Second Grade Tech

About Grade 2 Technology

Grade 2 technology (2nd grade, ages 7–8) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Computer Basics (lessons 1–8), Keyboard and File Skills (lessons 9–16), Online Safety and Digital Citizenship (lessons 17–24), Creating with Technology (lessons 25–32), and finally Helpful Machines and a First Look at AI (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to explain why saving is essential, identify signs of a safe website and warning signs of an unsafe website and explain what a presentation tool is.

Start here: Lesson 1: Parts of a Computer: Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, and CPU 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.