Grade 5: Exploring Science through Coding

Learning Outcomes:

Students create heading tags with a focus on Earth and how its place in the universe affects shadows, seasons, and more!

Topics covered:

Heading Tags

Heading Hierarchy

Apparent brightness of the sun and stars

Patterns in shadows, seasons, day and night

Standard alignment:

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

Learning Outcomes:

Students explore changing the text color on their webpage as they simultaneously learn about producers, consumers, and decomposers.

Topics covered:

Attributes

Adding text color to tags

Producers, consumers, and decomposers

Standard alignment:

1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15, NGSS 5-LS2-1, NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2

Learning Outcomes:

Students learn how to write paragraph tags centered around living organisms working together to keep the ecosytem running.

Topics covered:

Paragraph tags

How producers, consumers, and decomposers work together in the ecoystem

Standard alignment:

1B-AP-08, 1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15, NGSS 5-LS2-1, NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2

Learning Outcomes:

Students add style to their webpage using fonts and will practice this skill through studying gravity and its examples we see around us.

Topics covered:

Font-families

Font size

Multiply styles in a single tag

Gravity

Standard alignment:

1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15, NGSS 5-PS2-1, NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2

Learning Outcomes:

Students practice adding images to their website through these activities discussing states of matter and atoms.

Topics covered:

Finding images and copyright

Linking images and creating image tags

Changing Image Size

States of Matter

Atoms

Standard alignment:

1B-AP-09, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-14, 1B-AP-15, 1B-IC-21, NGSS 5-PS1-1, NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2

Learning Outcomes:

Students design a website using the HTML skills they have learned in this course to describe ways some communities are protecting the Earth.

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 5-ESS3-1 , NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2