6th Grade Technology Curriculum Print

Description

6th Grade Technology Curriculum is the seventh in a series designed to teach technology by integrating it into classroom inquiry. The choice of  hundreds of school districts, private schools and homeschoolers around the world, this nine-volume suite is the all-in-one solution to running an effective, efficient, and fun technology program for kindergarten-eighth grade (each grade level textbook sold separately) whether you’re the lab specialist, IT coordinator, or classroom teacher.

The 32-week 6th-grade technology curriculum is designed with the unique needs of middle school technology IT classes in mind.

287 images

34 assessments

12 pedagogic articles

Grade 6-8 wide-ranging Scope and Sequence

Grade 6-8 technology curriculum map

32 weeks of lessons

monthly homework (3^rd-8^th only)

articles that address tech pedagogy

posters ready to print and hang on your walls

Details of 6th Grade Technology

Each lesson is aligned with both Common Core State Standards and National Educational Technology Standards and includes:

• academic applications for lessons
• additional resources
• assessment strategies
• big idea
• class exit tickets
• class warmups
• Common Core Standards
• domain-specific vocabulary
• emphasis on comprehension/problem-solving/critical thinking/preparing for career and college
• essential question
• examples
• focus on transfer of knowledge and blended learning, collaboration and sharing
• grading rubrics
• homework
• how to extend learning
• ISTE Standards
• materials required
• options for adapting lessons to a class or lab
• options for adapting lessons to PCs, iPads, Chromebooks, or Macs
• problem-solving for lesson
• skills required for lesson and learned during lesson
• steps to accomplish goals
• teacher preparation required
• time required to complete

Units include:

• Coding
• Digital Citizenship
• Desktop Publishing
  
• Digital Tools in the Classroom
• Financial Literacy
• Genius Hour
• Google Earth Lit Trip
• Image Editing
• Infographics
• Internet Search and Research
• Keyboarding
• Khan Academy
• Online Image Legalities
• Presentation Boards
• Problem Solving
• Screenshots, Screencasts, Videos
• Slideshow Summative
• Spreadsheets
• The Debate
• Web-based Tools
• Word Processing Summative
• Write an Ebook
• Writing with Comics, Twitter, More