Module · Grades 3-5 · Computer Science

Computing Inventions and Inventors

How computing changed daily life, why people built it, and whose ideas were included.

Grade: Grades 3-5
Subject: Computer Science
Course: Computer Science
Strand: Computing and Society
Standards: E3-SOC-HI-16 E3-SOC-HU-18 E4-SOC-HI-16 E4-SOC-ET-17 E5-SOC-HI-16
CSTA-2026

Tools

1 on the bench, not built yet.

Students walk an inventors' hall and place each exhibit on a timeline (a punch-card loom, an early...

5 words in English and Spanish: invention, inventor, daily life, timeline, include. Print them as wall cards, mini cards or a student glossary.