Instructional Technology
Kindergarten - 4th Six Weeks
Below are ideas for technology integration that support the 4th six weeks in Kindergarten. Contact your Technology Facilitator for assistance.
| ELA | ||
| Unit 04 | Beginning to Know How We Are Different | |
| Lesson 01 | Exploring Our Language | |
| Curriculum activity: | Read aloud the story, Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman. Turn the students attention to the types of sentences that were in the story. As you trun the pages of the book and slowly reread sentences, ask students to identify which punctuation is being used. | |
| Technology idea: | Are You My Mother - Punctuation Marks. | |
| Students will use Microsoft Word to practice placing punctuation marks at the end of sentences. Teacher will read the 10 sentences. Students will decide which punctuation mark goes at the end of the sentence. Type the correction punctuation mark. Are You My Mother - Punctuation Marks Template. | ||
| Unit 04 | Beginning to Know How We Are Different | |
| Lesson 02 | ||
| Curriculum activity: | Explain illustration in sequential order to retell a story and tell how the illustration helps to understand the text. | |
| Technology idea: | Beginning, Middle and End of My Favorite Story | |
| Students will use Microsoft paint to illustrate and write about the beginning, middle and end of his/her favorite story. They will use a template create in Microsoft Paint. Contact your instructional technology facilitator about assessing this template for student use. Remember, students will have to open Microsoft Paint>>Go to File>>Choose Open and navigate to the template. | ||
| Unit 04 | Beginning to Know How We Are Different | |
| Lesson 03 | Understanding Stories | |
| Curriculum activity: | Through the use of selected reading, students will reflect understanding of stories in a variety of ways. | |
| Technology idea: | Elements of Story Structure - Kidspiration Template | |
| Students will use Kidspiration to demonstrate an understanding of a story. Open the Elementss of Story Struction Kidspiration Template. Student will think about their favorite story and drag pictures from the symbol palette to illustrate each story element. Students can use the text tool to write about the story elements. (Contact your technology facilitator for information about assessing this template for student use.) | ||
| Math | ||
| Unit 01 | Counting Through 15 | |
| Lesson 01 | Counting and Comparing Numbers Through 15 | |
| Curriculum activity: | Students will have the opportunity to model simple problems (sum) with concrete objects to express a mathematical equation. | |
| Technology idea: | Add Peas and Carrots | |
| In edClass activBook e328, students sort objects by dragging them into like sets then adding them. You may need to model how to write a number story problem. | ||
| Science | ||
| Unit 08 | Revisiting Earth Patterns, Cycles and Changes | |
| Lesson 01 | Observing Changes | |
| Curriculum activity: | Students explore the seasonal changes around the school by comparing the pictures taken and recorded from the beginning of the year to new observations for the same area. They discover the pattern of seasons from year to year and relate that to their own life. | |
| Technology idea: | How Trees Change | |
| Students will use Kid Pix to illustrate how trees change from season to season. Students will begin by dividing the Kid Pix screen into four sections. Next, students will illustrate how trees would look during each season. | ||
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