About Grade 4 Technology
Grade 4 technology (4th grade, ages 9–10) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Unit 1 — Understanding AI (lessons 1–8), Unit 2 — Digital Productivity (lessons 9–16), Unit 3 — Digital Citizenship (lessons 17–24), Unit 4 — Creative Technology (lessons 25–32), and finally Unit 5 — Projects and Review (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to describe what a spreadsheet is and how it is organized, define bias and explain how it appears in AI-generated content and identify the elements of a multimedia presentation.
Start here: Lesson 1: Explore Advanced Uses of AI 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.