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💻 Kindergarten · Computer Science1A-DA-05Unit 3: Patterns & data

Secret codes

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🎯 Objective: Students encode and decode messages with symbols.

Lesson outline

  1. Picture codes.
  2. Write a message.
  3. Swap and decode.
  4. Exit: decode a word.

Lesson 3 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

1A-DA-05

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Recognize patterns
  • Collect and display simple data

✅ 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

🕵️ Secret code maker🦫 Encyclopedia: Coding🎹 Touch typing course⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Patterns & data”

  1. Patterns in code
  2. Collecting data
  3. Secret codes

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