Computer Science Principles

Pacing Guide

Unit 1 - The Internet

Chapter 1: Representing and Transmitting Information

 IT-CSP-1 Demonstrate employability skills required by business and industry.
 IT-CSP-3. Apply abstractions in digital data to explain how bits are grouped to represent higher-level abstractions
such as numbers and characters.
 ITCSP-8. Develop a logical argument from the many ways in which computing enables innovation and our methods
for communicating, problem solving, and doing business and analyze the potential benefits and harmful effects of
computing in a way people think work, live and play.
 IT-CSP-9 Explore how related student organizations are integral parts of career and technology education courses
through leadership development, school and community service projects, entrepreneurship development, and
competitive events

Week 1 Lesson 1: Personal Lesson 2: Sending Lesson 3: Sending FBLA Activities

Innovations Binary Messages Binary Messages
with the Internet
Simulator
Week 2 Lesson 4: Number Lesson 5: Binary Lesson 6: Sending Lesson 7: Employability
Systems Numbers Numbers Sending Text Activities

Chapter 2: Inventing the Internet

 IT-CSP-1 Demonstrate employability skills required by business and industry.
 IT-CSP-7. Gain insight into the operation of the Internet, study characteristics of the Internet and systems built
upon it, and analyze important concerns, such as cybersecurity.
 ITCSP-8. Develop a logical argument from the many ways in which computing enables innovation and our methods
for communicating, problem solving, and doing business and analyze the potential benefits and harmful effects of
computing in a way people think work, live and play.
 IT-CSP-9 Explore how related student organizations are integral parts of career and technology education courses
through leadership development, school and community service projects, entrepreneurship development, and
competitive events

Week 3 Lesson 8: The Lesson 9: The Need Lesson 10: FBLA Activities
Internet Is for for Addressing Routers and
Everyone Redundancy

Week 4 Lesson 11: Packets Lesson 12: The Lesson 13: HTTP Employability
and Making a Need for DNS and Abstraction on Activities
Reliable Internet the Internet
Week 5 Lesson 14: Practice FBLA Activities
PT - The Internet
and Society (Long
Term Project)
 Unit 2 - Digital Information

Chapter 1: Digital Information

 IT-CSP-1 Demonstrate employability skills required by business and industry.
 ITCSP-8. Develop a logical argument from the many ways in which computing enables innovation and our methods
for communicating, problem solving, and doing business and analyze the potential benefits and harmful effects of
computing in a way people think work, live and play.
 IT-CSP-9 Explore how related student organizations are integral parts of career and technology education courses
through leadership development, school and community service projects, entrepreneurship development, and
competitive events

Lesson 1: Bytes Lesson 2: Text Lesson 3: Employability

Week 6
and File Sizes Compression Encoding B&W Activities
Images
Lesson 4: Encoding Lesson 5: Lossy vs. Lesson 6: Rapid FBLA Activities
Week 7
Color Images Lossless Research - Format
Compression Showdown

Unit 3 - Intro to Programming

Chapter 1: Intro to Programming

 IT-CSP-1 Demonstrate employability skills required by business and industry.
 IT-CSP-2. Create digital artifacts that foster creative expression including programs, digital music, videos, images,
documents, and combinations of these such as infographics, presentations and web pages.

Lesson 1: The Lesson 2: The Need Lesson 3: Employability

Week 8
Need for for Algorithms Creativity in Activities
Programming Algorithms
Languages
Lesson 4: Using Lesson 5: Creating Lesson 6: FBLA Activities
Week 9
Simple Commands Functions Functions and
Top-Down Design

Lesson 7: APIs and Lesson 8: Creating Lesson 9: Looping Employability

Week 10
Using Functions Functions with and Random Activities
with Parameters Parameters Numbers
Lesson 10: Practice FBLA Activities
Week 11
PT - Design a
Digital Scene (Long
Term Project)

Unit 4 - Big Data and Privacy

Chapter 1: Big Data and Privacy
 IT-CSP-1 Demonstrate employability skills required by business and industry.
 IT-CSP-4. Design and create computer programs to process and extract information to gain insight and
knowledge.
 IT-CSP-9 Explore how related student organizations are integral parts of career and technology education courses
through leadership development, school and community service projects, entrepreneurship development, and
competitive events

Lesson 1: What is Lesson 2: Finding Lesson 3: Check Employability

Week 12
Big Data? Trends with Your Assumptions Activities
Visualizations
Lesson 4: Rapid Lesson 5: FBLA Activities
Week 13
Research - Data Identifying People
Innovations With Data

Lesson 6: The Cost Lesson 7: Simple Lesson 8:

Week 14
of Free Encryption Encryption with Employability
Keys and Activities
Passwords
Lesson 9: Public Lesson 10: Rapid FBLA Activities
Week 15
Key Cryptography Research -
Cybercrime

Unit 5 - Building Apps

Chapter 1: Event-Driven Programming

 IT-CSP-1 Demonstrate employability skills required by business and industry.
 IT-CSP-5 Develop, express, implement, and analyze algorithms analytically and empirically.
 ITCSP-6. Create programs that translate human intention into computational artifacts including music, images,
visualizations, and more while exploring the concepts, techniques and development used in writing programs.
 IT-CSP-9 Explore how related student organizations are integral parts of career and technology education courses
through leadership development, school and community service projects, entrepreneurship development, and
competitive events

Lesson 1: Lesson 2: Multi- Lesson 3: Building Employability

Week 16
Introduction to Screen Apps an App: Multi- Activities
Event-Driven Screen App
Programming
Lesson 4: Lesson 5: Building Lesson 6: User FBLA Activities
Week 17
Controlling Memory an App: Clicker Input and Strings
with Variables Game
Lesson 7: If- Lesson 8: Boolean
statements Expressions and "if"
Unplugged Statements
 Lesson 9: "if-else-if" Lesson 10: Building Employability
Week 18
and Conditional an App: Color Activities
Logic Sleuth