Elementary Technology

Resources:

  • Each elementary teacher has at least one desktop computer in their classroom. There may be additional classroom
    computers depending upon the needs of the students.
    Each elementary classroom has 10 Chromebooks and a charging station.
  • Grade 4 has access to an additional 25 unit Chromebook cart.
  • Specialists have either a desktop, a laptop, or a Chromebook.
  • Each elementary school has a 25 seat technology lab.

The Massachusetts Digital Literacy and Computer Science Frameworks are followed throughout the district.
A full description of the framework for each grade level is as follows:

K-23-56-8, Glossery of Terms

Some topics covered at each elementary grade grade are:

 

Kindergarden:

- mouse skills

- navigation skills

- parts of the computer

- drawing/painting

- what is a computer? discussion on what uses computers in the world

- keyboarding intro - ABC/123 buttons and enter, shift, space, backspace, arrows

- uppercase letters / shift

 

Grade 1:

- mouse skills

- drawing/painting

- internet safety / privacy

- graphing

- keyboarding - review of K skills - 

- Word - practice with keyboard buttons (enter, shift, space, etc) and writing a sentence

- Word - cut & paste

- Logging in and out with our class accounts

 

Grade 2:

- story maker - story composition (4 sentences)

- saving our work (Word, Scratch)

- island project - create your own island - drawing/painting skills & composition

- coding - Hour of Code

- coding - intro to Scratch / first project - name animation

 

Grade 3:

- keyboarding - review hand placement and posture - practice

- Word - pretest for 3rd grade skills / formatting

- Word - composition - Halloween stories (fiction), wacky story prompts (fiction)

- Excel - intro - movie ticket project

- coding - Hour of Code

 

Grade 4:

- keyboarding - pretests and "benchmark" tests, formal lesson, Type to Learn

- Internet safety - privacy/bullying/personal info.

- Excel - intro - "mini project" - making a graph

- Word - composition - holiday paragraphs (nonfiction)

- Word - formatting

- Google - intro - discussion about our accounts, saving, etc.

- coding - Hour of Code