Computer Science Resources for Librarians: Online Curriculum

Computer Science without a computer

Computational thinking and literacy for students in Kindergarden through second grade. It is designed to fit into your early reading instruction while introducing students to the computational thinking skills that will set the foundation for later exploration into coding and computer science.

My First Computer is an introduction to the amazing and complicated machine that is the computer.

Computer Science-in-a-Box: Unplug Your Curriculum introduces fundamental building blocks of computer science — without using computers. Use it with students ages 9 to 14 to teach lessons about how computers work, while addressing critical mathematics and science concepts such as number systems, algorithms, and manipulating variables and logic.

Code.org is an education innovation nonprofit dedicated to the vision that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer scienc.e as part of their core K-12 education

A computer science curriculum that makes coding easy to teach and fun to learn.

The Creative Computing Curriculum, designed by the Creative Computing Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a collection of ideas, strategies, and activities for an introductory creative computing experience using Scratch.

Curriculum uses a combination of free open-source curricula and long-term professional development to customize and support implementation to engage students and create equitable CS programs for all.

Standards-aligned elementary computer science curriculum for grades K–5 (free basic account).

Carnegie Mellon University Academy is an online, graphics-based computer science curriculum taught in Python provided by Carnegie Mellon University.

CodeLab is the web-based interactive programming exercise system for intro programming classes in Python, Java, C++, C, and C#.

CYBER.ORG empowers educators to teach cyber confidently, resulting in students with the skills and passion needed to succeed in the cyber workforce.