Tech Classes Oct 12-16

Week of Oct 12-16

This week tech classes will continue with keyboarding, spelling, and programming lessons.  The 5^th/6^th  and 7^th/8^th will also continue assignments in Microsoft Word.

Grades 3-4:

• Online spelling tests with emphasis on correct keyboarding
• Keyboarding practice with DanceMatTyping and Typing.com 
• MinecraftEdu - an educational version of Minecraft

Grades 5-6:

• The students will continue practicing their keyboarding online
• The students will continue learning simple programming concepts.  For this lesson they will use Blockly, to draw simple turtle graphics.  They can then move on to programming exercises in Scratch.
• The students will continue Microsoft Office practice with their flyer assignment in Word.
  

Grades 7-8:

• The students will continue practicing their keyboarding online
• The students will continue learning simple programming concepts.  For this lesson they will use Scratch, to study and modify submitted projects. 
• The students will continue Microsoft Office practice with their flyer assignment in Word, then work on a 2-column newsletter about their Outdoor Ed experience.

Links:

http://www.calvaryslz.org/school/faculty/computer_lab/index.html - Calvary Computer Lab
http://calvaryslz.coursesites.com

http://www.spellingcity.com

http://www.dancemattypingguide.com/dance-mat-typing/level1_stage1.html

http://www.typing.com

https://blockly-games.appspot.com/turtle?lang=en&level=1
http://scratch.mit.edu