Computer and Technology Curriculum in Preparatory

OBJECTIVES:

• children should learn that people control technology and that they themselves can control a computer; by exploration and play, this tool will become familiar.
• children should learn that technology takes different forms: calculators, telephones, tape recorders, computers that accomplish different tasks in different ways. Young children can explore and note the differences.
• children should learn that technology has rules that control how it works. Young children can begin to understand the rules that govern various technologies. They begin to know that computers must have instructions - built in or provided by the user.
• children should learn that technology has languages. Interacting with computers involves learning a vocabulary.
  

Skills

Children will learn to open programs, follow visual and auditory cues, change programs, return to program menu and main menu. They will practice mouse movement. They will begin to learn how to close programs and shut down properly.

Graphics

Children will utilize the graphics program Kid Pix, Kid Pix Studio

Inter curricular Support

Reinforce letter sound combinations with Baily's Book House and Preschool Parade

Reinforce mathematical skills through Math Town (addition and missing numbers) and Preschool Parade (number order, counting), ordering and sorting

Strengthen prereading skills through the program Thinking Skills (Muppet Kids) and phonics skills through Baily's Book House and Phonics program (Muppet Kids)

PROJECTS

Line drawing using Kid Pix drawing tools (ex. create jungle / woodland animals)

Write and /or stamp your name using Kid Pix drawing tools. Make a border, frame around your name.

ASSESSMENT

Children will be evaluated on basic computer skills using a check listed format. Improvement will be noted by comparing first observations, with continued checking of skills and improvement in projects presented.

SOFTWARE:

The children in Preparatory will use the following software programs:

l. Kid Pix

2. Baily 's Book House

3. Trudy's Time and Place House

4. Preschool Parade

5. Thinking Things

6. Sammy's Science House

7. Muppetkids Thinking Skills, Phonics and Sorting and Ordering

Computer and Technology Curriculum in Grade 1

OBJECTIVES:

• Children should begin to learn that computer programs require different ways of organizing thinking. They will begin to apply different sets of skills and note that open programs permit a greater range of strategies and outcomes.
• Children will be introduced to the key parts of the computer.
• Children will begin to learn computer vocabulary and begin to use the language when explaining instructions to one another.

Skills

Children will learn to open and move to different programs and gain greater control of mouse movement, learn the use of some keys on the key board. They will be introduced to open, save and printing a picture, They will learn to close programs and turn off the computer properly.

Graphics

Children will utilize and explore the graphics program Kid Pix, Kid Pix Studio

Inter curricular Support

Improve mental math with Math Blaster

Reinforce beginning phonics skills with Muppetville Phonics

Reinforce telling time with Trudy's Time and Place

Offers another enjoyable aspect to reading through Living Books CDs- Arthur 's Teacher Trouble, Ruff 's Bones

 

ASSESSMENT:

Children will be evaluated on their basic computer skills, using a check listed format. Effort, achievement in projects and improvement.

SOFTWARE:

The students in grade 1 will use the following software programs:

1. Kid Pix

2. Bailey 's Book House

3. Sammy 's Science House

4. Trudy 's Time and Place House

5. Math Blaster

6. Thinking Things

7 Living Books CDs

 

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