I have taught technology skills to grades PrK-8th grade. I currently teach 7th and 8th graders basic technology skills and keyboarding to K-8th grade. When I am not busy teaching students I help staff integrate technology into their instruction.
Here are some resources, activities, and games to help teach students grades K-2 keyboarding skills.
Common Core Standard:
Common Core College and Career Readiness (CCR) Anchor Standards for Writing 6 - Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
NETS:
Technology Operations and Concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. Students:
a. to understand and use techn
Here is a fun Jelly Bean Math activity that ask kids to find the probability of picking jelly beans from the basket. Graph everyones favorite color of jelly bean.
Common Core - 1.MD.4. Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
Common Core - 3.NF.1. Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a w
Here is a fun activity that involves counting, word problems, and practicing writing numbers.
Common Core - K.CC.3. Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).
Common Core - 1.NBT.1. Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.
Common Core - 2.NBT.3. Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals,
The Game is best viewed as two pages.
Using the Fridge Magnets drag and the letters to spell.
Click on the "Clear" button to remove the magnets.
Spell the Following:
1. Your first name
2. Your favorite color
3. The month we are in
4. The month of your birthday
5. Your favorite food
6. Your favorite animal
7. The city you live in
8. The state you live in
9. Now spell this weeks spelling words
Common Core -RF.K.3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
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This fun SMART Board activity practices spelling words that end with the -ocks sound, such as fox, box, socks, and etc..
Common Core - RF.K.3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Sort buttons by shape, color, and how many number of holes. Compare size and colors with the handy venn diagrams.
Common Core 1st Grade - 1.G.1. Distinguish between defining attributes (e.g., triangles are closed and three-sided) versus non-defining attributes (e.g., color, orientation, overall size) ; build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes.
A fun SMART Board activity that includes an interactive puzzle and quiz questions.
Common Core - RI.3.7. Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
Common Core - RI.3.10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band i
This fun SMART Board activity ask kids to count, determine odd or even, and add up to 5 and 10 by loading the correct boxes on the truck.
Common Core - K.CC.4. Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
This fun SMART Board game has students solving math problems such as which numbers are divided by 2, 3, 5. There is even a section where the students has to find the numbers when added up equal 10. They drop the gumballs into the machine to see if they are correct.
Common Core - 3.OA.7.Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division.
Common Core - 1.OA.6. Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and
A fun SMART Board activity practicing multiplication skills.
3.OA.5. Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide.2 Examples: If 6 Ăƒâ€” 4 = 24 is known, then 4 Ăƒâ€” 6 = 24 is also known. (Commutative property of multiplication.) 3 Ăƒâ€” 5 Ăƒâ€” 2 can be found by 3 Ăƒâ€” 5 = 15, then 15 Ăƒâ€” 2 = 30, or by 5 Ăƒâ€” 2 = 10, then 3 Ăƒâ€” 10 = 30. (Associative property of multiplication.) Knowing that 8 Ăƒâ€” 5 = 40 and 8 Ăƒâ€” 2 = 16, one can find 8 Ăƒâ€” 7 as 8 Ăƒâ€” (5 + 2) = (8 Ăƒâ€” 5) + (8 Ăƒâ€” 2) = 40 + 16
This quiz is a fun way to assess your students in their chart making skills in Excel along with their problem solving skills.
Part 1 of the quiz students are to pretend they have been given a bag of candy. They are to create a table then a chart with their data.
Part 2 of the quiz you give your students candy and this time they have to record the actual amount and make a table and a chart.
Part 3 of the quiz test basic formula writing.
Common Core - 3.MD.3. Draw a scaled picture graph and
Playground math is a fun interactive way to work on building problem solving skills. Students must read the word problem before the can solve the problem.
This fun interactive activity combines Sight Words with Graphing.
Click or Tap on the spinner then drag the word from the word bank stacking the words as you go. Which word did the spinner land on the most?
Common Core - K.CC.6. Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.
Common Core - RF.K.1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic featur
This fun SMART Board activity ask kids to solve the math problem by feeding the fish.
1.NBT.3. Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and
Build ice cream cones by make making the number on the cone. Click the cone to check your answer.
Common Core - 2.NBT.5. Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Here is a fun SMART Board Game played like four in a row.
How to Play:
1. Click to roll the die.
2. Read a word with the same number as the dice.
(If you roll a six you get to roll again.)
3. Place one your shape on the word if read correctly
4. The winner is the one to have 4 in a row either vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
Common Core - RF.K.2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
A fun interactive way to solve math problems.
* Look at the math problem in the cloud
* Click on the balloons with the correct answer
* Place the balloons with the correct answer in the hand
Help Lil'a grow flowers by solving the math problem on each flowerpot.
To solve the math problem pick the flower with the correct answer.
Common Core - 1.OA.1. Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Common Core - K.OA.4. For any number
Help Little E make baskets by adding 1 more, 2 more, 5 more, 10 more, and taking away 1 less, 2 less, 5 less, 10 less. You can also help him make baskets by comparing to see if the numbers are greater than, less than or equal to.
Common Core - 1.NBT.5. Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used.
Common Core - 1.NBT.3. Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the r
Help Sammy Turkey count and write numbers.
Common Core - K.CC.3. Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a ?number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing ?a count of no objects).
Common Core - 1.NBT.1. Count to 120, starting at any number ?less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent ?a number of objects with a written numeral.
Common Core - 2.NBT.3. Read and write numbers to 1000 using ?base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
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Experience
I have taught technology skills to grades PrK-8th grade. I currently teach 7th and 8th graders basic technology skills and keyboarding to K-8th grade. When I am not busy teaching students I help staff integrate technology into their instruction.
Teaching style
I like to think that my style of teaching is a mixture of a demonstrator, a facilitator, and a delegator.
Awards & shining teacher moments
I am still working on some awards.
My own education history
I have a MS in Elementary Education Specializing in Classroom Technology.
Additional biographical information
I have presented at several conferences.
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