Digital Skills for 1st Class

What your school gets

Everything a teacher needs to teach Digital Skills for 1st Class 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: Pattern Play: Spot the Sequence

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

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

1 The World of Logic 6 lessons · about 3 hours

1 Pattern Play: Spot the Sequence Sample lesson Quiz
2 Which One's Different? The Odd One Out Quiz
3 What Happens Next? First/Then Fun! Quiz
4 Grid Games: Mapping the 3x3 Quiz
5 Mastering the Maze: Navigating the 4x4 Quiz
6 Dance Commands: Creating Move Algorithms Quiz

2 Adventures in Digital Creation 7 lessons · about 4 hours

7 Move and Groove: The Dance Party Begins! Quiz
8 City Cruise: Driving Through the Streets Quiz
9 Floating in Space: Looping with the Spaceman Quiz
10 Dribble and Dunk: Basketball Fun with Scratch Jr. Quiz
11 Ready, Set, Go! The Great Frog vs. Pig Race Quiz
12 Talk It Out: Programming a Fun Conversation Quiz
13 Maze Master: Help Your Character Escape! Quiz

3 Electricity and Simple Circuits 6 lessons · about 3 hours

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 logical thinking, digital creation in ScratchJr, simple electric circuits, and unplugged coding through art and music. Every lesson is teacher-led from the board. The circuits topic uses classroom kit rather than devices, and the two unplugged topics need no devices at all. They are the same unplugged lessons the infant classes use, so a class that met them already 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 Interactive Display IWB/Projector/Large Screen Pen & Paper Printer Snap Circuits