Curriculum

The links below will take you to Georgia's new Learning Standards and technology ideas for each of those standards. Feel free to use any of these ideas. Most of them are not in depth and should be simple enough for even novice tech users to implement in their classrooms.

If you would like a template created, please email me and I will be glad to do that. Be aware, however, that it make take me a few days to get templates made and uploaded for you to use.

Also, keep in mind that Webquests and scavenger hunts are excellent activities to use. I have not included these in any of my ideas because links change so quickly. I would suggest using them (especially Webquests) whenever you can, since they promote higher order thinking skills. Simply do a Google search for your topic, like "American Revolution Webquest" and you can look through the hits and find the one that's most appropriate for your needs. Or better yet, write your own!

I basically write my own curriculum, based on student/teacher need and state requirements. Technology-based curriculum is still being developed, and the best curriculum is based on other areas first (such as language arts, math, science, etc.), and simply includes some type of technology as the BEST tool to get the work done.

However, all students must have a basic knowledge of computer/tech use, and there are a few complete curriculums and/or scopes and sequences that have been developed in this area.

Below are links to the Georgia standards and the skills checklists that I use in my computer lab.

It takes a lot of coordination between the lab teacher and the regular classroom teacher to plan activities that correlate with what's going on in the regular classroom, but it can be done, and the students' learning is more complete.

Below is an outline for activities in my computer lab throughout the year. I am currently working on specifics for each activity that correlate with what is being studied in the regular classroom each week.

August Rules/posture/keyboarding Parts of the computer/input and output devices/keyboarding Special keys/punctuation/changing font color, size, style/keyboarding rules (Word or Student Writing Center) Safety/Copyright/Nethics/Netiquette	January Kidpix Word/Student Writing Center Kidspiration/Inspiration Word/Student Writing Center
September Excel Internet Search - Directory Internet Search - Key word Excel	February Kidspiration/Inspiration Word/Student Writing Center Kidspiration/Inspiration Word/Student Writing Center
October Email/online references/dictionaries Other references (encyclopedia, card catalog) Word/Student Writing Center KidPix	March Kidpix PowerPoint PowerPoint Webquest Excel
November Kidspiration and Inspiration KidPix PowerPoint PowerPoint	April Excel Input/Output Scanner, digital camera, interactive white board
December KidPix PowerPoint PowerPoint	May Types of technology (agricultural, medical, etc.) Technology at home and in the community History of Technology/Computers

Check out some fully developed curriculum programs and other scopes and sequences: