Second+Grade

|| Continents and Oceans Students will use a Kidspiration Template to identify continents and oceans. Here is a website that will provide practice in this area: [|Sheppard Software] Mahler/Bradfield
 * **Tech Literacy Expectations (ICC)** ||= **Examples and Web sites** || **Standard/Benchmarks** ||
 * 1. Use technology to create projects, identify patterns, and make predictions.
 * Use a variety of digital tools and media-rich resources to create projects.



||  || ||   || Standard 07: Benchmark 2.3 || Students will use the internet to answer the questions on a fact map created with Kidspiration. The address for the site they will use will be at the bottom of their fact map. Other sources of information may also be used, such as encyclopedias and books from the AEA. After completing the fact map, the students will use the answers they found to write a short report about their dinosaurs. The class will make a large drawing of the dinosaurs' environment, and then each of them will find a picture of their dinosaur using SchoolsClipArt.com. This picture will then be placed on the large drawing. This large drawing will serve as a background for the interview each of them will have. Each student will be interviewed by another student about his/her dinosaur. The teacher will videotape all the interviews and put them into iMovie. This can be shared on a blog with other schools. Template is available for use. **Sobaski/Hunerdosse** ||  ||
 * **1. Use technology to create projects, identify patterns, and make predictions.
 * Use a variety of digital tools and media rich resources to create a projects.
 * || Students will use a Kidspiration Template to work with finding locations on a grid map as well as adding locations to the map at designated areas. The Kidspiration Library Everyday Buildings offers many choices for additional options. Mahler/Bradfield
 * **2. Use a variety of technology tools and media-rich resources to work collaboratively with others. ** || Students will create a buddy book about themselves and their fifth grade reading buddy. They will use digital cameras to take pictures of themselves and things they like to do. They also will use iclipart database to find pictures to illustrate likes and dislikes. They will use a template created in word to make their book. They will learn how to take pictures with a digital camera, edit pictures, and import pictures into their book. The students will collaborate together on what should go into the book and what background, font and style should be used page by page for the whole books. The students will work together to print and assemble the book. ||  ||
 * **2. Use a variety of technology tools and media-rich resources to work collaboratively with others. ** || Students will create a holiday powerpoint slideshow. This is a differentiated unit that incorporates the software of Kidpix and/or Garageband. Classroom books as well as collections from the AEA are used for research Students will fill in a storyboard prior to working with Powerpoint. Students will illustrate their slides using Kidpix. The questions of who, what, when, why and how the holidays are celebrated will be answered. || Social Studies
 * **2. Use a variety of technology tools and media-rich resources to work collaboratively with others. ** || __**Dinosaur - interview & i-movie**__
 * **3. Utilize predetermined digital resources and tools to answer questions or solve problems. **
 * Follow a plan of action to guide inquiry by using predetermined digital resources. || Students use the online Little Explorers Picture Dictionary to answer questions from worksheets at the sight. There are eight (general question) second grade worksheets, and five (general question) third grade worksheets that can be printed for use. There are also (topical question) worksheets from a variety of topics in categories including animals, science, geography, holidays, music and sports. Students decide what word they need to look up to find the answer to a question, and then get dictionary practice by locating that word in the dictionary.
 * Carter/La Van**

[|Picture Dictionary] [|Worksheets] ||  || Students will experience gathering data and documenting it using bar graphs and pictographs. They will be able to recognize the differences between these two types of graphs, and be able to take the data they have collected and complete the graphs with their information. Students will demonstrate their understanding by interpreting the data shown on both graphs. Kidspiration was used to create these templates for your use. ||  ||
 * **4. Use technological resources to investigate given questions or problems. ** || **Bar Graphs & Pictographs**
 * Sobaski/Hunerdosse**
 * **5. Understand and practice appropriate and safe uses of technology. ** || Students in completing buddy book will use the database iclipart. Students will discuss why iclipart is preferred over google images. All photos used will be cited. ||  ||
 * **5. Understand and practice appropriate and safe uses of technology.**
 * **Understand that stealing information and things others have created is the same as stealing tangible items.**
 * **Understand why technology is useful in helping them complete a task.** || Students are assigned a country to research in order to complete a written report. Students use an online database, CultureGrams Kids Edition, to research their assigned country. Using note cards, a set number of facts are written down. Students are reminded often that these facts should be written in their own words. The note cards are used to write up their report.
 * Koch/La Van

 **[|CultureGrams] ||  ||
 * **6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application. ** || Students in order to create their Buddy book will need to know how to edit copy in word. They also will need to learn how to design pages for a book setting. They will learn vocabulary words, font, size, align left, center. align right, justify. ||  ||
 * **6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application. ** || Students will use the software Kidspiration to demonstrate their understanding of a food pyramid.

|| Science Standard 03 ||
 * **6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application. ** || Students will use templates from Kidspiration to show what they have learned about amphibians, birds, fish, insects, mammals and reptiles. Students will be directed to go to various websites using links from the templates. From these links students will find facts and photos that support classroom learning. Students will need to know how to work between more than one open document on the computer and how to copy and paste photos. [[image:birds_countryman.jpg width="241" height="201"]]
 * Countryman / Breen** ||  ||
 * **6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application.** || Students will use a Kidspiration template to show naming and action words in sentences. Naming words are highlighted and changed in color from black to blue, action words are highlighted and changed from black to red. Students learn or are reminded that before a change can be made to text, it must be selected first.
 * Koch/La Van**

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 * **6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application.** || This Kidspiration template may be used to give students practice with the digraphs "wh" and "th". The students will also locate pictures of things either starting or ending with these two digraphs using the library in Kidspiration, and drag/size them into the correct box at the bottom. This template is available for use.
 * [[image:2nd_-_th_&_wh.jpg width="247" height="247" align="center"]]

Sobaski/Hunerdosse** ||  ||