Saturday, February 3, 2018

6th Grade Digital Citizenship Comics

Parts of this project hit all 3 of our Priority Standards!
21.6-8.TL.1 Demonstrate creative thinking in the design and development of innovative technology products and problem solving.
-Students worked individually or with a partner to plan and create a comic to share information about Digital Citizenship.
-Students learned to use PowToon to create their comic. They had to evaluate the length needed for each slide to be read and adjust the animation.
21.6-8.TL.3 Plan strategies utilizing digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
-Students used information gathered from class discussion, websites, videos and experience to choose a topic and plan their comic.
21.6-8.TL.5 Understand the legal and ethical issues of technology as related to individuals, cultures, and societies.
-The topic of the comics was Digital Citizenship.
-Students included links to websites used to gather information.

*I will update as I get the final few links.
Mattison


Juhl
Donald
Janss
Furler

Priority Standards for Jan. 31-Feb. 7

4th grade Lab
21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology resources to create original projects, identify patterns, make predictions, and propose solutions.
Finish 3D printing project using Tinkercad
4th grade STEAM
Olympics planning
5th grade Lab
Tinkercad - creating a 3D printing project

21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology resources to create original projects, identify patterns, make predictions, and propose solutions.
5th grade STEAM
The Sphero Games presents
“Battle Bots”
6th grade Lab
Sharing Digital Citizenship Comic Strip
*Check out the Blog Post with links!
6th grade STEAM
Sphero Mini Golf

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Priority Standards for Dec. 8-15



4th grade Lab
DAY 1:
Hour of Code activities at
https://code.org/learn
-try one of the premade
coding games
-create an app, game or even
your own Google logo
21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology
resources to create original
projects, identify patterns,
make predictions, and
propose solutions.

Day 3
Continue Design Cereal Boxes
(project with Art)
Begin 3D printing project
using Tinkercad
4th grade STEAM
Choices:

  • Bloxels
  • Mindstorms
  • Sphero
  • Green Screen
  • free build
  • Lego Wall
5th grade Lab
Day 1
Hour of Code activities at
https://code.org/learn
-try one of the premade
coding games
-create an app, game or even
your own Google logo
21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology
resources to create original
projects, identify patterns,
make predictions, and
propose solutions.

Day 3
Continue Digital Driver’s License
5th grade STEAM
Create videos for PBIS assembly
6th grade Lab
Day 1 - none due to Wonder

Day 3, 5
Continue Digital Citizenship
Comic Strip
6th grade STEAM
Choices:

  • Bloxels
  • Mindstorms
  • Sphero
  • Green Screen
  • free build
  • Lego Wall

Friday, December 1, 2017

Priority Standards for Nov. 30-Dec. 7



4th grade Lab
DAY 1:
Continue Design Cereal Boxes (project with Art)

Day 3
Hour of Code activities at https://code.org/learn
-try one of the premade coding games
-create an app, game or even your own Google logo
21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology resources to create original projects, identify patterns, make predictions, and propose solutions.
4th grade STEAM
Hour of Code
“Unplugged” activity Debugging Relay
5th grade Lab
Day 1
Continue Digital Driver’s License

Day 3
Hour of Code activities at https://code.org/learn
-try one of the premade coding games
-create an app, game or even your own Google logo
21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology resources to create original projects, identify patterns, make predictions, and propose solutions.
5th grade STEAM
Hour of Code
“Unplugged” activity My Robotic Friends
6th grade Lab
Day 1
Continue Digital Citizenship Comic Strip

Day 3, 5
Hour of Code activities at https://code.org/learn
-create an app, game or even your own Google logo
21.6-8.TL.1 Demonstrate creative thinking in the design and development of innovative technology products and problem solving.
6th grade STEAM
Hour of Code
“Unplugged” activity My Robotic Friends

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Priority Standards for Nov. 9-16

 


4th grade Lab
Continue Design Cereal Boxes (project with Art)
21.3-5.TL.1 Use technology resources to create original projects, identify patterns, make predictions, and propose solutions.
-I can choose from a variety of resources to add content to a project.
-I can work individually and collaboratively to create, display, publish, or perform technology projects.
4th grade STEAM
4B - 4N - 4T: no STEAM due to the Veterans Day Assembly

4K - 4H: Newspaper Towers Challenge
-check out Instagram or an upcoming blog post for pictures
-follow @norwaysteam on Instagram to see student highlights from the STEAM space
5th grade Lab
Digital Driver’s License
21.3 -5.TL.3 Utilize digital tools and resources to investigate real–world issues, answer questions, or solve problems.
-I can follow a plan to find information using digital tools.
21.3-5.TL.5 Understand and practice appropriate, legal, and safe uses of technology for lifelong learning.
-I can be safe online and keep personal information private.
-I can be respectful of others by not stealing ideas or information online.
-I can use technology to assist my learning.
5th grade STEAM
Monday, November 13 - Tie Blanket Project Completion
Rotations, including
  • Bloxels
  • Sphero
  • Green Screen
  • Snap Circuits
  • Mindstorms
6th grade Lab
Digital Citizenship Comic Strip
21.6-8.TL.1 Demonstrate creative thinking in the design and development of innovative technology products and problem solving.
-I can work individually and collaboratively to create and display, publish, or perform products.
-I can create and share new ideas and products related to curriculum content.
21.6-8.TL.5 Understand the legal and ethical issues of technology as related to individuals, cultures, and societies.
-I can use technology in ways that do not harm myself or others.
-I can use copyrighted materials responsibly.
6th grade STEAM
Continue Flour Challenge 2017 “Follow the Flow”
Overview video

*6F has completed “Follow the Flow”, so they will have Free Choice

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Hispanic Heritage Month Research

Hello Fifth Grade Parents,

In Technology we recently completed a research project to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage month. This project had the student choose a famous person of Hispanic descent to learn more about. Students choose athletes, actors, musicians, politicians, scientists and more. 

The Technology Priority Standards we focused on were:
21.3 -5.TL.3 Utilize digital tools and resources to investigate real–world issues, answer questions, or solve problems.
-I can follow a plan to find information using digital tools.
-I can use information from more than one source.

Students also used the following 5th grade Writing standards:
5.W.7  Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge
L.5.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.5.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

You can view the reports here:





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