Technology+Curriculum+Tie-ins

Ideas Generated by the MBS Technology Committee

** Grade 1 Technology Scope and Sequence **

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 * **Technology Operations and Concepts** || ||
 * ** 1. Use accurate terminology related to technology. ** || * Wikis - have students create a Technology Dictionary wiki that each child can contribute to.
 * Classroom routines
 * [|Retelling project with Harcourt]
 * Vocabulary Games - []
 * · Use appropriate terminology related to technology.    ||^   ||
 * ** 2. Identify basic parts of various technology systems. ** || * Simon says
 * Website with [|interactive parts game]
 * [|Brainpop and Brainpop Jr]
 * Classroom routines
 * [|Retelling project with Harcourt]
 * [|Retelling project with Harcourt]
 * · Identify technology related equipment such as computers, Interwrite Pads, document cameras, data projectors, VCR/DVD players, sound systems, microphones, cell phones, digital cameras, laptops, printers, and mp3 players.    ||^   ||
 * ** 3. Name input and output devices. ** || * Simon says
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saving documents as routine
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bingo (from easy tech)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Easy Tech Lesson (from 3rd grade level)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[|Input and Output Game] - ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Understand that information can go in and out of technology systems.    ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Name input and output devices.    ||^   ||
 * ** 4. Observe ** **correct posture while using a technology system. (same as ergonomics for 3rd)**  || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Type to Learn Jr.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Class pantomime game
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Language arts writing
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keyboarding chart to color and use with m & m’s Word Processing
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interactive websites for keyboarding ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Distinguish between correct posture and incorrect posture when using a computer.    ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Understand that there are specific finger positions used when selecting a letter, number, or symbol on the keyboard.    ||^   ||
 * ** 5. Use input devices to enter letters, numbers, and symbols. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interactive websites for keyboarding ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Find the location of each letter on the keyboard.    ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Use the input devices to enter letters, numbers, and symbols into the computer.    ||^   ||
 * ** 6. Use special functions of input devices. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Word processing
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Number Stories with counters
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Classroom routine ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Use special function keys to capitalize letters, delete letters, backspace, space forward (spacebar), log in (Ctrl-Alt-Del) and end a line (enter).    ||^   ||
 * ** 7. Identify storage media. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All projects - [|Retelling project with Harcourt]  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Understand that there are various locations available to save digital information.     ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Identify local hard drive, flash/thumb drive, memory card, network drives (G drive, Shared drive), external drive, CD and CD drive, and/or DVD and DVD drive.    ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Differentiate between internal and external storage.    ||^   ||
 * ** 8. Understand appropriate use and care of storage media. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ipod listening center, flash drive
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Download pictures from classroom camera ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Know the importance of removing media safely.     ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Understand how to insert/connect and remove storage media safely such as digital cameras, flash drives, etc.    ||^   ||
 * ** 9. Demonstrate appropriate use and care of storage media (CDs, flash drives, external hard drives, digital cameras, etc.) ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Classroom routine
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brainpop
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cd saving and sharing ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Demonstrate how to remove storage media properly.    ||^   ||
 * ** 10. Demonstrate care of digital equipment. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daily job responsibility - Classroom Routines
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[|Retelling project with Harcourt] ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Learn how to properly take care of digital equipment and media    ||^   ||
 * ** 11. Identify applications and operations of various technology software/operating systems. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wiki
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Number stories
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flat Stanley stories ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Identify parts of the tool bar used to open, close, and save a file for word processing software and/or multimedia software.     ||^   ||
 * ~ ** Digital Citizenship ** ||~ ||
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">**Digital Citizenship** || ||
 * ** 12. Identify safe ** a**nd responsible ways to use technology systems, the Internet including but not limited to social/professional networking, communication tools, and applications.**  || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Netsmartz.org - [|Clicker's World] - Please refer to teacher's reference material
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brainpop Jr.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kidspiration project where move website titles that are not approved into a box ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Identify ways technology and applications can be used safely and responsibly.    ||^   ||
 * ** 13. Follow local acceptable use policies regarding technology. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">// Arthur’s Computer Disaster //
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Routine established at the first time in the computer lab ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Follow local acceptable use policies regarding technology.    ||^   ||
 * ** 14. Distinguish between ethical and unethical uses of others’ work (do not copy or manipulate other people's work). ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Plagiarism added to weekly vocabulary   ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Define plagiarism.    ||^   ||
 * ** Research and Information Fluency ** || ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Research and Information Fluency ** || ||
 * ** 15. Use digital tools and strategies to locate, collect, organize, visualize, interpret, evaluate, synthesize and/or present or display information or ideas. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wiki
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scavenger Hunt for Organism information
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Search for a book in school library
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Research using AVL
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enchanted Learning Little Explorers, holidays, organisms ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Retrieve information from digital sources.     ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Use a variety of digital sources when collecting information such as online libraries, multimedia dictionaries, web searches, etc.    ||^   ||
 * ** 16. Evaluate accuracy of digital content ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Go to three different sources searching for the same information and compare what is given   ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Understand that some digital sources do not provide accurate information.     ||^   ||
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Communication and Collaboration ** || ||
 * ** 17. Use digital environments to exchange ideas with individuals or groups. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wiki (weather)
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blogs
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Epals ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Collaboratively use the Internet to communicate with individuals and groups using sources such as blogs, wikis, email, or other forms of digital communication tools.     ||^   ||
 * ** 18. Produce digital work collaboratively. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PowerPoint Jeopardy game
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[|Retelling project with Harcourt]
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morning board - Interwrite
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Penguin powerpoints ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Work collaboratively to produce digital products, such as PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and Interwrite pad documents.    ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  || ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making ** || ||
 * ** 19. Identify digital tools used for problem solving. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scavenger Hunt <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Identify digital tools for solving problems.     ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Creativity and Innovation ** || ||
 * ** 20. Design original works using digital tools. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Google map
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paint ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use programs and equipment to design original work. ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Epals ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Collaboratively use the Internet to communicate with individuals and groups using sources such as blogs, wikis, email, or other forms of digital communication tools.     ||^   ||
 * ** 18. Produce digital work collaboratively. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PowerPoint Jeopardy game
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[|Retelling project with Harcourt]
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morning board - Interwrite
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Penguin powerpoints ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Work collaboratively to produce digital products, such as PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and Interwrite pad documents.    ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">   <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  || ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making ** || ||
 * ** 19. Identify digital tools used for problem solving. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scavenger Hunt <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">· Identify digital tools for solving problems.     ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Creativity and Innovation ** || ||
 * ** 20. Design original works using digital tools. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Google map
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paint ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use programs and equipment to design original work. ||^   ||
 * ** 20. Design original works using digital tools. ** || * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Google map
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paint ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use programs and equipment to design original work. ||^   ||
 * * <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use programs and equipment to design original work. ||^   ||