4th/5th Grade

Welcome to 4th/5th grade technology.

Year 2 Topics of study may include:

• Circuits

  • Circuits (review/introduction)

  • Makey Makey projects

  • Circuit maze

• Digital Citizenship

  • Evaluating Web Pages (review)

  • Evaluating news articles

• Logic Activities

  • Lazer Maze

Year 1 Topics of study:

• Flight

  • Forces affecting flight

    • gravity

    • thrust

    • lift

    • drag

  • Keys to building a airplane design for flight distance

  • Build & test designs

  • Flight distance challenge

• Digital Citizenship

  • Evaluating Web Pages

  • 7 clues to look for to help determine if a web page is a good source of information

• Circuits

  • Paper circuits

    • 5 different circuits

      • simple

      • switch

      • 3 way switch

      • blinking

      • animation

  • Art project illumination

    • create circuit for your artwork

  • Snap circuits

  • Circuit maze

• Robotics

  • Ozobots

  • Dash & Dot

  • Sphero

  • Meccano

  • Boxer

Year 2 Topics of study may include:

• Digital Citizenship

  • Evaluating Web Pages (review)

  • Evaluating news articles

• Circuits

  • Circuits (review)

  • Circuit maze

  • Makey Makey projects

• Logic Activities

  • Lazer Maze