K-5 Technology Curriculum at a Glance Students in Grades K – 5 develop competencies in Digital Literacy, Computational Thinking, Engineering & Robotics, AI Literacy, Data Literacy, and Creativity & Design. Kindergarten
First
At this level, students develop foundational competencies in computer basics, introductory computational thinking, and digital citizenship.
Second
Third
At this level, students develop competencies in typing fluency, coding and computational thinking, digital citizenship, and introductory AI literacy.
Students will be able to:
Students will be able to:
Students will be able to: Students will be able to:
●Navigate basic computer functions, including mouse skills and keyboard awareness ●Develop early typing skills and keyboard familiarity ●Follow sequenced instructions to solve simple coding challenges ●Demonstrate safe and responsible technology use ●Recognize how technology is used by people in daily life ●Apply algorithmic thinking to navigate and complete age-appropriate digital challenges
●Demonstrate developing mouse control and keyboard skills ●Apply algorithmic thinking using sequencing, patterns, and directional problem-solving ●Identify and begin to debug errors in a sequence of steps ●Practice safe, responsible, and respectful technology use ●Describe how computing technologies are designed and used by people in different fields ●Explore how technologies can help people solve problems and express ideas
•Demonstrate developing typing fluency •Apply block-based coding to create programs using sequences, loops, and events •Debug and improve programs by identifying and fixing errors •Demonstrate safe, responsible, and informed use of technology •Explore how artificial intelligence uses patterns and data to make decisions •Use digital tools to communicate and present ideas to an audience
Fourth
Fifth
At this level, students advance competencies in typing, advanced coding and physical computing, research and data literacy, digital citizenship, AI literacy and ethics, and creativity and design.
Students will be able to:
Students will be able to:
●Demonstrate increasing ● Demonstrate increased touch typing fluency touch typing fluency ●Design and develop ● Design, write, and debug programs using algorithms and programs sequences, loops, using sequence, events, and conditionals iteration, and selection ●Debug programs and ● Apply coding skills to explain how specific program physical segments of code computing devices to contribute to overall respond to real-world outcomes inputs ●Practice digital ● Conduct research and citizenship including evaluate sources using media literacy and criteria such as online safety authorship, bias, and ●Explore how AI systems relevance use data to learn and ● Apply digital citizenship make decisions principles with a focus ●Create digital designs on media literacy and and presentations to cybersecurity. communicate ideas for ● Explore how AI systems a specific audience are trained and how bias ●Recognize technology can develop careers and how ● Use digital tools to computing skills are create, collaborate, and used across different communicate ideas industries across subjects
● Demonstrate touch typing
fluency
● Build and refine complex
programs using variables, loops, conditionals, and events ● Debug programs using systematic strategies and document code to explain functionality ● Analyze how AI systems use data to make decisions and examine ethical and societal impacts ● Evaluate online information critically using research and data literacy skills ● Design and prototype digital solutions using creativity and design thinking ● Collaborate with peers using digital tools to solve problems and present ideas