Fall Lesson Plans

Making IT Fun!

Here you can find the lesson plans, schedule and calendar teachers and educators may use to guide their teaching.

Robotics Schedule

Week of September 7th, 2021 Lesson 0 Educators and students familiarize themselves with the RVR!

Week of September 13th, 2021 Lesson 1 Moving the RVR
Week of September 20th, 2021 Lesson 2 Basic micro:bit Input/Output
Week of September 27th, 2021 Lesson 3 Variables
Week of October 4th, 2021 Lesson 4 If Statements and Conditionals
Week of October 11th, 2021 Lesson 5 While and For Loops
Week of October 18th, 2021 Lesson 6 Arrays and For Loops
Week of October 25th, 2021 Lesson 7 Practice Challenge 1 (Printable version)
Week of November 1st, 2021 Lesson 8 Button & Buzzer [Digital I/O]
Week of November 8th, 2021 Lesson 9 Servo & Slide Dimmer [Analog I/O]
Week of November 15th, 2021   Catch up/play week
Week of November 22nd, 2021   No new material
Week of November 29th, 2021 Lesson 10 Proximity Sensor
Week of December 6th, 2021 Lesson 11 Practice Challenge 2: Factory Robot (Printable version)

Week of December 13th, 2021

Return from winter break

Lesson 12

Lesson 13

Catch up/play week

Remote Control

Schedule for the remainder of 2021

Smart-IT Schedule

Week of September 7th, 2021 Mission 1 Educators and students familiarize themselves with the RVR!

Week of September 13th, 2021 Mission 2
  1. Educators and students continue to familiarize themselves with the RVR!
Week of September 20th, 2021 Mission 3 Setting up the RVR and Raspberry Pi

  1. What is a Raspberry Pi?
  2. Getting Started
Week of September 27th, 2021 Mission 4 Linking the RVR and Raspberry Pi

  1. Installing programming software
  2. First ‘driven’ program
  3. First written program
  4. Putting it all together
Week of October 4th, 2021 Mission 5 Variables, inputs, outputs, & string conversion
Week of October 11th, 2021 Mission 6 If Statements/Conditionals
Week of October 18th, 2021 Mission 7 Iterations: For Loops & While Loops
Week of October 25th, 2021 Mission 8
  1. Monthly Challenge
  2. Sphero RVR file
Week of November 1st, 2021 Mission 9
  1. Lists & Strings
  2. RVR Mission 2
Week of November 8th, 2021 Mission 10
  1. Functions & Modules
  2. RVR Mission 3
Week of November 15th, 2021 Mission 11
  1. Objects & Classes
  2. RVR Mission 4
Week of November 22nd, 2021   No new material
Week of November 29th, 2021 Mission 12 Monthly Challenge
Week of December 6th, 2021 Mission 13
  1. Dictionaries & JSON
  2. RVR Mission 5

Week of December 13th, 2021

Mission 14

Catch up/play week

Schedule for the remainder of 2021

Cyber Defense Schedule

Week of September 7th, 2021 Module 1 IT-Adventures Objectives and Schedule

Week of September 13th, 2021 Module 2 Information Technology Environments

Week of September 20th, 2021 Module 3 Virtual Machine (VM) Setup

Week of September 27th, 2021 Module 4 Navigating Linux File System

Week of October 4th, 2021 Module 5 File Permissions and Network Tools

Week of October 11th, 2021 Module 6 DNS and Directory Servers (Note: This week only has one activity planned, so this is a good catch-up week too)

Week of October 18th, 2021 Module 7 Email and Firewalls

Week of October 25th, 2021 Module 8 The 7 Layers of Cybersecurity & Vulnerabilities

Week of November 1st, 2021 Module 9 Web Vulnerabilities

Week of November 8th, 2021 Module 10 Network & Vulnerability Scanning

Week of November 15th, 2021 Module 11 Catch up/play week

Week of November 22nd, 2021   No new material
Week of November 29th, 2021 Module 12 Auditing and Remediation

Week of December 6th, 2021 Module 13 Physical Security & Social Engineering
Week of December 13th, 2021 Module 14 Catch up/play week
Schedule for the remainder of 2021