This post includes some K-5 computing education (or computer science education or computational thinking- or coding-focused) resources.

I’ll use the term computing education in this post to refer to these terms, recognizing that there are distinctions between them that matter a great deal for many purposes.

This list is just a starting point and it is not exhaustive; there are likely better compendia; and, this is a new(ish) area for me.

I welcome additions, clarifications, and any other improvements that anyone suggests to this; reach out to me on Twitter ([@jrosenberg6432](https://twitter.com/jrosenberg6432)) or by email (jmrosenberg AT utk dot edu).

Resources for activities:

Scratch https://scratch.mit.edu/
Google’s CS First Curricula: https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/c/cs-first/en/curriculum.html
Frog Pond: https://tidal.northwestern.edu/frogpond/ (agent-based)
Code.org’s Hour of Code: https://code.org/hourofcode/overview
CS Unplugged resources: https://csunplugged.org/en/resources/

possible readings:

https://edtechbooks.org/k12handbook/computational_thinking
https://edtechbooks.org/k12handbook/coding_in_k-12
definition of CT: http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/ct/defining.html
section b (p. 7-9): https://id.iste.org/docs/ct-documents/ct-leadershipt-toolkit.pdf?sfvrsn=4
ISTE CT resources: https://id.iste.org/docs/ct-documents/ct-teacher-resources_2ed-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=2%5C

possible curricula:

CS Fundamentals: https://code.org/educate/curriculum/elementary-school
http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/guide/curriculum.html
http://www.exploringcs.org/
tech tales: https://techtales.online/
CS in SF: https://sites.google.com/sfusd.edu/k-2cs/
Action Fractions lessons: https://www.canonlab.org/actionfractionslessons

other:

reflections on carrying out a PD activity: https://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/ct/files/Teacher_Reflection_Tool.pdf
CT toolkit: http://ct4edu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CT-Toolkit.pdf
Other resources: http://ct4edu.org/resources/

Some K-5 computing education resources

Joshua Rosenberg

2020-07-08

Resources for activities: