Coding as Another Language 1st Grade Curriculum
Activity • 24 lessons • 45 minutes
English
1st Grade (ages 6-7)
At School (Formal setting)
Literacy, Math, Science, Art, Music, Social/Emotional Learning
Activity
The Coding As Another Language for ScratchJr (CAL – ScratchJr) curriculum introduces powerful ideas from computer science, in conversation with literacy in a playful, structured, and developmentally appropriate way. The Coding as Another Language (CAL) approach, developed by Prof. Marina Umaschi Bers and members of her DevTech Research Group at Tufts University, understands the learning of computer science as a new literacy for the 21st century that supports young learners in developing new ways of thinking about themselves and the world.
The CAL curriculum for first grade has 24 lessons, designed for a total of 18 hours, but can be adapted to any learning setting. Students will learn computer science , develop problem solving and computational thinking in the context of creating their own projects. In addition, to strengthen the literacy connection, the curriculum is integrated with two books “Ada Lovelace: Poet of Science” and “Where the Wild Things Are.”