Ideas+from+Teachers


 * Webster I, II, RR**


 * Spelling sentences/inserting clip art
 * Lexia Center
 * Listening center (audio)--taught skills
 * Research Internet
 * Letter to Santa (email)
 * Games/mouse skills
 * Use digital pictures
 * Starfall.com
 * Spell Check/changing font
 * Using overhead
 * dictionary.com
 * Social Studies: what if there were no phones
 * Using phones: calling 911
 * teaching how to save, long on, etc.


 * First Grade**


 * Discuss lesson on basic parts of computer
 * Writing
 * Technology research/web
 * Smartboard writing lessons
 * Kid Pix
 * Microsoft Office
 * Centers
 * Teacher modeling


 * Second Grade**


 * Productivity Tools: Kidspiration, idPix, Word, Web browsing, Searches, work with partners, research
 * Communication: letters to penpals; spelling words/sentences

Third Grade


 * Word: spelling sentences with clip art
 * Word Art to create a name collage
 * Acrostic poems
 * Open & Save files
 * Spell Check
 * Insert Pictures
 * Type pen pal letters
 * Yahooligans/Google/Ask.com: research for regions, biography reports, endangered animal reports
 * World Book Online: research activities for regions, science & social studies activities
 * PowerPoint: basic slide shows
 * Kidspiration: story webs, story mapping, regions collage


 * Fourth Grade**


 * We need keyboarding program please!
 * Kids need to use scanners/cameras, etc. ?
 * Michiganian & Lighthouse reports, etc. in Word
 * Graphing in Graph Club
 * Research for reports from the web
 * Practice typing alphabet
 * Technological changes throughout history
 * Security/appropriate & inappropriateness


 * Fifth Grade**

Basic Operations & Concepts
 * discuss the change ot tech in Social Studies, current events and time for kids
 * discuss how technology has changed in business and government in social studies
 * Students maintain files (in network)
 * Proper care of computer
 * Google search
 * Use spell check
 * Individualized instruction and use of computer
 * no game boys or cell phones
 * cite sources in biographies
 * use Word to use menu options
 * Clip art
 * different fonts
 * Metric Monsters--group project
 * Native American project