Kindergarten

COMPUTING SYSTEMS 

NETWORKS AND THE INTERNET

DATA AND ANALYSIS

ALGORITHMIC THINKING AND PROGRAMMING

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

IMPACTS OF COMPUTING

Devices

Hardware and Software

Troubleshooting

Networking

Cybersecurity

Internet of Things (IoT)

Data Collection and Storage

Visualization and Communication

Inference and Modeling

Algorithms

Variables and Data Representation

Control Structures

Program Development

Perception

Representation & Reasoning

Machine Learning

Natural Interactions

Societal Impact s

Culture

Social Interactions

Safety, Law and Ethics

With guidance, identify and label commonly used devices and their components, explaining their connection to different tasks, to perform a variety of tasks.

With guidance and support, identify and use hardware and software necessary for accomplishing a task.

With guidance and support, use problem-solving strategies to troubleshoot a problem.

With guidance and support, create a list of ways information can be shared electronically to gain a deeper understanding of how information is transmitted (e.g., email, social media).

With guidance and support, identify and use secure practices (e.g., passwords) to protect private information. 

With guidance and support, identify what smart devices are to recognize what devices are able to connect to the internet.

With guidance and support, recognize how devices connect and exchange data over the internet to demonstrate how information is shared.

Identify data to collect and sort.

With guidance and support, demonstrate how data can be collected and stored in a variety of ways.

With guidance, organize and present data in various formats to make observations.

With guidance, create a model of an object or process to identify patterns.

With guidance and support, model a real-world process by constructing and following step-by-step directions (i.e., algorithms) to complete tasks.

Recognize that a group of items (e.g., numbers, symbols or pictures) can be used to represent data. 

With guidance and support, model a sequence of instructions (i.e., program) with a beginning, middle and end to solve a problem or express an idea.

With guidance and support, plan or create an artifact to illustrate thoughts, ideas and problems in a sequential (step-by-step) manner (e.g., story map, storyboard, sequential graphic organizer).

With guidance and support, locate sensors on computers, robots and intelligent appliances to understand that devices use sensors to gather information.

With guidance and support, access intelligent agents to demonstrate how they work.

With guidance and support, use a simple decision tree to make a decision to visually and explicitly represent decisions and decision-making.

With guidance and support , use a classifier that recognizes drawings to see if a program can guess what they are drawing.

With guidance and support , identify how computers can recognize different humans using some form of recognition software to see how computers interact with humans.

With guidance and support , locate AI applications used in daily life to understand how humans use AI.

Discuss if artificial intelligence is good or bad (see impacts of computing).

With guidance and support, identify technologies that impact one's own everyday life.

With guidance and support, recognize different ways computing devices are used regularly to understand technology's impact on one’s own daily life.

With guidance and support, identify and use safe and responsible behaviors concerning information and technology.

With guidance, discuss appropriate uses of technology to support informed decisions. 

With guidance and support, discuss examples of appropriate and inappropriate behavior online, including cyberbullying, and the steps to keep yourself and others safe and out of harm's way.