In this lesson, students are given a chance to document what they already know about the topics that will be covered throughout the course. They will set learning goals and will take a quiz to find out what type of learning preference they have.
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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 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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In this lesson, students are introduced to coding with turtle graphics. Students will begin to recognize programs as sequences and groups of commands. Students will learn a few basic commands and then apply them right away by writing their first program.
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In this lesson, students will be introduced to the layout of Tracy’s grid world and will learn how to use coordinate pairs to locate Tracy on the coordinate plane. They will add to the list of commands they know and can use to create Tracy graphics.
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penup(), pendown(), and backward() commands in their programsIn this lesson, students will learn how to use the left and right commands in order to move Tracy to more locations on the canvas. They will now have many commands that can be used to have Tracy create more complex graphics.
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In this lesson, students are introduced to for loops. They learn how for loops simplify the process of making small changes to a program and help avoid repeating code. For loops are written like this:
for i in range (4):
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In this lesson, students are introduced to the ability to turn Tracy at any angle. With this feature, Tracy can now draw diagonal lines which opens up the possibility to draw multiple shapes that weren?t previously available.
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In this lesson, students learn how to use comments to describe their programs. Comments are helpful because they allow programmers to leave notes about the programs they are writing. Students will also learn about the different types of comments that can be used and the benefits of using them.
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In this short lesson, students will be introduced to the rules for naming elements in their code. Variables and functions that are used inside their programs will be named by students, so the following guidelines should be obeyed to be sure that the programs written are readable and successful.
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In this lesson, students are introduced to functions. They start with the basics of defining a function and why we need them and will revisit a program they coded earlier in the unit to rewrite it using functions.
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In this lesson, students are able to add some flair to their turtle graphics programs by controlling color, pensize, and fill. These new commands are added to the list of commands that have been already practiced in order to allow for more creativity in student programs.
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circle() command to draw different shapescolor(), pensize(), begin_fill(), and end_fill() commands to add more creativity to their programsIn this lesson, students are introduced to the concept of Top Down Design. Top Down Design is the process of breaking down a program into functions or smaller parts to avoid repeated code and to make our programs more readable.
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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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In this lesson, students will learn about a fundamental aspect of every programming language: Variables. A variable is something that stores information in a program that can be used later.
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In this lesson, students will learn how to incorporate user input into their programs. Students will learn how to request user input as both strings and integers, where the input is stored, and how to convert strings and integers.
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In this lesson, students will dive deeper into the concept of functions by exploring how to use parameters to customize their code.
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In this lesson, students will expand their knowledge of for loops. They are aware that for loops execute the same lines of code a given number of times but will learn that i is actually a variable that can be used to control commands inside the loop as it is running.
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In this lesson, students will learn the extended parameters that can be used to control the value of i in for loops. They will then be able to use the variable i to control much more of their code by setting specific values.
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In this lesson, students will learn how to use If Statements which will allow them to use conditions to determine how their code should run.
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In this lesson, students will learn how to expand on If Statements by including a way to have Tracy make decisions between multiple scenarios.
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In this lesson, students will learn that while loops allow code to be executed repeatedly based on a condition. They will also be warned that infinite loops are created if the exit condition of the while loop is never met, causing the code inside the while loop to repeat continuously which causes the program to crash.
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In this lesson, students will put together all the concepts they?ve learned thus far. They will be able to use top down design and to write programs that will solve complex problems.
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In this final lesson, students will put together all of the concepts learned throughout the unit to create a program that depicts as image related to their PSA topic. They will work individually or in groups to creatively develop a creative program.
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In this lesson, students review content with a 25 question End-of-Unit Quiz.
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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 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. They will practice finding and citing online images.
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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 dissect how colors are represented on a webpage. They will learn about how red, green, and blue are mixed to create colors, and how the levels of red, green, and blue are specified using rgb values and hex values.
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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 will learn why multi-file websites are important and how they can create them.
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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 final lesson, students will put together all of the concepts learned throughout the unit to create a website showcasing their PSA topic. They will work individually or in groups to creatively use the skills they’ve acquired up to this point.
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In this lesson, students will explore at a high-level what the internet is and how the internet works.
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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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In this lesson, students will explore how internet hardware communicates using Internet Addresses and the Internet Protocol.
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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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In this lesson, students explore how messages get from one address on the internet to another.
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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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In this lesson, students learn how all of the pieces of the puzzle (IP addresses, the DNS system, routing, and packets and protocols) fit together to send information over the internet. Students will extend these new concepts to consider net neutrality and its ramifications on cybersecurity.
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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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In this lesson, students are presented with the main ways that networks are attacked: social engineering and DoS or DDoS. They will build on their knowledge of how the internet works by shifting the focus from understanding the internet and networks to safeguarding networks from malicious attackers.
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In this lesson, students are presented with the main ways that networks are secured: access controls, AAA protocols, physical security, reading logs, intrusion detection systems, establishing firewall rules. They also explore what a network administrator career entails.
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In this project, students will analyze a log file and establish a firewall, then write a security assessment report about their findings and recommendations.
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In this lesson, students complete a summative assessment of the unit’s learning objectives.
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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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In this lesson, students complete advanced challenges in turtle graphics.
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- Practice problem decomposition to plan an approach to complex problems
- Write programs to solve challenges using functions, control structures, and other programming tools
In this lesson, students will learn how to create graphs with Tracy the Turtle. They will use these graphing skills to model real-life systems, including weather and finances.
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-Build mathematical models of real-life systems by writing Python turtle graphics programs.
In this lesson, students will preview some of the advanced HTML/CSS features they will be learning how to use in this module!
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In this lesson, students will learn why multi-file websites are important and how they can create them.
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In this lesson, students will learn how to embed content from other websites into their own websites using IFrames.
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In this lesson, students will learn how to use divs to group and style multiple elements.
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In this lesson, students will learn how to use spans to group and style multiple elements of inline text.
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<span> tag to style multiple elements of inline textIn this lesson, students wlll learn how to combine CSS selectors so they can style multiple selectors and combinations, or specific parent/child selectors.
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In this lesson, students will learn the Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle.
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In this lesson, students will learn about special selectors such as :hover and :focus, and how these selectors can be used to style elements as the user interacts with them on the page.
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In this lesson, students will learn how to use the visibility property to make elements visible or invisible on their page.
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In this lesson, students will learn how they can use documentation as a resource to learn more about HTML and CSS features.
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In this lesson, students will learn how to use the inspector tool to explore and modify code inline.
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In this lesson, students will learn what the box model is and how they can use it to add a border around elements and to define space between elements.
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In this lesson, students will learn how to include images in their programs and manipulate their pixels using WebImage. Students will learn how image filters manipulate stored pixel data.
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In this lesson, students will learn how to add simple animations to their websites.
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In this lesson, students will combine special selectors like :hover with animations to create sites that respond to the user’s actions.
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In this lesson, students complete a summative assessment of the unit?s learning objectives.
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In this first lesson, students will be introduced to their micro:bit device and the MakeCode editor, where they will build and test programs throughout the course. They will also be guided through the process to download programs from the editor to their device and will learn a few basic commands to get started writing micro:bit programs.
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showNumber and showString commands in micro:bit programsIn this lesson, students will take a deeper look at developing, testing, and running programs on the micro:bit simulator and on their devices. They will learn how the 5x5 grid system is laid out and will utilize more commands to light specific LEDs on the screen.
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led.plot, led.unplot, and basic.pause commands in micro:bit programsIn this lesson, students will learn about comments and pseudocode, why they are important, and how they help organize and plan programs. They will also learn the basic difference between analog and digital components and how to use the plotBrightness and clearScreen commands in their programs.
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plotBrightness and clearScreen commands in micro:bit programsIn this lesson, students will build their first physical circuit using their micro:bit devices. They will learn to use variables to control components, along with the analogWritePin and digitalWritePin commands.
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analogWritePin and digitalWritePin commands in micro:bit programsIn this lesson, students review content with a 15 question Unit Quiz.
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In this lesson, students will connect a speaker to their physical circuit to play music using their micro:bit! They will learn to use for loops to control components, along with the playNote command.
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playNote command in micro:bit programsIn this lesson, students will learn how to use the built-in buttons to control their programs and will learn to use while loops to control components.
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In this lesson, students will learn about sensors and why they are so important in physical computing. They will use various internal sensors to detect attributes of the micro:bit’s environment and write programs that will complete certain tasks based on these values.
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In this lesson, students will connect a micro servo motor to their physical circuit and control its location using their device. They will learn to use conditionals to control components, along with the servoWritePin command.
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servoWritePin command in micro:bit programsIn this lesson, students will use their first external sensor, an ultrasonic range finder, to measure distance and control components in the programs. They will develop and use functions with and without parameters to more clearly organize their code and make it more reusable.
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In this lesson, students review content with a 14 question Unit Quiz.
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In this lesson, students will learn why and how breadboards are used to build more complex circuits. They will experiment with different built-in Gestures and will use all of the concepts they’ve learned up to this point to complete their first larger projects- a digital watch and an Inchworm.
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In this lesson, students will research, develop, and present a lesson to their peers on the use of a new sensor with their micro:bit devices.
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Students will get a chance to follow instructions written by someone they’ve never met to replicate a project in this lesson. They will then evaluate and improve these directions to make them more effective for a target audience.
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In this final lesson, students will put together all of the concepts learned throughout the course to create a project of their choice. They will work individually, or with partners or groups to creatively develop a program of their choosing.
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