Instructional Technology
Grade 2 - 6th Six Weeks
Below are ideas for technology integration that support the 6th six weeks grading period in Grade 2. Contact your Technology Facilitator for assistance.
| ELA | ||
| Unit # | Title | |
| Lesson # | Title | |
| Curriculum activity: | Description | |
| Technology idea: | Title | |
| Math | ||
| Unit #11 | Opearational Situations | |
| Lesson #1 | Solving with Addition and Subtraction | |
| Curriculum activity: | Solve addition/subtraction problems with base-ten blocks model. | |
| Technology idea 1: | Build Numbers with Base 10 Blocks | |
| Students use this Powerpoint template as a pre-activity to review base 10 blocks by building two and three digit numbers, | ||
| Technology idea 2: | Base 10 Block Addition Interactive | |
| Students use the site by the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives to solve addition problems using base 10 blocks. They can also create their own problems to solve. Very good site. | ||
| Technology idea 3: | Base 10 Blocks- Subtraction Interactive | |
| Science | ||
| Unit #10 | Animals | |
| Lesson #1 | Classifying Animals | |
| Curriculum activity: | Students classify animals based on properties and patterns including classification and important characteristics. | |
| Technology idea 1: | Animal Classifying Sorting Mat | |
| Students use this Kidspiration template to classify animals by dragging them from the symbol palette to the correct animal group. Label each animal. | ||
| Technology idea 2: | Animal Cateogry Graphic Organizer | |
| Students use this electronic version of handout pg. 14 to classify animals by their characteristics. | ||
| Technology idea 3: | Seaworld Animal Bytes | |
| National Zoo | ||
| Unit #10 | Animals | |
| Lesson #4 | Animal Life Cycles | |
| Curriculum activity: | Students identify and sequence each stage in the life cycle of a butterfly. | |
| Technology idea 1: | Life Cycle of a Butterfly | |
| Students use this edclass e715 | ||
| Learn abou the stages of a butterfly's life. | ||
| Technology idea 2: | Life Cycle of a Butterfly Journal | |
| Students use this template to write information about each stage and or journal their observations. | ||
| Technology idea 3: | Life Cycle of a Butterfly Graphic Organizer | |
| Student use this Kidspiration template to sequence each stage. Students can add test boxes to write. | ||
| Social Studies | ||
| Unit #11 | Our Community Has Changed (Technology) | |
| Lesson #1 | Changes in Transportation, Communication, and Recreation | |
| Curriculum activity: | Evaluate: Create a foldable illustrating how science and technology have changed communication, transportation, and recreation and how those changes have impacted the community. Explain in writing. | |
| Technology idea 1: | Students could use MS Publisher to create a document that fulfills this required activity. |
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| Technology idea 2: | Students will complete a chart that identifies recreation, transportation and communication in the past and in the present. |
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| Unit #11 | Our Community Has Changed (Technology) | |
| Lesson #2 | Science & Technology Impact On Basic Needs | |
| Curriculum activity: | Elaborate: Students will choose a problem, consider advantages and disadvantages, and choose a possible solution. The students will also explain how the solution might be implemented. Next, students will create a poster advertising their suggested solution and include relevant information for their audience (other students). |
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| Technology idea: | Students could use MS Publisher to create a document that fulfills this activity. | |
| Unit #11 | Our Community Has Changed (Technology) | |
| Lesson #2 | Changes in Transportation, Communication, and Recreation | |
| Curriculum activity: | Evaluate: Students write a paragraph explaining a problem created by an earlier invention and follow the problem-solving process to solve the new problem. | |
| Technology idea 1: | Students could use MS Word or Publisher to create a document that fulfills this activity. | |
| Unit #12 | Our Community Has Changed! (Research) | |
| Lesson #1 | Change In The Community | |
| Curriculum activity: | Students will choose one person or event learned about and then write a newspaper article about how that person or event impacted the community. The students should develop an appropriate headline for the story and write at least one paragraph describing the person or event. | |
| Technology idea: | Students could use MS Publisher to create a document that fulfills this activity. | |
| Unit #12 | Our Community Has Changed! (Research) | |
| Lesson #2 | Gathering Historical Information | |
| Curriculum activity: | Explain: Students examine the class product. Each student creates a Venn diagram (or uses a copy of the one attached) and, with a partner, compares the event/time period they researched with the present day. | |
| Technology idea: | Students could use MS Publisher to create a document that fulfills this activity. |
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| Unit #12 | Our Community Has Changed! (Research) | |
| Lesson #2 | Gathering Historical Information | |
| Curriculum activity: | Evaluate: Complete a Venn diagram comparing photographs of a community that has changed over time. Summarize the changes in writing and speculate on what might have caused the changes. | |
| Technology idea 1: | Students could use MS Publisher to create a document that fulfills this activity. |
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| Technology idea 2: | Students view pictures and then compare differences between children playing a community game in the past and a community game in the present. |
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| Unit #12 | Our Community Has Changed! (Research) | |
| Lesson #2 | Gathering Historical Information | |
| Curriculum activity: | Evaluate: Provide students with a copy of both slide #2 and slide #3 from Power Point, Grade 2 Unit 12 Lesson 2. Students will complete a Venn Diagram (attached) to compare the photographs of the same community as it has changed over time. Students will also make predictions about events that might have caused the changes in this community and write a summary statement. | |
| Technology idea: | Students could use MS Publisher to create a document that fulfills this activity. |
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