Activities: Information Technology

Choose activities from below to work on during days 3-6 of this rotation. Make sure to record the work you've completed in your daily tracker, and turn in the required assignments using the Google Form. You will continue to work on these activities through all four days, so you will not be "finished" working on activities. When you finish one activity, begin another.

Check out the Cyberthreat Defender card game from your teacher. Read the introduction and game rules here.

Complete the Google Form.

Information Technology Career Investigations Choice Board

Select activities from this Choice Board to complete. Turn in a Google Form for each assignment you've completed from the board.

Join this KhanAcademy Class and work on any of the following:

Computer programming, Pixar in a Box, Computer science, Hour of Code, Internet safety, Social media literacy, Careers

https://www.khanacademy.org/join/YZ674F56

Complete the Google Form to let me know you're ready for me to grade it.

Search for and watch an informative video or find and read an article about a career in this cluster. Complete the Video/Article Summary and the Google Form.

Create a personal website.

Use Google sites if you don't have another site host you use.

Complete the Google Form when you've completed your site. Make sure you've published your site and attached the link.

Learn a computer programming language.

Use Khan Academy or other sites you've found that you have access to without downloads. You MUST check with Mrs. B. before beginning.

If you use Scratch, you may NOT play the games already created.

Turn in the file along with the Google Form.

PC Builder Simulator: Check out a laptop and use one class period to complete as much of the game as possible. Complete the Google Form.

Design and create a safety poster for a job in this career cluster. Use paper or create it digitally. Include at least 5 safety points with detailed information, (including specific dos and don'ts, how to handle equipment, what to do in case of emergencies, etc.), turn it in, complete the Google Form.

Design and create an informational poster for a job in this career cluster or the cluster in general. Use paper or create it digitally. Include at least 10 points with detailed information, turn it in, complete the Google Form.

Read the Crime Buster article in this document. Complete the Video/Article Summary and the Google Form.

Complete the Crack the Code worksheet. Do this on a Google Doc. Then complete the Google Form.

Find three companies that are currently hiring in this career cluster. Research the company itself and compare and contrast the three companies. You can do this on a Venn diagram or other graphic organizer. Then explain which company you'd prefer to work for and why. Submit by completing the Google Form.