Grade 4: Exploring Science through Coding

Learning Outcomes:

Students practice HTML Basics as they study plant and animal structures.

Topics covered:

What HTML is

HTML Tags

External structures of living organisms

Internal structures of living organisms

Standard alignment:

1B-AP-08, 1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15, NGSS 4-LS1-1, NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2

Learning Outcomes:

Students learn more about headings as they explore rock formations.

Topics covered:

Heading Tags

Heading tag hierarchy

Weathering and Erosion

Fossils

Standard alignment:

1B-AP-08, 1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15, NGSS 4-ESS1-1, NGSS 4-ESS2-1, NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2

Learning Outcomes:

Students discover how to change the color of their webpage text while simultaneously learning about wave amplitude and wavelength.

Topics covered:

Attributes

Adding text color

Amplitude and wavelength

Earthquakes are examples of waves

Standard alignment:

1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15, NGSS 4-PS4-1, NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2

Learning Outcomes:

Students learn how to add paragraphs to their webpage with a focus on natural resources.

Topics covered:

Paragraph tags

How Natural Resources are Used

The impacts of natural resources

Renewable Resources

Standard alignment:

1B-AP-08, 1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15, NGSS 4-ESS3-1, NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2

Learning Outcomes:

Students add images to a webpage and focus their searches on Earth's processes as they learn how to reduce these processes' impact on humans.

Topics covered:

Finding images and copyright

Linking Images and Image Tags

Change the Image Size

Earthquakes

Volcanoes

Standard alignment:

1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-14, 1B-AP-15, 1B-IC-21, NGSS 4-ESS3-2, NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2

Learning Outcomes:

Students create a website about an animal, its structures, and its behaviors using what they have learned in HTML.

Topics covered:

Application of learned skills

Standard alignment:

1B-AP-08, 1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-14, 1B-AP-15, 1B-IC-21, NGSS 4-LS1-1, NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2