Technology Curriculum by Grade

 

 

MAG

• Introduction to computer use through exploratory games, math activities and drawing
• Multimedia projects (Media Blender) coordinated with the classroom curriculum
  • Spanish vocabulary
  • Butterflies
  • Native Americans
• Introduction to programming
  • Microworlds
• 3-d Drawing with Sketchup
• Inspiration and Kidspiration to organize information, brainstorm, and ask questions

Third Grade

• Introduction to keyboarding
• Ten Thumbs Typing
• Inspiration
• Analyze summer book
• Organize questions and information for research report
• Multimedia (Media Blender)
• Plants
• New Haven history
• French sentences
• Introduction to Photoshop Elements
• Take photos
• Use different tools to work with photos
• 3D Drawing with Sketchup
• Programming with Microworlds

Fourth Grade

• Keyboarding and typing practice with Ten Thumbs Typing
• Word Processing
• Microsoft Word
• Pages
• Multimedia (Media Blender)
• Chinese Folk Tales
• Inspiration
• Artist Report
• Photoshop Elements
• Learning more tools to work with photos
• Introduction to Garage Band

Fifth Grade

• Keyboarding and typing practice
• Ten Thumbs Typing
• Word Processing
• Continue to learn about Word and Pages
• Multimedia (Media Blender)
• Deer Lake adventure
• Photoshop
• Nature photos to put on a web page
• Flash
• Learning animation
• Making a logo
• 3-d Drawing with Sketchup
• Drawing a Greek temple
• iMovie
• Introduction
• Presenting a Greek temple in a Quicktime movie
• Garage Band
• Making music

Sixth Grade

Computer Skills / Software to be Covered:

• Internet Safety / Appropriate Use Policy Discussion
• Keyboarding (Ten Thumbs Typing)
• Inspiration (brainstorming, notetaking, writing, outlining, pre-writing, creative writing, literary analysis)
• Word Processing w/ Microsoft Word and Pages
• Pages – Document layout / design program
• Keynote presentation software
• Saving to Shared Folder / Using Drop Box for assignments
• Research skills reinforcement (using internet databases & websites, library online resources, Boolean searches, evaluating resources)

Curriculum Integration

• Inspiration work with summer reading book (The Watsons Go to Birmingham)
• Inspiration, Microsoft Word, Keynote - research papers (2 per year)
• Keynote - Science research project presentation
• Pages - Travel brochure for Country Project (2nd half of year)
• Spreadsheets / Keynote presentation - Country Project - fact sheet, statistic comparison, graphs (US vs. Country of choice)

See the Middle School Lab page for more information on the Sixth Grade curriculum.