K - 5

Kindergarten
General Skills

  • Identify parts of computer
  • Use a mouse
  • Find and launch a program
  • Print
  • Quit/Exit/Close
  • Work cooperatively with others
  • Cursor placement and usage
  • Key boarding

Database

  • Sorting/Classifying/Graphing

Graphics/Desktop Publishing

  • Select Colors
  • Erase
  • Stamp clip art
  • Re-size image
  • Add graphic elements to create a picture
  • Undo/Cut/Paste

Links to websites for Kindergartners
http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/resources/gradek-1/websites.html
http://www.starfall.com/ Great site for beginning readers
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/learn.jsp Online activites and interactive learning
http://www2.shidonni.com/s/default.htm?af=shidonnihome
http://sheppardsoftware.com/
http://www.abcya.com/

First Grade
General Skills

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Retrieving files
  • Menu navigation
  • Cursor placement and usage
  • Keyboarding
  • Tool bar, Scroll bar, Pull down menu
  • Special keys software specific “hot keys”
  • “Personal” rights
  • Students will demonstrate responsible use of hardware and software
  • Students will demonstrate proper respect in a lab setting

Word Processing

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Create a new document
  • Manipulating text (Cut, Copy, and Paste)
  • Undo

Database

  • Sorting/Classifying/Graphing

Communications

  • Students will work cooperatively by assisting their fellow students
  • New vocabulary
  • Cautions regarding online activity at home

Graphics/Desktop Publishing

  • Use Tools
  • Erase, Undo, Cut and Paste
  • Border
  • Selecting and manipulating items
  • Patterns and gradients

Links to websites for First Graders
http://pbskids.org/
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A1=gba&A2=6
http://www.starfall.com/ Great site for reading practice
http://www.spinandspell.com/ Spelling practice
http://www2.shidonni.com/s/default.htm?af=shidonnihome
http://www.abcya.com/

Second Grade
General Skills

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Sizing windows (Minimize, Maximize)
  • Saving files

Word Processing

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Enter text
  • Edit text
  • Change fonts and sizes
  • Insert Clip art

Spreadsheet

  • Introduce simple math on computer
  • Introduce concepts of coordinates and cells
  • Enter data
  • Graph data
  • Use spreadsheet to create a graph or chart
  • Print out a chart

Communications

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Guided Internet use

Graphics/Desktop Publishing

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Import objects from other programs
  • Layer manipulation
  • Layout and design

Links to websites for Second Graders
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A1=gba&A2=8&A7=0
http://www.thekidzpage.com/index.html
http://www.kidrex.org/ (Search Engine for kids)
http://www.spinandspell.com/ Spelling practice
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html Fun educational content
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ Educational games
http://www.abcya.com/

Third Grade
General Skills

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Copyright implications
  • Saving/Organizing information in a meaningful way

Word Processing

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Spell Check
  • Format
  • Use of thesaurus
  • Import data
  • Headers/Footers
  • Insert Menu

Database

  • Enter data
  • Design a simple database display
  • Sort information in database

Spreadsheet

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Enter labels for columns and rows
  • Enter formulas
  • Print report
  • “What if” queries

Communications

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Guided access to information on line (Internet search engines for kids)

Graphics/Desktop Publishing

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Exposure to digital images from camera

Links to websites for Third Graders
http://www.kidrex.org/ (Search Engine for Kids)
http://www.kidsclick.org/ (Search Engine for Kids)
http://www.allsafesites.com/ (Search Engine for Kids)
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A1=gba&A2=9&A7=0
http://www.factmonster.com/ Good beginning sight for research
http://www.spinandspell.com/ Spelling practice
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html Fun educational content
http://funschool.kaboose.com/ Educational games
http://playkidsgames.com/
http://kids.yahoo.com/ Games and other content for kids
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/mystorymaker/ My Story Maker
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ Educational games
http://www.abcya.com/

Fourth and Fifth Grade
General Skills

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Storage Drives and Media
  • Delete files from personal drive or disk
  • Import/Export data

Word Processing

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Practical/Efficient use of menu/toolbar-multiple ways to perform menu task “hot keys”, mouse, menu, toolbar, etc.
  • Use previously created template
  • Find/Replace
  • Page Set-up
  • Pagination/Page Breaks

Database

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Search and find
  • Search for information in database (adding, deleting, editing fields)
  • Use database to create a report
  • Print out a report

Spreadsheet

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Independently design and use a more complex spreadsheet
  • Print out a graph, chart

Communications

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • Ethics – “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”

Graphics/Desktop Publishing/Multimedia

  • Review skills taught at previous levels
  • More emphasis on layout and design
  • Prepare simple slideshow with transitions
  • Import graphic from outside source and edit

Links to websites for 4th & 5th Graders
http://www.allsafesites.com/ Search Engine for kids
http://homeworkspot.com/ Homework help sites
http://freerice.com/ Vocabulary practice that helps feed the hungry
http://www.flashcardmachine.com/ Create your own flashcards to help you study any subject
http://www.classbrain.com/cb_reports.htm Good starting place for reports and projects
http://www.covenantworks.com/Bouncy-A/index.htm Directory of educational websites
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/mystorymaker/ Story Maker
http://www.dltk-kids.com/puzzle.htm Jigsaw puzzles
http://sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/puzzles/puzzlepage.htm Jigsaw Puzzles and more!
http://www.abcya.com/