3rd+-+5th+Activities

=3rd - 5th Computer Lab Activities=

Please use this section to add your computer lab activities. Please add newest lessons at the top by adding a row below the header row.

1a, 1b, 6a ||  || These are a series of projects I complete with the third grade class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other drawing software. ||  || [|Ann Oro] || 3 || 1a, 1b, 6a ||  || These are a series of projects I complete with the fourth grade class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other drawing software. ||  || [|Ann Oro] || 4 || 1a, 1b, 6a ||  || These are a series of projects I complete with the fifth grade class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other drawing software. ||  || [|Ann Oro] || 5 || Internet Digital Camera || In Word learn how or practice copying and pasting the word favorite and how to make a colon. Learn how to copy and paste a document onto a website.Learn how to find and upload a photo to a website. (3rd grade)
 * ** Activity ** || ** Software ** || ** Skill/NETS/COS ** || **Tags** || ** Comments ** || **File** || **Contributor** || **Grade Level(s)** ||
 * [|Computer Lab Favorites] || internet || language arts, social studies, math, science ||  || The activities on this site are 15-30 minutes and easy to manage in the lab setting. There are 2 sections K-2 and 3-5. Great fillers for when students are done with other projects, easy for subs to use. ||   || Cateste || K-5 ||
 * Word Activities for Fourth || word processor || Nets for Students 1a, 1b, 6a ||  || These are a series of projects I complete with the fourth grade class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other word processors. ||   || [|Ann Oro] || 4 ||
 * Word Activities for Third || word processor || Nets for Students 1a, 1b, 6a ||  || These are a series of projects I complete with the third grade class over the course of the year. I'm sure these can be adapted to other word processors. ||   || [|Ann Oro] || 3 ||
 * KidPix Activities for Third || Kid Pix || Nets for Students
 * KidPix Activities for Fourth || Kid Pix || Nets for Students
 * KidPix Activities for Fifth || Kid Pix || Nets for Students
 * Trading Cards || Word

Learn how to zoom in/out to take a head/shoulder shot of a classmate. In Word learn how or practice copying and pasting the word favorite and how to make a colon. Learn how to copy and paste a document onto a website. Learn how to find and upload a photo to a website. (4th Grade) || trading card bighugelab || Students make a trading card to give to their new teacher on the last day of school. We brainstormed a list of topics they'd want their new teacher to know about them. We discussed how to copy and paste the word favorite. I modeled how to do it with a right click. We also talked about other ways. Kids took turns taking pictures of the person sitting next to them. I uploaded them to the common folder on our server. Then the day we made the cards we went to Big Huge Labs and uploaded the picture, picked a background color and added our name for the title and future job for sub title and then copied our Word document. We saved the finished product to their folder.Then we inserted it into a Word document and resized it so we had 6 copies on one page. || [|Big Huge Labs Trading Card] || Nedra Isenberg || 3, 4 || Week 2- Students will be painting self-portraits using TuxPaint. ||  || [|mrscoggin] || 3, 4, 5 || science || Students visit website, click on "demos" and then can virtually dissect a frog. Works well with a SMARTboard too. (This is a subscription service, but a few demos are free...) ||  || Stacy || 5 || Word KidPix or Paint || * Use tables in Word
 * Life Cycle of a Frog || KidPix ||  ||   || Students raise tadpoles in their classroom as part of a life science unit. They draw the life cycle of the frog to demonstrate their knowledge. I have also had students create a kidpix slide show of the life cycle with voice narration on each slide explaining the cycle. || [|Life Cycle of a Frog] || Maddy || 3 ||
 * [|Graphs on Create-a-Graph] || Internet || 35. Use technology resources for solving problems. (graphing software) || graphs graphing || Surveyed the class for data to use in graphs. ||  || [|mrscoggin] || 4, 5 ||
 * Musical Microsoft Word || Word || 7. Demonstrate correct procedures for operning, closing and saving files using menu options and commands in appropriate grade/subject instructional software. || word story telling || Students watched a slideshow to get their creative juices flowing. Everyone began with the same sentence "I went to Mardi Gras last night, and you won't believe what happened to me!" Students were split into teams of 4-5. They were allowed to add the second sentence. When the music stops, they rotate to their teammates computer. Each person adds to their teammates story until everyone has rotated one time. The student then finalizes their story and adds clipart pictures. 2-3 week project. ||  || [|mrscoggin] || 4, 5 ||
 * All About Me || PowerPoint || 7. Demonstrate correct procedures for opening, closing and saving files using menu options and commands in appropriate grade/subject instructional software. || PowerPoint slideshow || Students complete a 5-slide All About Me PowerPoint activity. Slides include Title, About Me, My Family, Things I Like, and Character Web. Students brought in pictures from home to insert into their family slide. I took individual pictures of all students for them to use on their About Me slide. Students will present their slideshow to the class after about 3-4 weeks of work. ||  || [|mrscoggin] || 3, 4, 5 ||
 * [|Learning.com Lessons] || Internet || 2. Use developmentally appropriate keyboard techniques. || keyboarding || Learning.com has a variety of lessons on many topics. Must have subscription to this service. ||  || [|mrscoggin] || 3. 4, 5 ||
 * TuxPaint Self-Portraits || TuxPaint || 23. Use a variety of media and technology resources for directed and indpendent learning activities across the curriculum. || paint tuxpaint || Week 1- students learned functions of TuxPaint and had a free day to play around with it.
 * Educational Video Week || Internet ||  || brainpop, videos || Students visited [|www.SchoolTube.com] and [|www.BrainPop.com] to watch educational videos of their choice. ||   || [|mrscoggin] || 3, 4, 5 ||
 * [|Virtual Frog Dissection] || Internet ||  || frog
 * That's What I Like About You || Internet
 * Upload pictures to a web site
 * Use microphones connected to computer to record
 * Demonstrate respect for others || voicethread, word, web2.0 || # Students use a drawing software program such as KidPix or Paint to create a self-portrait.
 * 1) Self-portraits are uploaded as slides for the Voicethread and used to create icons for each student. This could be done either by the student or the teacher. Since we were short on time, I did this uploading myself as students recorded using generic identities on VoiceThread and generic slides that I had created for each student until their self-portraits were completed.
 * 2) Students use Word (or other word processing program) to create a table of the students in their class and one or two sentences detailing something they like about that student. These will be approved by the teacher before the student can record on VoiceThread.
 * 3) After all slides are created, students record their **What I Like About You** sentences on each of the self-portrait slides in the VoiceThread.

I would probably split this in to multiple types of projects next year. I would have the students create a self-portrait or take photos for use throughout the year on multiple projects maybe even at the beginning of the year. Then this project would just focus on using tables in Word, writing their messages about each student and recording on VoiceThread. The kids had a great time recording and these turned out well especially considering we did this project with a limited amount of time. ||  || [|mrs_sedgwick] || 5 ||