About Grade 6 Technology
Grade 6 technology (6th grade, ages 11–12) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Unit 1 — Digital Citizenship & Research (lessons 1–8), Unit 2 — AI Literacy & Responsible Use (lessons 9–16), Unit 3 — Digital Creation & Media (lessons 17–24), Unit 4 — Coding & Computational Thinking (lessons 25–32), and finally Unit 5 — Innovation Sprint & Showcase (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to tell a vague prompt apart from a specific prompt, identify the main edit operations on a video timeline and plan a mini-game with a clear goal, controls, and win and lose conditions.
Start here: Lesson 1: Digital Citizenship and Online Safety is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.
Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.