Grades 6-8

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Network Communication and Organization: Model the role of protocols in transmitting data across networks and the internet. 6-8.NI.04

Cybersecurity: Explain how physical and digital security measures protect electronic information6-8.NI.05

Cybersecurity: Apply multiple methods of encryption to model the secure transmission of information6-8.NI.06

Storage: Represent data using multiple encoding schemes.6-8.DA.07

Collection Visualization and Transformation: Collect data using computational tools and transform the data to make it more useful and reliable.6-8.DA.08

Interference and Models: Refine computational models based on the data they have generated.6-8.DA.09

Interference and Models: Evaluate the misuse of data and impact of distorted outcomes.6-8.DA.10

Algorithms: Use flowcharts or pseudocode to address complex problems as algorithms6-8.AP.11

Variables: Perform operations on student-created variables that possess descriptive names and represent different data types.6-8.AP.12

Control: Design and iteratively develop programs that combine control structures, including nested loops and compound conditionals.6-8.AP.13

Modularity: Decompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation, and review of programs.6-8.AP.14

Modularity: Create procedures with parameters to organize code and make it easier to reuse.6-8.AP.15

Program Development: Seek and incorporate feedback from team members and users to refine a solution that meets user needs.6-8.AP.16

Program Development: Incorporate existing code, media, and libraries into original programs and give attribution.6-8.AP.17

Program Development: Systematically test and refine programs using a range of test cases.6-8.AP.18

Program Development: Distribute tasks and maintain a project timeline when collaboratively developing computational artifacts.6-8.AP.19

Program Development:Document programs to make them easier to follow, test, and debug.6-8.AP.20

Culture: Compare tradeoffs associated with computing technologies that affect people's everyday activities and career options. 6-8.IC.21

Culture: Discuss issues of bias and accessibility in the design of existing technologies.6-8.IC.22

Social Interactions: Collaborate with many contributors through strategies such as crowdsourcing or surveys when creating a computational artifact.6-8.IC.23

Safety Law and Ethics:  Describe tradeoffs between allowing information to be public and keeping information private and secure.6-8.IC.24

 Explain that the field of emerging technologies will be evolving and rapidly growing6-8.ET.A

 Compare existing and emerging technologies, ideas, and concepts. 6-8.ET.B

Describe how emerging technologies are influencing current events at a local and global scale.6-8.ET.C

Predict the positive and negative societal, cultural, and economic impacts that emerging and future technologies may generate.6-8.ET.D

Create new or original work by applying emerging technologies6-8.ET.E