5th Grade Massachusetts Digital Literacy and Computer Science
- Level Elementary School
This course is designed to provide digital literacy and computer science instruction for Massachusetts 5th grade students.
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UNITS - 11 (0 lessons)
Students review CodeHop basics, the coordinate plane, drawing tools, and computational thinking for those who need extra practice before starting 5th grade content.
Students use events in a program and continue building their debugging skills through a pizza-making project.
Students use loops to create turtle graphics and practice planning and decomposing the steps of a quest program.
Students create and use variables, lists, and comparison operators through a shopping simulator, a game, and a dance project.
Students use clones, classes, and objects to build interactive game projects.
Students apply a year of programming skills across two culminating projects, designing an app and collaborating on a game.
Students explore networks, protocols, and computing systems, and use productivity software to persuade an audience.
Students learn digital etiquette, how to recognize and report cyberbullying, how to make responsible choices online, and basics of cryptography and cybersecurity policy.
Students learn to search for and attribute information online and analyze data to draw conclusions and make predictions.
Students explore how technology and culture influence each other, how inclusion has shaped computing, and careers building mobile apps.
Students compare human and machine performance, train an AI model, and learn about the ethical use of generative AI.
