Online Learning Activity
Week of March 9
Data Analysis Competencies: Spreadsheet (Excel 2013)
Standard: Enters Data, Modifies Spreadsheet height, width, text, alignment; Create Charts
Skill: I / (Introduction)
Activity: Survey
Week of February 24 and March 2
Presentation Competencies: Presentation (PowerPoint 2013)
Standard: Insert and Format Shapes, Insert and Format Images
Skill: S(Skill Building)
Cross-Curricular Activity: Social Studies/ Library/Technology
Activity: President Facts - Graphic Organizer:
Week of February 17
Communication Competencies: Word Processing (Word 2013)
Standard: Spell Check Tool
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Spell Check Activity:
Week of February 10
Investigative and Communication Competencies: Chrome Browser
Standard: Use Ctrl+F to bring the search box while researching online; Select text and change font color; Save the document
Skill: I(Introduction)
Week of February 3
Digital Citizenship Competency: Safety and Ethical Behavior
Standard: Digital citizens take responsibility for themselves, their communities, and their world?
Vocabulary Words: Responsibility, Digital Citizen
Skill: I (Introduction)
Activity: Rings of Responsibility- Students examine both online and in-person responsibilities, describe the Rings of Responsibility as a way to think about how our behavior affects ourselves and others,
Identify examples of online responsibilities to others.
Week of January 27
Design Competencies: Presentation (PowerPoint)
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Standard: Open and Save a PowerPoint Presentation, Insert Slides, Insert ClipArt and resize, Insert and Format Text box, Insert and Format Shapes
Cross-Curricular Activity: STEM - Math/Technology
Activity:Demonstrate Multiplication Facts using Clipart
Week of January 13 and January 20
Research and Communication: Browser and Word Processing
Tools: Google Chrome and Microsoft Word
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Cross-Curricular Activity: STEM - Science /Technology
Activity: Inventions that have been redesigned over time: Students all learning in science class about the Engineering Design Process (Redesign). They will choose a technology and show how it has been redesigned since the time of discovery. (Examples: TV, Phone, Cars, Computers etc.,) and document their findings and take it back to class for further discussions.
Week of January 6
Competency: Information Input (Keyboarding)
Standard: Identify special and functional keys on keyboard and learn their functions
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Keys on the keyboard
Week of December 30
Communication Competency: Word Processing (Microsoft Word 2013)
Standard: Clipboard (Cut and Paste)
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Cut and Paste Activity - Students learn the concept of clipboard, cut and paste using icons on ribbon menu, short cut keys Ctrl + X and Ctrl + V)
Week of December 16
Competency: Immersive Experiences: (STEM)
Standard: Coding
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: An Hour of Code – Puppy Adventure - Students use problem solving skills and learn to recognize patterns and write small programs and helping Pixel find his way home
Week of December 9
Competency: Immersive Experiences: (STEM)
Standard: Coding, Robotics
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Timeline Travel Ozobot- Week 2
Week of December 2
Competency: Immersive Experiences: (STEM)
Standard: Coding, Robotics
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Timeline Travel Ozobot- Week 1
Week of November 18
Communication Competencies: Multimedia Skills - PowerPoint 2013
Skill Level – S (Skill Building)
Skills: Add Slide Transitions, Animations(Entrance), Format Background, SlideShow
Cross-Curricular Activity: Science/Technology
Activity: Landscapes Week 2
Week of November 11
Communication Competencies: Multimedia Skills - PowerPoint 2013
Skill Level – S (Skill Building)
Skills: Launch and Save, New Slide, Layout, Enter Text, Insert image
Cross-Curricular Activity: Science/Technology
Activity: Landscapes Week 1
Week of November 4
Communication Competencies: Multimedia Skills - PowerPoint 2013
Skill Level – S (Skill Building)
Skills: Insert WordArt, Insert Online Picture
Cross-Curricular Activity: Religion/Technology
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 28
Investigative and Communication Competencies: Interactive Discovery
Tools: Browsers-Google Chrome – Word Processing
Standard: Uses a browser, uses links, create and save a new word document in the specified folder, Screenshot and crop image
Skill: I(Introduction) and S (Skill Building)
Activity: Create a Monster - Week 1
Week of October 21
Presentation Competencies: Multimedia Skills - PowerPoint 2013
Skill Level – I (Introduction)
Skills: Insert Sound, Apply Timings, Navigate slides during presentation
Activity 5 - Pumpkin Animation - Week 3 - This week students pick background music from the network folder, make it play through all slides during slideshow, and rehearse the timings of each slide and automate the slideshow, watch their slideshow
Week of October 14
Presentation Competencies: Multimedia (Microsoft PowerPoint 2010)
· Insert Shapes and Format Shapes
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: PowerPoint Animations – Week 2-
Week of October 7
Presentation Competencies: Multimedia Skills - PowerPoint 2013
Skill Level – S (Skill Building)
Skills: Insert and Format Shapes
Activity 5 - Pumpkin Animation - Week 2
Week of September 30
Presentation Competencies: Multimedia Skills - PowerPoint 2013
Skill Level – S (Skill Building)
Skills: Choose layout, slide style, Create New Slide, New Duplicate Slide, Insert background picture, Save presentation
Activity 5 - Pumpkin Animation - Week 1
Week of September 23
Presentation Competencies: Multimedia- Microsoft PowerPoint 2013
Skill Level – S (Skill Building)
Skills: Insert Shapes, Format the fill color and line color, resize shapes, Duplicate slide using right click as well as shortcut keys (Ctrl+D), insert a background image for a slide and resize to fit the slide.
Activity 4 – 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 16
Communication Competencies: Word Processing Skills- Microsoft Word 2013
Skill Level – S (Skill Building)
Skills: Open a document from a specified location on file explorer, save a document, understand alignment left, right, understand word wrap and enter key for new line.
Activity 3 - My Summer Vacation
Week of September 9
Communication Competencies: Word Processing
Tool: Microsoft Word 2013
Skills- Create a document, save a document, name a document, understand alignment left, right, understand word wrap and enter key for new line, insert online image, font size, and color.
Skill Level: S (Skill Building)
Activity 2: My Summer Vacation
Week of September 2
General Technology Competencies: Cross-Platform Skills
Log on to digital device with username and password
Basic care of computer: cleanliness, no food, respect for property
Name technology components: computer, digital devices, peripherals and explain functions
Skill Level: S (Development of skill by practice with teacher assistance)
Activity:
Assign computers
Login to a computer
Computer Lab rules
Fire drill procedures
Basic computer care
Computer Parts Activity
Log in to the computer
Week of May 27
Competency: Digital Citizeship: Safety and Ethical Behavior
Standard: Personal Information
Skills: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Privacy Pirates - This online interactive tutorial introduces children to the concept of online privacy and teaches them to distinguish between information that is appropriate to give out and information better kept private.
Week of April 22
default.wmvPresentation Competencies: Presentation(PowerPoint 2013)
Standard: Open and Save Presentation, Use WordArt for Title, Insert New Slide and choose Layout, Format Slide Background with gradient and single color, Add Transitions
Skill: S(Skill Building)
Activity: Presentation - Week 1
Week of April 8 and April 15
Data Analysis Competencies: Spreadsheet (Excel 2013)
Standard: Graphs
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Transformations - rotate, flip, slide - Students use the tools available in PowerPoint to translate a figure, rotate a figure by certain degrees, reflect figures or flip over and learn the mathematical concepts while doing this activity.
Week of April 1
Data Analysis Competencies: Spreadsheet (Excel 2013)
Standard: Graphs
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Sort and Graph
Week of March 25
Data Analysis Competencies: Spreadsheet (Excel 2013)
Standard: Format Cell Color and review of address of a cell(Cell Reference)
Skill: I(Introduction)
Standard: Create Pixel Art - Make a house by filling in the color of the cell based on its cell reference.
Week of March 18
Data Analysis Competencies: Spreadsheet (Excel 2013)
Standard: Cell, Row, Column, Address of a cell
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Grid Map
Week of March 11
Tool: Google Earth
Activity: Animal Safari - To find the animals, students cut and paste the coordinates into the "fly to" box and zoom in to get a good view. Then, write down the kind of animal they see on their worksheet and place a “tack “on Google earth.
Week of March 5
Communication Competencies: Word Processing (Microsoft Word 2013)
Skill: I (Introduction)
Standard: Use Thesaurus to enhance writing
Activity: Thesaurus Activity - Students type two synonyms and two antonyms for the given overused word using the word processing tool in the Review Menu, and learn the shortcut key to launch the tool
Week of February 25
Interactive Discovery: Animation
Standard: Learning to create animations
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Animate -Week 2 - Use Drawing Tools
Week of February 19
Interactive Discovery: Animation
Standard: Learning to create animations
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Animate – 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 11
Investigative and Communication Competencies: Chrome Browser
Standard: Use Ctrl+F to bring the search box while researching online; Select text and change font color; Save the document
Skill: I(Introduction)
Week of February 3
Communication Competencies: Word Processing (Word 2013)
Standard: Spell Check Tool
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Spell Check Activity: This activity teaches the students to use the Spell Check tool and reinforces the need for proofreading.Students identify and locate the tool from the Review ribbon under proofing group. Students will learn that as the spell check tool goes through the document it will give suggestions and make appropriate changes.
Week of January 21 and January 28
Week of January 7
Week of December 31
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: Around the World: Students will program an Ozobot to take a voyage around the world through the oceans and visit all the seven continents while learning world geography. Students will program the ozobot to change speed and do cool moves and make their bot pause at every continent.
Week of November 26
ompetency: Immersive Experiences: (STEM)
Standard: Coding
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: An Hour of Code-Week 1- Ozobot Introductory Lesson- Students are introduced to Ozobots which are programmable robot, control the movement and speed of Ozobots by programming it through color codes.
RoboGarden STEAM - Engineering
RoboGarden STEAM Activities has fused code practicing with STEAM learning and gamified missions in multiple activities. In the engineering activity, the student learns basic robotics while using coding blocks to solve challenges in the Christmas party.
Week of November 5
Communication Competencies: Word Processing – Microsoft Word 2013
Standard: Format shape color, edit text in shapes, insert text box, format background with gradient fill
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Label continent
Week of October 22
Week of October 15
Week of October 8
Week of October 1
Week of September 24
Communication Competencies: Word Processing Skills - Word 2013
Skill Level – S (Skill Building)
Skills: Prepare WordArt
Activity 4 - WordArt: Students learn to create a WordArt, change font name and size of WordArt, change line and fill color of WordArt, Change Line Width and Style, Add a shadow, make it 3D, and Transform it. If time practice keyboarding.
Week of September 17
Week of September 10
General Technology Competencies: General Technology Skill
Tasks: Turn device on, shut down device, Understand icons: open applications (Chrome, Word, PowerPoint, File Explorer), locate and start a program, close a program, locate and use taskbar to switch between applications (teach them alt-tab shortcut to switch)
Skill Level: S (Development of skill by practice with teacher assistance)
Week of May 28
Last week of computer class
Take home computer folders
Week of May 14
Week of May 7
Week of April 30
Digital Citizenship Competencies: Safety and Ethical Behavior
Standard: Do not give personal information onine
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: NetSmartz Internet Safety – Students watch an internet safety video about the following topics: Who’s your friend on the internet, internet safety rules, e-mail, SPAM, flaming and spyware
Week of April 16 and April 24
Data Analysis Competencies: Spreadsheet (Excel 2013)
Standard: Graphs
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Sort and Graph – Students visit the interactive website and input the data for the number of plastics, paper and cans collected, select the data and choose a graph, change the color for the chart.
Week of April 9
Data Analysis Competencies: Spreadsheet (Excel 2013)
Standard: Format color of the cell (intersection of a row and a column)
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity:
Week of April 2
Data Analysis Competencies: Spreadsheet (Excel 2013)
Standard: Cell, Row, Column, Address of a cell
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Grid Map - Students will locate the address of the cell and insert the object specified by the teacher in the directions. For example place a house clipart on B3 etc.,
Week of March 19
Communication Competencies: Word Processing (Word 2013)
Standard:
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Word Processing Review 1: African Elephant Activity- Students edit the document provided by the teacher using the following skills:
1. Center Align and Bold
2. Indent paragraphs – use tabs
3. Add bulleted list
4. Insert Pictures
5. Change Font Color
6. Check the document for spelling errors and fix it using the tool in the Review Tab
Week of March 12
Communication Competencies: Word Processing (MicrosoftWord 2013)
Skill: I (Introduction)
Standard: Use Thesaurus to enhance writing
Project: Thesaurus Activity
Week of March 5
Week of February 26
Interactive Discovery: Animation
Standard: Learning to create animations within ABCya Animate
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Animate – 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 19
Interactive Discovery: Online Story maker
Standard: S(Skill Building)
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: Story maker – Students pick three scenes, music and characters and create their own story based on Dr. Seuss creations and then use screen-cast to record screen and create a movie out of their story.
Week of February 12
Investigative and Communication Competencies:
Standard: Use Ctrl+F to bring the search box while researching online; Select text and change font color; Save the document
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: President Facts – Did you Know?
Students visit the Scholastic website to match the fun and wacky facts with the right presidents
Week of February 5
Investigative and Communication Competencies:
Standard: Use Ctrl+F to bring the search box while researching online; Select text and change font color; Save the document
Skill: I(Introduction)
Activity: President Facts – Did you Know?
Week of January 29
Catholic Schools Week
Week of January 22
Educational Websites
Week of January 8
Week of January 1
Snow Day - No Computer Classes
Week of December 18th - no computer class this week (Friday - no school and Thursday - Christmas Party)
Week of December 4 and December 11
Week of November 27
Week of November 13
Communication Competency: Word Processing
Skills: I (Introduction)
Standard: Crop Images, crop images to shape
Activity: Image Cropping Techniques - Remove unwanted portion of an image
Week of November 6
Activity: Google Earth iPad – Google Earth Passport – Students input the latitude and longitude co-ordinate and find out the name of the stadium and the state and city it is located.
Week of October 30
Week of October 23
Communication Competencies: Word Processing – Microsoft Word 2013
Standard: Change Font Choice, Size and color, use cropping tool, Format Graphics / Picture
Skill: S (Skill Building)
Activity: Make a monster – week 2 – Students describe their monster using adjectives
Week of October 16
Week of September 25
Presentation Competencies: Multimedia (Microsoft powerPoint 2010)
· Choose New Slide;
· Choose Layout;
· New Duplicate slide;
· Insert Background (Pics)
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: PowerPoint Animations – Week 1
Week of September 18
Communication Competencies: Word Processing (Microsoft Word 2010)
Prepare WordArt
Skill Level: I (Introduction)
Activity: Computer Term WordArt- Students learn to insert WordArt for the computer terms. Students learn to
• Insert WordArt
• Change the Fill Color
• Change Line Color
• Change Line Thickness
Week of September 11
Communication Competencies: Word Processing (Microsoft Word 2010)
Log on to digital device with username and password
1. Open and Save a document
2. Format text with font choice
Skill Level: S (Development of skill by practice with teacher assistance)
Activity: Find the Font
Presentation Competencies: Multimedia (Microsoft PowerPoint 2010)
Insert Audio
Rehearse the timings
Watch SlideShow
Skill Level: S(Skill Building)
Activity: PowerPoint Animations – Week 3
