First, ignore the pedantic morons who say what you are talking about is somehow not CS. At the high school level, speadsheets, databases, word-processing certainly are a massively important part of CS. I don't quite understand where people get off saying its not. 97% of all programming that happens in the real world (I did some extensive guessing on that figure) is geared toward manipulating database, spreadsheet (which is just a simple db), or documents. This is the heart of end-user CS. When I was in school, even learning to use a scientific calculator was hugely important to computing science. Programming is a very very very small part of CS. There's also logic theory (which I don't think ever gets taught to any suitable extent in the states), and a great way to teach your kids logic is to encourage them to learn to play a musical instrument. It is no accident that ALL of the compsci faculty at the university I attended also played music on the side.
Music theory = high-level abstract logic = pre-requisite to proper computing science
Now, here is the easily had answer, and I admit that it's a little suspicious that someone with a BS and MS in CompSci didn't try this, so I also think this post is a bit Troll-ish.
Google: high school homeschool computer science curriculum
and you get loads of the kind of results you are probably looking for
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First, ignore the pedantic morons who say what you are talking about is somehow not CS. At the high school level, speadsheets, databases, word-processing certainly are a massively important part of CS. I don't quite understand where people get off saying its not. 97% of all programming that happens in the real world (I did some extensive guessing on that figure) is geared toward manipulating database, spreadsheet (which is just a simple db), or documents. This is the heart of end-user CS. When I was in school, even learning to use a scientific calculator was hugely important to computing science. Programming is a very very very small part of CS. There's also logic theory (which I don't think ever gets taught to any suitable extent in the states), and a great way to teach your kids logic is to encourage them to learn to play a musical instrument. It is no accident that ALL of the compsci faculty at the university I attended also played music on the side.
Music theory = high-level abstract logic = pre-requisite to proper computing science
Now, here is the easily had answer, and I admit that it's a little suspicious that someone with a BS and MS in CompSci didn't try this, so I also think this post is a bit Troll-ish.
Google: high school homeschool computer science curriculum
and you get loads of the kind of results you are probably looking for