Digital Lesson for Computer Lab
Six Weeks: / Grade Level :Objectives for Six Weeks / TEKS Addressed: TEKS Addressed: (1) Creativity and innovation. The student uses creative thinking and innovative processes to construct knowledge and develop digital products. The student is expected to:
(A) create original products using a variety of resources;
(B) analyze trends and forecast possibilities, developing steps for the
creation of an innovative process or product; and
(2) Communication and collaboration. The student collaborates and communicates both locally and globally using digital tools and resources to reinforce and promote learning. The student is expected to:(A) draft, edit, and publish products in different media individually and collaboratively;(B) use font attributes, color, white space, and graphics to ensure that products are appropriate for multiple communication media, including monitor display, web, and print;
(C) collaborate effectively through personal learning communities and social environments;
(D) select and use appropriate collaboration tools;
(3) Research and information fluency. The student acquires and evaluates digital content. The student is expected to:
(B) collect and organize information from a variety of formats, including text, audio, video, and graphics;
(5) Digital citizenship. The student practices safe, responsible, legal, and ethical behavior while using digital tools and resources. The student is expected to:
(A) adhere to acceptable use policies reflecting positive social behavior in
the digital environment;
(B) respect the intellectual property of others;
(C) abide by copyright law and the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational
Multimedia;
(D) protect and honor the individual privacy of oneself and others;
(E) follow the rules of digital etiquette;
(F) practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology; (G) comply with fair use guidelines and digital safety rules.
Weeks / Learning.com /Learning applied/ Applied to curriculum
1st week / http://learninglab.org/life_skills/
On ITS website. Cyber bullying will be addressed across the district from k-12th grade with teachers discussing cyber bullying as the main topic. This is a video with Garfield and friends. Students will watch video about cyber bullying then click on the Try button and then the Apply button. This takes them through an activity to see what they have learned.
Students could make posters in Word or in Kid Pix’s about the things that learned through watching the video. The most original could be posted on the school website.
2nd week / Assign Presentation unit in Learning.com : To Prepare student to create a simple PowerPoint and understand creating a presentation for an audience:
Audience and Organization
Composing Slides
Evaluating an Presenting
3rd week / Application of Learning.com
Students will apply learning by creating a simple PowerPoint about themselves
Open Microsoft PowerPoint
Create Title Slide – Choosing Fonts , highlighting text and changing color
1st Slide: Teach How to choose different layout and what each element contains.
2nd Slide: Teach how to insert and clip art
3rd Slide : Teach how to insert image from file
Save into student folder
4th week / Introduce the online resource Kerpoof: We now have a site for the elementary team where these sites are posted along with PDFs to help you in making this successful.
http://www.kerpoof.com
Exploring Web 2.0 tools to produce digital products.
Students will use this online resource to draw pictures. Pictures can be printed but not saved except for saving in Kerpoof for (
Online resource for you to learn Kerpoof http://www.kerpoof.com/how_to_play
Student will draw pictures using tools. You will need to model how to use the basic drawing tools.
5th week / Check with Take Students to
http://schools.birdvilleschools.net/Page/16363
This is the page for Solar Max and introducing the Distance Learning Adventure.
On the resource page you will find the PowerPoint called “The Planets of our Solar System” Student can use this to research the information needed.
Using Big Huge Labs the students will make Cards for the nine planets in preparation of Solar Max the Distance Learning Adventure that start this week and runs through March 9 th.
If your Third graders are scheduled for this week you might want to move this activity up to the fourth six weeks.
Have students research the planets that they are speaking to Solar Max on. This project and planet images are stored in the El_lessons Folder, Computer Lab 2011_12.
For this activity, you will use the BigHugeLabs Trading Card generator to create eight cards describing
The eight planets in our solar system. You must include the following on each card:
• Title: Name of the planet
• Subtitle: Ranking order in terms of distance from the sun (ex: “4th planet from the sun”)
• An image of the planet
• The length of the year of the planet (in Earth days)
• Three facts about the planet
• Citations for your information and image source
You will save the trading card images so that they can either be printed or embedded into Powerpoint in which the students learned in the week 2 and week 3.
Alternate Plans: Timez Attack and Math practice
Blogging and Student Survey to Solar Max
After the students have flown with Solar Max he always wants to hear from the students . On the ITS Distance Learning Website the link to his blog is there. The student can post questions or just tell him what they learned on the adventure.
http://schools.birdvilleschools.net/Page/16364
Check with 3rd grade Teachers and DL site manager on campus to see when they are scheduled to fly with Solar Max. This would be a great if you guys would do this. Note: You might want to move this assignment in your plans after you find out the times of the dl adventure.
6th week / Wordle:
Have student brainstorm Texas words that describe the State. Have them brainstorm in Microsoft Word all the words they know and have learned about Texas this six weeks. Have them save to student folder.
Second Assignment:
Student will copy and paste Texas words into “Wordle” to make a display of words that describe Texas.
Teach students how to locate Texas word document saved in folder. Teach them to highlight all words in Word document and then transfer them over into Wordle. Student can then work with the features of Wordle. Copy Wordle and place into PowerPoint Slide. See instructions on ITS Website under Wordle.