TEACHER: Victoria Adams

SUBJECT/GRADE: Technology/Grade 2 DATE: 4/4/16-6/17/16

Academic Standard: Creativity and Innovation & Communication and Collaboration

1) CI: Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.

programs to tell others about my ideas.

make pictures of my original story.

I can use word processing

I can use drawing tools to

2) CI: Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

technology.
CO:

I can find information using

3) CC: Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts or others employing a
variety of digital environments and media.

write and share a story.

I can work with others to

4) CC: Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a

variety of media and formats.

computer to draw or write with a friend.

I can use software on the

Essential Questions:
Assessment & Performance:
How can I find information using technology?
Formative Assessment:
Observation
5/13, 5/20
Questioning
What is Google and what can I use it for? 5/13,
Grand conversation
5/20
Interactive learning games
What is research? 5/13, 5/20
How can I tell others about my ideas using
Summative Assessment:
technology? 4/22, 4/29, 5/6
Research Activities
How can I use drawing tools to make pictures to
Story Maker Project
go along with my story? 4/22, 4/29, 5/6
Mini-Research Project
Modifications:
Students who have difficulties performing any of
the tasks assigned will be accommodated through
the teacher assisting them in their task until they
are successful on their own.
Materials: Chromebooks, internet, research project packet

4/8 (Noon
Dismissal No
2A or 2B)

Learning Plan: Activities and Sequence of Instruction

2A-Friday 12:35-1:20
2B- Friday 1:30-2:20
2C- Friday 9:15-9:55
1. The teacher and students will read the objectives for the day together.
2. The students will be asked to recall and model good typing posture.
3. The students will be directed to perform a Google search for Dance Mat Typing.

4/15
4/22

4/29 (1:30
dismissal No
2B)

5/6

5/13

5/20

5/27

4. The students will practice typing using the Dance Mat Typing program.
5. Using the last few minutes of class, the students will turn and talk to a friend and
discuss what they learned from the Dance Mat Typing program that day (proper
finger placement, key locations, etc. )
No School
1. The teacher and students will read the objectives for the day together.
2. The students will be asked to scaffold from their own knowledge and identify
how pictures made stories that theyve read more interesting or fun to read.
3. The teacher will model how to get to the abcya.com paint program.
4. The students will be asked to create a picture using the paint program but before
doing this. they are to use Keyboard Zoo as a warm up.
5. Using the last few minutes of class, the students will be asked to share their
creation with a friend and describe what they have drawn.
***Creativity and Innovation
1. The teacher and students will read the objectives for the day together.
2. The students will be asked to recall what we have been doing and why adding
pictures to a story can help the reader to better understand the story.
3. The teacher will explain to the students that they will be practicing making their
own story.
4. The teacher will model how to use the Story Maker tool located on abcya.com
(how to draw, change utensils, type, add pages, etc.)
5. The students will practice creating their own pages in a story.
1. The teacher and students will read the objectives for the day together.
2. The students will be asked to recall what we did last class.
3. The teacher will reteach the basics of the Story Maker program
4. The students will be create their very own story.
5. The teacher will save some of the stories to a flash drive to be printed.
***Creativity and Innovation
1. The teacher and students will read the objectives for the day together.
2. The teacher will ask the students to recall what research is.
3. The teacher will introduce the students to their mini research project. The students
will be assigned different animals to research and as they find the answers to their
research questions, they will fill out their research packet.
4. Using the last couple minutes of class, the students will share their findings with a
friend.
1. The teacher and students will read the objectives for the day together.
2. The students will continue their mini research project.
3. When the students have completed their research, they will share an interesting
fact with the people at their table.
***Communication and Collaboration
No School

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6/10

1. The teacher and students will read the objectives for the day together.
2. The students will be asked to recall and model good typing posture.
3. The students will be directed to perform a Google search for Dance Mat Typing.
4. The students will practice typing using the Dance Mat Typing program.
5. Using the last few minutes of class, the students will turn and talk to a friend and
discuss what they learned from the Dance Mat Typing program that day (proper
finger placement, key locations, etc. )
Students are free to choose a website.