Digital Skills for Senior Infants

What your school gets

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

In class

29 lessons, ready to teach Each one planned step by step, taught from the interactive whiteboard.
Quizzes and assessments A short quiz with 26 of the lessons.
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

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

1 Solving Problems 7 lessons · about 4 hours

1 Bossy Words Sample lesson Quiz
2 First Things First: What Comes Next? Quiz
3 Cause and Effect: If This Happens, Then What? Quiz
4 Sequence Master: Putting Events in Order Quiz
5 Number Path: Step-by-Step Navigation Quiz
6 Grid Navigator: Cracking the 4x4 Code Quiz
7 Grid Masters: Exploring the 5x5 Adventure Quiz

2 Creative Stories 6 lessons · about 3 hours

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

3 Exploring Robotics and Commands 6 lessons · about 3 hours

14 Bee-Bot Basics: Forward and Backward Fun! Quiz
15 Twist and Turn: Bee-Bot’s Lateral Moves Quiz
16 Flower Power: Planting with Bee-Bots Quiz
17 Bee-Bot's Bloom Hunt: Finding Flowers Quiz
18 Square Dancing: Drawing Shapes with Bee-Bot Quiz
19 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

Twenty-nine lessons covering problem solving, creative stories in ScratchJr, giving robots commands, and unplugged coding through art and music. Every lesson is teacher-led from the board. The two unplugged topics are the same lessons Junior Infants use, so a class that met them last year can revisit them or move on.

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 Printer