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What’s new with CS Fundamentals in 2024?

High-Level Changes to CS Fundamentals in 2024


This section explains the high-level changes for the CS Fundamentals 2024 - 2025 curriculum.
Course Summary Of Changes

Course A ● Presentation slides now available for all lessons

● Presentation slides now available for all lessons


Course B ● Updated unplugged lesson

Course C ● New lesson on recognizing patterns in data

● Relay programming unplugged lesson removed


Course D ● New unplugged lesson that teaches about hardware and software added
● New music lab tutorial lesson added

● New game design lessons added!


Course E ● Nested loops lessons removed

Course F ● No significant changes made

Express ● New music lab tutorial lesson added

You can find a detailed list of every change to Courses A-F on the following pages.

Slide Decks in Fresh New Lessons


Courses A-B An introductory tutorial to Code.org’s
brand new Music Lab was added to
All lessons in Course A & Course B
now have accompanying slide decks Course D & E.
(to add to the slides previously
included in Courses C-F). The slide Five new lessons on using variables as
decks are available in the Links score in game design and analyzing
section of each lesson plan. data from user testing were added to
Course E. These lessons replaced the
nesting loops lessons.

Improved alignment to New blocks in Sprite Lab


CSTA standards New “make sprites with grid” block,
Standards were added and removed new “show variable” and “hide
based on the relevancy of each variable” blocks added. Sprite type
lesson. In some lessons, the vocab, blocks (for game design projects) set
warm up, and teaching tips were player and environment sprites.
adjusted to better align with
standards. Extra teacher and student
support on giving proper credit when
sharing and decomposing problems.
What’s new with CS Fundamentals in 2024?

Detailed Changes to CS Fundamentals for 2024-2025


This section details changes made to CS Fundamentals between 23-24 and 24-25. For each course, there is a
listing of new lessons and updates. Links to the relevant lesson plans on Code.org are included. Significant
changes to lessons are marked in bold.

Course B
‘23-24 Lesson ‘24-25 (Recommended) Lesson Summary Of Changes

Lesson 10 The Right App Lesson 10 The Right App This unplugged lesson was redesigned
with more relevant real-world examples
and activity stations to increase
engagement.

Course C
‘23-24 Lesson ‘24-25 (Recommended) Lesson Summary Of Changes

Lesson 15 Pattern Block Data In this unplugged lesson, students will


practice storing, searching, retrieving,
modifying, and deleting the pattern
blocks to simulate what computers do
with data.

Course D
‘23-24 Lesson ‘24-25 (Recommended) Lesson Summary Of Changes

Lesson 4: Relay Programming Lesson removed to make room for the


following two new lessons.

Lesson 5: Hardware & Software Skits New unplugged lesson added to meet
CSTA standard 1B-CS-01.

Lesson 9 Music Lab Tutorial New introductory tutorial to the brand


new Music Lab was added to enhance
the Events concept.

Course E
What’s new with CS Fundamentals in 2024?

‘23-24 Lesson ‘24-25 (Recommended) Lesson Summary Of Changes

Three Nested Loops lessons removed: Responding to years of feedback that


- Lesson 6: Drawing with Loops the 3 lessons within the Nested Loops
- Lesson 7: Fancy Shapes using content group were excessively
Nested Loops challenging for the intended audience
- Lesson 8: Mini-Project Design a of Course E, we have removed them
Snowflake from this course.

- Five new Game Design lessons New lessons on the highly requested
added: topic of game design. Concepts
- Lesson 6: Game Design covered include variables, game
- Lesson 7: Variables as score mechanics, new grid block, new sprite
- Lesson 8: Environment & type block as well as user feedback
Player and data-driven improvements.
- Lesson 9: Game Jam Create
- Lesson 10: Game Jam Play

Lesson 12 Music Lab Tutorial New introductory tutorial to the brand


new Music Lab was added to enhance
the Functions concept.

CSF Express
The order of the Digital Citizenship and Sprites concept chunks were swapped. Three new lessons were added to the
Variables concept chunk, replacing old lessons. The For Loops concept chunk was removed.

‘23-24 Lesson ‘24-25 (Recommended) Lesson Summary Of Changes

Lesson 10 Music Lab Tutorial New introductory tutorial to the brand


new Music Lab was added to enhance
the Events concept.

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