Within the Teacher Guide, each segment concludes with a Check for Understanding, providing the teacher with a quick opportunity for formative assessment. At the end of this unit Introduction, you will find a blank Pacing Guide, which you may use to plan how you might pace the lessons. We strongly recommend that you preview the unit in full before beginning instruction. This will help you prepare your pacing guide before teaching the first lesson.

The unit Helpful Computers provides students the opportunity to explore concepts that include the following:

• How can we use computers for work and play?
• How do we make a user account?
• How do we protect user accounts?
• What is a user profile?
• Why is keeping personal information so important?
• What is a password and what makes a password strong?
• What is a menu and how do we select what we want from a menu?
• How do we save work and then reopen it?
• What kinds of tools can be used for creating drawings?

CKSci is informed by the NGSS, which encourages student learning through hands-on activities and collecting data. This activity-centered approach requires, at times, that schools collect or purchase materials and equipment that will be needed to complete activities.

Complete materials supply list for CKSci Unit 6: Helpful Computers