Intermediate Course Objectives
Source: Progression of Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) K-12 Computer Science Standards, Revised 2017  csta.org  Retrieved 8/15/19.

By the end of grade five students will be able to:

Computing Systems

• Recommend improvements to the design of computing devices, based on an analysis of how users interact with the devices. (Devices)
• Design projects that combine hardware and software components to collect and exchange data. (Hardware & Software)
• Systematically identify and fix problems with computing devices and their components. (Troubleshooting)

• Model the role of protocols in transmitting data across networks and the Internet. (Network Communication & Organization)
• Explain how physical and digital security measures protect electronic information.(Cybersecurity)
• Apply multiple methods of encryption to model the secure transmission of information. (Cybersecurity)

• Represent data using multiple encoding schemes. (Storage)
• Collect data using computational tools and transform the data to make it more useful and reliable. (Collection, Visualization, & Transformation)
• Refine computational models based on the data they have generated. (Inferences & Models)

• Use flowcharts and/or pseudocode to address complex problems as algorithms. (Algorithms)
• Create clearly named variables that represent different data types and perform operations on their values. (Variables)
• Design and iteratively develop programs that combine control structures, including nested loops and compound conditionals. (Control)
• Decompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation, and review of programs. (Modularity)
• Create procedures with parameters to organize code and make it easier to reuse. (Modularity)
• Seek and incorporate feedback from team members and users to refine a solution that meets user needs. (Program Development)
• Incorporate existing code, media, and libraries into original programs, and give attribution.(Program Development)
• Systematically test and refine programs using a range of test cases. (Program Development)
• Distribute tasks and maintain a project timeline when collaboratively developing computational artifacts. (Program Development)
• Document programs in order to make them easier to follow, test, and debug. (Program Development)

• Compare tradeoffs associated with computing technologies that affect people's everyday activities and career options. (Culture)
• Discuss issues of bias and accessibility in the design of existing technologies. (Culture)
• Collaborate with many contributors through strategies such as crowdsourcing or surveys when Describe tradeoffs between allowing information to be public and keeping information private and secure. (Safety, Law & Ethics)