Background

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. While these were motivated by a review of resources related to K-5 computing education, many of them are designed/intended to be used by teachers and students across grades K-12. This is really a draft and I welcome additions, clarifications, and any other improvements that anyone suggests to this; reach out to me on Twitter (@jrosenberg6432) or by email (jmrosenberg AT utk dot edu).

Curricula

• Exploring CS: http://www.exploringcs.org/
• Creative Computing: http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/guide/curriculum.html
• Code.org’s CS Fundamentals: https://code.org/educate/curriculum/elementary-school
• TechTales workshops: https://techtales.online/
• Computer Science in San Francisco: https://sites.google.com/sfusd.edu/k-2cs/

Single Activities:

• Girls Who Code: https://girlswhocode.com/programs/code-at-home
• Scratch https://scratch.mit.edu/
• Data Science Games: https://learn.concord.org/dynamic-data-science
• CS First (also a curriculum): https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/c/cs-first/en/curriculum.html
• CS Unplugged: https://csunplugged.org/en/resources/
• Action Fractions: https://www.canonlab.org/actionfractionslessons
• Frog Pond: https://tidal.northwestern.edu/frogpond/ (agent-based)
  
• Code.org’s Hour of Code: https://code.org/hourofcode/overview
  
• NetLogo Web: https://www.netlogoweb.org
  

Introductory readings

• CT Leadership toolkit (Section B, p. 7-9): https://id.iste.org/docs/ct-documents/ct-leadershipt-toolkit.pdf?sfvrsn=4
• K-12 Educational Technology Handbook (chapter on computational thinking): https://edtechbooks.org/k12handbook/computational_thinking
• K-12 Educational Technology Handbook (chapter on coding): https://edtechbooks.org/k12handbook/coding_in_k-12
• ISTE CT teacher resources: https://id.iste.org/docs/ct-documents/ct-teacher-resources_2ed-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=2%5C
• CS Field Guide: https://csfieldguide.org.nz/en/

Other

• Reflective prompts for teachers: https://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/ct/files/Teacher_Reflection_Tool.pdf
• CT4Edu toolkit (for teachers): http://ct4edu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CT-Toolkit.pdf