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Standards Alignment

A crosswalk from Robot Explains learning paths and lesson units to the standards your district already uses — so you can justify class time and clear curriculum review faster.

How to use this

Each path and unit below lists the standards it supports. Copy the identifiers straight into your lesson plans or curriculum-approval paperwork. This is a starting-point crosswalk (v1) — please confirm each identifier against your district's adopted version before formal submission.

Frameworks referenced: CSTA K-12 CS Standards · ISTE Standards for Students · Common Sense Digital Citizenship · AI4K12 (for AI). CSTA grade bands: 1A = K–2, 1B = 3–5, 2 = 6–8. Concept codes: NI = Networks & the Internet, CS = Computing Systems, IC = Impacts of Computing.

How the Internet Works

Learning Path

How data travels from a device across networks to a server and back — routers, DNS, IP addresses, and packets.

CSTA

  • 1B-NI-04 Model how information is broken into packets, transmitted, and reassembled across networks.
  • 2-NI-04 Model the role of protocols in transmitting data across networks and the Internet.

ISTE Students

  • 5. Computational Thinker
  • 1. Empowered Learner

Common Sense

Digital Foundations

How Computers Work

Learning Path

Inside a computer: binary, CPU, memory, storage, operating systems, files, and apps.

CSTA

  • 1A-CS-01 Select and use computing devices to perform a variety of tasks.
  • 2-CS-02 Design projects that combine hardware and software to collect and exchange data.

ISTE Students

  • 5. Computational Thinker
  • 1. Empowered Learner

Common Sense

Digital Foundations

Stay Safe Online

Learning Path

Everyday safety habits: privacy, safe sharing, strong passwords, MFA, spotting scams and phishing.

CSTA

  • 1A-NI-04 Explain what passwords are and use strong passwords to protect devices and information.
  • 1B-NI-05 Discuss real-world cybersecurity problems and how personal information can be protected.
  • 2-NI-05 Explain how physical and digital security measures protect electronic information.
  • 2-IC-23 Describe tradeoffs between keeping information public versus private and secure.

ISTE Students

  • 2. Digital Citizen (2b, 2d)

Common Sense

Privacy & Security

Smart Home Safety

Learning Path

Using smart devices and the Internet of Things safely — permissions, default passwords, cameras, and device privacy.

CSTA

  • 2-NI-05 Explain how physical and digital security measures protect electronic information.
  • 2-IC-23 Describe tradeoffs between keeping information public versus private and secure.

ISTE Students

  • 2. Digital Citizen (2d)

Common Sense

Privacy & Security

AI Basics

Learning Path

Modern AI from the ground up: models, prompts, tokens, context, RAG, agents, and hallucination.

CSTA

  • 2-IC-20 Compare tradeoffs associated with computing technologies that affect people's everyday activities.
  • 2-IC-21 Discuss issues of bias and accessibility in the design of existing technologies.

ISTE Students

  • 3. Knowledge Constructor (3c, 3d)
  • 5. Computational Thinker

Common Sense

News & Media Literacy

AI4K12

Big Idea 3 (Learning) · Big Idea 5 (Societal Impact)

Cyber Feelings

Learning Path

The feelings side of safety: noticing green/yellow/red moments, handling online pressure, pausing, and asking for help.

CSTA

  • 2-IC-20 Compare tradeoffs of computing technologies that affect people's everyday activities.

ISTE Students

  • 2. Digital Citizen (2b)
  • 1. Empowered Learner

Common Sense

Media Balance & Well-Being · Relationships & Communication

Unit 1 — The Moment Before the Click

Lesson Unit

Pause and ask Robot's 3 Questions before clicking, allowing, sharing, or installing.

CSTA

  • 1B-NI-05 Discuss real-world cybersecurity problems and how personal information can be protected.

ISTE Students

  • 2. Digital Citizen (2b, 2d)

Common Sense

Privacy & Security

Unit 2 — My Info, My Choice

Lesson Unit

Telling public from private information and choosing what not to share.

CSTA

  • 2-IC-23 Describe tradeoffs between keeping information public versus private and secure.
  • 1B-NI-05 How personal information can be protected.

ISTE Students

  • 2. Digital Citizen (2a, 2d)

Common Sense

Digital Footprint & Identity

Unit 3 — Build a Tiny Internet

Lesson Unit

Naming the parts of the internet and explaining how a web page travels there and back.

CSTA

  • 1B-NI-04 Model how information is broken into packets, transmitted, and reassembled.
  • 2-NI-04 Model the role of protocols in transmitting data.

ISTE Students

  • 5. Computational Thinker

Common Sense

Digital Foundations

Unit 4 — Game Chat Choices

Lesson Unit

Telling a friendly game moment from a risky one, and the red-flag phrases strangers use.

CSTA

  • 2-NI-05 How digital security measures protect information.
  • 2-IC-20 Tradeoffs of computing technologies in everyday life.

ISTE Students

  • 2. Digital Citizen (2a, 2b)

Common Sense

Relationships & Communication · Cyberbullying & Digital Drama

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