Week of September 7
Technology Competency: Digital Citizenship, General Technology
Standard: Safety and Ethical Behavior, Keyboarding
Skill:
Follows instructions and obeys rules
Understands and knows to adhere to Acceptable Use Policy
Understands the purpose for and uses email effectively
Activity: Understand Acceptable Use Policy
Week of March 23
Google Keep Assignment - Tool to get organized for online learning - tasks per subject
Week of March 16
General Technology Competency: Cross Platform Skills
Skill: I (Introduction)
Activity: Human Computer - Students learn how different parts of the computer work such as the computer case, power supply, motherboard, processor, hard disk that consists of long term memory and short term memory called as RAM (Random Access Memory) and compare the computer part to similar human part that has similar functions.
Week of March 9
Data Analysis Competency: Google Sheet
Standard: Merge Cells, use alternating colors, use formulas
Skill: S(Skill Building)
Activity:Ice Cream Shop
Week of March 2
Complete all pending work for 2nd Trimester
Week of February 24
Input Competencies: Keyboarding Skills
Skill Level –I (Introduction)
Skills: Reaching out in Keyboarding
Activity: Keyboarding 2nd Trimester
Week of February 17
Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel 2013)
Standard: resize rows and columns, fill color and border cells, merge cells, use multiplication formula, use sum function, insert image and format the cells for currency
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Fastest Animals
Week of February 10
Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel 2013)
Standard: Write Formulas (Add, Subtract)
Skill: I (Introduction)
Activity: Coin Collector - Formula Workout- Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divide
Week of February 3
Digital Citizenship Competency:Safety and Ethical Behavior
Standard: Treat others with respect online; Do not give personal information online; Create safe/secure usernames and passwords that are not shared with others
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Cross-Curricular Activity: Religion/Technology
Activity: Internet Safety - Cyber-bullying -Students learn how to engage with others online in a positive and constructive way. They learn how to protect themselves and others by being peacemakers in digital spaces. This lesson is taught using Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan.
Week of January 27
Complete all pending jobs and turn in all assignments in Google Classroom
Week of January 20
Presentation Competency: Multimedia Skills
Tool: Google Slides
Standard: Hyperlinked Buttons
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Create a Jeopardy Game - Week 2 - Students will create a non-linear Google Slide presentation.
Week of January 13
Presentation Competency: Multimedia Skills
Tool: Google Slides
Standard: Hyperlinked Buttons
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Create a Jeopardy Game - Week 1 - Students will create a non-linear Google Slide presentation. Students will insert buttons for points and topics for the game, insert slides with answers and questions and hyperlink them to the points that are hyperlinked.
Week of January 6
Design Competency: Multimedia Skills
Tool: Google Slides
Standard: use the drawing tools available to create a timeline
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: MLK Timeline Week 2 - Create a timeline - The second part of the task is to display the information gathered in a timeline (Graphic Organizer)
Week of December 30
Investigative Competency: Research Skills
Design Competency: Multimedia Skills
Tool: Google Slides, Browser
Standard: understands purpose of research, uses browser and links, use the drawing tools available to create a timeline
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: MLK Timeline Week 1 - Research and Gather information - The first part of the task is to research online using bookmarked websites to gather major events over a period of time in the life of MLK. The second part of the task is to display the information gathered in a timeline (Graphic Organizer)
Week of December 16
Week of December 9
Competency: Immersive Experiences: (STEM)
Standard: Coding
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: An Hour of Week – Week 1- Hot Wheels
Week of December 2
Data Competency: Spreadsheet
(Google Sheet)
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Standard: Input data, Autosum, create graphs, Format Cells
Activity: Santa’s Budget - Students use their spreadsheet skills and help Santa make a
spreadsheet that calculates the expenses for the year and find out which month he spent
the most and create a graph to show the result
Week of November 18
Competency: Immersive Experiences: (STEM)
Standard: Coding, Robotics
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Food Chain - Energy Bot- Students create a food chain and use ozobot with at least 5 codes to demonstrate how the energy flows from one organism to another by travelling through the tracks and follow the food chain and pause at every living organism
Week of November 11
Communication Competency: Word Processing (Google Docs)
Standard: Use Bulleted and Numbered List
Skill: I (Skill Building)
Project: Halloween Recipe
Week of November 4
Communication Competencies: Word Processing Skills
Standard: Choose line spacing, single, double, multiple line spacing
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Project: Students type three paragraphs from the story Johnny Appleseed and change the line spacing for each paragraph
Week of October 21
Multimedia Competency: Presentation (Google Slides)
Standard: Copy and Paste Shortcut keys, Text box
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Build a Jack-O-Lantern - This lesson is a great way to let students be creative in creating the Jack-O-Lantern, learn the shortcut keys as well as the menu tool to copy and paste, use text box to write a description of their Jack-O-Lantern.
Week of October 14
GSuite Apps: Google Maps
Skills: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Students use Google MyMaps to create customized maps and learn to create the content by adding markers such as push pins, videos, photos and text allows for creation, and trace over their place of interest. Students will create an interactive tour of their 3 favorite dream places to visit.
Week of October 7
Digital Citizenship: Safety and Ethical Behavior
Design Competency: Google Drawing
Standard: Be a digital citizen, create a drawing using image and label
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Project: Digital Citizenship Infographic – Students create an info-graphic of a responsible citizen who makes wise decisions in the digital world.
Week of September 30
Information Input Competency: Keyboarding Skills
Standard: Locate keys, correct finger placements on the keys, Strives for Accuracy, Strives for Speed
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity 4 - Keyboarding Lessons 1 and 2: Students join the online keyboarding classroom using the link provided by the teacher. In this lesson students learn proper keyboarding posture, hand placement and complete beginner lessons 1 and 2 (J, F, Space, U, R, and K keys) with an accuracy of 90% and 15-20 wpm.
Week of September 23
Design Competencies: Photo Editing, Google Drawing
Standard: Green Screen, Background Removal
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Students remove the green background for the picture taken in front of green screen.
Week of September 16
Design Competency: Illustration(Google Drawing)
Students creates a comic
Uses the speech bubbles, and caption
Skills: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Google Drawing Mission 3 - Earn a Brown Belt - Create a comic - Students bring a story to life by creating a four panel comic strip. Each panel needs to include a background, a caption box, a png ClipArt, speech/thinking bubbles,
Week of September 9
Design Competency: Illustration(Google Drawing)
Students creates a simple Poster
Uses the menu/toolbars (ribbons)
Skills: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Google Drawing Mission 2 - Earn a Green Belt
Week of September 2
Design Competency: Illustration
Tool: Google Drawing
Earn White Belt - Resize canvas, Change Background Color - Earn White Belt
Earn Yellow and Orange Belt
Insert Shapes
Format shapes to change fill color, line color, line thickness
Rotate shape
Resize shape
Arrange → Order shapes to go in front or back
group shapes to become one object.
Skills: S(Skill Building)
Tasks:
Assign Computers, login to google account, join Google Classroom with the code
Activity: Google Drawing - Mission 1 - Shapes and Diagram
Week of April 22
Presentation Competency: Multimedia (Google Drawing for planning and Google Slides for interactive story)
Skill: Hyperlinks
Project: Interactive Adventure Story - Week 1 - This week students created the Title Slide, setting of the story, two choices where the story branches, story and ending for the first choice.
Week of April 1 and April 8
Presentation Competency: Multimedia (Google Drawing for planning and Google Slides for interactive story)
Skill: Hyperlinks
Project: Interactive Adventure Story - Planning - This week students make a storyboard. Next week students create a number of slides with a story on and then link them together with action buttons/hyperlinks to make an interactive story for readers and story ending changes based on reader’s choice.
Week of March 25
Interactive Discovery: Talking Pictures
Skill: I(Introduction)
Project: Blabberize - Pictures that can talk - Students create blabberize account, practice uploading picture, convert text to sound wave, upload sound, move mouth of picture and create a talking picture
Week of March 18
Programming: Scratch
Standard: Programming, Costumes, Script, Sound
Skill: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Scratch Lesson 3
Week of March 11
Programming: Scratch
Standard: Programming, Costumes, Script, Sound
Skill: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Scratch Lesson 2 -This week students create costumes using the sprite editor, add scripts and import sounds, program the character to do a hip hop dance
Week of March 4
Programming: Scratch
Standard: Introduction to Scratch Programming
Skill: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Introductory Lesson 1- In this lesson students learn to launch the application, paint a sprite, get a sprite from library, resize, duplicate and delete sprite, edit a sprite, write script or commands to make a sprite do something, change costumes for sprite, change the stage/background
Week of February 25
Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel 2013)
Standard: resize rows and columns, fill color and border cells, merge cells, use multiplication formula, use sum function, insert image and format the cells for currency
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Fastest Animals - Students research online and find the speed in miles per hour for the list of animals given to them, design a spreadsheet, input the data and use formulas to find out the fastest and slowest animals from the data entered, create a chart and analyze the results
Week of February 18
Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel 2013)
Standard: Write Formulas (Multiply, Divide)
Skill: I (Introduction)
Activity: Coin Collector - Formula Workout- Multiply and Divide - In this task students write formulas to find answers to addition and subtraction problems using formulas. If the formula is correct they get a coin and score is incremented by one
Week of February 11
Digital Citizenship Competency:Safety and Ethical Behavior
Standard: Treat others with respect online; Do not give personal information online; Create safe/secure usernames and passwords that are not shared with others
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Cross-Curricular Activity: Religion/Technology
Activity: Digital Citizenship
Week of February 4
Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel 2013)
Standard: Write Formulas (Add, Subtract)
Skill: I (Introduction)
Activity: Coin Collector - Formula Workout- Add, Subtract - In this task students write formulas to find answers to addition and subtraction problems using formulas. If the formula is correct they get a coin and score is incremented by one
Week of January 21 and January 28
Digital Citizenship Competency: Safety and Ethical Behavior
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity:Finding Media Balance Activity- Students will be able to:reflect on how balanced they are in their daily lives, consider what "media balance" means, and how it applies to them, create a personalized plan for healthy and balanced media use.
Week of January 14
Pivot Animator - Week 2
Week of January 7
Design Competency: Animation Skills
Standard: Launch and save animation, load figure type, change the color of the figure, Create Frames, manipulate stick figure movements using nodes
Skill Level: I (Introduction)
Activity: Pivot Stickfigure Animator - Introduction - Students learn the basics of animation hands on using the animator tool, create a simple animation and export the animation as a gif
Ozo5th.mov
Week of December 17
Week of December 10
Week of December 3
Competency: Immersive Experiences: (STEM)
Standard: Coding, Robotics
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Food Chain - Energy Bot- Students create a food chain and use ozobot with at least 5 codes to demonstrate how the energy flows from one organism to another by travelling through the tracks and follow the food chain and pause at every living organism
Week of November 26
Competency: Immersive Experiences: (STEM)
Standard: Coding, Robotics
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: An Hour of Code-Week 1
Activity 1: Dance Party - Students learn coding concepts to choreograph a dance.
Activity 2: Ozobot Introductory Lesson - Students code to change speed of Ozobot as well as make special moves
Dance Party
Ozobot
Week of November 5
Input Competency: Keyboarding Skills
Standard: Uses correct hand placement for alphabet
Skills: I (Introduction)
Activity: First Trimester Keyboarding Activity - Students login to keyboarding lesson using their google account and complete the following lessons J, F, U, R, K, D, E, I, C, G, N, Beginner Review 1 lessons
Week of October 22
Digital Citizenship Competency and Design Competencies: Photo Editing, Google Drawing
Standard: Green Screen, Background Removal
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Project:Digital Citizen Infographic
Week of October 15
Week of October 8
Week of October 1
GSuite Apps: Google Maps
Skills: S(Skill Building)
Activity: US State
Find facts about State assigned to them using Sirs Discoverer subscription database
Create pins on the Google Maps shared for their class and type facts about the state with pictures.
They also use the tool for outlining shapes on map for their assigned state.
This is a powerful digital tool as students can visualize information in a new way. The class as a whole has created an interactive database on the map itself for their US state and can also see other student’s research on the same map collaboratively.
Week of September 24
Investigative Competency: Research Skills
Standard: Student understand the purpose of research, Uses a browser, uses links, Cites sources using Noodle Tools
Skills: S(Skill Building)
Activity: US State - Find facts about State assigned to them using Sirs Discoverer subscription database, students learn to use proper techniques to search the database, complete the google docs with state facts including works cited
Week of September 17
Design Competency: Illustration(Google Drawing)
Students creates a simple illustration
Uses the menu/tool bars (ribbons)
Skills: S(Skill Building)
Activity: All About Me Poster - Students use all the skills learnt previously to create a poster.
Week of September 10
Activity Earn a black belt using Google Drawing-Week 2
Orange Belt - Using WordArt, Callout Shape, Send to back feature
Green Belt - Use the Research Tool, insert a background image
Brown Belt - Insert and recolor an image
Black Belt - Using the Shapes create own image
If time join my typing class with the code provided and practice keyboarding
Week of September 3
2. Activity: Earn a black belt using Google Drawing-Week 1
White Belt - Rename Drawing File, Change Page Setup, change background
Yellow Belt - Inserting a png (transparent image), text box, font, font size
Week of May 28
Last week of computer class
1. Upload the following files from class of 2021 to Google Drive
Cartoon Database
Scratch Lessons
US States PowerPoint
2. Complete the following three interactive lessons on Digital Citizenship (Admongo, Drive and earn your web license, Safety Land)
Week of May 21
Week of May 14
Digital Citizenship Competencies: Safety and Ethical Behavior
Standard: Authenticating online information and observing rules of netiquette
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: The second adventure of the three cyber pigs – Cybersense or Nonsense
Week of May 7
Digital Citizenship Competencies: Safety and Ethical Behavior
Standard: Cyberbully, bystander, search techniques, copyright
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Digital Passport - - Part 2
Week of April 30
Digital Citizenship Competencies: Safety and Ethical Behavior
Standard: Digital Footprint
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Digital Footprint - Students learn that the information they put online leaves a digital footprint or “trail” by watching a video and completing an interactive activity
Week of April 23
Data Competency: Database Skills
Standard: Query and Report
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Cartoon Database – Week 3 – Students learn to create query using the wizard. Based on the questions asked students fill the criteria or conditions, run the query and generate a report.
Week of April 16
Data Competency: Database Skills
Standard: Data Types (Text, Number, Date)
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Cartoon Database – Week 2 – Students create a database and save it to their network folder, include a table by adding fields that are needed for the record by choosing appropriate data type and input entry for the fields.
Week of April 9
Data Competency: Database Skills
Standard: Database terms (Database, field, record, file), paper based and computerized database, advantages and disadvantages of the paper / computerized databases
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Students watch an interactive tutorial that explains the database terms and what a database is and complete the activity in classroom and turn in the assignment
Week of March 26
Programming Competency: Scratch
Standard: Loops (Repeat loops; Forever loops)
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Scratch Lesson 3 – Shark and Fish Game – Create a variable for keeping track of score
Week of March 19
Programming Competency: Scratch
Standard: Loops (Repeat loops; Forever loops)
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Scratch Lesson 2 - Lost in Space
Week of March 12
Programming Competency: Scratch
Standard: Sequence
Activity: Scratch Lesson 1 - Rock Band - Students learn to explore the tools in Scratch programming
Week of February 26 and March 5
Presentation Competency: Multimedia (PowerPoint 2013)
Standard: Format Picture - Background Removal Menu (Mark areas to keep, mark areas to remove, delete mark)
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Remove Background – Students watch the video to remove background from an image or a portion of the image, practice the skill using the slides provided. They also learn to create a new image using a portion from different images.
Week of February 19
Investigative competency: Research Skills
Standard: Communication and Privacy
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Digital Passport – Communication and Privacy – Students login to Digital passport with their username and password. Students learn about safe and responsible cell phone usage; evaluate examples of online messages and decide what information is appropriate to share and when, reminded that nothing is truly "private" or "erasable" online, create comic strips to show alternative endings
Week of February 12
Communication Competency: (Google Docs)
Standard: Column newsletter, snipping tool for screenshot
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Skill: R(Reinforcement)
Activity: If you were a President - Week 2 – Students create a newsletter about the important decisions the President made in choosing his advisers and allocating budget
Week of February 5
Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet (Google Sheet)
Standard: Enters data, modifies spreadsheet (height and width of a cell), uses number(%) correctly, create charts
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: If you were a President – Week 1- Students imagine themselves as the president, choose their top advisors and balance the national budget by indicating what percentage goes to what program: education, environment, military, health care, and crime prevention and create a pie chart to show how they have budgeted the money.
Week of January 29
Week of January 15
Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet (Google Sheet)
Standard: Insert Chart from data
Skill: I (Introduction)
Activity: Fastest Animals
Week of January 8
Investigative Competency: Research Skills
Standard: Use a browser, use links, students understands the purpose of research
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: MLK Timeline – Students use the World Book Online which is a subscription database, login, use search feature and completes the time line using a word processing program
Week of January 1
Data Analysis Competency: Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel 2013)
Standard: Write Formulas (Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, AutoFill)
Skill: I (Introduction)
Activity: Formula Lesson – Students solve the math problems in their spreadsheet and collect gold coins
Week of December 11
Data Competency: Spreadsheet (Google Sheet)
Skill: I (Introduction)
Standard: Input data, Autosum, create graphs
Activity: Santa’s Budget
Week of December 4
Week of November 27
Presentation Competency: Multimedia Skill
Tools: PowerPoint 2013
Standard: Insert state song, Animations and Transitions
Skill: R (Reinforcement)
Cross-Curricular Activity: Technology/Social Studies
Activity: US States – Week 2
Week of November 13
Presentation Competency: Multimedia Skill
Tools: PowerPoint 2013
Standard: Choose Layout, Slide Style, background, Insert New Slides
Skill: R (Reinforcement)
Cross-Curricular Activity: Technology/Social Studies
Activity: US States – Week 1 – Students input information about their US State assigned to them, use Sirs Discoverer for research, complete their 12 slides
Week of November 6
Digital Citizenship Competencies: Good Netiquette
Tools: Wonderopolis (Online)
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Good Netiquette- Week 1 - Students get ready to wonder whether they have good netiquette, basic rules of netiquette, and why is good netiquette important? Students understand the meaning for the wonder words, and take the quiz to test the knowledge
Week of October 30
Week of October 23
Information Input Competency: Keyboarding Skills
Standard: Use correct hand placement
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Students start practicing kidztype keyboarding exercises for first trimester following the links in Google Docs(Home Row, EI, RU, TY, WO, QP keys)
Students will use the keyboarding mask while practicing
Week of October 16
Week of October 5 and Week of October 9
5A Finished State Map - Please take a look
Week of September 25
Week of September 18
Communication Competency: Word Processing (Google Docs)
• Choose Double Line Spacing
• Insert Page Numbering
• Insert Headers
Skills: S(Skill Building)
Activity: MLA Format Essay – Students learn to type an essay about Charles Babbage who is the father of computers in MLA format by watching the video directions and complete the assignment in Google Docs and turn in the assignment through Google Classroom
Week of September 11
Activity: Earn a black belt using Google Drawing-Week 1
Last week students had time just enough to earn an orange belt learning to use Google Drawing (one of the GSuite App)
This week they will learn more skills in Google Drawing and earn green, brown and black belt.
Green Belt - Use Research tool to find a suitable background image
Brown Belt - Recolor an image
Black Belt - Create a logo and group objects as one
If time students practice keyboarding
