Kindergarten

Students in Kindergarten will accomplish the following skills in Technology Literacy as outlined in the [|Iowa Core Curriculum]. Skills that are necessary to prepare students to become 21st Century Learners. The students will also meet District standards and benchmarks. Examples and web links will be provided in order to meet each Technology skill and District standards.

Benchmarks** ||
 * **Tech Literacy Expectations** ||= **Lessons** ||= **Content Standard
 * 1. Use technology to create projects, identify patterns, and make predictions.

//Iowa Core Curriculum// (4) Use technology resources to identify problems, help recognize and describe patterns, make predictions and/or propose solutions.

//District Technology Skills// - Manipulate a mouse (desktop computer) or trackpad (laptop). - Demonstrate click and drag an object with a mouse. || **Working with Patterns** Students will complete patterns using a Kidspiration template. These two templates demonstrate working with ABC, AABB, AAB, and ABB. Students can create their own patterns without a template by opening Kidspiration as well as KidPix.
 * Ryan / Hunerdosse**



[|Making Patterns] || **Algebra** //Recognize repeating and growing patterns such as physical, geometric and numeric patterns and translate from one representation to another.// ||
 * 1. Use technology to create projects, identify patterns, and make predictions.

//Iowa Core Curriculum// (2) Use technology to illustrate and communicate original ideas related to curriculum content.

//District Technology Skills// - Demonstrate use of keys: letters, numbers, shift, delete, spacebar, return and enter. || Students use Kidspiration to write sentences using the familiar words I, see, and my. The sentence is completed with a picture. Students also practice typing these words using the shift key and being certain the period is placed in the appropriate location.
 * La Van**



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 * 1. Use technology to create projects, identify patterns, and make predictions.

//Iowa Core Curriculum// (1) Create multimedia products with support from teachers, family members, or student partners for the purpose of display, publication an performance. || **ABC Podcast** Students will be given a letter of the alphabet and a digital camera. They will take pictures of things that begin with their letter. They will then read a short sentence created by the teacher that goes along with their letter. Pictures will be imported into I-photo and using Garageband they will record their sentence and add their pictures. The students used Photo Booth to take a picture of themselves to put in the podcast with their pictures and letters. ||  ||
 * Sandbothe/Price**
 * 1. Use technology to create projects, identify patterns, and make predictions.

//Iowa Core Curriculum// (4) Use technology resources to identify problems, help recognize and describe patterns, make predictions and/or propose solutions.

//District Technology Skills// - Demonstrate use of letter keys by typing first and last name. - Demonstrate print a document. || Students use a Kidspiration template to identify cubes, cylinders, cones and spheres. Using the Kidspiration library, students find pictures that show the solid shapes. The pictures are placed in the appropriate box. Students will type names and print document.
 * Gleason/La Van**

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 * 1. Use technology to create projects, identify patterns, and make predictions.

//Iowa Core Curriculum// (3) Create multimedia products with support from teachers, family members, and/or student partners for the purpose of display, publication and /or performance. || **New** **Animoto Using digital cameras, students will take pictures that demonstrate position words such as above, below, and in between. Using Animoto, students will upload their photos and put together a digital story of what they have learned. This project could be completed with an older student buddy.** || Reading Literacy ||
 * 1. Use technology to create projects, identify patterns, and make predictions.

//Iowa Core Curriculum// (2) Use technology to illustrate and communicate original ideas related to curriculum content. || **NEW** **Voice Thread Students will use Voice Thread to demonstrate comprehension of a story. Students will tell what happened in the beginning, middle and ending of the story. Another variation could be that students will Voice thread to complete a story when given a story starter.** ||  ||
 *  1. Use technology to create projects identify patterns, and make predictions.

//Iowa Core Curriculum//
 * (**2) Use technology to illustrate and communicate original ideas related to the curriculum**.**

//District Technology Skills// - Manipulate the mouse or keyboard. - Demonstrate click and drag and object with a mouse.  || **Working with basic shapes** Using this Kidspiration template, students will demonstrate their ability to apply their understanding of the basic shapes they have learned by placing each object shown at the bottom under the corresponding shape at the top. Template is available for use. **Ryan/Hunerdosse** || Math Standard 2 Understands and applies geometric concepts K.1 Identifies square, circle, rectangle, triangle, diamond, and oval ||
 * 3. Utilize predetermined digital resources and tools to answer questions or solve problems.

//Iowa Core Curriculum// - Identify, read and report data from charts, graphs and other sources.

//District Technology Skills// || **The Graph Club**

All different forms of graphs can be used and compared to one another using this program. Students will practice recording, reading and reporting data from these graphs. It is a very user friendly program. ||  || //Iowa Core Curriculum//
 * **4**. Use technological resources to investigate given questions or problems.

//District Technology Skills// ||  ||   || //Iowa Core Curriculum//
 * 5. Understand and practice appropriate and safe uses of technology.

//District Technology Skills// ||  ||   ||
 * 6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application.

//Iowa Core Curriculum//

//District Technology Skills// || Introduce computer parts. Point to parts of the computer as you introduce them. CPU, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers, Printer, CD-Rom Drive. Discuss what each part does. ||  ||
 * 6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application.

//Iowa Core Curriculum//

//District Technology Skills// Students will be able to login to the server. || Introduce vocabulary words, Desktop, server icon, backspace key, blinking cursor, enter key. Students need to be able to locate and use each of the keys and identify the desktop, server icon. Demonstrate to the students how to log into the server. Students need to practice logging into the server. Demonstrate how to log off. Students need to practice logging off. __Have students practice logging in and logging off at the beginning of each class. It will take time!__ ||  ||
 * 6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application.

//Iowa Core Curriculum//

//District Technology Skills// - mouse control with single click websites. || [|Mouse Skills site] I[|nternet4classrooms numerous sites for practicing mouse skills] ||  ||
 * 6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application.

//Iowa Core Curriculum//

//District Technology Skills// - mouse control with single click and learn the alphabet || [|Starfall] Click on the letters and do the activities with each letter. || Reading Standard 1.06 ||
 * 6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application.

//Iowa Core Curriculum//

//District Technology Skills// - Use of a content program to reinforce manipulating the mouse or trackpad. - Demonstrate lick and drag an object with a mouse. || Introduce students to kidspiration. Demonstrate how to use the object library. Review vocabulary words, blinking cursor, backspace key, Enter key by demonstrating use in kidspiration. Next open alphabet template under Reading and Writing activities. Show students how to find objects that begin with the letter of the alphabet using the object library. Good mouse control practice as well as letter recognition. || Reading Standard 1.06 and 1.17 Phonemic awareness: Students can name upper and lower case letters. Decoding and word recognition: Students will identify initial consonants in a spoken or written word. ||
 * 6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application.

//District Technology Skills// **- Kidspiration will be used to learn landforms ** || Students will use Kidspiration to find examples of landforms. A template will need to be made before the activity, see example. || Science Standard 1.2 Student is able to identify earth's different land forms. ||
 *  6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application.

//District Technology Skills// - Demonstrate select and de-select objects with a click of mouse. - Demonstrate click and drag an object with a mouse. || Students will use Kidspiration to identify pictures that begin with a particular letter sound. Templates available for the letters N, B, J, M and S. Template includes a link to Starfall's ABC Alphabet for additional work with letter sounds. La Van

|| Reinforcing beginning letter sounds. ||
 * 6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application.

//District Technology Skills// || **Positioning Words** Students will practice "positioning words" under teacher direction. Ex: __inside__ - put the triangle __inside__ the box. Template is available for use.
 * Ryan / Hunerdosse**[[image:positioning_words_.jpg width="239" height="208" align="center"]] ||  ||
 * 6. Understand basic technology hardware and software and their application.

//District Technology Skills// || **Wants and Needs** Using this template made from Kidspiration, students will drag and drop pictures of objects into the correct categories of "wants" and "needs". Template is available for use.
 * Ryan/Hunerdosse**[[image:Wants_&_Needs.jpg width="199" height="156" align="center"]] ||  ||
 * Utilize predetermined digital resources and tools to answer questions or solve problems.

//District Technology Skills// Digital camera, iphoto, garageband || Students will use the digital camera to take pictures of the letters of the alphabet. The students will determine how to make the letters using their classmates. The photos will be downloaded into iphoto to make an alphabet book or into garageband to make an enhanced podcast. || Reading Standard 1.06 - Phonemic Awareness - students can name upper and lower case letters. ||
 *  Use technological resources to investigate given questions or problems.

//District Technology Skills// || Students will create a CD about farm animals. They will use a graphic organizer created in kidspiration to gather information about their assigned animal. They will gather information about their animals from books in the library or from books checked out from the AEA. Next they will use KidPix to draw pictures of their animals the picures will be saved in their server folder. Using the information they have gathered the students will write very simple sentences about their animal (Use the kidspiration template to write sentences) and record it using garageband on the mac. Example of enhanced podcast media type="file" key="Farm by Kindergarten.m4a" width="300" height="50" || Reading Standard 2 - Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate and appreciate text. ||
 * Understand and practice appropriate and safe uses of technology.

//District Technology Skills// || Before working on web sites the lab teacher will explain that students should not click on flashing objects or things that say you have won! Students need to know to stay on the site that the class is on and if they "accidentally" click on something and end up on another page they need to raise their hand immediately for help to get back to their page. Students need to understand that there are good sites and bad sites. ||  ||