Tech Classes Oct 5-9

Week of Oct 5 - 9

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

Grades 3-4:

• Online spelling tests with emphasis on correct keyboarding
• Keyboarding practice with DanceMatTyping and Typing.com

Grades 5-6:

• The students will continue practicing their keyboarding online
• We will use Excel to graph data from the students' typing.com results
• 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 Tynker, using some physics concepts that are used in games.
• The students will continue Microsoft Office practice with their flyer assignment in Word.
  

Grades 7-8:

• Students are at Outdoor Ed.

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://www.tynker.com/blog/articles/ideas-and-tips/tynker-physics-engine-1/