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Technology Assignments

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Be sure to contact me by email if you need clarification of any assignments.

Homework should be completed before the due date.  The lab will not be available to complete homework assignments that are due today.  All homework should be printed at home.  If your printer at home is broken or out of ink--please provide a note from home.  Homework printed at school will result in a charge to cover the ink and paper.

Reading Counts

Citation Worksheet

May 26-30

No Open Lab: Wednesday May 14

Open lab: work on projects-no games. Open lab ends at 3:30 and pick up is in the back lot behind the lab-Pierson St. parking lot

 

K 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Grades 4-8 will be using the Reading Counts program. Students read a book included in the database then take a short quiz on the computer. There are over 1400 titles included in this program-not all of these titles are available through the St. Thomas Library. As long as the title is on the list--regardless of where you find the book--the quiz will be available.  Books should always be approved by the teacher who assigns the project. This list is a pdf document and is 33 pages--it will take a while to load and you must have Adobe Reader to view it. Disregard lexile levels and note that reading levels are suggested--final decision is that of the assigning teacher or Mrs. Houston.

Reading Counts Titles

 

Kindergarten

Math

 

  
 

 

 
First Grade

Students should bring home a keyboard worksheet to practice finding various letters to spell:

Practice typing and proper fingering. Learn the keyboard-where each letter is located and how to stretch to reach. Always return to home row.

 

Dance Mat Typing!
  1. practice spelling first and last name
  2. practice spelling words
  3. practice short 3-4 word sentences
  • Two hands for typing: left on the left side of the keyboard and right on the right side.
  • two hands to type their names and the word computer.
  • close program and log off network

students should learn to spell first and last name 
 

   

 
Second Grade

Typing skills--recognizing letters on the keyboard

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

Keyboarding skills at e-learning for Kids

  
 

 
 

Third Grade

 

Musical chairs and creative writing!

  
 

 
Fourth Grade

 

Musical chairs and creative writing.
 

   

 
Fifth Grade

 

 

enter parts of speech data into Excel

Maevis Beacon media center area.

PowerPoint Tutorial

Saving Graphics

Reading Counts
 

 
Sixth Grade

 

 

Reading Counts--

 

 

 

 

Excel-sort/filter; page 3: total revenue for each car for each month-calculation draws from page 2

April 17 6B instructions: Car Revenue Charting Tutorial

  • download to your desktop or run through the Internet

May 7, 14: National Archives

  • bring the name of a family member that served during WWII

  • bring the name of a famous person who served during WWII (such as Elvis--that name is taken--think of a different one!)

    • date of enlistment

    • date of birth

    • county and state if residence

    • army number (serial number)

      • using this information-do a filtered search

        • same enlisted year and place

        • same county and place

      • get out of the current records and do an advanced search with the same information

      • try combining a few names of group members and see what you get!

May 21, 22  Holocaust Unit

 

 
 

 
Seventh Grade

 

 

Democracy Project

 Interactive Constitution

Celebrate the Constitution

Save the Bill of Rights

citizenship quiz

History Now

Constitution I.Q.

Congress for Kids

nordaymom@gmail.com

Check brochure/infomercial for:

Attractiveness: spacing, alignment, minimal white space

Organization: all areas completely covered:

  • history

  • symptoms

  • treatment/prognosis

  • statistics

  • citations

Writing mechanics

  • grammar

  • capitalizations

  • punctuation

Graphics/animations

  • appropriate

  • clear

citations

  • MLA format

April 28: Create a website portfolio of the year in retrospect using Publisher web templates 

  • Science Homepage

May 5: Prepare to journal Unit One: Life's Structure and Function

Exploring and Classifying: (measurement, scientific method  . . )

Cells (structure, viruses . . . )

Cell Processes (biochemistry, energy . . . .)

Cell Reproduction (DNA, mitosis . . . .)

May 12 Segment 2/Page 3: Unit 4 Human Body

Each partner should be represented with a journal entry of what was learned in each chapter of each unit. 

Structure & Movement

Nutrients & Digestion

Circulation

Respiration & Excretion

Control & Coordination

Endocrine & Reproductive Systems

Immune System

May 19 Finalize

Check over all work:

  • home page

  • Life Structure

  • Human Body

  • Activate hyperlinks

  • check spelling, layout

include anything you may have covered in Units 2&3

 

Final Projects

 

 

Citation Worksheet

Purdue Owl

Illini Workshop
 

 
8th Grade

Social Just links and archived lessons from 3rd quarter

April 4: Insert sound file

Scanner is working! Bring photos to the lab prior to Friday's class.

Social Justice

  • adjust animation-graphics and lyrics together

  • may need to add or delete graphics

    • be sure to update citations

  • last slide: citations scrolling as credits

Let's wrap this project up in the next 2 weeks.

April 11-continue

April 18-finalize

May 2-begin presentation

May 9-  continue/finish presentations

finish Social Justice unit-discussion and short set of questions (don't stress!)

May 16-8th grade projects

May 23- Finish Projects

May 30- Technology in 21st century

 

Citation Machine

MLA Citation Wizard-EasyBib

 parenthetical citations.

 

 

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