Instructional Technology
Kindergarten - 5th Six Weeks
Below are ideas for technology integration that support the 5th six weeks in Kindergarten. Contact your Technology Facilitator for assistance.
| ELA | ||
| Match Pictures to Letter Sounds | ||
| -Students use this word template to drag each picture next to the letter that it starts with. | ||
| Math | ||
| Unit 13 | Counting Through 20 | |
| Lesson 01 | Counting and Comparing Numbers Through 20 | |
| Curriculum activity: | Practice Stations Document in CScope: Sorting Figures | |
| Technology idea: | EdClass Active Book e343: Make Sets 1 | |
Students make groups from collections of objects. To group the objects, they think and talk about their attributes, identifying differences between them. |
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| Unit 13 | Counting Through 20 | |
| Lesson 01 | Counting and Comparing Numbers Through 20 | |
| Curriculum activity: | Practice Stations Document in CScope: Sorting Figures | |
| Technology idea: | EdClass Active Book e725: Shape Hunt | |
| Look at pictures of everyday objects to determine the predominant shape of each object. Sort the pictures by dragging each object into a box associated with a basic shape. | ||
| Unit 13 | Counting Through 20 | |
| Lesson 02 | Modeling Addition and Subtraction Situations | |
| Curriculum activity: | Model simple problem situations (sum/minuend to 10) with concrete objects to express a problem-solvingstrategy. Explain your process using objects and words. | |
| Technology idea: | EdClass Active Book e355: Subtract From 10 | |
| There are 10 carrots in the garden. Rex takes some of the carrots. Write the subtraction sentence. | ||
| Unit 14 | Patterns | |
| Lesson 01 | Translating Repeating Patterns | |
| Curriculum activity: | Students will translate simple linear patterns using objects and manipulatives. | |
| Technology idea 1: | EdClass Active Book e329: Patterns Everywhere | |
| Identify patterns in everyday sights and objects, then create your own patterns. | ||
| Technology idea 2: | EdClass Active Book e699: Pattern Trains | |
| Create a series (or chain) of blocks. Each block differs from the previous one in an attribute: shape, color or size. This can be a whole-group activity done in the classroom. | ||
| Technology idea 3: | Patterns template | |
| Students complete patterns and create their own. | ||
| Open Kidspiration. Under activities, click on more. | ||
| Science | ||
| Unit 09 | Exploring How We Live and Grow | |
| Lesson 01 | How We Live and Grow: Staying Healthy and Safe | |
| Curriculum activity: | Students learn about the basic food groups and sort pictures into the basic food pyramid | |
| Technology idea 1: | Food Groups | |
| Students will work in a Kidspiration template and sort the foods into the correct food group. | ||
| Technology idea 2: | Food Pyramid Template | |
-Students plan a diet by dragging symbols from the food library into the food pyramid. To access template: Open Kidspiration. Under activities, click on Science. |
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| Unit 09 | Exploring How We Live and Grow | |
| Lesson 01 | How We Live and Grow: Staying Healthy and Safe | |
| Curriculum activity: | Students make observations and comparisons of how they have grown and changed sense the beginning of the school year. They explore factors that affect their growth: good nutrition, exercise, rest, and safe habits. Students will identify activities that raise the heartbeat and activities that do not raise the heartbeat. | |
| Technology idea 1: | Activities and Your Heartbeat | |
| Students will work in a Kidspiration template and sort pictures into two groups: Activities that Increase Your Heartbeat and Activities that Do Not Increase Your Heartbeat. | ||
| Technology idea 2: | Healthy Foods Kidspiration Template | |
| Student categorize food into groups of healthy and junk foods. To access, click on this weblink and scroll down to the Kidspiration templates in Science. | ||
| Unit 10 | Exploring How Animals Live and Grow | |
| Lesson 01 | Animal Coverings | |
| Curriculum activity: | Animals can be identified and sorted by their coverings (exoskeletons, skin, fur, feathers, or scales). | |
| Technology idea 1: | Animal Coverings | |
| Students will work in a Kidspiration template and explore the animals found in the symbol library Students will drag animals to the correct box according to its body covering. | ||
| Technology idea 2: | Animal Coverings- Sort Activity | |
| -Students use this Excel template to sort animals into categories by the type of covering they have such as fur, feathers and scales. | ||
| Unit 10 | Exploring How Animals Live and Grow | |
| Lesson 02 | Life Cycles | |
| Curriculum activity: | Students will discover the stages in an insect's life cycle (egg, larva, pupa, and adult). Students will sequence pictures to show the stages of the life cycle and type the name of each cycle. | |
| Technology idea 1: | Ladybug Life Cycle | |
| Students will sequence pictures to show the stages of the life cycle of a lady bug using Kidspiration. | ||
| Technology idea 2: | Life Cycle of a Ladybug powerpoint activity | |
-Students will sequence pictures to show the stages of the life cycle of a ladybug. Text boxes are provided to type information about each cycle and a website link to learn more about ladybugs. Click Edit>Edit Slides to begin. |
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| Technology idea 3: | edClass activBook E715: Life Cycle of a Butterfly | |
-Student sequence pictures to show the stages of the life cycle of a butterfly. There is a good powerpoint for teachers to use in instruction as well. Listed for grades 1-2, but can be done by a kindergarten student with guidance, in groups or as a class. |
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| Technology idea 4: | Label the Parts of a Ladybug | |
| Students drag the name of part to the correct body part of the ladybug. | ||
| Unit 10 | Exploring How Animals Live and Grow | |
| Lesson 02 | Life Cycles | |
| Curriculum activity: | Students will use pictures and models to observe, compare and record basic differences between insects and spiders (body parts and legs). | |
| Technology idea 1: | Comparing Insects and Spiders | |
| Students will work in a Kidspiration template. Directions: Drag the pictures of insects into the insect box. Drag the pictures of spiders into the spider box. Type how many legs and body parts each has in the bubbles provided. | ||
| Technology idea 2: | edClass activBook E714: Spiders or Insects | |
| -There is a good powerpoint in here you can use for instruction as you discuss the differeneces between spiders and insects. The student template only has words to describe each so it may be too high for students, but you could do this as a whole class. | ||
| Technology idea 3: | edClass activBook e709: What is an Insect? | |
| There is a good slideshow in here that explains the characteristics of an insect that you can use for instruction. The student template is a powerpoint where students fill in missing information about each characteristic and then write about their favorite insect. It's listed for grades 1-2, but could be done by a kindergarten student at this point in the school year- or done in groups or as a class. | ||
| Social Studies | ||
| Unit 09 | Comparing Communities: Alike and Different | |
| Lesson 03 | My Community: People Have Jobs Unique to Their Community | |
| Curriculum activity: | Illustrate a job found in their local community that is related to a human and/or physical feature of the community. Write/dictate sentence(s) describing the job. | |
| Technology idea: | In My Community | |
| Students can use Kid Pix to illustrate a job found in our community. They can use the writing tool feature to write about the job. | ||