Indiana Computer Science: 5th Grade
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 28
- Grade 5th
This course is designed to provide computer science instruction for Indiana 5th Grade students, and it is aligned to Indiana 3-5 Computer Science Standards.
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UNITS - 9 (28 lessons)
Students review core skills by navigating the CodeHop Playground, revisiting key computer science vocabulary, and exploring coordinate-based animation.
Students review the parts of a computing system and learn to recognize cyberbullying and other harmful online behaviors and how to respond.
Students use events to control program behavior and practice debugging by breaking a program down into steps.
Students use loops to create artistic turtle-graphics patterns and build multi-scene animations.
Students use conditionals to guide decision-making, plan and decompose interactive projects, and apply operators to create randomized outcomes.
Students use variables, lists, and comparison operators to build dynamic games and simulations, including an introduction to classes and objects.
Students use clones to build reusable game elements and create functions with inputs to organize and personalize their code.
Students apply their programming skills to design an original game and use the design thinking process to build an app that solves a real-world problem.
Students visualize data, learn how network protocols and machine learning work, practice giving proper attribution, and explore basic cryptography.
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The course builds on foundational programming through a block-based language, guiding students through sequences, loops, conditionals, variables, lists, clones, and functions. Students design original games and apps while building digital literacy skills like data visualization, networking, and cryptography.
The course is aligned to the Indiana 3-5 Computer Science Standards. Each lesson lists the specific standards it addresses, and full standards coverage is achieved across the course as a whole.
No. The course has no prerequisites and is designed to support all 5th grade learners regardless of prior computer science experience.
The course includes 36 lessons of about 45 minutes each, providing a full year of instruction when taught once per week. Each lesson follows a consistent Introduction, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, Extension, and Reflection structure, and works well in either a teacher-led classroom or a self-paced setting.
Yes. The Digital Literacy unit introduces how machines learn through decision trees, how network protocols move data, and basic cryptography through an interactive cipher-solving activity, alongside lessons on giving proper attribution online.
