Elementary School
Tech Curriculum
Grades 3 to 5
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Table of Contents
Participation & Class Rules
First 2 Weeks: Logging In + Online Safety + Mouse Practice (Click HERE)
Digital Citizenship/Etiquette: Grade 3 | Grades 4-5 (Against Cyber Bullying: "Don't Laugh at Me" by Mark Wills)
Online Safety Pledge (Sign the pledge)
Typing Club: Typing Test (1) + Typing Per Grade + Nitro Type
Bloom's Taxonomy (Aiming for higher order thinking skills in everything > Objective = Creating, not just Applying)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Safety First (to be able to reach "Self-Actualization" and our ultimate objective: "Transcendence" > Helping Others)
Canva: About Me Poster (to hang in the computer lab)
+ First & Second Trimesters
Canva, PollEverywhere, Webpage Design: All About Me Project: Booklet in Canva (Check Schoology for assignment and rubric) + Oral Presentation (including a poll/survey) + Website based on the booklet
RUBRIC: All About Me Project || RUBRIC: Oral Presentations
All student websites will only be viewable by St. Leo's community (anyone with a St. Leo's email address). Still, make sure that, on your website, you do not mention your birth date. You can mention your age and birth month, though.
All images and videos you use should not be copyrighted. You need to be able to add the following at the bottom of your website: "All images are either under 'Creative Commons Licenses' on Google or owned." You can also use free pictures provided by Canva and Google Sites.
[All projects should be personalized: Include at least First Name & Grade/Class]
Participation & Class Rules
Typing Club: Typing Test (2) + Typing Per Grade + Nitro Type
Google Docs (font, font size, indent, double space...)
Webpage Design: Students will learn the foundational elements of web development by creating and styling their own web pages using HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) for structure and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for design.
Canva, PollEverywhere, Webpage Design: All About Me Project: Booklet in Canva (Check Schoology for assignment and rubric) + Oral Presentations (including a poll/survey) + Website based on the booklet.
Your website username needs to be formed of your graduation year (last 2 digits) + your first name (no last names allowed). For example: 24john
All words in titles (except prepositions and articles that have more than four letters) need to be capitalized
All titles on the homepage need to be aligned
All images and videos you use should not be copyrighted. You need to be able to add the following at the bottom of your website: "All images/videos are either under 'Creative Commons Licenses' on Google, provided by Canva and/or Google Sites, or owned." You can use free pictures provided by Canva and Google Sites.
Your website needs to include at least the following: RUBRIC: Website Design
A Visitor Counter (make sure you place it in the footer, modify its html code to center it on the page and link it to your own website)
At least 2 Special Effects (Make your website look more advanced and professional)
HTML Code for Moving Text: (Make sure to modify the code)
<html><body><marquee style="border:transparent 3px solid" direction="left" font style="russo one" scrolldelay="100"><font size="6" face="Russo one"><font color="#D81F0A"><bold>Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!</marquee>
Pages & Sub-Pages: Instructional Website
A Home page (it should include your logo [it needs to be clear and effective], a favicon, a welcoming message and/or video, and any items that make it look professional and attractive)
An About Me page (it should include information about yourself--who you are, your Family, your Friends, your School)
A Favorites page (Favorite Holidays, Favorite Animals, Favorite Things)
An Idea Basket page (it should include the following: Favorite Books, Favorite Quotes, Good Ideas, Future Projects)
An Academic Portfolio page with many Sub-Pages: (sub-pages should include relevant projects that you either link to or insert from your drive -make sure they are not "Restricted")
Technology (it should include your All About Me booklet as slides + as a gif + link to it as a pdf, All Your Canva poster(s) & Flyers, your "Tinkerable" Tinkercad design(s))
English: LA
Math
Science
Reading
Social Studies
Music
Art
Library
Religion
Spanish
etc.
A Tutorials page in which you explain how you did the 2 special effects and how you made your website look more professional
A Contact Me page which includes a Contact Me Google Form. (Optional)
Include an appropriate and professional avatar of yourself created on Canva, using Reimagine.
Optional: make a video of it welcoming people to your website. You can use HeyGen AI Avatars in Canva (free credit for only one video) or Voki.com.
Include Saint Leo's Mission Statement in the footer as follows:
Saint Leo's Mission Statement
Saint Leo the Great Catholic School community leads by the example of Jesus
with respect and compassion for all, to foster faith and academic growth.
[All projects should be personalized: Include at least First Name & Grade/Class]
Participation & Class Rules
Typing Club: Typing Test (3) + Typing Per Grade + Nitro Type
Databases: (graphs/charts) in Google Sheets & Canva [Assignment: Classmate Profile Project]
Canva: Graphic Design- Logo
Coding: Webpage Design: HTML/CSS Cool Codes and/or Scratch