About Grade 1 Technology
Grade 1 technology (1st grade, ages 6–7) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Technology Around Us (lessons 1–8), Using Devices Safely (lessons 9–16), How Machines Think (lessons 17–24), Creating with Technology (lessons 25–32), and finally Digital Projects (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to tell the difference between kind and unkind behavior when using devices, describe what happens when a grown-up types a question into ChatGPT and use a drawing app to create a piece of digital artwork showing a smart machine, using at least three different tools and explaining what their machine does.
Start here: Lesson 1: Identify Machines That Can Think and Learn 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.
