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Getting students excited and connecting their own personal interests to computer science. Students are asked to share something they know a lot about and teach it to a small group. Groups make a “rapid” prototype of an innovative idea and share it. Students watch a brief video about computing innovations.

One hour class lesson plan

• Facilitator Guide
• Activity Guide
• Pre and Post Assessments
• Pre and Post Assessments - Answer Keys
• Career Video - Computer Science is Changing Everything

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning) 

Students develop a preliminary definition of a computer. To begin the lesson, the class will brainstorm possible definitions for a computer and place the results of this brainstorm on the board. Next, students will work in groups to sort pictures into “is a computer” or “is not a computer” on poster paper. Groups will place their posters around the room and briefly explain their motivations for choosing some of their most difficult categorizations.

One hour class lesson plan

• Facilitator Guide
• Activity Guide
• Computer Diagram
• Exemplar
• Pre and Post Assessments
• Pre and Post Assessments - Answer Keys
• Career Video - What makes a Computer, a Computer?

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Students look at how data is collected and used by organizations to solve problems in the real world. Then students are presented two scenarios that could be solved using data and brainstorm the types of data they would want to solve them and how they could collect the data. Each problem is designed to reflect a real-world service that exists. After brainstorming, students watch a video about a real-world service and record notes about what data is collected by the real-world service and how it is used. 

One hour class lesson plan

• Facilitator Guide
• Activity Guide
• Pre and Post Assessments
• Pre and Post Assessments - Answer Keys
• Lesson Video - Why are so many users obsessed with Waze?
• Lesson Video - How Big Data is used in Amazon
• Career Video - Data and Medicine

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Learners of all ages get an introductory experience with coding and computer science and the potential careers these skills can lead to. Students have the opportunity to choose a number of Hour of Code lessons from Minecraft to Star Wars to Frozen. All lessons provide the opportunity for students to learn the basics of coding in a fun and engaging way.

One hour class lesson plan

• Facilitator Guide
• Access to online lesson at www.code.org/pwc
• Pre and Post Assessments
• Pre and Post Assessments - Answer Keys
• Lesson Video - What most schools don’t teach

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Students learn the basics of creating webpages using HTML and CSS coding languages through an online tutorial. HTML is the markup language that you surround content with, to tell browsers about headings, lists, tables, etc. CSS is the stylesheet language that you style the page with, to tell browsers to change the color, font, layout, and more. With this lesson, students are able to use these languages and see these changes come to life on sample webpages.

One hour class lesson plan

• Facilitator Guide
• Access to online lesson at www.code.org/pwc
• Pre and Post Assessments
• Pre and Post Assessments - Answer Keys
• Lesson Video - How to start coding now

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Students look an important phase of app design - prototyping a product that attempts to address user needs. In teams, students examine a paper prototype for a chat app called "Txt Ur Grndkdz". Through using this paper prototype, students get a chance to see how a simple paper prototype can be used to quickly test ideas and assumptions before we ever get to the computer. After "using" the provided prototype students begin to identify ways to improve the next iteration.

One hour class lesson plan

• Facilitator Guide
• Activity Guide - User Interface Screens
• Activity Guide - User Testing (Computer)
• Activity Guide - User Testing (User)
• Pre and Post Assessments
• Pre and Post Assessment - Answer Keys
• Career Video - Careers in Tech: My Name is Brina

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

This tutorial is designed to quickly introduce the App Lab programming environment as a powerful tool for building and sharing apps. The tutorial teaches students to create and control buttons, text, images, sounds, and screens in JavaScript using either blocks or text. At the end of the tutorial students are given time to either extend a project they started building into a "Choose Your Own Adventure", "Greeting Card", or "Personality Quiz" app. They can also continue on to build more projects featured on the code.org/applab page.

One hour class lesson plan

• Facilitator Guide
• Access to online lesson at www.code.org/pwc
• Access to App Lab
• Pre and Post Assessments
• Pre and Post Assessments - Answer Keys
• Career Video - Data and Medicine

Short summary video (great for virtual learning) Please note a worksheet is not available for this lesson.

Students are introduced to the need for encryption and simple techniques for breaking (or cracking) secret messages. Students try their own hand at cracking a message encoded with the classic Caesar cipher and also a Random Substitution Cipher. The most important aspect of this lesson is to understand how and why encryption plays a role in all of our lives every day on the Internet, and that making good encryption is not trivial.

One hour class lesson plan

• Facilitator Guide
• Access to online lesson at www.code.org/pwc
• Pre and Post Assessments
• Pre and Post Assessments - Answer Keys
• Lesson Video - Internet: Encryption & Public Keys

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

This lesson will guide students through an abbreviated version of the design process they will be seeing throughout this unit. Students first brainstorm a list of potential users of smart clothing. As a class, they then group these ideas into broad categories and each group will choose one category of user. Groups repeat this process to brainstorm needs or concerns of their user, eventually categorizing these needs and choosing one to focus on. Finally, students design a piece of smart clothing, using the specific needs and concerns they brainstormed to guide their decision making. 

One hour class lesson plan

• Facilitator Guide
• Activity Guide
• Problem Solving with Empathy
• Pre and Post Assessments
• Pre and Post Assessments - Answer Keys
• Career Video - What Most Schools Don't Teach

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

One hour class lesson plan

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

One hour class lesson plan

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

One hour class lesson plan

Short summary video  and accompanying  worksheet (great for virtual learning)

One hour class lesson plan

Short summary video and accompanying  worksheet (great for virtual learning)

One hour class lesson plan

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

One hour class lesson plan

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

One hour class lesson plan

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

One hour class lesson plan

Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

These lessons are for students in elementary school.

Credit & Debt: Borrowing Basics

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Financial Responsibility & Decision Making: Possible Ways to Prevent Identity Theft

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video  and accompanying  worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Home Buying: Deciding Where to Live

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video  and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Income & Careers: Exploring Jobs: Past, Present, and Future

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Planning & Money Management: Sharing Your Resources

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Risk & Insurance: Dealing with Risk

• One hour class lesson plan
•  Short summary video and accompanying  worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Saving & Investing: Choosing to Save Money

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

These lessons are for middle school students.

Credit & Debit: Understanding Credit

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Financial Responsibility & Decision Making: Spotting Advertisements

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video  and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Home Buying: Buying a Home

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Income & Careers: Increasing Your Human Capital

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Paying for College: Understanding College Costs

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Planning & Money Management: Creating a Spending Plan

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Risk & Insurance: Deciding to Buy Insurance

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Saving & Investing: Beginning to Save

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Taxes: Paying for Government Services

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

These lessons are for high school students.

Financial Responsibility & Decision Making: Preventing Financial Fraud

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Income & Careers: Making Informed Career Decisions

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Saving & Investing: Planning for the Future

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Stock market: Buying Stocks

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Taxes: Paying Taxes

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Home Buying: Preparing to Buy a Home

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Paying for College: Paying for Further Education or Training

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Planning & Money Management: Developing a Personal Budget

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

Risk & Insurance: Shopping for Insurance

• One hour class lesson plan
• Short summary video and accompanying worksheet (great for virtual learning)

These lessons have been translated to Spanish and are for elementary school students

Credit & Debt: Conceptos básicos de los préstamos

Financial Responsibility & Decision Making: Formas posibles de evitar el robo de identidad

Home Buying: Decidir donde vivir

Income & Careers: Explorando empleos: Pasado, presente y futuro

Planning & Money Management: Compartir tus recursos

Risk & Insurance: Afrontar el riesgo

Saving & Investing: Elegir ahorrar dinero

These lessons have been translated to Spanish and are for middle school students.

Credit & Debt: Entender el crédito

Financial Responsibility & Decision Making: Analizar publicidades

Home Buying: Comprar una casa

Income & Careers: Potenciando tu capital humano

Paying for College: Entender los costos universitarios

Saving & Investing: Crear un plan de gastos

Risk & Insurance: Decidirse a contratar un Seguro

Saving & Investing: Comenzar a ahorrar

These lessons have been translated to Spanish and are for high school students.

Taxes: Comprendiendo los Informes de Crédito y Gestión de la Deuda

Financial Responsibility & Decision Making: Evitando el fraude financiero

Home Buying: Preparándose para comprar una casa

Income & Careers: Elegir una profesión de forma inteligente

Paying for College: Pagar por Educación superior o capacitación

Planning & Money Management: Elaborar un presupuesto personal

Risk & Insurance: Comprar un Seguro

Saving & Investing: Planificando el future

Stock market: Comprar acciones