Digital Skills for 2nd Class

What your school gets

Everything a teacher needs to teach Digital Skills for 2nd Class this year.

In class

32 lessons, ready to teach Each one planned step by step, taught from the interactive whiteboard.
Quizzes and assessments A short quiz with 23 of the lessons.
Try the first lesson: Introduction to Algorithms

On paper

Teacher Resource BookThe whole course laid out for the teacher, lesson by lesson, ready to print.
The sample lesson's pages

The whole books come with the course, in each class's Resources.

For planning

Yearly plan See the first two pages
Fortnightly schemes See the first two pages
Progression coverage See the first two pages
Programme progression See the first two pages

Included with the course, in English and in Irish. Teachers find them in their class's Resources.

The curriculum it covers

Every lesson is mapped to the specification. This course teaches 7 of the 9 outcomes for this class.

Coding Ireland Digital Skills Progression Framework (in-house)

Computational thinking 2 of 2 outcomes

Programming 2 of 2 outcomes

Digital creativity 1 of 1 outcome

Robotics and physical computing 2 of 2 outcomes

Staying safe online 0 of 1 outcome

Digital literacy and media 0 of 1 outcome

See every outcome

Curriculum Area

Outcomes

Computational thinking

DCT.2.1 DCT.2.2

Programming

DPR.2.1 DPR.2.2

Digital creativity

DCR.2.1

Robotics and physical computing

DPC.2.1 DPC.2.2

Staying safe online

DOS.2.1

Digital literacy and media

DDL.2.1

Tap any outcome to read it. The coloured ones are taught in this course. The curriculum does not include official reference codes for individual learning outcomes, so we have assigned a code scheme to make it easier to identify and track coverage.

The course, module by module

32 lessons in 5 modules. The lesson marked Sample opens in full.

1 Pattern Play Without Devices 6 lessons · about 4 hours

2 My First Coding Adventure 4 lessons · about 2 hours

What is Coding?
7 Introduction to Coding
8 Scratch Tutorial Quiz
9 Create your Scratch account
Make a Project
10 A Dancing Cat and Bat Quiz

3 Exploring Coding 8 lessons · about 6 hours

4 Creative Coding Challenges 8 lessons · about 6 hours

19 Animating Characters: Moving and Changing Costumes Quiz
20 Loop it! Making Movements Repeat Quiz
21 Talking and Timing: Adding Dialogue and Delays Quiz
22 Animating a Conversation: Kiran and Ripley in Space Quiz
23 Backgrounds in Motion: Scene Transitions Quiz
24 Hide and Seek: Making Characters Appear and Disappear Quiz
25 Broadcasting Signals: Triggering Actions Like a Pro Quiz
26 The Big Finale: Create Your Own Animated Story!

5 Discovering the Magic of Circuits 6 lessons · about 3 hours

What pupils learn

The year pupils start coding properly. It opens unplugged with patterns, moves into a first coding adventure and on to block coding challenges, then finishes with circuits. Thirty-two lessons, all teacher-led from the board with pupils working hands-on.

What you'll need

Used in some of the lessons. Students can share in groups of two or three.

Chromebook/Laptop/PC iPad/Tablet Interactive Display IWB/Projector/Large Screen Printer Snap Circuits