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💻 2nd Grade · Computer Science1A-IC-16Unit 5: Computers in our lives

Jobs that use computers

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🎯 Objective: Students describe jobs that use computers.

Lesson outline

  1. Guest or video.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Draw.
  4. Exit: one job.

Lesson 2 of 2 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

1A-IC-16

CSTA K–12 Computer Science Standards (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe how people use computing technology

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Coding🎹 Touch typing course⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Computers in our lives”

  1. Technology then and now
  2. Jobs that use computers

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