1st Grade

Networks & Internet: Networks link computers and devices locally and around the world allowing people to access and communicate information.

Hardware & Software: Devices, hardware, and software work together as a system to accomplish tasks.

Troubleshooting: Strategies for solving technology system problems.

Problem Solving & Algorithms: Strategies for understanding and solving problems.

Data Creation & Analysis: Data can be collected, used, and presented with computing devices or digital tools.

Development & Design: Design processes to create new, useful, and imaginative solutions to problems.

Access: Effective search strategies can locate information for intellectual or creative pursuits.

Evaluate: Information sources can be evaluated for accuracy, currency, appropriateness, and purpose.

Create: It is important to both consume and produce information to be digitally literate.

Intellectual Property: Respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

Impacts of Computing: Past, present, and possible future impact of technology on society.

Social Interactions: Technology facilitates collaboration with others.

Safety & Ethics: There are both positive and negative impacts in social and ethical behaviors for using technology.

Responsible Use: Respect and dignity in virtual communities.

Digital Identity: Responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.

Recognize that connecting computing devices allows information sharing.

Use appropriate terminology to identify common computing devices and components.

With guidance, use a computing device to perform a variety of tasks.

Recognize users have different technology needs.

Understand technology systems might not work as expected and with guidance, use appropriate terminology to describe a problem.

Solve a problem through trial and error using given materials/resources. 

Follow a set of instructions (algorithms) in order to complete a task.

Define debug.

Identify and practice debugging strategies including 'Go back to when it worked’.

With guidance, identify and interpret data from a chart or graph in order to make a prediction with or without a computing device. 

With guidance, create programs to accomplish tasks that includes sequencing or looping.

Use a keyword search with a teacher-selected online resource.

With guidance, evaluate information for research purposes.

Independently or with guidance, create a digital product.

Understand that creative works have owners.

With guidance, give credit to the creator of a creative work.

Identify how technologies are used in and out of school.

With guidance, use technology to share thinking with peers. 

Identify how to use technology in safe and correct ways. (CYSEC) 

Understand the differences between a username and authentication methods and independently use them to access technology. (CYSEC)

Identify positive and negative behaviors when using electronic communication. (CYSEC)

Discuss reporting inappropriate electronic content. (CYSEC)

Comply with Acceptable Use Policies.

Recognize that you have a digital identity.