Introducing the perfect solution for teachers to engage junior students with the basics of computer technology - My First Laptop/Paper Computer Activity! This educational tool combines the hands-on experience of a craft activity with the essential knowledge of computer parts and login details. Students will have fun building their own paper laptop or computer and will be able to easily refer to it when using a real device for the first time. Get your students ready for the digital age with this unique and interactive learning experience! My first laptop or paper computer activity introduces laptops and computers to junior students in a simple and engaging way prior to using the technology for the first time! Students will learn to identify, name and describe the main parts of a computer or laptop, identify the letters of their login details on a keyboard and remember their username and password for a device! ADDITIONAL LESSON IDEAS: Naming computer parts. Finding and colouring the letters of students' username and password on the keyboard Exploring inputs and outputs by attaching string or drawing cords to connect peripheral devices. Addition to home corner/office playtimeLiteracy link - spelling sight words using a keyboard. ACARA DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM LINKS: Year 1/2 ACTDIK001 - Recognise and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose (ACARA, 2020). paper laptop | build a laptop | make a laptop | laptop craft | laptop activity | laptop lesson | paper computer | build a computer | make a computer | computer craft | learn to login | digital technology skills | computing skills | junior computing |
Create computer lesson plans for k-2 with academic standards. Lesson plan templates that make it simple to create your own computer lesson plans.
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Roundup with a variety of Montessori-inspired skeleton activities that can be used to create a multi-level skeleton unit for preschoolers on up.
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Your students are going to love the build your own computer paper activity. These little laptops turn out so adorable you can't resist smiling when you see finished.
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Unplugged Coding activities for beginning coding skills. No tech needed for this fun, hands-on activity to practice how to code with kindergarten students.
You don't need a computer to learn how to code! Unplugged coding activities and printables to teach children about computer science - without a computer.
Computer Science Education Week is an opportunity to spark interest in CS. Host an event and integrating unplugged computer science activities in the classroom.
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Fourth grade students have been working on their Romero Britto style self-portraits! Students used markers to capture the brightness and intensity of the colors in Britto's artworks. Britto is a modern day pop culture icon and the youngest and most successful POP Artist of his generation! His cubism style of art brings together bright colors and playful themes. This is the process we used to create exciting self portraits in the style of Romero Britto.Using a computer, digital camera images of
Teach your kids about our awesome Universe with these free solar system printables & Activities for children
Hop Scotch Coding® is perfect for the Hour of Code and introducing Coding to your students! Hop Scotch Coding provides a simple, interactive introduction to unplugged, block-style coding that is perfect for Kindergarten through third graders as they learn the basics of programming. After completing activities such as these, they can apply similar block coding strategies to coding websites and apps for kids and eventually to more advanced languages of coding. In groups of 3-4, students will build a sequence of code on the floor together. Each student will then take turns walking through the sequence of code and following the instructions all the way from START to STOP. A sequencing arrow means to advance forward and a movement card signals an action that the student must do. A looping mat can be placed behind a movement mat for students to repeat the action a given number of times. Includes the following: p. 3-4: Teacher Instructions p. 5: Coding Apps and Websites Poster p. 6: What is Coding? Poster p. 7: Flow Control Structures Poster p. 8: START mat p. 9: STOP mat p. 10: Sequencing Arrow mat p. 11-13: Looping mats p. 14-25: Movement (Conditions) mats p. 26: Credits ***Also includes PAPERLESS Google Slides Hop Scotch coding! Students can build and act out their own their own codes in either a slideshow format or a board format!
A map game can help your child learn the important life skill of map reading. This fun activity combines following directions with map skills activities.
This Elementary Technology Curriculum includes over 200 lessons and activities for grades K-5 that will save you so much time coming up with what to do in the computer lab. It is ideal for a technology teacher, media specialist, tech facilitator, or grade level teachers with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you! This is for you if: You want students who can log in, access any programs, type efficiently, and use technology to learn. You want students who are confident in using the technology required for standardized testing. You have limited time– in one 45 minute session per week, your students can develop technology literacy while completing engaging projects. You need it to be effortless for YOU and fun for your students. My name is Brittany Washburn and I’m an educator obsessed with ed tech. This curriculum was created over 3 school years when I had nothing for materials for my technology specials. I was spending my nights and weekends scouring Pinterest and Google for ideas because I knew my students deserved engaging lessons even if I had to do everything from scratch. I found myself exhausted and frustrated and just knew there had to be an easier way. That is when I discovered the magic of having my own class website and screencasting my instructions. I created a modified-flipped-classroom before I even knew that was a thing. Students were working at their own pace and they stopped asking me to repeat instructions. I felt like I had struck gold! I tested and perfected the activities with them and now I’ve made them available to you!
Help your little learners write numbers 0 to 9 with these fun and catchy number poems. Each number poem has a poster visual and page in the student activity book! Your classroom will be cute, bright and fun with our happy design style! The rhymes will help students remember the path of motion for writing each numeral and we have provided 3 options for you to display them: All-on-one page poster Individual page sized posters Type-your-own poem posters Included also is a student activity book. Students can read the poem and trace and write the numbers We've written a little rhyme for each number, which your students will love learning and repeating as they do their numbers. But if you have a favorite rhyme alternative, just type it into the editable version before you print! A perfect activity to accompany learning these rhymes is the little activity book we have included with the pack. Students can trace, trace and write each number as they say the poem! Hop over to TpT to find it ! Watch our video to help your little ones learn the poems! Number Crafts Your students will love making some number friends to display around the classroom too! Find them over at TpT!
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This four page printable is designed to encourage children to do some really good research about a country of their choice, and put together a book that they will be proud of! We've asked them to compile all sorts of interesting facts but left room for creativity too.
Could you use a free spreadsheet lesson to use with your students? Look no further! The instructions below are from TechnoSales. TechnoSales is a
Teach internet safety to primary students with these picture book suggestions, lesson plans, printables, activities, and online activities.
This is a list of my Google digital activities that can be used in the elementary classroom. Disperse to your students via Google Classroom, Google Drive Shared Folder, your Learning Platform, etc..
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Over 200 lessons and activities for grades K-5 that will make a great addition to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or grade level teachers with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!
When I start the new school year, I pick a book of the day for the first two weeks. I create a variety of activities to go with each book. I use a lot of books that focus on social and emotional learning, including kindness, friendship, and respect. But, I also add in some fun ... Read More about 8 Books for Back to School
So you have survived the first computer lesson with your Kindergarten class and now you want to teach them how to login for themselves. It will depend of course, on how usernames and passwords have been set at your school as to how you approach this. At the school where I teach computers, the Kinder classes have a class username and password. For simplicity, the username and password are the same. Before the lesson, I made some color coded login cards. While in the classroom, the little learners practiced 'typing' on their login cards. We discussed the colors and order of the letters. We talked about uppercase and lowercase letters, said the sound and the letter names. We showed our partners how we could type our username and password. The little learners even searched for the letters in their own name. Who knew there was so much learning to be had with logins? When we arrived at the computer lab, the little learners were ready to try typing their username and password on a real keyboard. After I demonstrated typing the username and password (and made a few mistakes accidentally-on purpose to introduce backspace), the little learners took their login cards to their computer. I'm going to be honest here. This color coded login card is not a miracle worker. It did take three adults 30 minutes to guide the class in this process. I did learn that next time I introduce a Kinder class to computers, I will spend more time on light and quick finger touches on the keyboard! But I will say that each little learner did login that day, and a month on the login cards continue to support the little learners as they become independent loggerinerers (that's totally a word, right?). Best of all is the smile on their faces when they have done it all by themselves for the first time! Priceless! Want to make your own color coded keyboards? Click HERE or the image above to grab your copy!
Growing up in a digital world, coding for preschoolers is just as important as it is for them to learn to read and learn math. Preschool coding activities can set down the foundation for helping
I've always been a fan of using magnetic alphabet letters in the classroom. They're bright, fun, & seem to get kids excited when they see them. But that's not all they're good for, here are my top uses/reasons why magnetic letters are one of my classroom essentials. I've even got a FREEBIE for you. Magnetic Letters Are: Fast and Easy: little hands will have no issue manipulating these tools Engaging: your learner will be an active participant Hands on: promoting a deeper content connection Offer Learner Safety: making an error feels less defeating when using moveable pieces - I've seen kiddos shut down when spelling words at the small group table when needing to erase their response to make a change but magnets offer the feeling of "play" that makes spelling/letter sounds safer and more comfortable (from my experiences) Differentiation: the letters make it easy to switch up activities to meet the needs of different learners Here are a few of my favorite ways to utilize magnetic letters for differentiation in my classroom throughout the entire year Letter Recognition and Matching: Matching uppercase to lowercase and vice versa is a skill that's practiced most of the year in kindergarten. For this reason, I wanted to share an uppercase freebie with you to help support that beginning of the school year practice. Freebie Preview - To download: click the pink "download here" button at the bottom of this page Initial Sounds: For your students who master letter names and can match them with ease - offer differentiated letter content to them like using initial sound cards Initial Sounds + CVC's + Blending Sounds For students who have mastered their sounds, use the knowledge of initial sounds to solve secret CVC cards and blend those sounds to form CVC words All of these magnetic letter activities can be found in bundle via the blue button - to learn more about it, click it and it will direct you to my shop. To grab your freebie: click the pink "free download" button below. Enjoy!
Bible Story Printables from Old Testament stories like the story of Creation, Noah’s Ark, David and Goliath, Jonah and the Whale & more!
