Digital Skills for 3rd Class

What your school gets

Everything a teacher needs to teach Digital Skills for 3rd Class this year.

In class

48 lessons, ready to teach Each one planned step by step, taught from the interactive whiteboard. 1 interactive activity across the course.
Quizzes and assessments A short quiz with 29 of the lessons.
Try the first lesson: Fold-a-Fish: Why Clear Steps Matter

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 10 of the 10 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 2 of 2 outcomes

Robotics and physical computing 1 of 1 outcome

Staying safe online 2 of 2 outcomes

Digital literacy and media 1 of 1 outcome

See every outcome

Curriculum Area

Outcomes

Computational thinking

DCT.3.1 DCT.3.2

Programming

DPR.3.1 DPR.3.2

Digital creativity

DCR.3.1 DCR.3.2

Robotics and physical computing

DPC.3.1

Staying safe online

DOS.3.1 DOS.3.2

Digital literacy and media

DDL.3.1

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

48 lessons in 7 modules. The lesson marked Sample opens in full.

1 Unplugged Adventures 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 Coding and Creative Projects 8 lessons · about 6 hours

4 Introduction to Game Design 8 lessons · about 8 hours

5 Microbit Basics 8 lessons · about 7 hours

27 Meet the Microbit Quiz
28 Emojis Quiz
29 Microbit Dice Quiz
30 Temperature Tales Quiz
31 Compass Quiz
32 Animation Quiz
33 Music Maker Quiz
34 Microbit Lab

6 Cyber Safety 8 lessons · about 5 hours

35 Staying Safe Online
36 What is Personal Information? Quiz
37 Why We Shouldn’t Share Personal Information Online Quiz
38 Stranger Danger Online (Red Flags) Quiz
39 Strong vs. Weak Passwords Quiz
40 The Dangers of Sharing Passwords Quiz
41 Scams, Tricks & Pop-Ups (Don't Get Fooled) Quiz
42 Digital Footprint: Think Before You Post Quiz

7 My First Web Page 6 lessons · about 6 hours

What pupils learn

A full year for 3rd Class: unplugged thinking, a first coding adventure, creative coding projects, an introduction to game design, micro:bit basics, online safety and a first web page. The first coding adventure is the same topic 2nd Class uses, so a class that did it last year can skip it. Forty-eight lessons, teacher-led from the board with pupils building their own projects on screen.

What you'll need

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

Chromebook/Laptop/PC iPad/Tablet IWB/Projector/Large Screen Microbit