Middle School Technology Class in Arizona

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Permalink Reply by Shelley Jenkins on June 26, 2012 at 10:07pm

Depending on what experience the students had with technology in elementary school,  you might

want to look at our Elem. Tech Scope and Sequence that we use for our K-5 weekly tech classes

in my district.    It is correlated to the ISTE NETS standards.   You might just look at what kids are supposed to

be doing in 5th grade, and be able to get ideas about different areas to teach.

Here's the link,  scope sequence document at the very bottom http://tetoncountysd.wy.schoolwebpages.com/education/school/school....

My suggestions:

Be sure to spend time on digital citizenship/ internet safety.   Netsmartz.org has activities

I do a publishing/word processing project where kids make a menu,   use 2 column and landscape view layout

and learn to use TAB to line up all the food items and prices.   Also they insert graphics/ clip art.

I went online and downloaded real menus from restaurants for kids to get ideas.

Using garageband podcast or Audacity to make recordings, interviews, etc.

Be sure to teach how to make spreadsheets, do common formulas, and create charts.

Find out if you can post student projects on the school website.  Kids make better products if

they have a big audience.

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