Computer Science: Grade 1, Semester 1

Computer Science: Grade 1, Semester 2

Computer Science: Grade 2, Semester 1
Computer Science: Grade 2, Semester 2
Computer Science: Grade 3, Semester 1

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Computer Science: Grade 1, Semester 1
Matter, Form and Function
Big Idea: Computer hardware and software are designed to enable specific technological applications.

CS.1.01 - students demonstrate an understanding of the importance of ICT in knowledge generation and
communication. (Week 01 - Week 01)

Essential Questions: Imagine what happens if a disrupted Internet and telecommunications networks in the
world?

Skills:
demonstrate Technological skills for managing knowledge, and apply Technology in daily life - inferred 10
questions about electronic picture information.
Concepts:
data – information – knowledge – Technological skills.

Evidence:
Students’ state how ICT will be used to complete their activities, and can digitally share their work and ideas
on the network.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: ICT is a powerful tool to help a dwelling meet many performance specifications and
optimize efficiency.
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt, Increase
efficient use of our land through improved use of arid areas, Reduce pollution fouling our air water and
grounds

CS.1.02 - Understand what an operating system is, and how to use one for file management, application
launching, and general management of hardware and software. (Week 02 - Week 02)

Essential Questions: Do you see that the operating system is an essential component of computer
technology? Why?
Skills:
create a folder – copy, move, delete and search for files and folders – save and compress files - find and
remove viruses.
Concepts:
operating system – application – programming language - file – folder –virus.

Evidence:
Exit ticket – preparing an activity for managing hardware and software.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply knowledge when documenting Capstone process in the online Capstone

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Portfolio
Grand Challenge Connections: Improve Sources of Clean Water

CS.1.03 - students understand the role of word-processing applications to create an advanced, rich
document. (Week 03 - Week 03)

Essential Questions: what is an electronic document?

Skills:
create, save, format, modify and print a document.
Concepts:
text document – paragraph - word processing application.
Evidence:
electronic formatted Exit ticket.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Word processing is an important component of curating a capstone portfolio
Grand Challenge Connections: Address the exponential population growth and prepare for the impact,
Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt

CS.1.04 - students use power point program for handling interrelated information and showing in an
interesting presentation. (Week 04 - Week 04)

Essential Questions: Which is the most important from your point of view to have a good presentation
(show impressive - care about the presenter- goal of the show)
Skills:
create a blank & template presentation, identify slide types, control slide view, save presentation with
different formats and display a presentation.
Concepts:
slide – presentation
Evidence:
preparing a presentation illustrates effect of technological advancement in getting information.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Curation is an important part of communicating your capstone results.
Grand Challenge Connections: Address the exponential population growth and prepare for the
impact,Improve the use of alternative energies to reduce our reliance on extracted fuel sources,Reduce
urban congestion and its impact,Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt,Work to
eradicate public health issues/disease,Improve Sources of Clean Water

CS.1.05 - students understand how to use spread sheet in the preparation of statistical tables and enhance
data processing using functions and formulas to fit more than one background knowledge to the user. (Week
05 - Week 05)

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Essential Questions: how could you collect, organize and analyze data to identify solutions for problems?
Skills:
input different types of data, represent data graphically, and apply some functions / formulas to analyze data.
Concepts:
spread sheet – worksheet – workbook – charts – function – formula.

Evidence:
preparing a worksheet to process data of class election and report a result.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply knowledge during Prototype test design, implementation and analysis; use to
capture and document information in the Capstone Portfolio; apply during the Capstone Exhibition process
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt, Increase
industrial base for Egypt
Applications: ST.3.02,

CS.1.06 - students demonstrate understanding of how to select and edit digital images that illustrate theme
or event. (Week 06 - Week 06)

Essential Questions: what are your experiences when dealing with pictures?
Skills:
search for picture files, use application to format, save pictures, convert 2d pictures to 3d and provide
alternative applications for processing pictures.
Concepts:
Multimedia
Evidence:
search for pictures with different extensions and compare between them (size – resolution – processing
programs)
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply knowledge and skills to Capstone process: during Prototype design, testing
and analysis; documenting in Capstone Portfolio and include in Capstone Exhibition
Grand Challenge Connections: Improve the use of alternative energies to reduce our reliance on extracted
fuel sources, Reduce pollution fouling our air water and grounds
Applications: DE.2.05, BI.3.06, CH.3.05,

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Computer Science: Grade 1, Semester 2
Energy Force and Power
Big Idea: Computer programs are designed according to different thnking designs based on language. The
development of programs requires design, analysis and testing.

CS.1.07 - Describe how to identify and use appropriate data types. (Week 01 - Week 01)

Essential Questions: How to identify and use appropriate data types?

Skills:
Imagine, design, make decisions
Concepts:
‣ Declare and use primitive data types
‣ Understand variables to store data
‣ Use constants to store permanent data
Evidence:
Differentiate between data types.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply knowledge and skills to Capstone process: during Prototype design, testing
and analysis; documenting in Capstone Portfolio and include in Capstone Exhibition
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt, Increase
industrial base for Egypt
Applications: PH.2.03, LI.2.08, LI.1.08,

CS.1.08 - Distinguish syntax errors, runtime errors, and logic errors and debug errors (Week 02 - Week 03)

Essential Questions: What is the difference between syntax errors, runtime errors, and logic errors and
debug errors?
Skills:
Thinking, Imagine, Design , analyzing , make decision, Problem-solving , Test, Self-evaluation.
Concepts:
‣ Understand syntax errors.
‣ Understand runtime errors.
‣ Understanding logic errors and debug errors
Evidence:
Detect syntax errors, runtime errors, and logic errors and debug errors
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt, Increase
industrial base for Egypt

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CS.1.09 - Describe different basic programming codes and languages. (Week 04 - Week 04)

Essential Questions: How can we write a program code?

Skills:
Thinking, communicate
Concepts:
‣ Understanding computer basics, programs, and operating systems
‣ Understanding difference between high level language and low level language.
‣ Understanding the terms of programming toolkit.
Evidence:
Write a program code in a correct way.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt, Increase
industrial base for Egypt

CS.1.10 - Develop programs to solve a variety of problems in math, and games. (Week 05 - Week 06)

Essential Questions: How can we benefit from programming language in solving problems in our daily life?
Skills:
Design, thinking, analyzing and problem-solving.
Concepts:
‣ Understand random number generation function
‣ Understand some mathematics function like Square root
‣ Combine conditions using logical operators (&&, ||, and !)
Evidence:
Create a program to solve a problem in math and develop games.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply knowledge and skills to Capstone process: during Prototype design, testing
and analysis; documenting in Capstone Portfolio and include in Capstone Exhibition
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt, Increase
industrial base for Egypt

CS.1.11 - Implement selection control using if statements (Week 07 - Week 09)

Essential Questions: What can we use in the Implement selection control?

Skills:
Thinking, Design , analyzing , Problem-solving , Test
Concepts:
‣ Declare boolean type and write Boolean expressions using comparison operators.
‣ Implement AdditionQuiz using Boolean expressions and one-way if statement
‣ Implement two-way if statement.
‣ Implement selection control using nested if statements

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Evidence:
Use If statement in its different cases.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply knowledge and skills to Capstone process: when researching previous
solutions, during Prototype design, testing and analysis; when documenting in Capstone Portfolio and
include in Capstone Exhibition
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt, Increase
industrial base for Egypt

CS.1.12 - Describe how to avoid common errors in if statements. (Week 010 - Week 010)

Essential Questions: How to avoid common errors in if statements.

Skills:
Design, thinking, analyzing and problem-solving.
Concepts:
‣ Program using selection statements for a variety of examples
‣ Forgetting Necessary Braces
‣ Redundant Testing of Boolean Values
‣ Dangling else Ambiguity
Evidence:
Implement programs to solve common errors in if statements.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply knowledge and skills to Capstone process: when researching previous
solutions; identifying design requirements; during Prototype design, testing and analysis; when documenting
in Capstone Portfolio and include in Capstone Exhibition
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt, Increase
industrial base for Egypt
Applications: CH.3.01,

CS.1.13 - Write programs for executing statements repeatedly using a do-while loop and for loop. (Week 011
- Week 012)

Essential Questions: How can you repeat statements in a program code?

Skills:
Design, thinking, Compare, analyzing and problem-solving.
Concepts:
‣ Understand the syntax for the do-while loop
‣ Understand the syntax for the for loop
Evidence:
Apply programs to repeat a specific action.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply knowledge and skills to Capstone process: when researching previous

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solutions, during Prototype design, testing and analysis; when documenting in Capstone Portfolio and
include in Capstone Exhibition
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt, Increase
industrial base for Egypt
Applications: CH.3.02,

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Computer Science: Grade 2, Semester 1
Big Idea:

CS.2.01 - students demonstrate the importance of database in storing, organizing and retrieving huge
amounts of data. (Week 01 - Week 01)

Essential Questions: What is the difference between databases and knowledge bases in terms of used
programming language?
Skills:
create a data table – create a form and query to database tables.
Concepts:
field - record - table and database - primary and foreign key- data types-field properties – relation types.
Evidence:
create a database for each Capstone team project.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt, Increase
industrial base for Egypt

CS.2.02 - students demonstrate understanding of the basics about HTML language and how to incorporate
its features in web pages and applications. (Week 02 - Week 02)

Essential Questions: can you state the importance of HTML?

Skills:
Understand the major benefits of HTML, build HTML web page, and learn the basic topics as layouts, forms,
audio, video and graphics.
Concepts:
HTML - web page – web site.
Evidence:
design a web site for each group projects.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Web design for capstone presentation
Grand Challenge Connections: Improve the use of alternative energies to reduce our reliance on extracted
fuel sources, Increase efficient use of our land through improved use of arid areas, Improve Sources of
Clean Water

CS.2.03 - students demonstrate understanding of the basics to design and produce a web site through a
programming language or application. (Week 03 - Week 03)

Essential Questions: what is an Expression web serve?

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Skills:
Build, deploy, and maintain interactive web sites, create hyperlinks and bookmarks, control styles and page
layout.
Concepts:
hyperlink - bookmark - web page – web site.
Evidence:
each group designs a web site illustrates HTML tags.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Web design for capstone presentation
Grand Challenge Connections: Improve the use of alternative energies to reduce our reliance on extracted
fuel sources, Increase efficient use of our land through improved use of arid areas, Improve Sources of
Clean Water

CS.2.04 - students demonstrate understanding of the necessary knowledge to design and develop dynamic
web pages. (Week 04 - Week 04)

Essential Questions: can you state if it’s possible to convert static web site to dynamic one? If yes how?
Skills:
Gain the PHP programming skills needed to successfully build interactive sites, test and debug a PHP
application, use expressions, learn an introduction to MySQL.
Concepts:
dynamic web site - MySQL - PHP.
Evidence:
use PHP and MySQL skills to design a dynamic web site explains PHP and MySQL.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Web design for capstone presentation
Grand Challenge Connections: Improve the use of alternative energies to reduce our reliance on extracted
fuel sources, Increase efficient use of our land through improved use of arid areas, Improve Sources of
Clean Water

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Computer Science: Grade 2, Semester 2
Big Idea:

CS.2.05 - Demonstrate creative thinking, and develop innovative audio and process it using various
application. (Week 01 - Week 03)

Essential Questions: How can you make an innovative audio file?

Skills:
HANDS-ON, SELF-INITIATED LEARNING, TEAMWORK, COMMUNICATION, PROJECT MANAGEMENT,
SEARCH SKILLS AND CREATIVITY.
Concepts:
‣ •Brainstorming and choosing a project idea to create an audio about it.
‣ •Understanding the various ways to make an audio or save it using another format.
‣ •Demonstrate the types of audio files.
‣ •Applying a various effects on audio.
‣ •Using the ready programs to make an audio.
‣ •Determine the standards for choosing an audio file from the internet.
‣ •Process audio files using an application.
Evidence:
Proccess an audio file.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply to capstone presentation
Grand Challenge Connections: Improve the use of alternative energies to reduce our reliance on extracted
fuel sources

CS.2.06 - Demonstrate creative thinking, and develop innovative videos and process it using various
application. (Week 04 - Week 06)

Essential Questions: How can you make an innovative video file?

Skills:
‣ HANDS-ON, SELF-INITIATED LEARNING, TEAMWORK, COMMUNICATION, PROJECT
MANAGEMENT AND CREATIVITY.
‣ •Apply critical thinking.
‣ •Developing more complex ways to analyze both their own and others' video.
Concepts:
‣ •Brainstorming and choosing a project idea to create a video about it.
‣ •Planning a project using storyboarding.
‣ •Creating a project timeline
‣ •Understanding the various ways to make a video or save it using another format.
‣ •Demonstrate the types of video files.
‣ •Using the ready programs to make a video.

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 ‣ •Determine the standards for choosing a video file.
‣ •Process video files using an application.
Evidence:
Proccess an video file.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply to capstone presentation
Grand Challenge Connections: Address the exponential population growth and prepare for the impact,
Improve Sources of Clean Water, Increase industrial base for Egypt

CS.2.07 - Run a suitable simulation for an idea. (Week 07 - Week 12)

Essential Questions: How can we benefit from simulation in our daily life?
Skills:
‣ •Time management and organization.
‣ •Team coordination.
‣ •Problem solving.
‣ •Ability to analyzing.
‣ •Teamwork.
‣ •Search skills.
‣ •Innovation.
Concepts:
‣ •When Simulation Is the Appropriate Tool.
‣ •When Simulation Is Not Appropriate.
‣ •Determine Advantages and Disadvantages of Simulation.
‣ •Demonstrate the requirements to produce a simulation project to solve a problem.
‣ •Data preparation (collect the data in all of its forms…sounds / pictures………)
‣ •Distinguish between simulation types.
‣ •Analyze the required information to make a simulation project.
‣ •Search for a suitable application to produce a simulation project.
‣ •List Examples for computer simulation in a practical context.
‣ •Use simulation to explore complex system.
Evidence:
Apply a computer simulation in our daily life.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply to software prototype
Grand Challenge Connections: Address the exponential population growth and prepare for the impact,
Improve Sources of Clean Water, Increase industrial base for Egypt

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Computer Science: Grade 3, Semester 1
Big Idea:

CS.3.01 - students demonstrate understanding of the requirements for producing mobile applications. (Week
01 - Week 01)

Essential Questions: what are the requirements for producing mobile applications?
Skills:
search for applications to create mobile applications –apply IDE to design mobile applications - create simple
mobile applications.
Concepts:
mobile application - android
Evidence:
apply simple mobile application.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply to design of a mobile app for communications
Grand Challenge Connections: Reduce pollution fouling our air water and grounds

CS.3.02 - students demonstrate understanding of the requirements for creating a network. (Week 02 - Week
02)

Essential Questions: you were asked to create network between your school labs ,identify how will you
plan to do this task?
Skills:
‣ Explain the principles of networking, describe types of networks, explain basic networking concepts
and technologies, describe the physical components of a network.
‣ describe network topologies, Identify Ethernet standards
Concepts:
network – network topology
Evidence:
apply simple concept map about types and principles of networks.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply to network aspects of communication
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt

CS.3.03 - students gain knowledge, understand logic of network system and has ability to create a network.
(Week 03 - Week 03)

Essential Questions: you have wires, some equipment’s identify how will you use to create a network?what

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is your logic in thinking?
Skills:
Explain OSI and TCP/IP data models; describe how to configure a NIC and a modem, Identify names,
purposes, and characteristics of other technologies that are used to establish connectivity.
Concepts:
OSI – TCP/IP – modem – NIC.
Evidence:
apply simple network connection.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply to network aspects of communication
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase industrial base for Egypt, Recycle and retain garbage for
recycling

CS.3.04 - students demonstrate understanding to identify cases of troubleshooting, keep, fix and maintain
network system. (Week 04 - Week 04)

Essential Questions: your network system has some problems, explain your logic to test and fix this?
Skills:
Describe and perform preventive maintenance on a network, troubleshoot networks.
Concepts:
troubleshooting .
Evidence:
infer reasons for network connection problems and inform solving.
Texts & References: Not yet identified
Capstone Connection: Apply to network aspects of communication
Grand Challenge Connections: Increase opportunities for Egyptians to stay and work in Egypt

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