7th 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 solve problems.

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

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 and physical communities.

Digital Identity: The responsibilities and opportunities that come with living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.

Model how data is sent from one computer to another across networks.

Compare and contrast hardware and/or software options to complete a task.

Continued growth.

Organize, store, and retrieve digital information with minimal guidance.

Describe threats to technology systems. (CYSEC)

Explain how security measures protect technology systems. (CYSEC) 

Continued growth.

Modify and test an algorithm to solve a problem.

Continued growth.

Represent data, in more than one way, to defend your claim.

Modify programs that utilize combinations of loops, conditionals, and the manipulation of variables representing different data types.

Continued growth.

Independently, evaluate information and its sources using student selected processes and strategies.

Continued growth.

With minimal guidance, properly use copyrighted works, works in the creative commons, and works in the public domain.

Continued growth.

Identify strategies to avoid personal works and the works of others from being pirated and plagiarized. (CYSEC)

Compare and contrast the impacts of technology, including bias and accessibility. 

Use collaborative technology to gather and share information.

Continued growth. 

Continued growth.

Identify a variety of methods to maintain digital privacy and security. (CYSEC)

Continued growth.

Describe how to respond to threats to personal cybersecurity. (CYSEC)

Describe different forms of cyberbullying and the effects on all parties involved.

Identify strategies to prevent and stop cyberbullying. 

Continued growth.

Understand the purpose of and comply with Acceptable Use Policies.

Evaluate how digital identity can impact a person now and in the future.