Fourth Grade

Lesson 1: Swimming Fish with Sprite Lab

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.AP.C.1

• Lesson Plan

• Slide Deck

• Assessment Suggestion: Use students' completed free-play project at level 9.

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Lesson 2: Events in Bounce

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.CS.HS.1

• Lesson Plan

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• Assessment Suggestion: Through observational assessment during the lesson wrap up, check to see if students can give examples of ways events can be used with hardware and software to complete tasks.

• There are no videos for this lesson.

Lesson 4: Drawing with Loops

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.AP.M.1

• Lesson Plan

• Slide Deck

• 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 6.

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Lesson 5: Fancy Shapes using Nested Loops

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.AP.M.1

• Lesson Plan

• Slide Deck

• Assessment Suggestion: No assessment on this standard at this point as students are gaining skills they need to work on during the following lesson. Assessment opportunities are available in lessons 6.

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Lesson 7: Songwriting

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.AP.A.1, 4. AP.M.1

• Lesson Plan

• Slide Deck

• Assessment Suggestion: Use this page from the lesson.

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Lesson 8: Functions in Minecraft

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.AP.A.1, 4. AP.M.1

• Lesson Plan

• Slide Deck

• Assessment Suggestion: Use students' completed free-play play project 16.

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Lesson 10: Simulating Experiments

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.DA.IM.1

• Lesson Plan

• Slide Deck

• Assessment Suggestion: Use this page from the lesson.

• There are no videos for this lesson.

Lesson 11: Outbreak

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.DA.IM.1, 4.IC.C.1

• Lesson Plan

• Slide Deck

• Assessment Suggestion: Use students' completed mini-project at level 12 [4.DA.IM.1]. Through observational assessment during the lesson wrap up, check to see if students can compare and contrast how computing has changed society from the past to the present [4.IC.C.1].

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Lesson 12: AI For Oceans

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.DA.IM.1, 4.IC.C.1

• Lesson Plan

• Slide Deck

• Assessment Suggestion: Through observational assessment during the lesson wrap up, check to see if students successfully trained AI to show the cause and effect relationship between AI and the programmer to communicate ideas [4.DA.IM.1] and if students can compare and contrast how AI has changed society from the past to the present [4.IC.C.1]. 

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The following are micro:bits lessons provided by Code.org. The lessons below are chosen as they most closely match the fourth grade computer science standards. See this page for more information about the micro:bit and these lessons.

Lesson 1 from the Course E 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 D Guide: Saving Sea Turtles

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.AP.PD.1, 4.AP.C.1

• Lesson Plan (begins on page 22)

Lesson 3 from the Course D Guide: Rock, Paper, Scissors

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.AP.PD.1, 4.AP.C.1, 3.AP.V.1

• Lesson Plan (begins on page 25)

Lesson 4 from the Course D Guide: Activity Picker

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.AP.PD.1, 4.AP.C.1, 3.AP.V.1

• Lesson Plan (begins on page 28)

Lesson 3 from the Course E Guide: Simple Door Alarm

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.AP.PD.1, 4.AP.C.1

• Lesson Plan (begins on page 25)

Lesson 2 from the Course F Guide: Step Counter

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.AP.C.1, 3.AP.V.1, 4.CS.HS.1, 4.DA.IM.1

• Lesson Plan (begins on page 22)

Lesson 3 from the Course F Guide: micro:bit Pet

• Nevada Standard(s): 4.AP.C.1, 3.AP.V.1, 4.CS.HS.1

• Lesson Plan (begins on page 25)