Digital Skills for Junior Infants

What your school gets

Everything a teacher needs to teach Digital Skills for Junior Infants this year.

In class

30 lessons, ready to teach Each one planned step by step, taught from the interactive whiteboard.
Quizzes and assessments A short quiz with every lesson.
Try the first lesson: Bossy Words

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 5 of the 7 outcomes for this class.

Coding Ireland Digital Skills Progression Framework (in-house)

Computational thinking 2 of 2 outcomes

Programming 1 of 1 outcome

Digital creativity 1 of 1 outcome

Robotics and physical computing 1 of 1 outcome

Staying safe online 0 of 1 outcome

Digital literacy and media 0 of 1 outcome

See every outcome

Curriculum Area

Outcomes

Computational thinking

DCT.1.1 DCT.1.2

Programming

DPR.1.1

Digital creativity

DCR.1.1

Robotics and physical computing

DPC.1.1

Staying safe online

DOS.1.1

Digital literacy and media

DDL.1.1

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

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

1 Exploring Patterns 7 lessons · about 4 hours

1 Bossy Words Sample lesson Quiz
2 First Things First: What Comes Next? Quiz
3 If This, Then That: Conditional Fun! Quiz
4 Order Up! Sequencing Made Simple Quiz
5 Number Line Adventure: Step by Step Quiz
6 Grid Explorer: Navigating the 3x3 Quiz
7 Big Grid Challenge: Conquering the 4x4 Quiz

2 My First Steps in Digital Storytelling 7 lessons · about 4 hours

8 Introduction to Scratch Jr. Quiz
9 On the Move: Getting Characters in Action Quiz
10 Dance Party: Make Your Characters Groove Quiz
11 Double the Fun: Adding a Friend for a Walk Quiz
12 City Cruise: Driving Through the Streets Quiz
13 Ready, Set, Race! Programming Speedy Sprites Quiz
14 Floating in Space: Looping with the Spaceman Quiz

3 Journey into Robotic Movements 6 lessons · about 3 hours

15 Bee-Bot Basics: Forward and Backward Fun! Quiz
16 Twist and Turn: Bee-Bot’s Lateral Moves Quiz
17 Flower Power: Planting with Bee-Bots Quiz
18 Bee-Bot’s Bloom Hunt: Finding Flowers Quiz
19 Square Dance: Drawing Shapes with Bee-Bot Quiz
20 Number Tracer: Bee-Bot’s Digital Path Quiz

4 Unplugged Coding - Art 6 lessons · about 4 hours

5 Unplugged Coding - Music 4 lessons · about 3 hours

What pupils learn

A full year of digital skills for Junior Infants: thirty lessons across patterns, digital storytelling, robotic movement and unplugged coding through art and music. Every lesson is teacher-led from the board, with pupils joining in on screen or away from devices, so it works whether or not you have a device for every child.

What you'll need

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

iPad/Tablet Bee-Bots Interactive Display IWB/Projector/Large Screen Pen & Paper Printer