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Standards Mapping

for Massachusetts 9-12

65

Standards in this Framework

40

Standards Mapped

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Mapped to Course

Standard Lessons
9-12.CAS.a1
Evaluate and design an ergonomic work environment.
9-12.CAS.a2
Explain safe practices when collaborating online, including how to anticipate potentially dangerous situations.
  1. 2.2 Cyberbullying
  2. 2.3 Internet Safety
9-12.CAS.a3
Construct strategies to combat cyberbullying/harassment.
  1. 2.2 Cyberbullying
9-12.CAS.a4
Identify the mental health consequences of cyberbullying/harassment.
  1. 2.2 Cyberbullying
9-12.CAS.a5
Explain how peer pressure in social computing settings influences choices.
  1. 2.1 Digital Footprint and Reputation
  2. 2.2 Cyberbullying
9-12.CAS.a6
Apply strategies for managing negative peer pressure and encouraging positive peer pressure.
  1. 2.2 Cyberbullying
9-12.CAS.b1
Model mastery of the school’s Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).
  1. 2.6 Creative Credit & Copyright
  2. 7.5 Software Licenses
  3. 10.10 Creative Credit & Copyright
9-12.CAS.b2
Identify computer-related laws and analyze their impact on digital privacy, security, intellectual property, network access, contracts, and consequences of sexting and harassment.
  1. 2.4 Privacy & Security
  2. 2.6 Creative Credit & Copyright
  3. 7.5 Software Licenses
  4. 10.10 Creative Credit & Copyright
9-12.CAS.b3
Discuss the legal and ethical implications associated with malicious hacking and software piracy.
  1. 2.7 Hacking Ethics
  2. 7.5 Software Licenses
9-12.CAS.b4
Interpret software license agreements and application permissions.
  1. 2.6 Creative Credit & Copyright
  2. 7.5 Software Licenses
  3. 7.6 Application Security
  4. 7.8 System Administration
  5. 10.10 Creative Credit & Copyright
9-12.CAS.c1
Explain the impact of the digital divide on access to critical information.
  1. 10.11 Impact of the Internet
9-12.CAS.c2
Discuss the impact of computing technology on business and commerce (e.g., automated tracking of goods, automated financial transaction, e-commerce, cloud computing).
  1. 10.11 Impact of the Internet
9-12.CAS.c3
Describe the role that assistive technology can play in people’s lives.
9-12.CAS.c4
Create a digital artifact that is designed to be accessible (e.g., closed captioning for audio, alternative text for images).
9-12.CAS.c5
nalyze the beneficial and harmful effects of computing innovations (e.g., social networking, delivery of news and other public media, intercultural communication).
  1. 10.11 Impact of the Internet
9-12.CAS.c6
Cultivate a positive web presence (e.g., digital resume, portfolio, social media).
  1. 2.1 Digital Footprint and Reputation
  2. 19.15 Your First Website
9-12.CAS.c7
Identify ways to use technology to support lifelong learning.
9-12.CAS.c8
Analyze the impact of values and points of view that are presented in media messages (e.g., racial, gender, political).
9-12.CAS.c9
Discuss the social and economic implications associated with malicious hacking, software piracy, and cyber terrorism.
  1. 1.3 Impact of Cybersecurity
  2. 2.4 Privacy & Security
  3. 2.7 Hacking Ethics
9-12.DTC.a1
Use digital tools to design and develop a significant digital artifact (e.g., multipage website, online portfolio, simulation).
  1. 3.1 Project: Public Service Announcement
  2. 6.1 Project: Classic Cipher Newscast
  3. 9.1 Project: Security Assessment Report
  4. 19.15 Your First Website
9-12.DTC.a2
Select digital tools or resources based on their efficiency and effectiveness to use for a project or assignment and justify the selection.
  1. 7.4 Software and Applications
9-12.DTC.b1
Communicate and publish key ideas and details to a variety of audiences using digital tools and media-rich resources.
  1. 3.1 Project: Public Service Announcement
9-12.DTC.b2
Collaborate on a substantial project with outside experts or others through online digital tools (e.g., science fair project, community service project, capstone project).
9-12.DTC.c1
Generate, evaluate, and prioritize questions that can be researched through digital resources or tools.
  1. 12.1 Methodology
  2. 12.2 Support Practice
9-12.DTC.c2
Perform advanced searches to locate information and/or design a data-collection approach to gather original data (e.g., qualitative interviews, surveys, prototypes, simulations).
9-12.DTC.c3
Evaluate digital sources needed to solve a given problem (e.g., reliability, point of view, relevancy).
  1. 2.5 Information Literacy
  2. 12.1 Methodology
  3. 12.2 Support Practice
9-12.DTC.c4
Gather, organize, analyze, and synthesize information using a variety of digital tools.
  1. 2.5 Information Literacy
  2. 12.1 Methodology
  3. 12.2 Support Practice
9-12.DTC.c5
Create an artifact that answers a research question, communicates results and conclusions, and cites sources.
  1. 6.1 Project: Classic Cipher Newscast
  2. 12.2 Support Practice
9-12.CS.a1
Select computing devices (e.g., probe, sensor, tablet) to accomplish a real-world task (e.g., collecting data in a field experiment) and justify the selection.
9-12.CS.a2
Examine how the components of computing devices are controlled by and react to programmed commands.
  1. 4.1 Programming Concepts
9-12.CS.a3
Apply strategies for identifying and solving routine hardware and software problems that occur in everyday life (e.g., update software patches, virus scan, empty trash, run utility software, close all programs, reboot, use help sources).
  1. 12.1 Methodology
  2. 12.2 Support Practice
9-12.CS.a4
Explain and demonstrate how specialized computing devices can be used for problem solving, decision-making and creativity in all subject areas.
9-12.CS.a5
Describe how computing devices manage and allocate shared resources [e.g., memory, Central Processing Unit (CPU)].
  1. 11.1 Internal Components
  2. 11.4 Storage Options
9-12.CS.a6
Examine the historical rate of change in computing devices (e.g., power/energy, computation capacity, speed, size, ease of use) and discuss the implications for the future.
  1. 7.1 Operating Systems
9-12.CS.b1
Identify a problem that cannot be solved by humans or machines alone and design a solution for it by decomposing the task into sub-problems suited for a human or machine to accomplish (e.g., a human-computer team playing chess, forecasting weather, piloting airplanes).
9-12.CS.c1
Explain how network topologies and protocols enable users, devices, and systems to communicate with each other.
  1. 10.8 Packets & Protocols
  2. 10.9 Viewing a Webpage
  3. 11.6 Network Communication
  4. 19.13 Viewing Websites
9-12.CS.c2
Examine common network vulnerabilities (e.g., cyberattacks, identity theft, privacy) and their associated responses.
  1. 1.2 What is Cybersecurity?
  2. 1.3 Impact of Cybersecurity
  3. 2.4 Privacy & Security
9-12.CS.c3
Examine the issues (e.g., latency, bandwidth, firewalls, server capability) that impact network functionality.
  1. 10.4 Internet Hardware and Sending Information
  2. 11.5 Network Options
  3. 11.6 Network Communication
  4. 11.7 Network Management
9-12.CS.d1
Compare the value of using an existing service versus building the equivalent functionality (e.g., using a reference search engine versus creating a database of references for a project).
9-12.CS.d2
Explain the concept of quality of service (e.g., security, availability, performance) for services providers (e.g., online storefronts that must supply secure transactions for buyer and seller).
9-12.CT.a1
Discuss and give an example of the value of generalizing and decomposing aspects of a problem in order to solve it more effectively.
  1. 4.6 Organizational Techniques
9-12.CT.b1
Recognize that the design of an algorithm is distinct from its expression in a programming language.
  1. 4.6 Organizational Techniques
9-12.CT.b2
Represent algorithms using structured language, such as pseudocode.
  1. 4.6 Organizational Techniques
9-12.CT.b3
Explain how a recursive solution to a problem repeatedly applies the same solution to smaller instances of the problem.
9-12.CT.b4
Describe that there are ways to characterize how well algorithms perform and that two algorithms can perform differently for the same task.
  1. 21.1 Challenge Problems
9-12.CT.b5
Explain that there are some problems, which cannot be computationally solved.
9-12.CT.c1
Describe how data types, structures, and compression in programs affect data storage and quality (e.g., digital image file sizes are affected by resolution and color depth).
  1. 7.3 Compatibility
9-12.CT.c2
Create an appropriate multidimensional data structure that can be filtered, sorted, and searched (e.g., array, list, record).
  1. 8.8 Filtering Queries in SQL
9-12.CT.c3
Create, evaluate, and revise data visualization for communication and knowledge.
  1. 8.3 The Value of Data
  2. 10.3 Data Representation
9-12.CT.c4
Analyze a complex data set to answer a question or test a hypothesis (e.g., analyze a large set of weather or financial data to predict future patterns).
  1. 8.3 The Value of Data
  2. 10.3 Data Representation
9-12.CT.c5
Identify different problems (e.g., large or multipart problems, problems that need specific expertise, problems that affect many constituents) that can benefit from collaboration when processing and analyzing data to develop new insights and knowledge.
9-12.CT.d1
Use a development process in creating a computational artifact that leads to a minimum viable product and includes reflection, analysis, and iteration (e.g., a data-set analysis program for a science and engineering fair, capstone project that includes a program, term research project based on program data).
9-12.CT.d2
Decompose a problem by defining functions, which accept parameters and produce return values.
9-12.CT.d3
Select the appropriate data structure to represent information for a given problem (e.g., records, arrays, lists).
  1. 4.5 Arrays and Objects
9-12.CT.d4
Analyze trade-offs among multiple approaches to solve a given problem (e.g., space/time performance, maintainability, correctness, elegance).
9-12.CT.d5
Use appropriate looping structures in programs (e.g., FOR, WHILE, RECURSION).
  1. 4.3 Looping
  2. 22.5 For Loops in JavaScript
  3. 22.9 While Loops
  4. 22.10 Loop and a Half
9-12.CT.d6
Use appropriate conditional structures in programs (e.g., IF-THEN, IF-THEN-ELSE, SWITCH).
  1. 4.4 Branching
  2. 22.1 Booleans
  3. 22.3 Comparison Operators
  4. 22.4 If Statements
9-12.CT.d7
Use a programming language or tool feature correctly to enforce operator precedence.
9-12.CT.d8
Use global and local scope appropriately in program design (e.g., for variables).
9-12.CT.d9
Select and employ an appropriate component or library to facilitate programming solutions [e.g., turtle, Global Positioning System (GPS), statistics library].
9-12.CT.d10
Use an iterative design process, including learning from making mistakes, to gain a better understanding of the problem domain.
9-12.CT.d11
Engage in systematic testing and debugging methods to ensure program correctness.
9-12.CT.d12
Demonstrate how to document a program so that others can understand its design and implementation.
  1. 4.6 Organizational Techniques
9-12.CT.e1
Create models and simulations to help formulate, test, and refine hypotheses.
9-12.CT.e2
Form a model from a hypothesis generated from research and run a simulation to collect and analyze data to test that hypothesis.