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Computational Thinking Curriculum Scope and Sequence

Learning.com's K-8 computational thinking curriculum enhances students' problem-solving skills through interactive content, collaborative activities, and hands-on projects. It integrates computer science with digital literacy, fostering a growth mindset and metacognition while preparing students for 21st-century challenges. The curriculum includes lessons, application exercises, skills checks, quizzes, and discussions to support student learning and assessment.

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Computational Thinking Curriculum Scope and Sequence

Learning.com's K-8 computational thinking curriculum enhances students' problem-solving skills through interactive content, collaborative activities, and hands-on projects. It integrates computer science with digital literacy, fostering a growth mindset and metacognition while preparing students for 21st-century challenges. The curriculum includes lessons, application exercises, skills checks, quizzes, and discussions to support student learning and assessment.

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SCOPE & SEQUENCE – K-8

Computational Thinking

Learning.com’s K-8 computational thinking In addition, the track also cultivates


curriculum develops students’ problem-solving metacognition, so students reflect on and
skills through scaffolded instructional content. understand their thinking and learning
The curriculum familiarizes students with process. This focus helps students build a
computational thinking concepts by guiding growth mindset and practice grit and
them through interactive learning sequences, perseverance in the face of complex data,
collaborative activities, and hands-on projects. open-ended questions, and ambiguous
problems. Students, therefore, become agents
The computational thinking sequence blends of their own learning.
computer science with our digital literacy
curriculum so students become adept 21st-
century problems solvers with career-ready
digital skills and conceptual knowledge that
are transferable to any context.

Learning.com’s instructional
content includes:

Lessons: Self-paced, digital videos with an


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interactive interface

AE Application Exercises: Hands-on and


collaborative learning opportunities with
unplugged options

Skills Checks: Pre and post grade-level


tests designed to capture student growth

Quizzes: Formative check-ins to inform


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instructional decisions

Discussions: Guided conversations to help


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students practice communication and
articulate their understanding

ABOUT LEARNING.COM
Learning.com’s digital literacy curriculum enables schools to develop students’
technology skills throughout core instruction.
[email protected] • 800.580.4640 • learning.com
K-2 3-5 6-8

Skills Pre-Check Estimated Time: 15 Minutes

UNIT 1

Computational Thinking: Patterns


Big Idea: Patterns enable us to make predictions about
occurrences and synthesize sequences.

Skills
Analyze sequences to identify whether a pattern is present.
Apply a pattern’s rule to predict the next step or find what is
missing.
Practice pattern recognition by designing pattern sequences.

UNIT 2

Computational Thinking: Directions


Big Idea: By building a set of directions (aka algorithms), we
decompose the process for performing a task, creating a result,
or solving a problem.

Skills
Model daily processes by creating and following algorithms.
Decompose the steps needed to solve a problem into a
precise sequence of instructions.
Debug errors in an algorithm by ensuring the steps are listed
and in the correct order.
Describe steps taken and choices made during the iterative
process of creating algorithms.
Analyze information, or data, in order to organize that
information into useful and accurate directions.

Bonus Resource
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and applying direction sequences.

Skills Post-Check Estimated Time: 15 Minutes

ABOUT LEARNING.COM
Learning.com’s digital literacy curriculum enables schools to develop students’
technology skills throughout core instruction.
[email protected] • 800.580.4640 • learning.com
K-2 3-5 6-8

Skills Pre-Check Estimated Time: 15 Minutes

UNIT 1

Computational Thinking: Algorithms


Big Idea: Algorithms represent tasks and procedures that are
repeated, which enables these processes to be automated
digitally or replicated by humans.

Skills
Analyze a situation by looking at an output in order to develop
a problem statement.
Develop algorithms with multiple branches, representing
decisions that impact the overall output.
Test and debug an algorithm to ensure it runs as intended.
Apply algorithms to automate tasks.
Analyze algorithms for the same task to determine which is
the most appropriate.

UNIT 2

Computational Thinking: Modelling


Big Idea: Models help to visualize abstract concepts and
represent decomposed facets of larger problems.

Skills
Decompose open-ended questions into smaller problems, like
inputs and outputs.
Practice creating a binary model.
Build data models to represent similar data sets.
Analyze variable and design simulations.
Assess prototypes and alter variables.

Bonus Resource
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data models and assessing prototypes.

Skills Post-Check Estimated Time: 15 Minutes

ABOUT LEARNING.COM
Learning.com’s digital literacy curriculum enables schools to develop students’
technology skills throughout core instruction.
[email protected] • 800.580.4640 • learning.com
K-2 3-5 6-8

Skills Pre-Check Estimated Time: 15 Minutes

UNIT 1

Computational Thinking: Algorithmic


Problem Solving
Big Idea: Having a systematic problem-solving process helps us
to work with open-ended and ambiguous questions.

Skills
Decompose problems and subproblems to facilitate the
problem-solving process.
Define inputs and outputs in open-ended questions.
Use flowcharts to address complex problems as algorithms.
Create clearly named variables that represent different data
types, and perform operations on their values.
Design algorithms for a variety of tasks.

UNIT 2

Computational Thinking: Models and


Simulations
Big Idea: Processes are made more efficient, effective, and
optimized through careful analysis.

Skills
Analyze flowcharts, including different process structures.
Formulate data to optimize pattern recognition.
Create hierarchies to represent the connections between the
sub-problems.
Document algorithms in order to make them easier to follow,
test, and debug.

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ABOUT LEARNING.COM
Learning.com’s digital literacy curriculum enables schools to develop students’
technology skills throughout core instruction.
[email protected] • 800.580.4640 • learning.com
K-2 3-5 6-8 Continued

UNIT 3

Computational Thinking: Implement and Test


Big Idea: Often there are many right answers; our job is to seek
the best.

Skills
Refine computational models based on the data they have
generated.
Systematically test and refine programs using a range of test
cases.
Develop functions to distill the algorithmic process.
Analyze and compare different algorithms to find the least
complicated process.
Simplify algorithms in order to improve efficiency and/or
make the process easier for a user to follow.

Bonus Resource
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algorithmic thinking and test their designs.

Skills Post-Check Estimated Time: 15 Minutes

ABOUT LEARNING.COM
Learning.com’s digital literacy curriculum enables schools to develop students’
technology skills throughout core instruction.
[email protected] • 800.580.4640 • learning.com

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