Connections and Background Information

ISTE Standards (formerly NETS)

• 1.a - Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
• 1.c - Use models and simulation to explore complex systems and issues.
• 2.b - Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
• 2.d - Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.
• 4.b - Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.
• 6.a - Understand and use technology systems.

CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards

• CT.L1:3-03. Understand how to arrange information into useful order without using a computer.
• CT.L1:6-01. Understand and use the basic steps in algorithmic problem-solving.
• CT.L1:6-02. Develop a simple understanding of an algorithm using computer-free exercise.
• CT.L1:6-05. Make a list of sub-problems to consider while addressing a larger problem.
• CPP.L1:3-04. Construct a set of statements to be acted out to accomplish a simple task.
• CPP.L1:6-05. Construct a program as a set of step-by-step instructions to be acted out (e.g., make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich activity).
• CT.L2-03. Define an algorithm as a sequence of instructions that can be processed by a computer.
• CT.L2-06. Describe and analyze a sequence of instructions being followed.

NGSS Science and Engineering Practices

• K-2-PS3-2. Use tools and materials provided to design and build a device that solves a specific problem or a solution to a specific problem.
  • 3-5-ETS1-2 - Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Common Core Mathematical Practices

• 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
• 6. Attend to precision.
• 7. Look for and make use of structure.
• 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Common Core Math Standards

• 1.G.1 - Distinguish between defining attributes versus non-defining attributes; build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes.
• 2.G.3 - Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths.

Common Core Language Arts

• SL.1.1 - Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
• SL.1.2 - Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
• L.1.6 - Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships.
• SL.2.1 - Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
• SL.2.2 - Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
• L.2.6 - Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe.
• SL.3.1 - Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• SL.3.3 - Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
• L.3.6 - Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.