Computer Science Principles-Scope and Sequence-Unit 1-9

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Unit:

1

Lesson

Title/Focus:

Creating Computational Artifacts

4

 Student will understand and use software tools by combining and modifying existing artifacts or by creating new artifacts.

 The teacher will provide

explanation and demonstration of these skills and transfer them to the students.

IT-CSP-2

Create digital artifacts that foster creative expression including

programs, digital music, videos, images,

documents, and combinations of these such as infographics, presentations, and web pages.

Writing:L11-12WHST4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Literacy:L11-12RST7: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of

information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

Text Complexity:

Text Type: article, novel, blog, textbook, other

Lexile Range: 925L–1185L

EOPA Standards: https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-

Instruction-and-Assessment/CTAE/Pages/CTAE-Georgia-Assessments.aspx

SLO Standards: TBD Learning

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Unit/Lesson

Title

Duration

(Weeks)

Direct Explanation

GPS

Standard(s)

CCGPS Standard(s)

Unit:

2

Lesson

Title/Focus:

Creating programs and digital data

4

 Students will understand how models and simulations use abstraction to raise and answer

questions.

explanation and demonstration of these skills and transfer them to the students.

IT-CSP-3

Apply abstractions in digital data to explain how bits are grouped to represent higher-level abstractions such as numbers and characters.

Text Complexity:

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Unit:

3

Lesson

Title/Focus:

Employability Skills

2

learned to the real world application process, including formatting a resume, cover letter,

completing an online job application and participating in an mock interview

 The teacher will provide explanation and demonstration of these skills and transfer them to the students

IT-CSP-1

Demonstrate employability skills required by business and industry.

Text Complexity:

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Unit/Lesson

Title

Duration

(Weeks)

Direct Explanation

GPS

Standard(s)

CCGPS Standard(s)

Unit

4

Lesson

Title/Focus:

Data and Information

2

 Students will be able to use computers to process information, find patterns, test hypotheses and gain insight and

knowledge

IT-CSP-4

Design and create computer programs to process and extract information to gain

insight and knowledge.

Text Complexity:

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Unit:

5

Lesson

Title/Focus:

Large Data Sets

2

to extract

information from data to discover and explain connections, pattern, and trends.

IT-CSP-4

Design and create computer

programs to process and extract information to gain insight and

knowledge

Text Complexity:

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Title

(Weeks)

Standard(s)

Unit:

6

Lesson

Title/Focus:

Algorithms

3

 Students will be able to develop an algorithm designed to be implemented to run on a

computer.

explanation and demonstration of these skills and transfer them to the students

IT-CSP-5

Develop, express, implement, and analyze algorithms analytically and empirically.

Text Complexity:

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Unit:

7

Lesson

Title/Focus:

Programming

5

to solve a problem using

programming.

human intention into computational artifacts including music, images, visualizations, and more while

exploring the concepts, techniques and development used in writing

programs.

Text Complexity:

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Unit/Lesson

Title

Duration

(Weeks)

Direct Explanation

GPS

Standard(s)

CCGPS Standard(s)

Unit:

8

Lesson

Title/Focus:

Internet

1

 Students will be able to analyze how characteristics of the Internet and the systems built on it influence use.

IT-CSP-7

Gain insight into the operation of the Internet, study characteristics of the Internet and systems built upon it, and analyze important

concerns, such as cyber-security.

Text Complexity:

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Unit:

9

Lesson

Title/Focus:

Global Impact in Computing

2

how computing affects

communication, interaction, and cognition.

enables innovation and our methods for

communicating, collaborating, problem solving, and doing

business, and analyze the potential benefits and harmful effects of

computing in a the way people think, work, live, and play.