Curriculum Samples
for
February 24-28, 2003
Description of the
Lesson: The Third - Fifth Grade
students will be working on the Internet to locate, choose, and save images
from graphics, background, and/or animation libraries. The images they
select will be used to enhance their personal web pages. They will
select, save, and then use the graphics selected on their personal web page.
The students will be working on the following skills:
open the Internet browser
conduct an Internet search
follow the results of the Internet search to locate their desired products
select graphics, backgrounds, and/or animation they would like to place on their personal web page
save selected graphics to a disk
students will then open the web page program on their computer
students will place their saved graphics on their personal web page
personal web pages will be edited and checked for spelling errors
the personal web pages will be saved within the program
personal web pages will then be exported to a disk
The web pages they create will be edited and then linked from their classroom web page.
* If their parents have signed and returned the proper permission slip.
**New permission slips will be sent home with students still needing one on in the technology lab.
Sample of the Personal Web Page Template for 3rd - 5th Grade Regular Classrooms
and 2nd - 5th Grade Enrichment Class Times
(this will be a picture of the student)
Personal Information - Introduction of themselves as in a pen-pal letter to a
new pen-pal.
Family Information - brothers, sisters, pets, favorite past times with
family, etc. will be written here.
Favorite Subject and Why - what you like about going to school here, favorite
activities and extras as a part of the magnet school theme.
Other Favorites - hobbies and other interests in music, TV, friends, etc.
will be written here.
Kindergarten
- First Enrichment: Students will complete
their work on with the Kidspiration Program and creating an ABC Chart with
picture representations for each letter of the alphabet.
Second
- Third Grade Enrichment: The students will be
working with Typing Master to practice their touch typing skills. They
will be working with the lesson "Extension Row" which introduces the e and i
keys. The students will continue with a review game called "Bubbles."
The lesson for today will complete with a "Sentence Drill." The
sentence drill is a touch typing test to check for improvement in accuracy
and speed. It will give them a current "words-per-minute" score.
The time remaining will be spent working on the site, Gamequarium.com.
They will practice their money and time telling skills.
The site that swims
with learning fun!
Fourth - Fifth Grade Enrichment:
The students will be working on final editing changes to their personal web
page. They may choose to add graphics or animation to their page.
The students will then load their page to their class web page. The
time remaining will be spent working on the web site, FunIsland.com.
They may choose from a number of educational games on the site for skills
review and practice.
News Crew Staff
Meeting: We will check the homework assignments
students have been working on for the past two weeks (commercials). We
will go to the technology lab and type their commercials as a word document.
These will then be printed out so that the students can read the work of
other students in their group.
Newspaper
Staff Meeting: The students will talk about
their story ideas. We will discuss the story pyramid (who, what, when,
where, why, and how). We will cover the next step in their assignment
process.
Yearbook
Staff Meeting: The staff will meet
this week to look at the printouts of the yearbook pages.
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