Second Grade
Nevada Standards Aligned: Beta - CSF Course C
Digital Citizenship
Lesson 1: Digital Trails
Nevada Standard(s): 2.IC.C.1, 2.IC.SLE.1, 2.NI.C.1
Lesson Plan and Extension
Assessment Suggestion: Use this page from the lesson [2.IC.SLE.1]. Use observational assessment to check for the following: showing how using technology has improved and simplified peoples' lives [2.IC.C.1] and showing that they understand the importance of keeping their passwords private to protect their information [2.NI.C.1].
Lesson 2: Putting a STOP to Online Meanness
Nevada Standard(s): 2.IC.SLE.1
Assessment Suggestion: Use this page from the lesson.
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Computing Systems
Lesson 3: Computing Systems
Nevada Standard(s): 2.CS.T.1
Assessment Suggestion: Through observational assessment during the lesson wrap up, check to see if students can give examples of some problems people can face with hardware and software using proper terminology.
There are no videos for this lesson.
Sequencing
Lesson 4: My Robotic Friends Jr.
Nevada Standard(s): 2.AP.C.1
Assessment Suggestion: No assessment on this standard at this point as students are gaining skills they need to work on during the next concept chunk. Assessment opportunities are available in lessons 9 and 10.
Lesson 5: Programming with Angry Birds
Nevada Standard(s): 2.AP.M.1
Assessment Suggestion: Have students independently complete puzzle 7 to assess understanding.
Lesson 6: Debugging in Maze
Nevada Standard(s): 2.AP.M.1
Assessment Suggestion: Have students independently complete puzzle 6 to assess understanding.
Lesson 7: Collecting Treasure with Laurel
Nevada Standard(s): 2.AP.M.1
Assessment Suggestion: Have students independently complete puzzle 6 to assess understanding.
Loops
Lesson 8: My Loopy Robotic Friends Jr.
Assessment Suggestion: No assessment on this standard at this point as students are gaining skills they need to work on during the following two lessons. Assessment opportunities are available in lessons 9 and 10.
Lesson 9: Loops with Rey and BB-8
Assessment Suggestion: Have students independently complete puzzle 11 to assess understanding of 2.AP.C.1 and puzzle 14 to assess understanding of 2.AP.M.1.
Lesson 10: Harvesting Crops with Loops
Assessment Suggestion: Have students independently complete puzzle 8 to assess understanding of 2.AP.C.1 and puzzle 10 to assess understanding of 2.AP.M.1.
Events
Lesson 12: Build a Flappy Game
Nevada Standard(s): 2.AP.M.1
Assessment Suggestion: Use students' completed mini-project at level 11.
Lesson 13: Mini-Project: Chase Game
Nevada Standard(s): 2.AP.M.1
Assessment Suggestion: Use students' completed mini-project at level 13.
End of Course Project
Lesson 15: End of Course Project
Lesson Plan and Extension
Assessment Suggestion: Use students' completed project.
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Physical Computing Using Micro:bits
The following are micro:bits lessons provided by Code.org. The lessons below are chosen as they most closely match the second grade computer science standards. See this page for more information about the micro:bit and these lessons.
Lesson 1 from the Course C Guide: Meet Your micro:bit
This is a teacher-guided lesson to introduce micro:bits to students have never used them before.
Lesson Plan (begins on page 12)
Lesson 2 from the Course C Guide: Emotion Badge
Lesson Plan (begins on page 22)
Lesson 3 from the Course C Guide: Calming LEDs
Lesson Plan (begins on page 25)
Lesson 4 from the Course C Guide: Counter
Lesson Plan (begins on page 28)