Curriculum+Guidelines



**Linking Curriculum to Academic Service Learning **


 * Content Standards: **
 * **ISTE1.a.1. Creativity and Innovation **
 * Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes **
 * using technology. Students: **
 * a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. **
 * b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression. **
 * c. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues. **
 * d. identify trends and forecast possibilities. **
 * 2. Communication and Collaboration **
 * Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, **
 * to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: **
 * a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments **
 * and media. **
 * b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. **
 * c. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3. Research and Information Fluency **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">a. plan strategies to guide inquiry. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">media. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">c. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">d. process data and report results. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. Students: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">a. identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">b. plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">c. collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">d. use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore alternative solutions. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">5. Digital Citizenship **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">behavior. Students: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">c. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">d. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">6. Technology Operations and Concepts **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. Students: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">a. understand and use technology systems. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">b. select and use applications effectively and productively. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">c. troubleshoot systems and applications. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">d. transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies. ** ||

**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Content Expectations: **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. Basic Operations and Concepts. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">PK-2 TSE:MI1.a. Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> PK-2 TSE:MI1.a.1.2. Students identify the functions and care of the major hardware components in a computer system. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">PK-2 TSE:MI1.a.2.3. Students identify common uses of technology found in daily life. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> PK-2 TSE:MI1.a.4.b. Students are proficient in the use of technology **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">PK-2 TSE:MI1.b.1. Students are aware of correct finger positions on the keyboard. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2. Students recognize functions of basic file menu commands (e.g. new, open, close, save, print). **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3. Students use personal folders to manage computer files. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">4. Students use a variety of age-appropriate technologies for sharing information (e.g. drawing a picture, writing a story, creating a simple slide show). **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">5. Students use various age-appropriate technologies for gathering information (e.g. dictionaries, encyclopedias, web resources). **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">2. Social, ethical, and human issues. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> PK-2 TSE:MI2.a.1. Students identify common uses of information and communication technologies. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">2. b. Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">PK-2 TSE:MI2.b. 1. Students recognize, that using a password protects the privacy of information c. Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">PK-2 TSE:MI2.c.1. Students understand that technology is a tool to help them complete a task, and is a source of information, learning and entertainment. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2. Students identify places in the community where one can access technology. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 3. Technology productivity tools. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">PK-2 TSE:MI3.a. Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1. Students know how to use a variety of productivity software (e.g. word processors, drawing tools, presentation software) to convey ideas and illustrate concepts. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2. Students identify the best type of productivity software to use for a certain age-appropriate tasks (e.g. word-processor, drawing, browser). **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> b. students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">PK-2 TSE:MI3.b. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. Students are aware of how to work together when using technology tools (e.g. word processor, drawing, presentation software) to convey ideas or illustrate simple concepts relating to a specified project. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">PK-2 TSE:MI3.b.1.4. Technology communications tools. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> PK-2 TSE:MI4 a. Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">PK-2 TSE:MI4.a.5. Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> PK-2 TSE:MI5.1. Student know how to use a variety of age-appropriate media (e.g. presentation software, newsletters, word processors) to communicate ideas to classmates, families, and others. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2. Students, assisted by teachers, parents, or student partners, know how to select media formats (e.g. text, graphics, photos, video) to communicate and share ideas to classmates, families, and others. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 6. Technology research tools. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> PK-2 TSE:MI6a. Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">PK-2 TSE:MI6.a. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. Students know how to recognize the Web browser and associate it with accessing resources on the internet. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">2. Students, assisted by teachers, parents, or student parents, identify steps for using technology resources (e.g. CD-ROMs, DVDs, search engines, websites) to locate information relating to a specific curricular topic. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">b. Students use technology tools to process data and report results. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">PK-2 TSE:MI6.b.1. Students, assisted by teachers, parents, or student parents, know how to use existing electronic databases (e.g. dictionaries, encyclopedias, spreadsheets) to locate and interpret information. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> c. Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness to specific tasks. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">PK-2 TSE:MI6.b.1.c. 1. Students provide a rationale for choosing one type of hardware or software over another for completing a specific assigned task. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Grades Three through Five-Technology Standards and Expectations **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. Basic Operations and Concepts. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI1.a.1. Students know how to use basic input and output devices; access network resources (e.g. printers, servers); and use various peripherals (e.g. scanners, digital cameras, video projectors). **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI1.a.1. 2. Students recognize and discuss ways technology has changed life at school and at home. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI1.a.4. Students identify characteristics that suggest that the computer system hardware or software needs to be upgraded. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">b. Students are proficient in the use of technology. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 3-5 TSE MI1.b. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.Students know proper keyboarding positions and touch-typing techniques. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">2. Students demonstrate proper care in the use of the computer system, hardware, software, peripherals, and storage media. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 3. Students manage and maintain their own files on a hard drive or the network. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 4. Students know how to exchange files with other students using technology (e.g. e-mail attachments, network file sharing, diskettes, flash drives). **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">5. Students identify software used for information management and know which types of software can be used most effectively for different types of data, for different information needs, and for conveying results in different audiences. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">6. Students identify search strategies for locating needed information. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">7. Students identify resources that contribute to solving a specified problem. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2. Social, ethical, and human issues. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> PK-2 TSE:MI2. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">a. Students understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> PK-2 TSE:MI2.a. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 1. Students identify cultural, and societal issues relating to technology. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> PK-2 TSE:MI2.b. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 2. Students identify issues relating to how information and communication technology supports collaboration, productivity, and lifelong learning. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 3-5 TSE MI2.a.2.3. Students understand and discuss how various assistive technologies can benefit individuals with disabilities. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 3-5 TSE MI2.a.3.4. Students discuss the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, and bias of electronic information sources. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 3-5 TSE MI2.a.4.b. Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 3-5 TSE MI2.b.3.c. Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 3-5 TSE MI2.c.1. Students identify software or technology-delivered access that is valuable to them, and describe how it improves their ability to communicate, be productive, or achieve personal goals. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI2.c.1.2. Students identify their personal goals or pursuits and explore technology resources that may assist them in identifying paths leading to their goals or pursuits. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 3-5 TSE MI2c.2.3. Technology productivity tools. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 3-5 TSE MI3.a. Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI3.a.1. Students know how to use menu options in applications to print, format, add multimedia features; open, save, manage files; and use various grammar tools (e.g.. Dictionary, thesaurus, spell-checker). **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI3.a.1.2. Students know how to insert various objects (e.g. photos, graphics, sound, video) into word-processing documents, presentations, or web documents. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI3.a.2.3. Students use a variety of technology tools and applications to promote their creativity. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI3.a.3.4. Students understand that existing (and future) technologies are the result of human creativity. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI3.a.4.b. Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI3.b.1. Students collaborate with classmates using a variety of technology tools to plan, organize and create a group project.3-5 TSE MI3.b.1.4. Technology communications tools. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI4a. Students use telecommunications to collabarte, publish and intereact with peers, experts, and other auduiences. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI4.a.1. Students use basic telecommunication tools (e.g. e-mail-ail, WebQuests, IM, chat rooms, web conferencing) and online resources for collaborative projects with other students. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 3-5 TSE MI4.a.1.b. Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.3-5 TSE MI4.b.1. Students use a variety of media and formats to create and edit products (e.g. presentations, newsletters, brochures, web pages) to communicate information and ideas to various audiences. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> 3-5 TSE MI4.b.1.2. Students identify how different forms of media and formats may be used to share similar information, depending on the intended audience (e.g. presentations for classmates, newsletters for parents). **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3-5 TSE MI4.b.2. ** ||

**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Core Knowledge/Skills: **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Research for topic **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">>Is there a need? **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">>Would this be a pleasant aide? **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Discuss possible solutions **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">>Would we need to provide CD players? **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">>Record concerts and possible student authors? ** ||

**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Service Learning Component: **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Creating audio CD's for elderly ** ||


 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tasks/Activities that Use Knowledge/Skills Taught ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Real World Applications ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Writing Poetry **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sensitivity to elderly **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">>Lesson in dexterity **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">>Lesson in vision **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">>Lesson in hearing ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Producing an audio CD **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Learning about Diversity **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Learning to record audio into a digital format **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Distributing audio CD for use with elderly clientel **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Potential fundraiser for funds to be used for purchase of hardware ** ||