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💻 5th Grade · Computer Science1B-NI-04Unit 4: How the internet works

Packets

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🎯 Objective: Students model how messages travel as packets.

Lesson outline

  1. Packet relay game.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Draw.
  4. Exit: what is a packet?

Lesson 1 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

1B-NI-04

CSTA K–12 Computer Science Standards (grade band 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Model how information travels in packets

✅ 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

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