Course OverviewTechnology- Grades K thru 8.
First Trimester and Beyond
First and foremost with all grades K- 8 I am familiarizing them with the Chromebooks. With the younger grades I am concentrating on the basics such as the various function keys (Shift, enter, backspace, space bar etc.) and their purpose, letter location and how to sign off. I also invested in a mouse for each Chromebook and I am concentrating on which side of the mouse to use with what function. For e.g.; Single click,double click, dropping and dragging items. This is all done using educational websites that reinforce their knowledge of letters, shapes, numbers and colors while improving eye and hand coordination. (K-First Grade). Second grade - Eighth grade- Using age appropriate assignments I concentrate on proper keyboarding skills, Google Suite- Classroom, Docs, Sheets and Slides, Google Drive and Google Forms. The younger grades have worked in Docs inserting and formatting pictures, changing font size etc. The older children have been taught how to retrieve assignments from the Google classroom, complete the assignment and turn it back to the teacher all online. Some of the assignments have required extensive research. Seventh and Eighth grade researched a National Park and wrote an essay in MLA format for the DAR Essay Contest. I have assigned different webquests to various grades, Fifth grade had to plan and get pricing for a Thanksgiving meal, input all the information into a Google Sheet and perform simple functions to get the sum. They also designed a Thanksgiving Menu using an online template. Fourth grade is currently working on a Pennsylvania Region Project. They have been divided into groups and assigned a specific region. I created a form in Google forms to guide them in their research. They submitted all their research on the online form and this week we are going to make either an iMovie or a Spark video on the region. Sixth grade did an All About Me presentation in Slides. |
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