What Are We Working on This Quarter?

Learning Targets:

Students will improve beginning mouse and keyboarding skills using free online educational resources targeting math and reading skills.

Students will regularly type alphabet A-Z to develop letter recognition and basic keyboard literacy.

Students will develop mouse skills: pointing, clicking and dragging while practicing counting and matching shapes and colors.

Students will learn names of computer parts.

Students will learn browser skills: open, minimize, maximize, scroll, forward, back, close.

ISTE.2 Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

CCSS.IS 2.1 Information Technology is used to retrieve, process and communicate information and as a tool to enhance learning.

ISTE.6 Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

CCSS MS&T 3 Students will understand the concepts of and become proficient with the skills of mathematics; communicate and reason mathematically; become problem solvers by using appropriate tools and strategies; through the integrated study of number sense and operation, algebra, geometry, measurement and statistics and probability.

ISTE.1d Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.

CCSS.MS&T 5.3 Computers, as tools for design, modeling , information processing, communication, and system control, have greatly increased human productivity and knowledge.

Learning Targets:

Strong focus on typing and word processing.

Students will practice proper home row technique.

Students will develop and improve word processing skills. They will write short sentences using proper spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and word spacing.

Students will illustrate text with shapes, clipart and images. They will learn to position and size those objects with their text. Students will learn to print and save these documents.

Students will use the word processor to practice narrative, informative and opinion writing styles. These are “guided” writing exercises where students will copy closely the teacher example.

Students will name computer parts.

Students will learn to open and close the word processor. Students will backspace, enter, shift and undo.

Students will learn to change font size.
 

ISTE.2 Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

ISTE.6 Creative Communicator

ISTE.1 Empowered Learner

CCSS.IS 2.1 Information Technology is used to retrieve, process and communicate information and as a tool to enhance learning.

Learning Targets:

Word Processing:

Students continue developing typing by using home row keys plus GH-EI-RU.

Students write friendly letters taking care to use appropriate capitalization, spelling, word spacing and punctuation.

Students will write in editable text boxes.

Students will save/print their finished work.

Students will practice punctuation in word processing.

Students will use graphic organizers for friendly letters.

Students will do a Halloween Pumpkin Personification Poem Generator.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.3 Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.3 Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

ISTE.2 Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

ISTE.6 Creative Communicator

CCSS.IS 2.1 Information Technology is used to retrieve, process and communicate information and as a tool to enhance learning.

Learning Targets:

Typing Skills Development and Expense Spreadsheets with Charts:

Students continue to develop two hand home row typing proficiency.

Students create expense spreadsheets with charts.

Students will learn spreadsheet vocabulary such as rows,columns, cells, data, values, and formulas.

Spreadsheets may be created using a variety of spreadsheet applications including Microsoft, Google, or similar programs.

Students will engage in typing practice

CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories.

CCSS.Math.Content.4.MD.A.2 Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.

ISTE.2 Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

ISTE.1 Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.

ISTE.5 Computational Thinker

CCSS.TECH.5 Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Learning Targets:

Typing Skills Development and Spreadsheet Budgets with Charts:

Students continue to develop two hand home row typing proficiency.

Students create a variety of spreadsheet budgets with charts.

Students will learn spreadsheet vocabulary such as rows,columns, cells, data, values, and formulas.

Spreadsheets may be created using a variety of spreadsheet applications including Microsoft, Google or other similar programs.

CCSS.Math.Content.2.MD.D.10 Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems1 using information presented in a bar graph.

CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories.

CCSS.Math.Content.4.MD.A.2 Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.

ISTE.2 Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

ISTE.1 Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.

ISTE.5 Computational Thinker

CCSS.TECH.5 Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Learning Targets:

Typing Skills Development and Spreadsheet Budgets with Charts:.

Students continue to develop two hand home row typing proficiency.

Students create a variety of spreadsheet budgets with charts.

Students will learn spreadsheet vocabulary such as rows,columns, cells, data, values, and formulas. 
 

Learning Standards:

CCSS.Math.Content.2.MD.D.10 Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems1 using information presented in a bar graph.

CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories.

CCSS.Math.Content.4.MD.A.2 Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.

ISTE.2 Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

ISTE.1 Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.

ISTE.5 Computational Thinker

CCSS.TECH.5 Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.