TEACHER: Victoria Wilson SUBJECT/GRADE: Technology/Grade 4 DATE: 4/4/16- 6/17/16

Academic Standard:Creativity and Innovation & Communication and Collaboration

SWBAT:
1) CI: Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.

I can use virtual tours online

to help me to understand more about what I am studying.
2) CI: Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.

movies into my projects.

to share my ideas.

I can place photographs and

I can use technology software

3) CI: Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

search engine on different types of technologies.

CO:

I can find information using a

4) CC: Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts or others employing a variety
of digital environments and media.

to and complete a group project using technology.

I can work with others to add

5) CC: Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a

variety of media and formats.

I can work with other students

on a document that needs input and ideas from our group.
6) CC: Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

I can work with others in a

group to present a project using a variety of technologies.
Essential Questions:
What are the ways that I can determine
whether a website is trustworthy or not? 4/18, 5/2
What is research? What are some research
strategies?4/20, 4/25, 4/27
How can I locate information using
technology? 4/20, 4/25, 4/27
What are some of the ways that I can narrow
my search results? 4/20, 4/25, 4/27
What are the different ways that I can travel
the world with technology? 5/4, 5/9
What is collaboration? How can I collaborate
using technology? Why is collaboration important?
5/11
What is an infographic and how do I create

Assessment & Performance:

Formative Assessment:
Observation
Questioning
Grand conversation
Graphic organizers
Think, pair, share
Exit tickets
Quick-Checks
Free Rice
Collaborative activities
Coding activities
Summative Assessment:
Piktograph

one? 5/16, 5/18, 5/23, 5/25

What is coding? What are the careers
available in the Computer Science field? Why is
knowing how to code an important skill to have? 6/1,
6/6, 6/8, 6/13
Modifications:
The students who have difficulty reading will be
accommodated through the teacher reading the material to
them. The students who have trouble writing will be paired
with a student who does not have trouble writing, the teacher
will also be around to assist students with difficulties. The
teacher will display many materials visually as well as read
them verbally. Students who need tests read to them or who
need shortened tests will also be accommodated for.
Materials: Chromebooks, the internet, projector, white board, dry erase markers, VR Goggles, Cell
phones
Learning Plan: Activities and Sequence of Instruction
4AMonday-9:10-9:50
Wednesday-12:35-1:25
4BMonday-9:55-10:35
Wednesday-9:55-10:35

4/4 & 4/6

Monday
1. The teacher and students will read the
objectives for the day together.
2. The teacher will introduce the students to
a charitable competition that will be taking
place between the fourth and fifth grades,
freerice.com, by playing a video. This
competition will allow the students to
practice for the upcoming M-STEP and
NWEA testing all while helping to feed the
hungry through the World Food Program.
Students will answer a variety of questions
and earn ten grains of rice for every correct
answer. The teacher will keep track of the
rice earned between the grades.
3. The teacher will demonstrate how
freerice.com works and the students will
proceed to the website and begin answering
questions to earn rice.

Wednesday
1. The teacher and students will read
the objectives for the day together.
2. The students will be asked to
recall what we did last class period.
3. The teacher will direct the
students to freerice.com where they
will continue answering M-STEP
and NWEA prep questions to earn
rice for the hungry.
***Classwork

4/11 & 4/13

1. The teacher and students will read the

objectives for the day together.
2. The teacher will direct the students to
freerice.com where they will continue
answering M-STEP and NWEA prep
questions to earn rice for the hungry

4/18 & 4/20

1. The teacher and students will read the

objectives for the day together.
2.Students will be asked if all information on
the internet can be trusted. Students will then
be asked to hypothesize how we can identify
good information/websites from bad.
3. As a class,we will watch the Brainpop
video online sources. Students will be
taking a quiz during the video. The video
will be played twice. After the quiz, we will
discuss the answers.
4. When all students are finished, they are to
practice typing using the Typing Club
program.

***Quiz

4/25 & 4./27

1. The teacher and students will read the

objectives for the day together.
2. The teacher will ask the students to recall
what we did last class period.
3. Students will proceed to Google
Classroom where they will find an
assignment that will allow them to practice
doing research using Google.
The teacher will encourage the students to
use the new research strategies that the
teacher has taught them.
4. When the students are finished, they are to
practice typing using the Typing Club
program.

1. The teacher and students will read

the objectives for the day together.
2. The teacher will direct the
students to freerice.com where they
will continue answering M-STEP
and NWEA prep questions to earn
rice for the hungry.
1. The teacher and students will read
the objectives for the day together.
2. The teacher will ask the students
to explain what Google is and what
it can be used for to an elbow
partner.
3.The teacher will refresh the
students on how to get to and use
Google. The teacher will also go
over ways to narrow the results and
we will discuss using key words.
4. Students will proceed to Google
Classroom where they will find an
assignment that will allow them to
practice doing research using
Google.
5. When the students are finished,
they are to practice typing using the
Typing Club program.
6. Using the last few minutes of
class, the students will discuss their
search results with a partner.
***Classwork
1. The teacher and students will read
the objectives for the day together.
2. The teacher will ask the students
to reflect on why being able to
research is an important skill to
have.
3 Students will proceed to Google
Classroom where they will find an
assignment that will allow them to
practice doing research using
Google. The teacher will encourage
the students to use the new research
strategies that the teacher has taught
them.

6. Using the last few minutes of class, the

students will compare their search results
with a partner.

5/2 & 5/4

1. The teacher and students will read the

objectives for the day together
2. The students will be asked to think, pair,
and share with a partner ways that a
trustworthy site can be identified.
3. The students will be told that they are
taking a quiz over researching using Google
and identifying a trustworthy website.
4. The students will take the quiz and turn
them in as they are completed. When the
students are finished, they are to practice
typing with the typing club program or any
typing game.
***Quiz

5/9 & 5/11

1. The teacher and students will read the

objectives for the day together.
2. The teacher will ask the students to recall
what they did last class period.
3. The teacher will tell the students that they
will continue going on virtual field trips but
this time, using Google Classroom to
document where they are going, the
interesting things they are seeing, and what
they are learning about these places, the
people, the cultures, etc.
4. Finally, the students will share this doc
with a friend.

4. When the students are finished,

they are to practice typing using the
Typing Club program.
5. Using the last few minutes of
class, the students will compare their
search results with a partner.
***Classwork
1. The teacher and students will read
the objectives for the day together.
2. The students will be asked to
discuss if they believe that it's
possible to travel the world
without actually leaving their seats.
They will discuss how this is
possible.
3. The students will be shown how
to use Google Maps and we will go
on a few virtual field trips as a class.
The teacher will also briefly discuss
how to use the virtual goggles.
4. The students will then
independently explore places and
take their own virtual field trips
using both Google Maps and the VR
goggles.
1. The teacher and students will read
the objectives for the day together.
2. The teacher will ask the students
to define what collaboration is and
looks like. The teacher will ask the
students to identify times that we
have collaborated in Technology
class.
3. The teacher will then explain to
the students that collaboration is a
group of people working towards a
common goal and that they will be
participating in a group
collaboration activity today.
4. The teacher will create a Google
Doc that includes all of the students
in the class, the teacher will write a
sentence starter and the students will
continue to collaborate and add to

5/16 & 5/18

1. The teacher and students will read the

objectives for the day together.
2. The teacher will introduce the students to
their new project, creating an infographic.
The teacher will show the students examples
of infographics and explain the purpose of
infographics to the students.
3. The students will open a Google Doc and
brainstorm different infographics that they
are interested in creating.

5/23 & 5/25

1. The teacher and students will read the

objectives for the day together.
2. The students will be asked to recall what
we began working on last week.
3. The teacher will explain to the students
that their final test is to create an infographic
that include five things that they learned this
entire year in Technology.
4. The students will proceed to piktochart
and where they will work on their final
exam.
***Final
No School

(No school
5/30) 6/1

the story one word at a time.

5. Once the activity is complete, the
teacher will ask the students to
reflect on how they collaborated in
this activity. They will turn and talk
to a partner and share why
collaboration is important.
***Classwork
1. The teacher and students will read
the objectives for the day together.
2. The students will be asked to
recall what they learned during the
last class period.
3. The students will be asked to
proceed to Google Classroom where
they will respond to a writing
prompt concerning infographics.
4. The teacher will give the students
a brief tutorial over Piktochart.
5. The students will proceed to the
website Piktochart.com where they
will begin experimenting with the
program and learning how to use it.
1. The teacher and students will read
the objectives for the day together.
2. The teacher will direct the
students to complete their final exam
on piktochart. Students will submit
the URL to the teacher when they
have finished.

***Final

1. The teacher and students will read

the objectives for the day together.
2. Students will be asked to recall
what they remember about coding.
3. Students will be reintroduced to
Coding through a variety of
inspirational videos located on
Code.org.
4. If there is time, the students will
proceed to code.org where they will

6/6 & 6/8

1. The teacher and students will read the

objectives for the day together.
2. The students will be asked to recall what
was discussed in the previous class.
3. The students will be directed to the
website code.org where they will choose a
coding activity to participate in.

6/13 & 6/15

1. The teacher and students will read the

objectives for the day together.
2. Students will be able to choose either a
coding website or typing website from the
ones weve learned.

practice coding using the variety of

activities on the site.
1. The teacher and students will read
the objectives for the day together.
2. Students will be asked to recall
what they have been
practicing/learning.
3. The students will be directed to
the website playcodemonkey.com.
This website is a bit more advanced
than code.org. The students are
actually coding by typing in their
own HTML.

Students are free to choose a

website.