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💻 7th Grade · Computer Science2-NI-04Unit 1: Computing systems & networks

Networks and the internet

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🎯 Objective: Students model how data travels across networks.

Lesson outline

  1. Simulation.
  2. Diagram.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: one protocol.

Lesson 2 of 3 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

2-NI-04

CSTA K–12 Computer Science Standards (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe hardware, software and networks
  • Explain cybersecurity basics

✅ 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 “Computing systems & networks”

  1. Hardware and software
  2. Networks and the internet
  3. Cybersecurity

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