on the internet to another.
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This lesson builds toward the following Enduring Understandings (EUs) and Learning Objectives (LOs). Students should understand that?
In this lesson, students learn about the last piece of the puzzle for how the Internet works: Packets and Protocols. All information sent over the internet is broken down into small groups of bits called packets. The format for creating and reading packets is defined by open protocols so that all devices can read packets from all other devices.
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This lesson builds toward the following Enduring Understandings (EUs) and Learning Objectives (LOs). Students should understand that?
In this lesson, students are presented with different ways that the Internet impacts their lives. The Internet affects the way that people communicate (emails, social media, video chat) and collaborate to solve problems. It has revolutionized the way that people can learn and even buy things. Because the Internet is present in almost every facet of people’s lives, there are severe ethical and legal concerns that derive from the Internet.
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This lesson builds toward the following Enduring Understandings (EUs) and Learning Objectives (LOs). Students should understand that?
This lesson is a summative assessment of the unit’s learning objectives.
Assess student achievement of the learning goals of the unit
In this lesson, students will learn how to print messages out onto the console using the Javascript command println.
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start functionIn this lesson, students learn how to assign values to variables, manipulate those variable values, and use them in program statements. This is the introductory lesson into how data can be stored in variables.
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In this lesson, students learn how they can allow users to input information into their programs, and use that input accordingly.
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In this lesson, students learn about the different mathematical operators they can use to perform mathematical computations and create useful programs that compute information for the user.
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In this lesson, students will learn the basics of creating graphics objects. Graphic creation relies on setting the type, shape, size, position, and color on the artist?s canvas before adding to the screen. Using the geometric concepts, and the concept of getWidth() and getHeight(), multiple graphic objects can be created in JavaScript.
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Students will enhance their pixel images by incorporating RGB colors to each pixel.
Students will be able to create images using RGB values.
In this unit, students will synthesize all of the skills and concepts learned in the JavaScript and Graphics unit to solve increasingly challenging puzzles.
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In this lesson, students will be introduced to HTML: the language for building web pages. Students will discover why HTML is important and how it works in order to start building their own web pages.
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In this lesson we upgrade from simple tags to full HTML documents. We learn some new tags that let us put information in different places on the web page, and we learn about the nested tree structure of an HTML document.
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In this lesson, students learn about formatting tags that let them modify the appearance of text and make their web pages look clear and aesthetically pleasing.
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In this lesson, students learn how to add hyperlinks to their web pages using the <a> tag.
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In this lesson, students learn how to add images to their own web pages using the <img> tag!
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In this lesson, students learn how to add lists to their web pages and practice making different kinds of lists.
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In this lesson, students learn how to create and add tables to their web pages!
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In this lesson, students will use HTML styling to make their pages visually appealing and unique.
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In this lesson, students will begin using CSS to add styling to their HTML pages.
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In this lesson, students use CSS tag selectors to select all elements of the same kind (<table>, or <h1> for example) and give them all the same style.
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In this lesson, students learn to use CSS class selectors to apply CSS styling to all HTML elements that share a specified class which allows students to be more specific when applying their styling.
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In this lesson, students will use CSS Selectors by ID to select a single element to format on a webpage.
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In this lesson, students learn what a URL is and what happens when they visit a URL.
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In this project, students will be developing their first digital artifact: their very own website! This website will start off as their own personal homepage, and as students progress through the course, they can keep adding links to their favorite projects. By the end of the course this homepage will serve as their own personal portfolio website showcasing their work!
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In this lesson, students will explore the careers available in computer science and learn how bias can affect computer programs.
Students will explore different computer science careers and opportunities.
Students will learn how bias can affect computer programs.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the concept of design thinking and learn the steps in the design cycle.
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In this lesson, students will be introduced to prototyping. They will be given guidelines for this step and shown examples in order to successfully create prototypes of their own final project ideas.
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In this lesson, students will explore the testing step of the design process. They will see good and bad examples of testing practices and will be able to get feedback on their own prototypes before moving into the building process.
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In this final programming module, students will put together all of the concepts learned throughout the course to create a website. They will work with partners or in groups to creatively develop a website that includes aspects from each part of the course.
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