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💻 5th Grade · Computer Science1B-IC-19Unit 4: How the internet works

Searching smart

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🎯 Objective: Students search effectively and check sources.

Lesson outline

  1. Search challenge.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: one tip.

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

1B-IC-19

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

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

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More lessons in “How the internet works”

  1. Packets
  2. Searching smart

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