During SNOW Days, please visit Mrs. Jeyasingh's Google Classroom for computers

Login to Google Classroom with your 

gmail and password to access what we are learning in the computer lab.


Week of May 27

Competency: Digital Citizenship: Safety and Ethical Behavior

Standard: How to be SMART online

Skills: S(Skill Building)

Activity 18 - Mission 2 : Webville Outlaws - Students review the four internet safety rules, learn about the dangers of the internet through the Webville Outlaws

Competency: Digital Citizenship: Safety and Ethical Behavior

Standard: How to be SMART online

Skills: S(Skill Building)

Activity 18 - Mission 1 : Week 2 - Router’s Birthday Surprise Video - Students read the scenarios and find out what rule they need to follow


Week of May 20

3A 

Competency: Digital Citizenship: Safety and Ethical Behavior

Standard: How to be SMART online

Skills: S(Skill Building)

Activity 18 - Mission 1 : Router’s Birthday Surprise Video - Students learn about the four internet safety rules, trusted adults, and how to stay safe and smart from the Webville outlaws. 


Week of May 13



3B - Activity 17 - Jelly Fish Factory - Graphing: 

3A No Class



Week of May 6

Presentation Competency: Presentation Skills (Google Slides)

Standard: Insert and Format Lines

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 21 -Google Slides - 


Week of April 29

3B - Demonstrate Fraction - Week 2


3A - Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet Skills (Google Sheets)

Standard: Enters Data, Creates charts: labels, interprets 

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 17 - Jelly Fish Factory - Graphing: Students design a spreadsheet, collect data for a Jellyfish fruit snack factory to find out what flavors customers favor, input data, select data and create a pie graph and format it. 


Week of April 22

Presentation  Competencies: Multimedia (PowerPoint 2013)

Standard: Insert Background, Copy and Paste Activity 

Cross-Curricular Activity: Math / Technology

Skill Level: I(Introduction)

Activity - Demonstrate Fraction - Week 2 Students use two illustrations to demonstrate a fraction math problem.


Week of April 15

Presentation  Competencies: Multimedia (PowerPoint 2013)

Standard: Insert Background, Copy and Paste Activity 

Cross-Curricular Activity: Math / Technology

Skill Level: I(Introduction)

Activity - Demonstrate Fraction - Week 1 Students use two illustrations to demonstrate a fraction math problem.


Week of April 8



Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet Skills (Google Sheets)

Standard: Format cell with fill color, line border and line color

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 19 -Composite Figures - Week 2: Students create a composite figure by changing the color of the cell, add border for the figures, and find the area of the composite figure and record it on the spreadsheet




Week of April 1



Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet Skills (Google Sheets)

Standard: Format cell with fill color, line border and line color

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 19 -Composite Figures - Week 1: Students create a composite figure by changing the color of the cell, add border for the figures, and find the area of the composite figure and record it on the spreadsheet




Week of March 25

Data Analysis Competencies: Spreadsheet (Google Sheets)

Standard: Cell, Cell address, Row, Column

Skill: I(Introduction)

Activity 16: Cell Address: Week 2 - Students learn the basic vocabulary words for spreadsheets such as cell, column, row and address; use fill color to format the cells and reveal a mystery picture, insert image over cells and resize 


Week of March 18

Data Analysis Competencies: Spreadsheet (Google Sheets)

Standard: Cell, Cell address, Row, Column

Skill: I(Introduction)

Activity 16: Cell Address: Week 1 - Students learn the basic vocabulary words for spreadsheets such as cell, column, row and address; use fill color to format the cells and reveal a mystery picture, insert image over cells and resize 


Week of March 11


Presentation Competency: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Skills: I (Introduction)

Standard: Crop Images, crop images to shape

Activity 15: Cropping Techniques – Students learn to identify the crop tool from the format menu, crop pictures using the cropping handles to remove unwanted areas, crop images to various shapes. 



Week of March 4

Terra Nova Testing - No Class


Week of February 26


Presentation and Investigative Competencies:  Google Slides and Browser(Google Chrome)

Standard: WordArt, Text Box, Insert Images, Animations and Transitions

Skill: I (Introduction)

Activity: Pets of President - Week 2 - Students choose their choice of 5 presidents and list their pets



Week of February 19


Presentation and Investigative Competencies:  Google Slides and Browser(Google Chrome)

Standard: WordArt, Text Box, Insert Images, Animations and Transitions

Skill: I (Introduction)

Activity: Pets of President - Week 1 - Students choose their choice of 5 presidents and list their pets



Week of February 12


Presentation  Competencies: Google Slides

Standard: Format Graphics (Fill and Line Color), Add Text to Shape, Shadow Effect

Skill: I(Introduction)

Activity: Valentine's Day Activity - Conversation Hearts - Students make their own conversation hearts from scratch using the shapes toolbar and format their fill and line color, create WordArt title and Word Heart Image



Week of February 5








Presentation Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Skill: S (Skill Building)

Standard: Insert Slides, Insert ClipArt and resize, Insert and Format Textbox, Group, Copy Paste, Order images, Insert and Format Shapes

Cross-Curricular Activity: STEM - Math/Technology

Activity 12 - Math Regrouping - Week 2- Students create multiplication fact slide as well as demonstrate multiplication facts using images on a different slide and take it back to class and match it with their similar multiplication fact 









Week of January 29








Presentation Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Skill: S (Skill Building)

Standard: Insert Slides, Insert ClipArt and resize, Insert and Format Textbox, Group, Copy Paste, Order images, Insert and Format Shapes

Cross-Curricular Activity: STEM - Math/Technology

Activity 12 - Math Regrouping - Week 1- Students create multiplication fact slide as well as demonstrate multiplication facts using images on a different slide and take it back to class and match it with their similar multiplication fact 









Week of January 22




Presentation  Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Standard: Group Images, UnGroup Images

Activity 11: Format Images - Group and UnGroup Images: Students learn to hold the SHIFT key and select multiple images at the same time and group them. They learn that grouping pictures help them to move a group of images together. Similarly, they also learn to ungroup and undo the grouping. Students will also learn to use the order option to bring an image to the front or back of another image.




Week of January 15

No Computer Classes - SNOW DAY 


Week of January 8




Communication Competency: Word Processing (Google Docs)

Standard: Clipboard (Cut and Paste)

Skill: S (Skill Building)

Activity 10: Cut and Paste-3 Ways - Students learn the concept of clipboard, cut and paste using icons on the Edit menu, shortcut keys Ctrl + X and Ctrl + V) and right click method, Difference between Copy and Paste and the concept of computer clipboard or pasteboard 




Week of January 1







Competency: Immersive Experiences:  (STEM) - Coding

Standard: Sequence, Loops, Conditional Logic

Activity 10  - An Hour of Code - Week 3 - Puppy Adventure - Students program Pixel the Puppy to help him get home. They’ll work on basic sequencing to navigate him around obstacles, then start adding in more complex programming concepts like conditionals and loops for repetition. Students go over coding vocabulary. 









Week of December 18

Competency: Immersive Experiences:  (STEM) - Coding

Standard: Students learn vocabulary for an hour of code activity

Activity: An Hour of Code - Week 2 - Beaver Achiever - Students help the  little beaver by using the simple blocks of code to complete the dam in the lake so the water remains calm, build a house, and make smoothies!


Week of December 11

Competency: Immersive Experiences:  (STEM) - Coding

Standard: Students learn vocabulary and program for an hour of code activity

Celebrating An Hour of Code

Activity - An Hour of Code - Week 1 - Kodable - Kodable Basics introduces foundational coding concepts to program fuzz to collect stars as it navigates through the tunnel


Week of November 27 - December 4

Presentation Competencies: Multimedia Skills - Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building) 

Skills: Slide Transitions, Slide Animations, Format Text, Present

Cross-Curricular Activity: Science/Technology

Activity 8: Landscape Presentation -  Week 2-This week students type the definitions for their landforms, change the font size, name and color, add slide transitions, animations for all objects, practice presenting and turn in the assignment. 


Week of November 20

Presentation Competencies: Multimedia Skills - Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building) 

Skills: Slide Transitions, Slide Animations, Format Text, Present

Cross-Curricular Activity: Science/Technology

Activity 8: Landscape Presentation -  Week 2-This week students type the definitions for their landforms, change the font size, name and color, add slide transitions, animations for all objects, practice presenting and turn in the assignment. 


Week of November 13

Communication Competencies: Multimedia Skills - PowerPoint 2013

Skill Level – S (Skill Building) 

Skills: Insert WordArt, Insert Online Picture

Cross-Curricular Activity: Religion/Technology

Activity 6 - Titles of Mary  - Week 1-Students research online and choose any 6 titles of Mary and create a poster for their religion class with an image of Mary and titles in WordArt formatted, resized, and orientation changed to fit the page. 


Week of November 6

Communication Competencies: Multimedia Skills - PowerPoint 2013

Skill Level – S (Skill Building) 

Skills: Insert WordArt, Insert Online Picture

Cross-Curricular Activity: Religion/Technology

Activity 6 - Titles of Mary  - Week 2- Students research online and choose any 6 titles of Mary and create a poster for their religion class with an image of Mary and titles in WordArt formatted, resized, and orientation changed to fit the page. 


Week of October 30


Presentation Competencies: Multimedia- Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building)

Skills: Duplicate Slides, Insert Audio, Publish slides to web, Apply Timings

Activity 5 Students will present their pumkin animations 


Week of October 23




Presentation Competencies: Multimedia- Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building)

Skills: Duplicate Slides, Insert Audio, Publish slides to web, Apply Timings

Activity 6 – Pumpkin Animation Week 3- This week students will complete creating the pumpkin animations. They will choose a background mp4 music, change the publish settings so that the audio icon is hidden while presenting, audio and slides loop and does not stop while slide change. Students will copy the link for their published slides and add it to the Google Classroom Assignment and turn in assignment




Week of October 16




Presentation Competencies: Multimedia- Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building)

Skills: Duplicate Slides, Insert Audio, Publish slides to web, Apply Timings

Activity 6 – Pumpkin Animation Week 2- This week students will complete creating the pumpkin animations. They will choose a background mp4 music, change the publish settings so that the audio icon is hidden while presenting, audio and slides loop and does not stop while slide change. Students will copy the link for their published slides and add it to the Google Classroom Assignment and turn in assignment




Week of October 9

Presentation Competencies: Multimedia- Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building)

Skills: Insert Shapes, Insert Slide, Change slide layout, Change background color to single, gradient and an image. Format the fill color and line color, resize shapes

Activity 6 – Pumpkin Animation Week 1- This week students add a title slide and create a pumpkin using the skills learned last week using shapes and format them. Next week they will learn to animate the pumpkin to make a jack-o-lantern


Week of October 2







Presentation Competencies: Multimedia- Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building)

Skills: Insert Shapes, Format the fill color and line color, resize shapes

Activity 5 – Red Circle, Red Circle What do you see?  This activity will be a preliminary activity that students will create and practice before they create a Halloween animation using PowerPoint next week. 







Week of September 25







Technology Competency: Design

Standard: Illustration

Activity 4: Create a Scene

Students access their assignment from Google Classroom, complete it by following video directions and turn in the assignment.







Week of September 18







Technology Competency: Communication

Standard: Word Processing (Google Docs)

Skill: Prepare WordArt

Activity 3: Prepare WordArt 







Week of September 11







Students will practice the following skills:

1.. Handle Chromebook with care

2. Login to Google Account with school email and Password

3. Access Google Classroom

4. Choose an activity

5. Handle Chrome tabs and be able to switch back and forth

6. Practice trackpad skills of moving and pointing, Clicking  through online activities 

7. Be able to log out of Chromebook

Activity 2 - My Summer Vacation






Week of September 4



Technology Competency: Digital Citizenship

General Technology Competency - Cross-Platform Skills

Skill: S (Skill Building)

Activity 1: RUP and Touchpad Basics - Students go through the technology acceptable use policy and master the Chromebook touchpad; Students complete keyboarding lessons if time permits
































































































































































































































































































Week of May 15


Week of May 8


Week of May 1


Week of April 24

Presentation  Competencies: Multimedia (PowerPoint 2013)

Standard: Insert Background, Copy and Paste Activity 

Cross-Curricular Activity: Math / Technology

Skill Level: I(Introduction)

Activity - Demonstrate Fraction - Students use two illustrations to demonstrate a fraction math problem 


Week of April 17

Presentation Competency: Presentation Skills (Google Slides)

Standard: Insert and Format Lines

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 20 -Line Sleuth: Students learn about the types of line (Line, Arrow, Elbow connector, Curved connector, Curve, Polyline, Scribble), Line weight, color, dash Start & End line 


Week of April 10


Week of April 3

Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet Skills (Google Sheets)

Standard: Format cell with fill color, line border and line color

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 19 -Composite Figures - Week 2: Students create a composite figure by changing the color of the cell, add border for the figures, and find the area of the composite figure and record it on the spreadsheet 


Week of March 27

Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet Skills (Google Sheets)

Standard: Format cell with fill color, line border and line color

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 19 -Composite Figures - Week 1: Students create a composite figure by changing the color of the cell, add border for the figures, and find the area of the composite figure and record it on the spreadsheet 


Week of March 20


Week of March 13


Week of March 6


Interactive Discovery: Animation

Standard: Learning to create animations

Skill: I(Introduction) 

Activity: Animate Practice  - Week 2 – Students are introduced to basic stop-motion animations where they draw or add images from categories which could be moved, turned around, arrange in front or behind another objects, create frames and convert animations to gif(Graphics Interchange Format) 



Week of February 27


Interactive Discovery: Animation

Standard: Learning to create animations

Skill: I(Introduction) 

Activity: Animate Practice  - Week 1 – Students are introduced to basic stop-motion animations where they draw or add images from categories which could be moved, turned around, arrange in front or behind another objects, create frames and convert animations to gif(Graphics Interchange Format) 



Week of February 20


Presentation  Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Standard: Insert GIF background, Insert GIF Clipart

Activity: GIF’s - Insert GIF background and GIF ClipArt to Google Slides. Insert the images and upload from the recent folder. GIF images cannot be copied and pasted as you do with jpeg images. Create dialogue for the characters 



Week of February 13


Week of February 6


Week of January 30


Catchup Week



Week of January 23


Presentation  Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Standard: Insert GIF background, Insert GIF Clipart

Activity: GIF’s - Insert GIF background and GIF ClipArt to Google Slides. Insert the images and upload from the recent folder. GIF images cannot be copied and pasted as you do with jpeg images. Create dialogue for the characters



Week of January 16


Presentation  Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Standard: Insert GIF background, Copy and Paste Skills

Activity : Make a Snowman - Students learn to insert a background that is animated on to their Slides, Create the body of a snowman using shapes tool, Format the Body with Fill and Line Color, Copy and Paste arms, feet, eyes, nose, mouth and use their creativity to name the snowman and write about it describing them. 



Week of January 9


Week of January 2


Week of December 19


Week of December 12


Week of December 5







3A - Landforms Project - Week 2

3B -

Presentation Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Skill: S (Skill Building)

Standard: Insert Slides, Insert ClipArt and resize, Insert and Format Textbox, Group, Copy Paste, Order images, Insert and Format Shapes

Cross-Curricular Activity: STEM - Math/Technology

Activity 12 - Math Regrouping - Week 2- Students create multiplication fact slide as well as demonstrate multiplication facts using images on a different slide and take it back to class and match it with their similar multiplication fact 









Week of November 28


Week of November 21

Presentation Competencies: Multimedia Skills - Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building) 

Skills: Slide Transitions, Slide Animations, Format Text, Present

Cross-Curricular Activity: Science/Technology

Activity 8: Landscape Presentation - Final Week 


Week of November 14

Presentation Competencies: Multimedia Skills - Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building) 

Skills: Slide Transitions, Slide Animations, Format Text, Present

Cross-Curricular Activity: Science/Technology

Activity 8: Landscape Presentation -  Week 2-This week students type the definitions for their landforms, change the font size, name and color, add slide transitions, animations for all objects, practice presenting and turn in the assignment. 


Week of November 7

Presentation Competencies: Multimedia Skills - Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building) 

Skills: Launch and Save, New Slide, Layout, Enter Text, Insert image (PNG - Transparent and GIF- Animated)

Cross-Curricular Activity: Science/Technology

Activity: Landscape - Week 1-This week students create 6 slides, add WordArt and format for the titles, insert images, change background with either a solid or a gradient color 


Week of October 31

Communication Competencies: Multimedia Skills - PowerPoint 2013

Skill Level – S (Skill Building) 

Skills: Insert WordArt, Insert Online Picture

Cross-Curricular Activity: Religion/Technology

Activity 6 - Titles of Mary  - Students research online and choose any 6 titles of Mary and create a poster for their religion class with an image of Mary and titles in WordArt formatted, resized, and orientation changed to fit the page. 


Week of October 24

Complete all pending assignments


Week of October 17


Week of October 10


Week of October 3

Presentation Competencies: Multimedia- Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building)

Skills: Insert Shapes, Format the fill color and line color, resize shapes

Activity 5 – Red Circle, Red Circle What do you see?  This activity will be a preliminary activity that students will create and practice before they create a Halloween animation using PowerPoint next week. 


Week of September 26







Technology Competency: Design

Standard: Illustration

Activity 4: Create a Scene

Students access their assignment from Google Classroom, complete it by following video directions and turn in the assignment.







Week of September 19


Week of September 5

































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Week of May 23


Week of May 16


Week of May 9


Week of May 2



Presentation Competency: Presentation Skills (Google Slides)

Standard: Insert and Format Lines

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 21 -Google Slides - 

join 4a classroom for summer reading

Students learn about notes page directions

Students learn to format a slide with background, text box, layout, WordArt, insert images, add transitions and animations




Week of April 25

Presentation Competency: Presentation Skills (Google Slides)

Standard: Insert and Format Lines

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 20 -Line Sleuth: Students learn about the types of line (Line, Arrow, Elbow connector, Curved connector, Curve, Polyline, Scribble), Line weight, color, dash

Start & End line



Week of April 18

3B - No School

3A

Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet Skills (Google Sheets)

Standard: Format cell with fill color, line border and line color

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 19 -Composite Figures - Week 2 Students create a composite figure by changing the color of the cell, add border for the figures, and find the area of the composite figure and record it on the spreadsheet


Week of April 11

Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet Skills (Google Sheets)

Standard: Format cell with fill color, line border and line color

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 19 -Composite Figures: Week 2 Students create a composite figure by changing the color of the cell, add border for the figures, and find the area of the composite figure and record it on the spreadsheet


Week of April 4

Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet Skills (Google Sheets)

Standard: Format cell with fill color, line border and line color

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 19 -Composite Figures-Week 1: Students create a composite figure by changing the color of the cell, add border for the figures, and find the area of the composite figure and record it on the spreadsheet


Week of March 28

Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet Skills (Google Sheets)

Standard: Enters Data, Creates charts: labels, interprets 

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 17 - Jelly Fish Factory - Graphing: Students design a spreadsheet, collect data for a Jellyfish fruit snack factory to find out what flavors customers favor, input data, select data and create a pie graph and format it. 


Week of March 21




Data Analysis Competencies: Spreadsheet Google Sheets

Standard: Cell, Cell address, Row, Column

Skill: I(Introduction)

Activity 16: Cell Address: Students learn the basic vocabulary words for spreadsheets such as cell, column, row and address; use fill color to format the cells and reveal a mystery picture, insert image over cells and resize 



Week of March 14




Presentation Competency: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Skills: I (Introduction)

Standard: Crop Images, crop images to shape

Activity 15: Cropping Techniques – Students learn to identify the crop tool from the format menu, crop pictures using the cropping handles to remove unwanted areas, crop images to various shapes. 




Week of March 7




Competency: Information Input (Keyboarding)

Standard: Home Row Keys and Finger placement

Skill Level: S(Skill Building)

Activity 13 - Keyboarding Lesson 1 - In this lesson students learn the keyboarding tips, rules, home keys, finger placement on the home row keys and practice typing home row keys without looking at the keyboard and finally log in their progress




Week of February 28




Interactive Discovery: Animation

Standard: Learning to create animations

Skill: I(Introduction) 

Activity: Animate Practice  - Week 2 – Students are introduced to basic stop-motion animations where they draw or add images from categories which could be moved, turned around, arrange in front or behind another objects, create frames and convert animations to gif(Graphics Interchange Format) - Person Walking Animation




Week of February 21




Interactive Discovery: Animation

Standard: Learning to create animations

Skill: I(Introduction) 

Activity: Animate Practice  - Week 1 – Students are introduced to basic stop-motion animations where they draw or add images from categories which could be moved, turned around, arrange in front or behind another objects, create frames and convert animations to gif(Graphics Interchange Format) 




Week of February 14





Presentation and Investigative Competencies:  Google Slides and Browser(Google Chrome)

Standard: Uses Links, Create and Format text, choose bullets, import graphics

Skill: I (Introduction)

Activity: Pets of President – Week 1 –Students choose their choice of 5 presidents and list their pets






Week of February 7





Presentation  Competencies: Google Slides

Standard: Format Graphics (Fill and Line Color), Add Text to Shape, Shadow Effect

Skill: I(Introduction)

Activity: Conversation Hearts - Students make their own conversation hearts from scratch using the shapes toolbar and format their fill and line color, create WordArt title and Word Heart Image

If time practice keyboarding





Week of January 31





3A - Multiplication Facts - Week 1

3B - Cut and Paste - 3 Ways




Week of January 24





3B - Multiplication Facts - Final Week


3A - Multiplication Facts - Week 1




Week of January 17





3B - No Computer Class - MLK Holiday


3A 

Presentation  Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Standard: Group Images, UnGroup Images, 

Activity 11: Week 2 - More Grouping Images Practice - Group and UnGroup Images: Students learn to hold the SHIFT key and select multiple images at the same time and group them. They learn that grouping pictures helps them to move a group of images together. Similarly they also learn to ungroup and undo the grouping. Students will also learn to use the order option to bring an image to the front or back of another image.




Week of January 10




Presentation  Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Standard: Group Images, UnGroup Images, 

Activity 11: Week 1 - Format Images - Group and UnGroup Images: Students learn to hold the SHIFT key and select multiple images at the same time and group them. They learn that grouping pictures helps them to move a group of images together. Similarly they also learn to ungroup and undo the grouping. Students will also learn to use the order option to bring an image to the front or back of another image.




Week of January 3




3A

Coding - Week 1 - Sequence and Loop

3B

Presentation Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Skill: S (Skill Building)

Standard: Insert Slides, Insert ClipArt and resize, Insert and Format Textbox, Group, Copy Paste, Order images, Insert and Format Shapes

Cross-Curricular Activity: STEM - Math/Technology

Activity 12 - Math Regrouping - Week 1- Students create multiplication fact slide as well as demonstrate multiplication facts using images on a different slide and take it back to class and match it with their similar multiplication fact 




Week of December 20



Complete all pending jobs

Google Santa Tracker





Week of December 13






Competency: Immersive Experiences:  (STEM) - Coding

Standard: Students learn vocabulary and program for an hour of code activity

Celebrating An Hour of Code

Activity 11  -Coding Week 3 - Students learn more complex programming concepts like conditionals and loops for repetition.





Week of December 6






Competency: Immersive Experiences:  (STEM) - Coding

Standard: Students learn vocabulary and program for an hour of code activity

Celebrating An Hour of Code

Activity 10  - Coding Week 2 - Puppy Adventure - Students program Pixel the Puppy to help him get home. They’ll work on basic sequencing to navigate him around obstacles, then start adding in more complex programming concepts like conditionals and loops for repetition. Students go over coding vocabulary. 






Week of November 29


Week of November 22






Presentation Competencies: Multimedia Skills - Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building) 

Skills: Slide Transitions, Slide Animations, Format Text, Present

Cross-Curricular Activity: Science/Technology

Activity 8: Landscape Presentation -  Week 2-This week students type the definitions for their landforms, change the font size, name and color, add slide transitions, animations for all objects, practice presenting and turn in the assignment. 






Week of November 15






3A - Titles of Mary

3B - Liturgy






Week of November 8






Presentation Competencies: Multimedia Skills - Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building) 

Skills: Launch and Save, New Slide, Layout, Enter Text, Insert image (PNG - Transparent and GIF- Animated)

Cross-Curricular Activity: Science/Technology

Activity: Landscape - Week 1-This week students create 6 slides, add WordArt and format for the titles, insert images, change background with either a solid or a gradient color 






Week of November 1






Communication Competencies: Multimedia Skills - PowerPoint 2013

Skill Level – S (Skill Building) 

Skills: Insert WordArt, Insert Online Picture

Cross-Curricular Activity: Religion/Technology

Activity 7 - Titles of Mary  - Students research online and choose any 6 titles of Mary and create a poster for their religion class with an image of Mary and titles in WordArt. 






Week of October 25


Presentation Competencies: Multimedia- Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building)

Skills: Duplicate Slides, Insert Audio, Publish slides to web, Apply Timings

Activity 5 Students will present their pumkin animations 


Week of October 18


Week of October 11






Presentation Competencies: Multimedia- Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building)

Skills: Insert Shapes, Insert Slide, Change slide layout, Change background color to single, gradient and an image. Format the fill color and line color, resize shapes

Activity 5 – Pumpkin Animation Week 1- This week students add a title slide and create a pumpkin using the skills learned last week using shapes and format them. Next week they will learn to animate the pumpkin to make a jack-o-lantern







Week of October 4





Presentation Competencies: Multimedia- Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building)

Skills: Insert Shapes, Format the fill color and line color, resize shapes

Activity 5 – Red Circle, Red Circle What do you see?  This activity will be a preliminary activity that students will create and practice before they create a Halloween animation using PowerPoint next week. 





Week of May 3







Competency: Digital Citizenship: Safety and Ethical Behavior

Standard: How to be SMART online

Skills: S(Skill Building)

Activity 18 - Mission 1 : Router’s Birthday Surprise Video - Students learn about the four internet safety rules, trusted adults, and how to stay safe and smart from the Webville outlaws. 





Week of April 26







Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet Skills (Google Sheets)

Standard: Enters Data, Creates charts: labels, interprets 

Skills: I (Introduction)

Activity 17 - Jelly Fish Factory - Graphing: Students design a spreadsheet, collect data for a Jellyfish fruit snack factory to find out what flavors customers favor, input data, select data and create a pie graph and format it. 





Week of April 19







Data Analysis Competencies: Spreadsheet Google Sheets

Standard: Cell, Cell address, Row, Column

Skill: I(Introduction)

Activity 16: Cell Address: Students learn the basic vocabulary words for spreadsheets such as cell, column, row and address; use fill color to format the cells and reveal a mystery picture, insert image over cells and resize 





Week of April 12










Presentation Competency: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Skills: I (Introduction)

Standard: Crop Images, crop images to shape

Activity 15: Cropping Techniques – Students learn to identify the crop tool from the format menu, crop pictures using the cropping handles to remove unwanted areas, crop images to various shapes. 






Week of April 5








3A - Complete Animal Research (Go through the checklist) and Practice Homerow Keyboarding

3B - No Computer Class - Holiday


Investigative Competency: Research Skills 

Presentation Competency: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Standard: Transition and Animation

Skill Level: I  (Introduction)

Cross-Curricular Activity: Science / Technology

Activity 14: Mission 4 -Animal Presentation -This week students

If time will practice keyboarding and Dr. Seuss STEM Activities online






Week of March 28








3B - Complete Animal Research and Practice Homerow Keyboarding

3A - No Computer Class - Holiday


Investigative Competency: Research Skills 

Presentation Competency: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Standard: Transition and Animation

Skill Level: I  (Introduction)

Cross-Curricular Activity: Science / Technology

Activity 14: Mission 4 -Animal Presentation -This week students

If time will practice keyboarding and Dr. Seuss STEM Activities online






Week of March 22







Investigative Competency: Research Skills 

Presentation Competency: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Standard: Transition and Animation

Skill Level: I  (Introduction)

Cross-Curricular Activity: Science / Technology

Activity 14: Mission 4 -Animal Presentation -This week students

If time will practice keyboarding and Dr. Seuss STEM Activities online






Week of March 15





Investigative Competency: Research Skills 

Presentation Competency: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Standard: Format Size, Style, Font Color

Skill Level: I  (Introduction)

Activity 14: Mission 3 -Animal Presentation -This week students





Week of March 8








Investigative Competency: Research Skills 

Presentation Competency: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Standard: Access PebbleGo, Navigate through the database, format background, font style, font size, copy and paste images

Skill Level: I  (Introduction)

Activity 14: Mission 2 -Animal Presentation -This week students

If time will practice keyboarding and Dr. Seuss STEM Activities online





Week of March 1






Investigative Competency: Research Skills 

Presentation Competency: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Standard: Access PebbleGo, Navigate through the database

Skill Level: I  (Introduction)

Activity 14: Mission 1 -Animal Presentation -This week students





Week of February 22






Competency: Information Input (Keyboarding)

Standard: Home Row Keys and Finger placement

Skill Level: S(Skill Building)

Activity 13 - Keyboarding Lesson 1 - In this lesson students learn the keyboarding tips, rules, home keys, finger placement on the home row keys and practice typing home row keys without looking at the keyboard and finally log in their progress




Week of February 15







Presentation Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Skill: S (Skill Building)

Standard: Insert Slides, Insert ClipArt and resize, Insert and Format Textbox, Group, Copy Paste, Order images, Insert and Format Shapes

Cross-Curricular Activity: STEM - Math/Technology

Activity 12 - Math Regrouping - Week 2 - Students create multiplication fact slide as well as demonstrate multiplication facts using images on a different slide and take it back to class and match it with their similar multiplication fact






Week of February 8







Catch up Week




Week of February 1







Presentation Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Skill: S (Skill Building)

Standard: Insert Slides, Insert ClipArt and resize, Insert and Format Textbox, Group, Copy Paste, Order images, Insert and Format Shapes

Cross-Curricular Activity: STEM - Math/Technology

Activity 12 - Math Regrouping - Week 2 - Students create multiplication fact slide as well as demonstrate multiplication facts using images on a different slide and take it back to class and match it with their similar multiplication fact






Week of January 25







Presentation Competencies: Multimedia (Google Slides)

Skill: S (Skill Building)

Standard: Insert Slides, Insert ClipArt and resize, Insert and Format Textbox, Group, Copy Paste, Order images, Insert and Format Shapes

Cross-Curricular Activity: STEM - Math/Technology

Activity 12 - Math Regrouping - Students create multiplication fact slide as well as demonstrate multiplication facts using images on a different slide and take it back to class and match it with their similar multiplication fact






Week of January 18


Week of January 11


Communication Competency: Word Processing (Microsoft Word 2013)

Standard: Clipboard (Cut and Paste)

Skill: S (Skill Building)

Activity 10: Cut and Paste-3 Ways - Week 2 Students learn the concept of clipboard, cut and paste using icons on the Edit menu, shortcut keys Ctrl + X and Ctrl + V) and right click method, Difference between Copy and Paste and the concept of computer clipboard or pasteboard


Create a check box list in Google Keep



Week of January 4


Week of December 14






3B - Coding 

3A - No Class






Week of December 7


Week of November 30






Presentation Competencies: Multimedia Skills - Google Slides

Skill Level – S (Skill Building) 

Skills: Slide Transitions, Slide Animations, Format Text, Present

Cross-Curricular Activity: Science/Technology

Activity 8: Landscape Presentation -  Final Week  - This week students type the definitions for their landforms, change the font size, name and color, add slide transitions, animations for all objects, practice presenting and turn in the assignment. 






Week of November 23






3A - No Class

3B - Landscape - Week 2






Week of November 16


Week of November 2