Welcome to Technology
Welcome to the Holly Ridge Elementary School Technology Lab! I'm Mr. Hartman, the Technology Teacher. We will be exploring many different technologies this school year. Let's play a smart board game to learn a little bit about me.
Fun ACTIVITIES
Learn about Technology with Sesame Street!
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Parts of a Computer
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First Week of School
Welcome Back Kindergartners!
1. Introduce ourselves - First name/animal name (Chrysanthemum)
2. Using the website How many of me are there? to find out about everyone's name...
3. In our school we are Leaders and Learners. We use the 7 Habits: This week's habit is: Be Proactive!
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Discuss Arthur's choices: What were some Proactive alternatives.
Talk to the students about what it means to Be Proactive: taking initiative, taking responsibility for your actions and emotions, and focusing on things you can do something about. Discuss how being proactive can be helpful every day—at home and at school. What are some behaviors that would show you are being proactive? As the students brainstorm a list, write the behaviors on the board.
Review Habit 1: Be Proactive. Part of being proactive is to be in control of your actions and emotions.
Stopping to think before they act will allow them to be more in control and have better relationships.
Show students the pop bottle and water bottle. Discuss how shaking a pop bottle will make it explode; this is similar to a reactive person. Reactive people let their emotions control their actions—they “explode” often. Shake the water bottle and explain that the water bottle is like a proactive person—no matter what happens to them, they remain calm and do not let their emotions control their actions. Proactive people stop and think about what they should do before they act. Using a Plus/Delta Leadership Tool, lead the students through a discussion of the positive/negative outcomes of using reactive vs. proactive language.
Reactive people say things like, “I can’t,” “I have to,” and “You make me.” Proactive people say things like “I choose to,” “I can do better,” and “I’ll do it.”
Teacher says, “ I am Proactive. I am in charge of myself, I can help others, and do the right thing even when no one is looking.”
“ I found trash on the ground so I am going to put it into the trashcan. I am proactive.” The teacher acts out picking up trash and ends with stating, “I am proactive!”
Teacher asks for students to work in pairs to come up with two proactive scenarios in the classroom,
school, or home.
Procedures
1. procedure for entering class (line-up: 4 step plan
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- Quiet Signal
- Move
- 7 habits-Teacher
2. Login Procedure: Last Name/First Name/Lunch #
Open Browser/Firefox/Grade level Webpage/Close computer
3. Attention prompts: 5-4-3-2-1 Technician Position hands on laptop....Too loud (Peace and Quiet)
4. Closing procedures: Final 5- Exit Programs/Quit Programs/Logout/Logout/ Team Leader do Behavior Rating(5 Star)
Unique Monique Video (goes here)
- take student pictures with a digital camera and place in their file folders or a class file folder. Or, use those from your class directory (if available. Discuss 'digital'. These will be used later for a project
- show students how to log-in
- I don't have students do Ctrl+Alt+Del until the end of first grade, but I do want them to learn to enter their UN and PW
- discuss why we have UN and PWs (intro digitial privacy)
- take this opportunity to discuss 'backspace' as a method of correcting errors
- discuss the enter key as a means of entering data
- review hardware as a means of problem solving--encouraging risk-taking on the part of students
- touch all parts as you name them
- follow headphone cord to CPU--unplug and replug--this is what they'll check if volume doesn't work before asking teacher for help
- monitor doesn't work because monitor power is off
- computer doesn't work because Tower Power is off
- mouse doesn't work because no red power light on its underside
- Intro basic keyboard skills
- besides 'enter', 'backspace'
- also: spacebar
- practice mouse skills
- review how to hold the mouse
- what if mouse doesn't work?
- remind them how to hold the mouse
- remind them of mouse skills
- mouse skill websites
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- Extra time: Practice drag-and-drop skills on internet
- Extra time: Practice letters on Starfall and Bembo's Zoo
Got to Kindergarten Math if time allows.
Moving and Clicking A MOUSE
Moving and Clicking a MOUSE
http://www.sesamestreet.org/playlists#media/playlist_152
Coloring with your Mouse
Make Music with your MOUSE
PRACTICE LOGGING IN AND LOGGING OFF
Make Music with your MOUSE
Coordination with the Mouse
Mouse skills
Make Music with your MOUSE
Now Play Some GAMES