1. Operate a variety of digital tools (e.g., open/close, find, save/print, navigate, use input/output devices).
2. Identify, locate, and use letters, numbers, and special keys on a keyboard (e.g., Space Bar, Shift, Delete).
3. Create a simple digital artifact.
4. Use appropriate digital tools individually and collaboratively to create, review, and revise simple artifacts that include text, images and audio.
1. Collaboratively use digital tools and media resources to communicate key ideas and details in a way that informs, persuades, and/or entertains.
2. Use a variety of digital tools to exchange information and feedback with teachers.
3. Use a variety of digital tools to present information to others.
1. Conduct basic keyword searches to gather information from teacher-provided digital sources (e.g., online library catalog, databases).
2. Create an artifact individually and collaboratively that answers a research question, while clearly expressing thoughts and ideas.
3. Acknowledge and name sources of information or media (e.g., title of book, author of book, website).
1. Identify different kinds of information (e.g., text, charts, graphs, numbers, pictures, audio, video, collections of objects.)
2. Identify, research, and collect information on a topic, issue, problem, or question using age-appropriate digital technologies.
3. Individually and collaboratively, propose a solution to a problem or question based on an analysis of information.
4. Individually and collaboratively, create information visualizations (e.g., charts, infographics).
5. Explain that computers can save information as data that can be stored, searched, retrieved, and deleted.
1. Describe how models represent a real-life system (e.g., globe, map, solar system, digital elevation model, weather map).
2. Define simulation and identify the concepts illustrated by a simple simulation (e.g., growth and health, butterfly life cycle).
1. Type five words-per-minute times grade level (e.g., for Grade 5, type 25 words/minute).
2. Navigate between local, networked, or online/cloud environments and transfer files between each (upload/download).
3. Use digital tools (local and online) to manipulate and publish multimedia artifacts.
1. Communicate key ideas and details individually or collaboratively in a way that informs, persuades, and/or entertains using digital tools and media-rich resources.
2. Collaborate through online digital tools under teacher supervision.
1. Identify digital information sources to answer research questions (e.g., online library catalog, online encyclopedias, databases, websites).
2. Perform searches to locate information using two or more key words and techniques to refine and limit such searches.
3. Evaluate digital sources for accuracy, relevancy, and appropriateness.
4. Gather and organize information from digital sources by quoting, paraphrasing, and/or summarizing.
5. Create an artifact that answers a research question and clearly communicates thoughts and ideas.
6. Cite text-based sources using a school- or district-adopted format.
7. Provide basic source information [e.g., Uniform Resource Locator (URL), date accessed] for non-text-based sources (e.g., images, audio, video).
1. Individually and collaboratively create a simple model of a system (e.g., water cycle, solar system) and explain what the model shows and does not show.
2. Identify the concepts, features, and behaviors illustrated by a simulation (e.g., object motion, weather, ecosystem, predator/prey) and those that were not included.
3. Individually and collaboratively, use data from a simulation to answer a question.