Designed to be fun and engaging, Computer Science Fundamentals courses blend online activities for students to learn computational thinking, problem solving, programming concepts and digital citizenship.

• Audience: Elementary students, Ages 8-11
• Curriculum length: 8 Sessions - 1 hour/session
• Prior Knowledge - Completion of Level 1 coding
• Drag and Drop programming

Learning Elements:

• Use functions to simplify complex programs.
• Use predetermined functions to complete commonly repeated tasks.
• Recognize when a function could help to simplify a program.
• Categorize and generalize code into useful functions.
•  Students will learn how variables can be used to make code easier to write and easier to read, even when the values don't change at runtime
• Assign values to existing variables.
• Utilize variables in place of repetitive values inside of a program.
• Identify areas where they can use variables to modify quantities during runtime. 
• Examine code to find places where variables can be substituted for specific values.
• Utilize variables in place of repetitive values inside of a program.
• Use variables to change values inside of a loop.
• Learn how to use loops that have extra structures built right in. These new structures will allow students to create code that is more powerful and dynamic.