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["This curriculum map provides a suggested order of assignments and timing for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum as part of a blended learning experience. It has been designed to prepare students with foundational and scaffolded knowledge and skills throughout the digital literacy skill content area units. Instruction, practice, application, and assessment curriculum materials are available to meet the varying instructional needs of learners. \n     •\tFoundational keyboarding curriculum is included for all grade levels and the Adaptive Keyboarding experience begins in 3rd grade.\n     •\tCIPA compliant curriculum materials are marked with an * and can be found at every grade level. \n     •\tPre and Post Skills Checks have been included for grades 3-8 and may be used to identify areas for further instruction and growth. \n"]
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["Each unit contains suggested curriculum materials delivered through whole group, small group, guided practice, independent practice, or blended learning implementation models. The following times are to be used for planning purposes and reflect a minimum suggested amount of time for digital literacy skills learning for a school year.\n     •\tPK-5th grade = 45 minutes per week (minimum)\n     •\t6th-8th grade = 115 minutes per week (minimum)\n     •\tMiddle School course = 180 minutes per week (minimum)\n     •\tHigh School = 90 minutes per week (minimum)\n     •\tIt is recommended that keyboarding should be practiced throughout the year for 15-30 minutes at least twice per week to help students build their skills through technique, accuracy, and speed.                 Note:  Adaptive Keyboarding can be found on the student map and in the Arcade. Keyboarding is included at the top of each sequence as a reminder to provide regular practice with keyboarding skills."]
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["Prior to Implementation, identify where EasyTech might fit in your existing educational environments and who will lead the instructional time.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\nImplementation Suggestions:\n     •\tTechnology teachers, core content teachers, library/media specialists and paraprofessionals will all have access to digital literacy curriculum that meets the needs of a variety of students.\n     •\tProvide students with the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of these skills as part of in-class or at-home assignment(s) or project(s).\t\t \n     •\tThe blended learning path ensures that classroom teachers can introduce new skills to students and includes opportunities for integrating technology skills into core content areas. \n"]

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[null,"EasyTech Curriculum Map - Pre-Kindergarten"]
[null,"2022-2023"]
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[null,"This Curriculum Map provides a suggested order of assignments for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum in your classroom. For planning purposes, it is recommended that approximately 45 minutes of digital literacy curriculum is delivered each week through whole group, independent, or guided practice implementation models."]
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[null,"Prior to beginning the school year, it is recommended that you create student technology portfolios (digital or print) to provide students with a way to share their learning. The portfolio may include pictures, reports, and documents published. Pictures are a great way to show your students the learning process and can be used at the end of the year for a class slideshow or technology showcase. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Introduction to Digital Citizenship: Cyberbullying","This colorful and engaging video introduces students to the basics of dealing with cyberbullying on the internet.","Instruction","Whole Group",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Introduction to Online Safety: Protecting Your Privacy","This engaging video-based learning object provides the learner with foundational knowledge about the importance of protecting their personal information. The learner will understand that they shouldn't share any personal information online or agree to meet anyone they don’t know and trust; and they should always log off or lock their device to protect their personal information.","Instruction","Whole Group",4]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Introduction to Computer Fundamentals","In this engaging animated video, Ollie the Owl gives an overview of the importance of staying safe online and logging out of the computer to protect your information.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Intro to Pointer Devices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse and a trackpad to select objects.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Intro to Pointer Devices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse and a trackpad to select objects.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Pointers and Making Choices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice choosing which items to select with their pointer device.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Pointers and Making Choices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice choosing which items to select with their pointer device.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Critter Catch","In this interactive game, the learner practices hand-eye coordination using a mouse or trackpad to move the on screen pointer and the button or tap feature to catch bugs.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Selecting Multiple Objects","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse and a trackpad to select multiple objects at the same time.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Selecting Multiple Objects","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse and a trackpad to select multiple objects at the same time.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Using a Pointer Device to Move Objects","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice selecting, unselecting, and moving objects.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Using a Pointer Device to Move Objects","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice selecting, unselecting, and moving objects.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Using a Pointer Device to Double-Click","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse to select, drag, and double-click as they select items using the pointer and mouse button, move objects on the screen, and double-click to open objects. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Using a Pointer Device to Double-Click","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a pointer device to select an object by double-clicking.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Access Websites and Scroll","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners receive direct instruction and practice opening a hyperlink and using scroll bars.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Access Websites and Scroll","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners receive direct instruction and practice opening a hyperlink and using scroll bars.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Processors, Input and Output Devices","The learners receive direct instruction and practice identifying and caring for basic computer components such as the processor, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, printer, and to classify the component as either an input or output device in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",9]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Processors, Input and Output Devices","The learners receive direct instruction and practice identifying and caring for basic computer components such as the processor, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, printer, and to classify the component as either an input or output device in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Following Computer Rules","Students study a picture, and check the radio button next to the smiley face for the kids following computer rules, and the button next to the sad face for the kids breaking computer rules.","Application","Guided  ",20]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Concert Part 1","In this engaging animated video, the Tech Grove friends prepare for a concert by discovering the purpose of technology icons. The seven different icons covered in this lesson are: power icon, plus and minus icons, home icon, close or exit icon, and left and right arrow icons.","Instruction","Whole Group",4]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Concert Part 1","In this engaging animated video, the Tech Grove friends prepare for a concert by discovering the purpose of technology icons. The seven different icons covered in this lesson are: power icon, plus and minus icons, home icon, close or exit icon, and left and right arrow icons.","Instruction","Independent",4]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Concert Part 2","In this engaging animated video, the Tech Grove friends prepare for a concert by discovering the purpose of technology icons. The seven different icons covered in this lesson are: power icon, plus and minus icons, home icon, close or exit icon, and left and right arrow icons.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Concert Part 2","In this engaging animated video, the Tech Grove friends prepare for a concert by discovering the purpose of technology icons. The seven different icons covered in this lesson are: power icon, plus and minus icons, home icon, close or exit icon, and left and right arrow icons.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Practice","This interactive experience is intended to be an independent practice for students and can be used in a teacher-led or in a student-led learning format.","Practice","Guided  ",15]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - As you begin digital literacy instruction, it is recommended to have students practice logging in and out to establish independence with the learning experience. Using student helpers to \"drive\" the teacher computer & take over the login steps with instructions/reminders from other students is a good way to ensure all students understand how to log in and out."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Meaning of Online: The Curious Crystals","In this engaging animated video, Pearl and Rocki are led to a mysterious machine in the forest that grants them access to the internet. Includes printable items.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Meaning of Online: The Curious Crystals","In this engaging animated video, Pearl and Rocki are led to a mysterious machine in the forest that grants them access to the internet. Includes printable items.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Meaning of Online: Vocabulary Interactive Practice","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of vocabulary terms and definitions related to what it means to be online.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Meaning of Online: Agree to the AUP","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of acceptable use policies.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Meaning of Online: Have Fun Online","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of what it means to be online and the types of activities they do online.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Getting Started Online: Pearl's Private Password","In this engaging animated video, Rocki comes up with a username and password to enter the Internet. Pearl must come up with her own secret credentials to enter.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Getting Started Online: Pearl's Private Password","In this engaging animated video, Rocki comes up with a username and password to enter the Internet. Pearl must come up with her own secret credentials to enter. Includes printable items.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Getting Started Online: Vocabulary Interactive Practice","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of vocabulary terms and definitions related to getting started online.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Getting Started Online: Parts of a Password","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of online safety.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Getting Started Online: Color the Usernames","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of online safety.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Getting Started Online: What Should Pearl Say","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of online safety.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Privacy: Help Is on the Way!","In this engaging animated video, Rocki falls victim to an information thief! The crew must call upon their wise friend Ollie to save the day.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Privacy: Help Is on the Way!","In this engaging animated video, Rocki falls victim to an information thief! The crew must call upon their wise friend Ollie to save the day.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Privacy: Vocabulary Interactive Practice","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of vocabulary terms and definitions related to online privacy.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Privacy: Personal Information","In this interactive learning experience, students practice their knowledge and skills related to online privacy.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Privacy: Trusted Adults","In this interactive learning experience, students practice their knowledge and skills related to online privacy. Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Privacy: Keep it Safe and Private","In this interactive learning experience, students practice their knowledge and skills related to online privacy.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: The Final Cyber-Quest","In this engaging animated video, a cyberbully targets Rocki. The friends must make smart choices when handling this bullying situation.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Whole Group",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: The Final Cyber-Quest","In this engaging animated video, a cyberbully targets Rocki. The friends must make smart choices when handling this bullying situation.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: The Cave of Mystery","In this engaging animated video, Rocki and Pearl finally arrive at the Cave of Mystery – a place where super cyber-citizens can see the rewards for their smart online choices.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Whole Group",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: The Cave of Mystery","In this engaging animated video, Rocki and Pearl finally arrive at the Cave of Mystery – a place where super cyber-citizens can see the rewards for their smart online choices.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Vocabulary Practice","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of the vocabulary terms and definitions associated with cyberbullying.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Where Is It Found?","In this interactive learning experience, students practice their knowledge and skills related to cyberbullying.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: How Would You Feel?","In this interactive learning experience, students practice their knowledge and skills related to cyberbullying.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Super Cyber-Citizen","In this interactive learning experience, students practice their knowledge and skills related to cyberbullying. Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  Gradually releasing the responsibility of logging in and becoming an independent learner can go more smoothly by assigning 'tech buddies' to coach or assist as needed. The 'teach, not touch' or 'point, not press' approach is an effective way for peer helpers or tech buddies to coach but not take over for students who are struggling. Use your tech buddies during this unit for coaching and proper use of equipment."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters A, B, C, D, and E","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters A, B, C, D, and E as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",7]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters A, B, C, D, and E","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters A, B, C, D, and E as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters F, G, H, I, and J","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters F, G, H, I, and J as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",7]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters F, G, H, I, and J","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters F, G, H, I, and J as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters K, L, M, N, and O","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters K, L, M, N, and O as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",6]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters K, L, M, N, and O","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters K, L, M, N, and O as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",6]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters P, Q, R, S, and T","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters P, Q, R, S, and T as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",6]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters P, Q, R, S, and T","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters P, Q, R, S, and T as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",6]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Beginning Sounds","Students identify the initial sounds they hear in high-frequency words by marking a keyboard template.   ","Practice","Guided  ",20]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Numbers","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding numbers 0 through 9 as they locate and type numbers, learn the relationship between the numbers on the keyboard and the screen, strengthen counting skills, and reinforce basic shape recognition in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Numbers","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding numbers 0 through 9 as they locate and type numbers, learn the relationship between the numbers on the keyboard and the screen, strengthen counting skills, and reinforce basic shape recognition in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Typing Numbers","Students count object sets and move the objects to the corresponding number keys, select boxes to match the number provided then type the number. ","Practice","Guided  ",30]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Cursor, Spacebar, Backspace, Enter, and Words","Learners receive direct instruction and practice keyboarding to type words as they use the cursor, type letter combinations to form words, the spacebar to add spaces between words, the backspace key to delete mistakes, and the enter or return key to create new lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Cursor, Spacebar, Backspace, Enter, and Words","Learners receive direct instruction and practice keyboarding to type words as they use the cursor, type letter combinations to form words, the spacebar to add spaces between words, the backspace key to delete mistakes, and the enter or return key to create new lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Clapping Syllables","Students practice dividing words by clapping out the syllables and typing them.  ","Practice","Guided",30]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Cursor, Arrows, and Tab","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with keyboarding using the cursor, arrows, tab, backspace, and delete keys as they move the cursor, remove text, and create large spaces. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",9]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Cursor, Arrows, and Tab","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with keyboarding using the cursor, arrows, tab, backspace, and delete keys as they move the cursor, remove text, and create large spaces. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Shift Key for Capitals and Symbols","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in the areas of keying letters to form words, and using the shift key to make capital letters, symbols, and punctuation including exclamation point and question mark.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Shift Key for Capitals and Symbols","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in the areas of keying letters to form words, and using the shift key to make capital letters, symbols, and punctuation including exclamation point and question mark.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - As you and your students work through the keyboarding unit, if you have a student who presses every key all at once, try using a special band aid around the pointer finger to reinforce 'one finger, one key' at a time. Encourage students to open documents where they can type the alphabet, names, or high frequency words. Use your imagination or ask the students what they'd like to type. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Media Balance Is Important","How do we find a happy balance between our online and offline activities? Students consider the feelings of themselves and others when making decisions about when, where, and how much to use technology. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",25]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Drawing Lines and Shapes to Tell a Story","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with drawing software in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. They will use the mouse to select, drag and drop objects, use the pencil, brush, and airbrush tools to draw a picture, and use the color palette to combine colors. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",9]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Drawing Lines and Shapes to Tell a Story","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with drawing software in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. They will use the mouse to select, drag and drop objects, use the pencil, brush, and airbrush tools to draw a picture, and use the color palette to combine colors. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Drawing and Filling Shapes Using Graphics Tools","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with graphics tools. They will use the mouse to select, drag and drop objects, draw shapes, fill using the color palette, magnify drawings, and add text to drawings using tools in the tool box.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Drawing and Filling Shapes Using Graphics Tools","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with graphics tools. They will use the mouse to select, drag and drop objects, draw shapes, fill using the color palette, magnify drawings, and add text to drawings using tools in the tool box.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Drawing a Vehicle","Students use cut-out shapes and then a graphics program to create a vehicle.","Application","Guided",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Groups and Labels","The learners will represent thoughts and organized ideas through the use of clip art, text, labeled objects and the link tool in visual mapping software as they receive direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Groups and Labels","The learners will represent thoughts and organized ideas through the use of clip art, text, labeled objects and the link tool in visual mapping software as they receive direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Living Things","Students identify living and non-living things, and use visual mapping software to group them.","Application","Guided",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Attributes and Linking","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with visual mapping software as they enhance text using bold, italics, and underlining, modify arrow attributes and adjust elements of style, color, and size for the background and clip art.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Attributes and Linking","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with visual mapping software as they enhance text using bold, italics, and underlining, modify arrow attributes and adjust elements of style, color, and size for the background and clip art.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Extend student practice with digital drawing and painting by encouraging students to create artwork for an 'Art Gallery Show' to display in the hallway or on bulletin boards. Have struggling students pair up with their tech buddies to review/revisit any lessons with a score of less than 90%. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Pause for People","How do you say goodbye to technology when you don't want to? Whether it's watching TV or playing on a tablet, using tech can be super fun! Often, kids find it hard to transition from an online activity to an offline one. Teach your students a simple routine for how to manage those inevitable digital interruptions that are part of everyone's lives in the digital age.","Instruction  ","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Patterns","The learners receive direct instruction and practice recognizing and analyzing simple patterns to predict what comes next or what is missing from the pattern. They will be introduced to computational thinking and how computers use programs and software to analyze patterns and solve problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Patterns","The learners receive direct instruction and practice recognizing and analyzing simple patterns to predict what comes next or what is missing from the pattern. They will be introduced to computational thinking and how computers use programs and software to analyze patterns and solve problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Spirit Day T-Shirts","Understanding and completing patterns are fundamental skills of computational thinking. In this Application Exercise, students complete or create patterns to design a t-shirt to be worn on Spirit Day.","Application","Guided",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  Remind students that patterns can be found in things they see and do everyday. The days of the week form a pattern every month. Have your students come up with other ways they see and use patterns every day.  If you are new to coding, work through the coding experience with your students. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters A, B, C, D, and E (Practice/Review)","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters A, B, C, D, and E as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters F, G, H, I, and J (Practice/Review)","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters F, G, H, I, and J as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters K, L, M, N, and O (Practice/Review)","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters K, L, M, N, and O as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",6]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters P, Q, R, S, and T (Practice/Review)","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters P, Q, R, S, and T as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",6]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z (Practice/Review)","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Numbers (Practice/Review)","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding numbers 0 through 9 as they locate and type numbers, learn the relationship between the numbers on the keyboard and the screen, strengthen counting skills, and reinforce basic shape recognition in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Cursor, Spacebar, Backspace, Enter, and Words (Practice/Review)","Learners receive direct instruction and practice keyboarding to type words as they use the cursor, type letter combinations to form words, the spacebar to add spaces between words, the backspace key to delete mistakes, and the enter or return key to create new lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Cursor, Arrows, and Tab (Practice/Review)","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with keyboarding using the cursor, arrows, tab, backspace, and delete keys as they move the cursor, remove text, and create large spaces. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G123:G130)","v":70}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  Having students revisit keyboarding lessons is a good way to reinforce letter recognition and establish accuracy before speed in typing. This is also the perfect time of the year to put together mini-projects that end in digital publications to add to student portfolios. Remember to print or save your students' work and include it in their student portfolios.  "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Safety in My Online Neighborhood","How do you go places safely online? The power of the internet allows students to experience and visit places they might not be able to see in person. But, just like traveling in the real world, it's important to be safe when traveling online. On this virtual field trip, kids can practice staying safe on online adventures. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship (Review)","Summer Online Safety Poster","Students will create a poster to teach others how to stay safe online.","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship (Review)","Summer Online Safety Poster (Presentations)","Presentations of Online Safety Posters",null,"Whole Group"]
[null,null,"Technology Showcase (Optional)",null,null,"Whole Group"]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G136:G139)","v":75}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Remember to print or save your students' work and include it in their student portfolios. Have students use drawing software and text options to create a 'Welcome to Kindergarten' mini-poster for next year's students. "]
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[null,null,null,null,null,"Total Minutes in Year",{"$f":"SUM(G131,G118,G109,G93,G67,G36,G140)","v":866}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Online safety is important to revisit at the end of the year to remind students that they need to be smart when online - whether at home or at school. Provide parents with resources to help them keep their students safe online, like the 'Parent Online Safety Guide' linked below. Host an in-person or virtual technology showcase to share student work to wrap up the school year and provide students and parents with ideas for continuing to practice their digital literacy skills during the summer. "]
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[null,"EasyTech Curriculum Map - Kindergarten"]
[null,"2022-2023"]
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[null,"This Curriculum Map provides a suggested order of assignments for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum in your classroom. For planning purposes, it is recommended that approximately 45 minutes of digital literacy curriculum is delivered each week through whole group, independent, or guided practice implementation models."]
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[null,"Prior to beginning the school year, it is recommended that you create student technology portfolios (digital or print) to provide students with a way to share their learning. The portfolio may include pictures, reports, and documents published. Pictures are a great way to show your students the learning process and can be used at the end of the year for a class slideshow or technology showcase. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Introduction to Digital Citizenship: Cyberbullying","This colorful and engaging video introduces students to the basics of dealing with cyberbullying on the internet.","Instruction","Whole Group",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Introduction to Online Safety: Protecting Your Privacy","This engaging video-based learning object provides the learner with foundational knowledge about the importance of protecting their personal information. The learner will understand that they shouldn't share any personal information online or agree to meet anyone they don’t know and trust; and they should always log off or lock their device to protect their personal information.","Instruction","Whole Group",4]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Introduction to Computer Fundamentals","In this engaging animated video, Ollie the Owl gives an overview of the importance of staying safe online and logging out of the computer to protect your information.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Intro to Pointer Devices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse and a trackpad to select objects.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Intro to Pointer Devices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse and a trackpad to select objects.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Pointers and Making Choices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice choosing which items to select with their pointer device.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Pointers and Making Choices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice choosing which items to select with their pointer device.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Critter Catch","In this interactive game, the learner practices hand-eye coordination using a mouse or trackpad to move the on screen pointer and the button or tap feature to catch bugs.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Selecting Multiple Objects","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse and a trackpad to select multiple objects at the same time.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Selecting Multiple Objects","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse and a trackpad to select multiple objects at the same time.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Using a Pointer Device to Move Objects","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice selecting, unselecting, and moving objects.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Using a Pointer Device to Move Objects","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice selecting, unselecting, and moving objects.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Using a Pointer Device to Double-Click","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse to select, drag, and double-click as they select items using the pointer and mouse button, move objects on the screen, and double-click to open objects. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Using a Pointer Device to Double-Click","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a pointer device to select an object by double-clicking.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Access Websites and Scroll","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners receive direct instruction and practice opening a hyperlink and using scroll bars.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Access Websites and Scroll","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners receive direct instruction and practice opening a hyperlink and using scroll bars.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Processors, Input and Output Devices","The learners receive direct instruction and practice identifying and caring for basic computer components such as the processor, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, printer, and to classify the component as either an input or output device in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",9]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Processors, Input and Output Devices","The learners receive direct instruction and practice identifying and caring for basic computer components such as the processor, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, printer, and to classify the component as either an input or output device in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Following Computer Rules","Students study a picture, and check the radio button next to the smiley face for the kids following computer rules, and the button next to the sad face for the kids breaking computer rules.","Application","Independent",20]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Concert Part 1","In this engaging animated video, the Tech Grove friends prepare for a concert by discovering the purpose of technology icons. The seven different icons covered in this lesson are: power icon, plus and minus icons, home icon, close or exit icon, and left and right arrow icons.","Instruction","Whole Group",4]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Concert Part 1","In this engaging animated video, the Tech Grove friends prepare for a concert by discovering the purpose of technology icons. The seven different icons covered in this lesson are: power icon, plus and minus icons, home icon, close or exit icon, and left and right arrow icons.","Instruction","Independent",4]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Concert Part 2","In this engaging animated video, the Tech Grove friends prepare for a concert by discovering the purpose of technology icons. The seven different icons covered in this lesson are: power icon, plus and minus icons, home icon, close or exit icon, and left and right arrow icons.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Concert Part 2","In this engaging animated video, the Tech Grove friends prepare for a concert by discovering the purpose of technology icons. The seven different icons covered in this lesson are: power icon, plus and minus icons, home icon, close or exit icon, and left and right arrow icons.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Practice","This interactive experience is intended to be an independent practice for students and can be used in a teacher-led or in a student-led learning format.","Practice","Guided  ",15]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - As you begin digital literacy instruction, it is recommended to have students practice logging in and out to establish independence with the learning experience. Using student helpers to \"drive\" the teacher computer & take over the login steps with instructions/reminders from other students is a good way to ensure all students understand how to log in and out."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Meaning of Online: The Curious Crystals","In this engaging animated video, Pearl and Rocki are led to a mysterious machine in the forest that grants them access to the internet. Includes printable items.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Meaning of Online: The Curious Crystals","In this engaging animated video, Pearl and Rocki are led to a mysterious machine in the forest that grants them access to the internet. Includes printable items.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Meaning of Online: Vocabulary Interactive Practice","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of vocabulary terms and definitions related to what it means to be online.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Meaning of Online: Agree to the AUP","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of acceptable use policies.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Meaning of Online: Have Fun Online","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of what it means to be online and the types of activities they do online.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Getting Started Online: Pearl's Private Password","In this engaging animated video, Rocki comes up with a username and password to enter the Internet. Pearl must come up with her own secret credentials to enter.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Getting Started Online: Pearl's Private Password","In this engaging animated video, Rocki comes up with a username and password to enter the Internet. Pearl must come up with her own secret credentials to enter. Includes printable items.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Getting Started Online: Vocabulary Interactive Practice","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of vocabulary terms and definitions related to getting started online.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Getting Started Online: Parts of a Password","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of online safety.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Getting Started Online: Color the Usernames","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of online safety.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Getting Started Online: What Should Pearl Say","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of online safety.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Privacy: Help Is on the Way!","In this engaging animated video, Rocki falls victim to an information thief! The crew must call upon their wise friend Ollie to save the day.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Privacy: Help Is on the Way!","In this engaging animated video, Rocki falls victim to an information thief! The crew must call upon their wise friend Ollie to save the day.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Privacy: Vocabulary Interactive Practice","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of vocabulary terms and definitions related to online privacy.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Privacy: Personal Information","In this interactive learning experience, students practice their knowledge and skills related to online privacy.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Privacy: Trusted Adults","In this interactive learning experience, students practice their knowledge and skills related to online privacy. Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Privacy: Keep it Safe and Private","In this interactive learning experience, students practice their knowledge and skills related to online privacy.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: The Final Cyber-Quest","In this engaging animated video, a cyberbully targets Rocki. The friends must make smart choices when handling this bullying situation.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Whole Group",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: The Final Cyber-Quest","In this engaging animated video, a cyberbully targets Rocki. The friends must make smart choices when handling this bullying situation.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: The Cave of Mystery","In this engaging animated video, Rocki and Pearl finally arrive at the Cave of Mystery – a place where super cyber-citizens can see the rewards for their smart online choices.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Whole Group",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: The Cave of Mystery","In this engaging animated video, Rocki and Pearl finally arrive at the Cave of Mystery – a place where super cyber-citizens can see the rewards for their smart online choices.  Includes printable items.","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Vocabulary Practice","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of the vocabulary terms and definitions associated with cyberbullying.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Where Is It Found?","In this interactive learning experience, students practice their knowledge and skills related to cyberbullying.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: How Would You Feel?","In this interactive learning experience, students practice their knowledge and skills related to cyberbullying.  Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Super Cyber-Citizen","In this interactive learning experience, students practice their knowledge and skills related to cyberbullying. Includes printable items.","Practice","Guided",2]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  Gradually releasing the responsibility of logging in and becoming an independent learner can go more smoothly by assigning 'tech buddies' to coach or assist as needed. The 'teach, not touch' or 'point, not press' approach is an effective way for peer helpers or tech buddies to coach but not take over for students who are struggling. Use your tech buddies during this unit for coaching and proper use of equipment."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters A, B, C, D, and E","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters A, B, C, D, and E as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",7]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters A, B, C, D, and E","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters A, B, C, D, and E as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters F, G, H, I, and J","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters F, G, H, I, and J as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",7]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters F, G, H, I, and J","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters F, G, H, I, and J as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters K, L, M, N, and O","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters K, L, M, N, and O as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",6]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters K, L, M, N, and O","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters K, L, M, N, and O as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",6]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters P, Q, R, S, and T","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters P, Q, R, S, and T as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",6]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters P, Q, R, S, and T","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters P, Q, R, S, and T as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",6]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Beginning Sounds","Students identify the initial sounds they hear in high-frequency words by marking a keyboard template.   ","Practice","Guided  ",20]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Numbers","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding numbers 0 through 9 as they locate and type numbers, learn the relationship between the numbers on the keyboard and the screen, strengthen counting skills, and reinforce basic shape recognition in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Numbers","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding numbers 0 through 9 as they locate and type numbers, learn the relationship between the numbers on the keyboard and the screen, strengthen counting skills, and reinforce basic shape recognition in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Typing Numbers","Students count object sets and move the objects to the corresponding number keys, select boxes to match the number provided then type the number. ","Practice","Guided  ",30]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Cursor, Spacebar, Backspace, Enter, and Words","Learners receive direct instruction and practice keyboarding to type words as they use the cursor, type letter combinations to form words, the spacebar to add spaces between words, the backspace key to delete mistakes, and the enter or return key to create new lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Cursor, Spacebar, Backspace, Enter, and Words","Learners receive direct instruction and practice keyboarding to type words as they use the cursor, type letter combinations to form words, the spacebar to add spaces between words, the backspace key to delete mistakes, and the enter or return key to create new lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Clapping Syllables","Students practice dividing words by clapping out the syllables and typing them.  ","Practice","Guided",30]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Cursor, Arrows, and Tab","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with keyboarding using the cursor, arrows, tab, backspace, and delete keys as they move the cursor, remove text, and create large spaces. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",9]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Cursor, Arrows, and Tab","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with keyboarding using the cursor, arrows, tab, backspace, and delete keys as they move the cursor, remove text, and create large spaces. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Shift Key for Capitals and Symbols","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in the areas of keying letters to form words, and using the shift key to make capital letters, symbols, and punctuation including exclamation point and question mark.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Shift Key for Capitals and Symbols","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in the areas of keying letters to form words, and using the shift key to make capital letters, symbols, and punctuation including exclamation point and question mark.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G72:G92)","v":230}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - As you and your students work through the keyboarding unit, if you have a student who presses every key all at once, try using a special band aid around the pointer finger to reinforce 'one finger, one key' at a time. Encourage students to open documents where they can type the alphabet, names, high frequency words, or copied sentences out of story books. Use your imagination or ask the students what they'd like to type. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Media Balance Is Important","How do we find a happy balance between our online and offline activities? Students consider the feelings of themselves and others when making decisions about when, where, and how much to use technology. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",25]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Drawing Lines and Shapes to Tell a Story","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with drawing software in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. They will use the mouse to select, drag and drop objects, use the pencil, brush, and airbrush tools to draw a picture, and use the color palette to combine colors. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",9]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Drawing Lines and Shapes to Tell a Story","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with drawing software in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. They will use the mouse to select, drag and drop objects, use the pencil, brush, and airbrush tools to draw a picture, and use the color palette to combine colors. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Drawing and Filling Shapes Using Graphics Tools","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with graphics tools. They will use the mouse to select, drag and drop objects, draw shapes, fill using the color palette, magnify drawings, and add text to drawings using tools in the tool box.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Drawing and Filling Shapes Using Graphics Tools","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with graphics tools. They will use the mouse to select, drag and drop objects, draw shapes, fill using the color palette, magnify drawings, and add text to drawings using tools in the tool box.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Drawing a Vehicle","Students use cut-out shapes and then a graphics program to create a vehicle.","Application","Guided",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Groups and Labels","The learners will represent thoughts and organized ideas through the use of clip art, text, labeled objects and the link tool in visual mapping software as they receive direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Groups and Labels","The learners will represent thoughts and organized ideas through the use of clip art, text, labeled objects and the link tool in visual mapping software as they receive direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Living Things","Students identify living and non-living things, and use visual mapping software to group them.","Application","Guided",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Attributes and Linking","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with visual mapping software as they enhance text using bold, italics, and underlining, modify arrow attributes and adjust elements of style, color, and size for the background and clip art.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Attributes and Linking","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with visual mapping software as they enhance text using bold, italics, and underlining, modify arrow attributes and adjust elements of style, color, and size for the background and clip art.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Extend student practice with digital drawing and painting by encouraging students to create artwork for an 'Art Gallery Show' to display in the hallway or on bulletin boards. Have struggling students pair up with their tech buddies to review/revisit any lessons with a score of less than 90%. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Pause for People","How do you say goodbye to technology when you don't want to? Whether it's watching TV or playing on a tablet, using tech can be super fun! Often, kids find it hard to transition from an online activity to an offline one. Teach your students a simple routine for how to manage those inevitable digital interruptions that are part of everyone's lives in the digital age.","Instruction  ","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Patterns","The learners receive direct instruction and practice recognizing and analyzing simple patterns to predict what comes next or what is missing from the pattern. They will be introduced to computational thinking and how computers use programs and software to analyze patterns and solve problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Patterns","The learners receive direct instruction and practice recognizing and analyzing simple patterns to predict what comes next or what is missing from the pattern. They will be introduced to computational thinking and how computers use programs and software to analyze patterns and solve problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Spirit Day T-Shirts","Understanding and completing patterns are fundamental skills of computational thinking. In this Application Exercise, students complete or create patterns to design a t-shirt to be worn on Spirit Day.","Application","Guided",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  Remind students that patterns can be found in things they see and do everyday. The days of the week form a pattern every month. Have your students come up with other ways they see and use patterns every day.  If you are new to coding, work through the coding experience with your students. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters A, B, C, D, and E (Practice/Review)","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters A, B, C, D, and E as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters F, G, H, I, and J (Practice/Review)","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters F, G, H, I, and J as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters K, L, M, N, and O (Practice/Review)","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters K, L, M, N, and O as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",6]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters P, Q, R, S, and T (Practice/Review)","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters P, Q, R, S, and T as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",6]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z (Practice/Review)","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Numbers (Practice/Review)","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding numbers 0 through 9 as they locate and type numbers, learn the relationship between the numbers on the keyboard and the screen, strengthen counting skills, and reinforce basic shape recognition in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Cursor, Spacebar, Backspace, Enter, and Words (Practice/Review)","Learners receive direct instruction and practice keyboarding to type words as they use the cursor, type letter combinations to form words, the spacebar to add spaces between words, the backspace key to delete mistakes, and the enter or return key to create new lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Cursor, Arrows, and Tab (Practice/Review)","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with keyboarding using the cursor, arrows, tab, backspace, and delete keys as they move the cursor, remove text, and create large spaces. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  Having students revisit keyboarding lessons is a good way to reinforce letter recognition and establish accuracy before speed in typing. This is also the perfect time of the year to put together mini-projects that end in digital publications to add to student portfolios. Remember to print or save your students' work and include it in their student portfolios.  "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Safety in My Online Neighborhood","How do you go places safely online? The power of the internet allows students to experience and visit places they might not be able to see in person. But, just like traveling in the real world, it's important to be safe when traveling online. On this virtual field trip, kids can practice staying safe on online adventures. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship (Review)","Summer Online Safety Poster","Students will create a poster to teach others how to stay safe online.","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship (Review)","Summer Online Safety Poster (Presentations)","Presentations of Online Safety Posters",null,"Whole Group"]
[null,null,"Technology Showcase (Optional)",null,null,"Whole Group"]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G136:G139)","v":75}]
[]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Total Minutes",{"$f":"SUM(G131,G118,G109,G93,G67,G36,G140)","v":866}]
[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Remember to print or save your students' work and include it in their student portfolios. Have students use drawing software and text options to create a 'Welcome to Kindergarten' mini-poster for next year's students. "]
[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Online safety is important to revisit at the end of the year to remind students that they need to be smart when online - whether at home or at school. Provide parents with resources to help them keep their students safe online, like the 'Parent Online Safety Guide' linked below. Host an in-person or virtual technology showcase to share student work to wrap up the school year and provide students and parents with ideas for continuing to practice their digital literacy skills during the summer. "]
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[null,"EasyTech Curriculum Map - 1st Grade"]
[null,"2022-2023"]
[]
[null,"This Curriculum Map provides a suggested order of assignments for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum in your classroom. For planning purposes, it is recommended that approximately 45 minutes of digital literacy curriculum is delivered each week through whole group, independent, or guided practice implementation models."]
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[null,"Prior to beginning the school year, it is recommended that you create student technology portfolios (digital or print) to provide students with a way to share their learning. The portfolio may include pictures, reports, and documents published. Pictures are a great way to show your students the learning process and can be used at the end of the year for a class slideshow or technology showcase. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Introduction to Digital Citizenship: Cyberbullying","This colorful and engaging video introduces students to the basics of dealing with cyberbullying on the internet.","Instruction","Whole Group",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Introduction to Online Safety: Protecting Your Privacy","This engaging video-based learning object provides the learner with foundational knowledge about the importance of protecting their personal information. The learner will understand that they shouldn't share any personal information online or agree to meet anyone they don’t know and trust; and they should always log off or lock their device to protect their personal information.","Instruction","Whole Group",4]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Introduction to Computer Fundamentals","In this engaging animated video, Ollie the Owl gives an overview of the importance of staying safe online and logging out of the computer to protect your information.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Intro to Pointer Devices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse and a trackpad to select objects.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Intro to Pointer Devices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse and a trackpad to select objects.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Pointers and Making Choices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice choosing which items to select with their pointer device.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Pointers and Making Choices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice choosing which items to select with their pointer device.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Selecting Multiple Objects","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse and a trackpad to select multiple objects at the same time.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Selecting Multiple Objects","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse and a trackpad to select multiple objects at the same time.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Critter Catch","In this interactive game, the learner practices hand-eye coordination using a mouse or trackpad to move the on screen pointer and the button or tap feature to catch bugs.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Using a Pointer Device to Move Objects","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice selecting, unselecting, and moving objects.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Using a Pointer Device to Move Objects","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice selecting, unselecting, and moving objects.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Using a Pointer Device to Double-Click","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a mouse to select, drag, and double-click as they select items using the pointer and mouse button, move objects on the screen, and double-click to open objects. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Using a Pointer Device to Double-Click","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using a pointer device to select an object by double-clicking.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Access Websites and Scroll","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners receive direct instruction and practice opening a hyperlink and using scroll bars.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Access Websites and Scroll","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners receive direct instruction and practice opening a hyperlink and using scroll bars.","Instruction","Independent",3]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Choosing to use the interactive lessons as whole group activities instead of independent will allow you to model efficient use and understanding of the Learning.com online classroom. Have struggling students pair up with their tech buddies to review or revisit any lessons with a score of less than 90%."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: The Grand Keyboard - Level 1","In this engaging animated video, Ollie teaches Rocki the value of a safe password.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: The Grand Keyboard - Level 1","In this engaging animated video, Ollie teaches Rocki the value of a safe password.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Vocabulary Interactive Practice - Level 1","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of the vocabulary terms and definitions associated with digital citizenship and passwords.","Practice","Guided  ",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Safe and Secret Passwords - Level 1","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of digital citizenship and passwords.","Practice","Guided  ",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Rocki's Profile Prank - Level 1","In this engaging animated video, Rocki learns how to handle cyberbullying and be kind online.","Instruction","Whole Group",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Rocki's Profile Prank - Level 1","In this engaging animated video, Rocki learns how to handle cyberbullying and be kind online.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Vocabulary Interactive Practice – Level 1","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of vocabulary terms and definitions related to cyberbullying.","Practice","Guided  ",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Think Before You Prank – Level 1","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of cyberbullying.","Practice","Guided  ",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Report a Cyberbully – Level 1","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of cyberbullying.","Practice","Guided  ",3]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - These lessons help set a firm foundation for safe, appropriate, responsible, and effective technology use throughout the year. Take this opportunity to differentiate or extend the lesson plans as needed for your students."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Concert Part 1","In this engaging animated video, the Tech Grove friends prepare for a concert by discovering the purpose of technology icons. The seven different icons covered in this lesson are: power icon, plus and minus icons, home icon, close or exit icon, and left and right arrow icons.","Instruction","Independent ",4]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Concert Part 2","In this engaging animated video, the Tech Grove friends prepare for a concert by discovering the purpose of technology icons. The seven different icons covered in this lesson are: power icon, plus and minus icons, home icon, close or exit icon, and left and right arrow icons.","Instruction","Independent ",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Practice","This interactive experience is intended to be an independent practice for students and can be used in a teacher-led or in a student-led learning format.","Practice","Independent ",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Processors, Input and Output Devices","The learners receive direct instruction and practice identifying and caring for basic computer components such as the processor, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, printer, and to classify the component as either an input or output device in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",9]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Processors, Input and Output Devices","The learners receive direct instruction and practice identifying and caring for basic computer components such as the processor, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, printer, and to classify the component as either an input or output device in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Data Storage","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with data storage devices, accessing stored data, and using and taking care of compact discs, DVDs, flash drives, and computer drives. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",7]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Data Storage","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with data storage devices, accessing stored data, and using and taking care of compact discs, DVDs, flash drives, and computer drives. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - This is a good time to implement 'tech buddies' in your classroom to help struggling students when lessons aren't mastered. Try to use the 'talk, not touch' or 'point, not press' approaches with your buddies so the learner retains control of his/her equipment. Make time to model and practice logging in and out during each class period."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","How Technology Makes You Feel","Why is it important to listen to your feelings when using technology? This foundational digital citizenship lesson challenges kids to pay attention to their feelings while using tech. With an engaging emoji game, students learn practical strategies for managing their feelings -- good, bad, and everything in between. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters A, B, C, D, and E","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters A, B, C, D, and E as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent ",7]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters F, G, H, I, and J","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters F, G, H, I, and J as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters K, L, M, N, and O","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters K, L, M, N, and O as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",6]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters P, Q, R, S, and T","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters P, Q, R, S, and T as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",6]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding the letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z as they locate and type the letters, recognize the letter sounds, and learn the relationship between the letters on the keyboard and on the screen.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Beginning Sounds","Students identify the initial sounds they hear in high-frequency words by marking a keyboard template.","Practice","Guided  ",20]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Locate and Type Numbers","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding numbers 0 through 9 as they locate and type numbers, learn the relationship between the numbers on the keyboard and the screen, strengthen counting skills, and reinforce basic shape recognition in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Typing Numbers","Students count object sets and move the objects to the corresponding number keys, select boxes to match the number provided then type the number. ","Practice","Guided  ",30]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Cursor, Spacebar, Backspace, Enter, and Words","Learners receive direct instruction and practice keyboarding to type words as they use the cursor, type letter combinations to form words, the spacebar to add spaces between words, the backspace key to delete mistakes, and the enter or return key to create new lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Cursor, Arrows, and Tab","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with keyboarding using the cursor, arrows, tab, backspace, and delete keys as they move the cursor, remove text, and create large spaces. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Shift Key for Capitals and Symbols","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in the areas of keying letters to form words, and using the shift key to make capital letters, symbols, and punctuation including exclamation point and question mark.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Keyboarding","Animal Story","Students type a short story and draw a picture to illustrate it.","Application","Guided  ",10]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - To enrich, extend, or differentiate during this unit, have your students apply their progressing skills by typing spelling words at a computer work station. Integrating math and new technology skills can also be a fun way to get students creating story problems. Remember to use tech buddies for assistance during lessons and classroom practice."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Pause & Think Online","How can we be safe, responsible, and respectful online? From our head down to our toes, and our feet up to our nose, the Digital Citizens teach students how to be safe, responsible, and respectful online. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",25]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Basic Design Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concept of audience and how to use font, color, white space, and graphics to design documents for print- and screen-viewing.","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Drawing Lines and Shapes to Tell a Story","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with drawing software in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. They will use the mouse to select, drag and drop objects, use the pencil, brush, and airbrush tools to draw a picture, and use the color palette to combine colors. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Drawing and Filling Shapes Using Graphics Tools","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with graphics tools. They will use the mouse to select, drag and drop objects, draw shapes, fill using the color palette, magnify drawings, and add text to drawings using tools in the tool box.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Groups and Labels","The learners will represent thoughts and organized ideas through the use of clip art, text, labeled objects and the link tool in visual mapping software as they receive direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Sorting Sets","Students sort animals based on characteristics, and then create two visual maps based on properties of a set. ","Practice","Guided  ",20]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Attributes and Linking","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with visual mapping software as they enhance text using bold, italics, and underlining, modify arrow attributes and adjust elements of style, color, and size for the background and clip art.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Multimedia","I Belong to Many Groups","Students create a visual map that illustrates information about the groups to which they belong. ","Application","Guided  ",30]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Extend student practice with digital drawing and painting by encouraging students to create artwork for an 'Art Gallery Show' where you share their digital drawings in class with a slideshow. To assist with visual mapping, make sure you have proper software or online resources that your students have quick and easy access to."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Internet Traffic Light","How do you stay safe when visiting a website or app? Staying safe online is a lot like staying safe in the real world. Using a fun traffic light activity, students learn how to identify \"just right\" content, giving them the green light to learn, play, and explore the internet safely. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",35]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Basic Document Creation","Learners will receive direct instruction and practice in the area of basic word processing skills. The learners will gain knowledge about how to input text, move the cursor, add spaces, erase typed information, and save and print documents during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Basic Document Creation","Learners will receive direct instruction and practice in the area of basic word processing skills. The learners will gain knowledge about how to input text, move the cursor, add spaces, erase typed information, and save and print documents during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Formatting Text","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice formatting text in word processing documents using the bold, underline, italic, and font size features, opening documents and using the select, cut, copy, and paste features.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Formatting Text","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice formatting text in word processing documents using the bold, underline, italic, and font size features, opening documents and using the select, cut, copy, and paste features.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Group Story","In groups, students think of words for the different parts of speech and write stories together using their chosen words.","Practice","Guided",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Poem Creation and Design","Students use a word processing program to write and format a poem. ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Lab Rules Sign","Students create signs for the computer lab illustrating the rules in the acceptable use policy.","Application","Guided",30]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - As young learners emerge into writers, provide them with opportunities to publish their classroom writing using word processing software, then illustrate with digital or hand drawn art.  "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Patterns","The learners receive direct instruction and practice recognizing and analyzing simple patterns to predict what comes next or what is missing from the pattern. They will be introduced to computational thinking and how computers use programs and software to analyze patterns and solve problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Directions","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with computational thinking and using directions as a list of ordered steps that explain how to accomplish a task, achieve a goal, or solve a problem. They collect and organize information to create a set of directions that they test for accuracy and completeness in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Directions","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with computational thinking and using directions as a list of ordered steps that explain how to accomplish a task, achieve a goal, or solve a problem. They collect and organize information to create a set of directions that they test for accuracy and completeness in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","A New Student in Class","Following and creating directions are a precursor to algorithms and are a fundamental skill of computational thinking. In this application exercise, students create a poster detailing directions of a classroom task or procedure to help a new student adjust to their class.","Application","Guided  ",60]
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[]
[null," Tips & Suggestions -   For Computational Thinking, remind students that patterns and directions are something that they use in school every day. To reinforce their learning, have students point out the patterns they see and directions they follow throughout their day. Learning to code alongside your students can be a fun way to share in the learning experience. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Spreadsheets and Databases","Business Applications: Finding Information Discussion  Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concept of a database, and how they can use one in their daily classroom work.","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Spreadsheets and Databases","Databases: Classifying Data","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice classifying data as they identify, gather, and organize data in a table by cells, rows, and columns.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",8]
[null,"Spreadsheets and Databases","Databases: Classifying Data","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice classifying data as they identify, gather, and organize data in a table by cells, rows, and columns.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Spreadsheets and Databases","Databases: Data Classification Journal","Students engage in a nature walk to gather data using their five senses. Using a table handout, students list each item they find in the correct sense category. Students use a database program and input the data from their handout into a database table or datasheet. They share their datasheets with other classmates.    ","Application","Guided",30]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Remember to print or save your students' work and include it in their student portfolios. This is also the perfect time of year to design mini-projects which end in digital publication to demonstrate your students' application of their digital literacy skills."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety Poster","Students will create a poster to teach others how to stay safe online. ","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety Poster (Presentations)",null,"Application","Small Group"]
[null,null,"Technology Showcase (Optional) "]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G122:G125)","v":45}]
[]
[null,null,null,null,"Total minutes in all units",null,{"$f":"SUM(G127,G119,G110,G101,G87,G73,G55,G43,G28)","v":931}]
[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Online safety is important to revisit at the end of the year to remind students that they need to be smart when online - whether at home or at school. Provide parents with resources to help them keep their students safe online, like the 'Parent Online Safety Guide' linked below. Host an in-person or virtual technology showcase to share student work to wrap up the school year and provide students and parents with ideas for continuing to practice their digital literacy skills during the summer. "]
[null,{"$f":"HYPERLINK(\"https://support.learning.com/parent-resources/online-safety-guide-for-parents-english/\",\"Parent Online Safety Guide\")","v":"Parent Online Safety Guide"}]

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[null,"EasyTech Curriculum Map - 2nd Grade"]
[null,"2022-2023"]
[]
[null,"This Curriculum Map provides a suggested order of assignments for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum in your classroom. For planning purposes, it is recommended that approximately 45 minutes of digital literacy curriculum is delivered each week through whole group, independent, or guided practice implementation models."]
[]
[null,"Prior to beginning the school year, it is recommended that you create student technology portfolios (digital or print) to provide students with a way to share their learning. The portfolio may include pictures, reports, and documents published. Pictures are a great way to show your students the learning process and can be used at the end of the year for a class slideshow or technology showcase. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Introduction to Digital Citizenship: Cyberbullying","This colorful and engaging video introduces students to the basics of dealing with cyberbullying on the internet.","Instruction","Whole Group",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Introduction to Online Safety: Protecting Your Privacy","This engaging video-based learning object provides the learner with foundational knowledge about the importance of protecting their personal information. The learner will understand that they shouldn't share any personal information online or agree to meet anyone they don’t know and trust; and they should always log off or lock their device to protect their personal information.","Instruction","Whole Group",4]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: The Mysterious Map – Level 2","In this engaging animated video, Truman and Poppy learn about the importance of netiquette in communicating emotions.","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Into the Trees – Level 2","In this engaging animated video, Truman and Poppy discover ways to \"be kind online.\"","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Netiquette Vocabulary Practice - Level 2","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of vocabulary terms and definitions related to digital citizenship and netiquette.","Practice","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Be Kind Online - Level 2","In this interactive learning experience, students will improve their knowledge of digital citizenship.","Practice","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Fort in the Forest - Level 2","In this engaging animated video, Truman and Poppy look back at their footprints and see how they can leave a trail online.","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Vocabulary Interactive Practice - Level 2","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of vocabulary terms and definitions related to digital citizenship and digital footprint.","Practice ","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Footprints and Identity - Level 2","In this interactive learning experience, students will improve their knowledge of digital citizenship.","Practice ","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: The Legendary Shellphone Part 1 - Level 2","In this engaging animated video, Truman and Poppy must use their online smarts to tackle cyberbullying.","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: The Legendary Shellphone Part 2 - Level 2","In this engaging animated video, Truman is given a very special treasure to communicate online as a reward for becoming a safe cyber-citizen.","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Vocabulary Interactive Practice - Level 2","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of vocabulary terms and definitions related to cyberbullying awareness and response.","Practice ","Guided",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Title TBD (Interactive Practice) - Level 2","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of cyberbullying. ","Practice ","Guided",2]
[]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - These lessons are spiraled from previous years to help set a firm foundation for safe, appropriate, responsible, and effective technology use throughout the year. Take this opportunity to differentiate or extend using the lesson plans as needed for your students. Encourage students to be as creative and detailed as possible in creating their lab rules sign. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Concert Part 1","In this engaging animated video, the Tech Grove friends prepare for a concert by discovering the purpose of technology icons. The seven different icons covered in this lesson are: power icon, plus and minus icons, home icon, close or exit icon, and left and right arrow icons.","Instruction","Independent ",4]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Concert Part 2","In this engaging animated video, the Tech Grove friends prepare for a concert by discovering the purpose of technology icons. The seven different icons covered in this lesson are: power icon, plus and minus icons, home icon, close or exit icon, and left and right arrow icons.","Instruction","Independent ",3]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: An Icon-ic Practice","This interactive experience is intended to be an independent practice for students and can be used in a teacher-led or in a student-led learning format.","Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Spelling Star","In this interactive game, the learner visits a planetarium to practice hand-eye coordination using a mouse or trackpad to drag and drop letters to form words as they explore the stars.","Practice ","Independent",5]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Processors, Input and Output Devices","The learners receive direct instruction and practice identifying and caring for basic computer components such as the processor, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, printer, and to classify the component as either an input or output device in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Printer","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using a printer, previewing and printing entire documents or selected pages, and troubleshooting common printer problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Scanner","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using a scanner for images or objects, saving a scanned image as a file, identifying components such as the scanning surface and scanning beam, and understanding how a scanner works.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",6]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Data Storage","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with data storage devices, accessing stored data, and using and taking care of compact discs, DVDs, flash drives, and computer drives. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Network Basics","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with networking concepts, such as LANs, WANs, and file format compatibility. They will gain knowledge about how to use remote equipment and review intellectual property in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Desktop","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using the desktop, working with files and folders, navigating file structures, moving and opening files and folders, and deleting files. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Windows and Controls","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with dialog boxes and options windows, making selections using check boxes, radio buttons, scroll bars, and dropdown menus, and controls to close, maximize, minimize, restore, and resize windows.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Toolbars and Menus","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice navigating program menus and using toolbars, recognizing and using symbols, properties, and online help, and understanding the connection between program menu icons and toolbar buttons.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Software and File Formats","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with software programs and file formats as they identify software groups, select task-appropriate software, start and exit software programs, and create, name, save, print, and close files in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - The hardware and software fundamentals lessons help students become more familiar with how to navigate many software interfaces and online platforms. If you haven't established 'tech buddies' in your classroom, now is a good time. Have them assist students who have less than 90% mastery on any lesson."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*We the Digital Citizens","How can we be good digital citizens? Students explore the amazing possibilities that come with using technology. They'll also learn from the Digital Citizens, who take a pledge to be safe, responsible, and respectful when traveling through the online world. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",20]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Touch Keyboarding Discussion  Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concept of touch keyboarding, including proper keyboarding techniques and punctuation and symbol keys.","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Home Row","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in the area of basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the home row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",13]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Home Row","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in the area of basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the home row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",13]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Upper Row","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with the basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the upper row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture, and are provided a review of the home row keys in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",14]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Upper Row","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with the basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the upper row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture, and are provided a review of the home row keys in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",14]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Lower Row","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice with the basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the lower row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture, and are provided a review of the home and upper row keys. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",13]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Lower Row","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice with the basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the lower row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture, and are provided a review of the home and upper row keys. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",13]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Number Row","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with keyboarding techniques needed to type using the number row keys, proper finger placement and posture, and a review of the home, upper, and lower row keys. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",12]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Number Row","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with keyboarding techniques needed to type using the number row keys, proper finger placement and posture, and a review of the home, upper, and lower row keys. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Shift Key","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding using the Shift key to type capital letters and symbols. The learners will use proper posture and finger placement, identify touch keys and reach keys, and type basic punctuation in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",11]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Shift Key","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding using the Shift key to type capital letters and symbols. The learners will use proper posture and finger placement, identify touch keys and reach keys, and type basic punctuation in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",11]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G51:G62)","v":176}]
[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - To enrich, extend, or differentiate during the keyboarding unit, have your students apply their progressing skills by typing spelling words at a computer work station. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Safety: Safe Site Strategies Discussion Reflection","Inappropriate Content — avoiding sites, exiting sites: In this lesson, teachers use discussion points to introduce students to the concept of being safe online.","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Online Information Basics","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice browsing the Internet as they examine the difference between a web page and website, browse by following a series of hyperlinks, and learn to differentiate the Internet from the World Wide Web.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Browsing and URLs","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) as they identify URL components, use URLs to navigate to a web page, and use a browser to find and view information online.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Safe and Effective Online Searches","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using effective keywords and categories in search engines as they identify successful online searches, and consider their privacy and safety when providing personal information on the Internet in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Safe and Effective Online Searches","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using effective keywords and categories in search engines as they identify successful online searches, and consider their privacy and safety when providing personal information on the Internet in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Research, Resources, and Ethics","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using web sites for research as they validate online information and author credibility, and respect intellectual property by properly citing online resources.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Research, Resources, and Ethics","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using web sites for research as they validate online information and author credibility, and respect intellectual property by properly citing online resources.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Let's Give Credit","How can you give credit for other people's work? With so much information at our fingertips, students learn what it means to \"give credit\" when using content they find online. Taking on the role of a detective, students learn why it's important to give credit and the right ways to do it when they use words, images, or ideas that belong to others.","Instruction   ","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Share It Through Trading Cards","Trading cards can be used for many purposes. Students will use trading cards to share what they have learned from their research about an assigned topic.    ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Share It Through Trading Cards (Presentations)",null,"Application","Whole Group"]
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[]
[null," Tips & Suggestions - Internet usage skills will provide students with a solid foundation for conducting research and using information found on the internet. Provide your students with opportunities to publish their work and include copies in their student technology portfolios. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Language Arts and Reading"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Device Free Moments","Why is it important that we have device-free moments in our lives? Technology use isn't always a distraction, but there are definitely times when it's best to keep devices away. Help students learn when it's appropriate to use technology and when it's not -- and practice making family rules for device-free time at home. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",40]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Basic Document Creation","Learners will receive direct instruction and practice in the area of basic word processing skills. The learners will gain knowledge about how to input text, move the cursor, add spaces, erase typed information, and save and print documents during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Formatting Text","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice formatting text in word processing documents using the bold, underline, italic, and font size features, opening documents and using the select, cut, copy, and paste features.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Correcting Words","Students find errors in a paragraph and then make corrections to the paragraph using specific keys.   ","Practice","Independent",20]
[null,"Business Applications","Grammar Safari","Student practice locating and using adjectives and action verbs in two different essays. ","Application","Guided",20]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Lab Rules Sign","Students create signs for the computer lab illustrating the rules in the acceptable use policy.    ","Application","Guided",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Lab Rules Sign (Presentations)",null,null,"Whole Group"]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G85:G90)","v":137}]
[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Students can enhance their writing with digital or hand drawn illustrations. Integrating math and new technology skills can also be a fun way to get students creating story problems."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Math and Science"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* That's Private!","What kinds of information should I keep to myself when I use the internet? Staying safe online is a lot like staying safe in the real world. By helping a Digital Citizen sign up for a new app, students learn about the kinds of information they should keep to themselves when they use the internet -- just as they would with a stranger in person. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Groups and Labels","The learners will represent thoughts and organized ideas through the use of clip art, text, labeled objects and the link tool in visual mapping software as they receive direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Attributes and Linking","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with visual mapping software as they enhance text using bold, italics, and underlining, modify arrow attributes and adjust elements of style, color, and size for the background and clip art.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Designing a Visual Map","Students create visual maps that illustrate their understanding of design principles.    ","Practice","Guided",30]
[null,"Multimedia","Water Cycle","Students observe and answer questions about water and then use visual mapping software to create a diagram illustrating the water cycle. ","Application","Guided",30]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Idea Webs","The learners will create, replace, resize, erase, move, and link objects and text using a variety of tools within visual mapping software as they receive direct instruction and practice during this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Formats and Outlines","Through direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will use visual mapping software to create outlines and diagrams using the create and write tools, and add text to organize and enhance their pre-write documents.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G99:G105)","v":138}]
[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - To assist with visual mapping, make sure you have proper software or online resources for your students. Provide opportunities for students to use their visual mapping skills during core classes. For example: Create an idea web about characters in a book or a science topic. Remember to use your tech buddies to assist with students who have less than 90% mastery on any lesson."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Math and Science"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Digital Trails","What information is OK to have in your digital footprint? Does what you do online always stay online? Students learn that the information they share online leaves a digital footprint or \"trail.\" Depending on how they manage it, this trail can be big or small, and harmful or helpful. Students compare different trails and think critically about what kinds of information they want to leave behind. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",40]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Directions","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with computational thinking and using directions as a list of ordered steps that explain how to accomplish a task, achieve a goal, or solve a problem. They collect and organize information to create a set of directions that they test for accuracy and completeness in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Directions","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with computational thinking and using directions as a list of ordered steps that explain how to accomplish a task, achieve a goal, or solve a problem. They collect and organize information to create a set of directions that they test for accuracy and completeness in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","A New Student in Class","Following and creating directions are a precursor to algorithms and are a fundamental skill of computational thinking. In this application exercise, students create a poster detailing directions of a classroom task or procedure to help a new student adjust to their class.   ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Computer Science","A New Student in Class (Presentations)",null,"Application","Whole Group"]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G112:G116)","v":130}]
[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Talk with your students about how computational thinking might help them plan for and complete tasks every day. Learning to code alongside your students can be a fun way to share in the learning experience. Continue to use your tech buddies to assist with students who have less than 90% mastery on any lesson."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Math and Science"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Putting a STOP to Online Meanness","What should you do if someone is mean to you online? The internet is filled with all kinds of interesting people, but sometimes, some of them can be mean to each other. With this role play, help your students understand why it's often easier to be mean online than in person, and how to deal with online meanness when they see it. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",35]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Parts","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with spreadsheets. Learners will gain experience with worksheets, cells, rows, columns, cell addresses, labels, navigating tables, and entering data. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",9]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Parts","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with spreadsheets. Learners will gain experience with worksheets, cells, rows, columns, cell addresses, labels, navigating tables, and entering data. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Navigating Cells, Rows, and Columns","Through direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will organize information in a spreadsheet by navigating cells, rows, and columns, editing or deleting data, adding titles, and including labels in a table.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Navigating Cells, Rows, and Columns","Through direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will organize information in a spreadsheet by navigating cells, rows, and columns, editing or deleting data, adding titles, and including labels in a table.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Cell Formatting","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice formatting cells in a spreadsheet by merging and grouping cells, applying number formats, aligning cell data, adding borders and color to cells, and indenting data in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Cell Formatting","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice formatting cells in a spreadsheet by merging and grouping cells, applying number formats, aligning cell data, adding borders and color to cells, and indenting data in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Acts of Kindness","Students use a spreadsheet to record acts of kindness they give and receive over the course of a week.   ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Columns and Rows","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice as the learners insert and resize rows and columns, enter data into a spreadsheet, use alphabetical and numerical sort functions, use the summation function, and alphabetically organize information in a table.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Columns and Rows","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice as the learners insert and resize rows and columns, enter data into a spreadsheet, use alphabetical and numerical sort functions, use the summation function, and alphabetically organize information in a table.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Class Pets Spreadsheet","Students collect information about their classmates' pets and then use their populated data tables to create and modify a spreadsheet on the computer.    ","Application","Guided",35]
[null,"Business Applications","Class Pets Spreadsheet (Presentations)",null,null,"Whole Group"]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Line Charts","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice as the learners work with line charts in a spreadsheet program. They will use data found in a spreadsheet to create and label line charts, then practice reading and interpreting data found in a line chart. ","Instruction","Independent",8]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Line Charts","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice as the learners work with line charts in a spreadsheet program. They will use data found in a spreadsheet to create and label line charts, then practice reading and interpreting data found in a line chart. ","Instruction","Independent",8]
[null,"Business Applications","Graphing Weather","Students draw pictures of each season, and then record and graph the temperature over the course of a week. ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Business Applications: Finding Information Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concept of a database, and how they can use one in their daily classroom work.","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Classifying Data","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice classifying data as they identify, gather, and organize data in a table by cells, rows, and columns.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",8]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Classifying Data","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice classifying data as they identify, gather, and organize data in a table by cells, rows, and columns.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Computer Science","Databases: Data Classification Journal","Students engage in a nature walk to gather data using their five senses. Using a table handout, students list each item they find in the correct sense category. Students use a database program and input the data from their handout into a database table or datasheet. They share their datasheets with other classmates.    ","Application","Guided",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Using Databases to Store and Organize Data","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with the parts of a database including fields, records, tables, datasheets, and forms. They will also learn how to find, group, and compare data.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Using Databases to Store and Organize Data","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with the parts of a database including fields, records, tables, datasheets, and forms. They will also learn how to find, group, and compare data.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Tables, Records, and Fields Journal\n","Using a database program, students design a classroom database of the people, places, landmarks, and natural resources in their communities.    \n","Application","Small Group",60]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Remind students that spreadsheets are a good way to keep track of information over time. Have students practice creating spreadsheets and databases by entering data about the content being studied in core curriculum, physical education, or other classes to show how the data is represented. Remember to add student-created items to their portfolios."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Home Row (Practice/Review)","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in the area of basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the home row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",13]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Upper Row (Practice/Review)","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with the basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the upper row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture, and are provided a review of the home row keys in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",14]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Lower Row (Practice/Review)","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice with the basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the lower row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture, and are provided a review of the home and upper row keys. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",13]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Number Row (Practice/Review)","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with keyboarding techniques needed to type using the number row keys, proper finger placement and posture, and a review of the home, upper, and lower row keys. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Keyboarding (Review)","Keyboarding: Shift Key (Practice/Review)","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding using the Shift key to type capital letters and symbols. The learners will use proper posture and finger placement, identify touch keys and reach keys, and type basic punctuation in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",11]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Having students repeat keyboarding lessons is a good way to reinforce accuracy before speed in typing. This is also the perfect time of the year to put together mini-projects that end in digital publications to add to student portfolios. Remember to print or save your students' work and include it in their student portfolios.  "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Who Is In Your Online Community?","How are we all part of an online community? We are all connected on the internet! By learning the Rings of Responsibility, students explore how the internet connects us to people in our community and throughout the world. Help your students think critically about the different ways they connect with others, both in person and online. Note: Complete lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety Poster","Students will create an online safety presentation to remind students about how to stay safe online during the summer.    ","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety Poster (Presentations)","Students will create an online safety presentation to remind students about how to stay safe online during the summer.    ","Application","Whole Group",90]
[null,null,"Technology Showcase (Optional)",null,null,"Whole Group"]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Online safety is important to revisit at the end of the year to remind students that they need to be smart when online - whether at home or at school. Provide parents with resources to help them keep their students safe online, like the 'Parent Online Safety Guide' linked below. Host an in-person or virtual technology showcase to share student work to wrap up the school year and provide students and parents with ideas for continuing to practice their digital literacy skills during the summer. "]
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[null,"EasyTech Curriculum Map - 3rd Grade"]
[null,"2022-2023"]
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[null,"This Curriculum Map provides a suggested order of assignments for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum in your classroom. For planning purposes, it is recommended that approximately 45 minutes of digital literacy curriculum is delivered each week through whole group, independent, or guided practice implementation models."]
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[null,"Prior to beginning the school year, it is recommended that you create student technology portfolios (digital or print) to provide students with a way to share their learning. The portfolio may include EasyTech certificates, reports, and application exercise entries and work products. Pictures are a great way to show your students the learning process and can be used at the end of the year for a class slideshow or technology showcase. "]
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[null,"Remember to provide students with time each week to improve their keyboarding technique, accuracy, and speed through Adaptive Keyboarding after they have completed keyboarding lessons and guided practice exercises."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","3-5 Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Introduction Video","This engaging unit introduction video introduces students to what they will be learning about during the Online Safety and Digital Citizenship unit.","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Vocabulary Introduction - Level 3","This animated video introduces students to the vocabulary terms and definitions related to cyberbullying. ","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Vocabulary Practice - Level 3","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of cyberbullying vocabulary terms and definitions.  ","Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Cyberbullying: A Sticky Situation Part 1 - Level 3","In this engaging animated video, part 1 of a 2-part story, Sal shares a story about an experience he had while playing an online game and realizes he’s been bullied.","Instruction","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Sort Out Your Feelings Practice - Level 3","In this interactive practice, students will identify the emotions associated with being cyberbullied and reflect on how they would feel as well. ","Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Cyberbullying: A Sticky Situation Part 2 - Level 3","In this engaging animated video, part 2 of a 2-part story, Sal realizes that he has experienced cyberbullying. Through a conversation with friends, Sal and the audience learn how to identify, prevent, and address cyberbullying.","Instruction","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Recipes for Dealing with Cyberbullying Practice - Level 3","In this interactive practice, students will identify how to create safe online profiles and what to do in the event of being cyberbullied. ","Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Understanding and Dealing with Cyberbullying PSA - Level 3","In this two-part activity students will use what was learned in the 3rd Grade Cyberbullying module to show knowledge of what cyberbullying is and how to use the 3 Ss to prevent cyberbullying. Students will be able to select their final project to best represent their knowledge of cyberbullying.","Application","Guided",40]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Vocabulary Introduction - Level 3","This animated video introduces students to the vocabulary terms and definitions related to Digital Citizenship.","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Vocabulary Practice - Level 3","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of Digital Citizenship vocabulary terms and definitions. ","Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Digital Citizenship: Quest for the Cookie - Level 3","In this engaging animated video, Murphy sends Sal on a scavenger hunt to a) reflect on what he’s learned about digital citizenship so far, and b) learn even more about how to be safe online.","Instruction","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Digital Citizenship: Quest for the Cookie Scavenger Hunt - Level 3","In this interactive practice, students will go on a digital scavenger hunt to practice good digital citizenship habits. ","Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Acceptable Use Policies Discussion Reflection","In this discussion, teachers use the discussion points to introduce students to EasyTech as well as usernames and passwords, online help, acceptable use policies, and intellectual property.","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Vocabulary Introduction - Level 3","This animated video introduces students to the vocabulary terms and definitions related to information literacy. ","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy Vocabulary Practice - Level 3","In this interactive vocabulary practice, students match the information literacy vocabulary term with its definition. ","Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Mia Seeks the Truth - Level 3","In this engaging animated video, Mia, a self-described ‘Truth Seeker’, introduces the learner to information literacy through an experience surrounding fact and opinion.","Instruction","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Facts vs. Opinion Practice - Level 3","In this interactive practice, students will use a graphic organizer to sort sentences based on fact or opinion. ","Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Identifying Facts and Opinions","In this activity, students will apply their knowledge and skills related to information literacy by sorting fact and opinion statements and identifying sentences, as either fact or opinion, within articles. Finally students will be tasked with writing a 1-2 paragraph story that includes 2-3 facts and 2-3 opinions.   ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level 3 (Post)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level 3 (Post) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Begin the school year by walking students through how to create a digital portfolio. The lessons in this unit are spiraled from previous years to help set a firm foundation for safe, appropriate, responsible, and effective technology use throughout the year. Remind students that being a good digital citizen will have a positive impact on their school, personal, and social lives. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Home Row","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in the area of basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the home row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",13]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row: Home Row F and J","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row: D, K and J, F","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row: S and L","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row: A and ;","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row: Add G, H","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Upper Row","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with the basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the upper row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture, and are provided a review of the home row keys in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",14]
[null,"Keyboarding","Upper Row: Add E","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","Upper Row: Add O","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",4]
[null,"Keyboarding","Upper Row: Add R","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",4]
[null,"Keyboarding","Upper Row: Add T","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","Upper Row: Add I","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",4]
[null,"Keyboarding","Upper Row: Add U","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Lower Row","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice with the basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the lower row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture, and are provided a review of the home and upper row keys. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",13]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Shift Key","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding using the Shift key to type capital letters and symbols. The learners will use proper posture and finger placement, identify touch keys and reach keys, and type basic punctuation in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",11]
[null,"Keyboarding","Lower Row: Add Left Shift and Colon","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","Lower Row: Add Right Shift and C","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","Lower Row: Add Period","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Number Row","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with keyboarding techniques needed to type using the number row keys, proper finger placement and posture, and a review of the home, upper, and lower row keys. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.  ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Consider creating a group or class just for keyboarding. After students complete their daily classwork, have them practice keyboarding and provide opportunities to practice keyboarding skills for fun and meaningful tasks. Having students type spelling or vocabulary words allows them to apply their keyboarding skills in core subject areas."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Password Power-Up","How can a strong password help protect your privacy? Stronger, more secure online passwords are a good idea for everyone. But how can we help kids create better passwords and actually remember them? Use the tips in this lesson to help kids make passwords that are both secure and memorable.","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Printer","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using a printer, previewing and printing entire documents or selected pages, and troubleshooting common printer problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Scanner","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using a scanner for images or objects, saving a scanned image as a file, identifying components such as the scanning surface and scanning beam, and understanding how a scanner works.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",6]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Network Basics","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with networking concepts, such as LANs, WANs, and file format compatibility. They will gain knowledge about how to use remote equipment and review intellectual property in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Desktop","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using the desktop, working with files and folders, navigating file structures, moving and opening files and folders, and deleting files. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Windows and Controls","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with dialog boxes and options windows, making selections using check boxes, radio buttons, scroll bars, and dropdown menus, and controls to close, maximize, minimize, restore, and resize windows.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Toolbars and Menus","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice navigating program menus and using toolbars, recognizing and using symbols, properties, and online help, and understanding the connection between program menu icons and toolbar buttons.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Software and File Formats","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with software programs and file formats as they identify software groups, select task-appropriate software, start and exit software programs, and create, name, save, print, and close files in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: Devices and Compatibility Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand basic computer concepts such as input and output devices, networks, and compatibility.","Discussion","Whole Group",30]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Mobile Devices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with smartphones, tablets, phablets (larger phones), and applications, and understand how mobile devices connect to a wireless network, store information using cloud computing, and use GPS for tracking.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Identifying Computer Devices","Students identify digital input, output, and processing devices by matching terms, functions, and definitions, and describe how components are used.","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level 3 (Post)","Computational Thinking - Level 3 (Post) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment   ","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.  ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - This is a good time to implement ‘tech buddies’ in your classroom to help struggling students when lessons are not mastered. Try to use the ‘talk, not touch’ or ‘point, not press’ approaches with your buddies so the learner retains control of his/her equipment.  "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Your Rings of Responsibility","How do digital citizens take responsibility for themselves, their communities, and their world? Teaching digital citizenship is all about helping kids think beyond themselves and recognize the ripple effects of their actions. Personal responsibility is important, but understanding their responsibilities to others can help kids unlock new ways to learn and connect with their communities -- and even change those communities for the better.","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Online Information Basics","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice browsing the Internet as they examine the difference between a web page and website, browse by following a series of hyperlinks, and learn to differentiate the Internet from the World Wide Web.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Browsing and URLs","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) as they identify URL components, use URLs to navigate to a web page, and use a browser to find and view information online.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Safe and Effective Online Searches","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using effective keywords and categories in search engines as they identify successful online searches, and consider their privacy and safety when providing personal information on the Internet in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Research, Resources, and Ethics","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using web sites for research as they validate online information and author credibility, and respect intellectual property by properly citing online resources.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Cut it Out! Save the Environment","Students research, describe, and present ways to reduce the use of paper. They explain why saving paper is important in their everyday lives and for saving the environment. ","Application","Guided ",35]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Web Page Design","Students choose a topic and find five examples of good and bad website designs about that topic, and improve upon one of the poor examples by redesigning it. ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level 3 (Post)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level 3 (Post) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.  ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Remind students that being a good digital citizen will have a positive impact on their school, personal, and social lives and that being on the Internet creates a footprint that follows you and can impact others. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","This Is Me","How does what I post online affect my identity? From selfies to social media, many of us create unique online identities for ourselves, and our students are no different. But do kids always understand how others might perceive what they post? Help your students think critically about the online identities they are creating.","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.  ","Assessment  ","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Business Applications: Audience and Media Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concept of audience and how to use font, color, white space, and graphics to design documents for print- and screen-viewing.","Discussion","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating and Organizing Content","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice with using a word processing program to help with the writing process. The learners will gain knowledge about how to organize information, create lists, and insert pictures to better engage their audience.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",11]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Revising and Formatting","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice revising and formatting, as part of the writing process, while they use font style, color and size, paragraph alignment, spacing, page break, symbols, and moving text and images to enhance their document. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Formatting a Poem","Students will use a word processing program to format a poem. ","Application","Guided ",20]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Editing and Proofreading Your Work","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice using a word processing program   as part of the writing process. Learners will edit and proofread text, check for spelling and grammar mistakes, and improve writing by using the thesaurus and word count tools.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Formatting Biographies","Students retype and format a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level 3 (Post)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level 3 (Post) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.","Assessment  ","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[]
[null," Tips & Suggestions -  Provide your students with opportunities to publish their classroom writing in word processing documents and place copies in their technology portfolios. Encourage students to illustrate their writing with digital or hand drawn art. Help students to understand that being aware of their audience goes beyond projects to their every day communications."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time (in minutes)"]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre)","Presentations Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Audience and Organization","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners will receive direct instruction and practice organizing and developing a slide show using presentation software. They learn how to consider the audience and the purpose of the slide show to tell stories, present information, and share ideas. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Composing Slides","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice composing slides using presentation software as they consider and use design elements, layouts, backgrounds, text, images, and white space to create and modify engaging slide shows.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Enhancing Slides","The learners receive direct instruction and practice enhancing presentation slides to communicate their voice to an audience. They learn to choose and use effective color palettes, apply color and formatting to text, draw and customize objects, and add animation and sound in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Evaluating and Presenting","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with enhancing and editing a slideshow before presenting to an audience. They will edit and organize slides, use tools to add consistent and appropriate transitions, and evaluate their work before presenting in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Business Applications","Habitat Presentation","Students create a presentation that describes the habitat of a specific organism.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level 3 (Post)","Presentations Skills Check - Level 3 (Post) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Assessment and Practice","Independent",15]
[]
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[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Is Seeing Believing?","Why do people alter digital photos and videos? The web is full of photos, and even videos, that are digitally altered. And it's often hard to tell the difference between what's real and what's fake. Help your students ask critical questions about why someone might alter a photo or video in the first place.","Instruction ","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre)","Visual Mapping Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for Visual Mapping. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills of how to use visual mapping applications to evaluate and organize information and represent ideas visually.  ","Assessment  ","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Idea Webs","The learners will create, replace, resize, erase, move, and link objects and text using a variety of tools within visual mapping software as they receive direct instruction and practice during this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Formats and Outlines","Through direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will use visual mapping software to create outlines and diagrams using the create and write tools, and add text to organize and enhance their pre-write documents.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Multimedia","Water Cycle","Students observe and answer questions about water and then use visual mapping software to create a diagram illustrating the water cycle.","Application","Guided",30]
[null,"Multimedia","Visual Mapping: Skills Check - Level 3 (Post)","Visual Mapping Skills Check - Level 3 (Post) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for Visual Mapping. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills of how to use visual mapping applications to evaluate and organize information and represent ideas visually.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[]
[null," Tips & Suggestions - Provide time for students to use their new visual mapping skills in core subject areas. This is the perfect time of the year to put together mini projects which end in digital publication to highlight students' entire year of learning."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* The Power Of Words","What should you do when someone uses mean or hurtful language on the internet? As kids grow, they'll naturally start to communicate more online. But some of what they see could make them feel hurt, sad, angry, or even fearful. Help your students build empathy for others and learn strategies to use when confronted with cyberbullying.","Instruction ","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level 3 (Pre) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Parts","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with spreadsheets. Learners will gain experience with worksheets, cells, rows, columns, cell addresses, labels, navigating tables, and entering data. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Navigating Cells, Rows, and Columns","Through direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will organize information in a spreadsheet by navigating cells, rows, and columns, editing or deleting data, adding titles, and including labels in a table.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Cell Formatting","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice formatting cells in a spreadsheet by merging and grouping cells, applying number formats, aligning cell data, adding borders and color to cells, and indenting data in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Student Information Spreadsheet","Students use a spreadsheet to perform interviews and display the collected data.","Application","Guided  ",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Columns and Rows","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice as the learners insert and resize rows and columns, enter data into a spreadsheet, use alphabetical and numerical sort functions, use the summation function, and alphabetically organize information in a table.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Pie Charts","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with pie charts in a spreadsheet program. They will use data found in a spreadsheet to create and label pie charts, then practice reading and interpreting data found in a pie chart during this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Coin Toss Probability","Students flip coins and use a spreadsheet to record how many times they land heads or tails.  ","Application","Guided  ",20]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Bar Charts","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice as the learners work with bar charts in a spreadsheet program. They will use data found in a spreadsheet to create and label bar charts, then practice reading and interpreting data found in a bar chart. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",11]
[null,"Business Applications","Measuring Matter","Students observe and take measurements of different types of matter, create spreadsheets and a graph and then interpret their results.  ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Using Databases to Store and Organize Data","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with the parts of a database including fields, records, tables, datasheets, and forms. They will also learn how to find, group, and compare data.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Tables, Records, and Fields Journal","Using a database program, students design a classroom database of the people, places, landmarks, and natural resources in their communities.    ","Application","Small Group",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Performing Searches and Filtering Data","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice searching online databases with keywords as they perform a category search, apply a simple filter, and explore how database searches can help solve information needs in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",11]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Search and Filter Journal","Students use an Internet search engine to research three bodies of water, choosing among rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans. They then create Activity Cards using the information they find and play a \"filtering\" game with the cards to exemplify how a database filters information.    ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Sort and Filter","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice organizing data and finding information in a database as they sort data in both ascending and descending orders, and sort filtered data.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Sort and Filter Journal","Using a database program, students enter information about their favorite book(s) into a classroom database and then sort and filter the data to find specific information.  ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level 3 (Post)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level 3 (Post) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[]
[null," Tips & Suggestions - Have students practice entering data to create spreadsheets based on content being studied in core curriculum, physical education, or other classes to show how data is represented. Students could also use spreadsheets to build charts and produce graphs based on a variety of topics. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Password Power-Up","How can a strong password help protect your privacy? Stronger, more secure online passwords are a good idea for everyone. But how can we help kids create better passwords and actually remember them? Use the tips in this lesson to help kids make passwords that are both secure and memorable.","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level 3 (Pre)","Computational Thinking - Level 3 (Pre) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Algorithms","As part of computational thinking, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using algorithms to solve a problem, make a decision, or accomplish a task. They will analyze a situation, create an algorithm to solve the problem, test for reliability and accuracy, and understand that computers use algorithms, called programs, to complete tasks or help solve problems. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Mystery Animals","Understanding and creating algorithms are fundamental skills of computational thinking. In this application exercise, students develop a written algorithm to guide a partner in drawing a mystery animal. ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Computer Science","Mystery Animals (Presentations)"]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level 3 (Post)","Computational Thinking - Level 3 (Post) evaluates 3rd grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G162:G168)","v":225}]
[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - If your students are new to computational thinking, you can review the 'Patterns and Directions' curriculum which can be found in the EasyTech 'Computer Science' unit. Remember to have students place copies of their work in the digital portfolios they're creating; these are a great way for students to share the digital products they've been creating all year."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Safety: Texting Safety Discussion Reflection","Texting Safety: Teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concept of texting, emphasizing cell phone safety, netiquette, and cyber bullying.","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Digital Citizenship: Being a Good Digital Citizen from A to Z - Level 3","In this activity students will use what was learned in the Level 3 Digital Citizenship module to show knowledge of what digital citizenship is and how to be a good digital citizen. Students will be able to select their final project to best represent their knowledge of digital citizenship. Student work may include open-ended questions, correct/incorrect responses, a final product and/or self-assessment. An optional rubric is provided to assist in grading student products. ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,null,"Update Student Portfolios"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Online safety is important to revisit at the end of the year to remind students that they need to be smart when online - whether at home or at school. Provide parents with resources to help them keep their students safe online, like the 'Parent Online Safety Guide' linked below. Host an in-person or virtual technology showcase to share student work to wrap up the school year and provide students and parents with ideas for continuing to practice their digital literacy skills during the summer. "]
[null,{"$f":"HYPERLINK(\"https://support.learning.com/parent-resources/online-safety-guide-for-parents-english/\",\"Parent Online Safety Guide\")","v":"Parent Online Safety Guide"}]

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[null,"EasyTech Curriculum Map - 4th Grade"]
[null,"2022-2023"]
[]
[null,"This Curriculum Map provides a suggested order of assignments for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum in your classroom. For planning purposes, it is recommended that approximately 45 minutes of digital literacy curriculum is delivered each week through whole group, independent, or guided practice implementation models."]
[]
[null,"Prior to beginning the school year, it is recommended that you create student technology portfolios (digital or print) to provide students with a way to share their learning. The portfolio may include EasyTech certificates, reports, and application exercise entries and work products. Pictures are a great way to show your students the learning process and can be used at the end of the year for a class slideshow or technology showcase. Insert Note about Creating a Portfolio curriculum item here."]
[]
[null,"Remember to provide students with time each week to improve their keyboarding technique, accuracy, and speed through Adaptive Keyboarding after they have completed keyboarding lessons and guided practice exercises."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level 4 (Pre)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level 4 (Pre) evaluates 4th grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*3-5 Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Introduction Video","This engaging unit introduction video introduces students to what they will be learning about during the Online Safety and Digital Citizenship unit. ","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Vocabulary Introduction - Level 4"," This animated video introduces students to the vocabulary terms and definitions related to cyberbullying","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying Vocabulary Interactive Practice - Level 4","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of cyberbullying vocabulary terms and definitions. ","Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Cyberbullying: The Impostor - Level 4","In this engaging animated video, Mia and Sal discover a fake profile of their friend Opal. The pair team up to do the right thing, unaware that influencer Opal has already set a perfect example!","Instruction","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Cyberbullying: What To Do If An Impostor Chooses You - Level 4","In this activity, students will put the 3S's (Smart, Safe, Supported), into action as they set out to make a plan to deal with an impostor. Students will also reinforce their understanding of words associated with cyberbullying while working through example scenarios.","Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Cyberbullying: Sharing the Dangers of Cyberbullying - Level 4","In this two-part activity, students will demonstrate their understanding of the different ways cyberbullying can look and how it can impact others. Using a final project of their choosing, students will reflect the different ways that cyberbullying can present itself and how to protect themselves and others from its potential harm.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Acceptable Use Policies Discussion Reflection","The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning. ","Discussion","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Vocabulary Introduction - Level 4"," This animated video introduces students to the vocabulary terms and definitions related to digital citizenship. ","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Vocabulary Practice - Level 4"," In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of digital citizenship vocabulary terms and definitions.","Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Digital Citizenship: A Slippery Footprint - Level 4","In this engaging animated video, Opal accidentally posts an embarrassing video of Mia, leading the two to discover the permanence of online activity and how to build a positive persona in cyberspace.","Instruction","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Digital Citizenship: Following the Right Footprints - Level 4","In this interactive practice, students will be presented with tricky situations regarding digital citizenship. They will then be asked to choose the action that makes them the best digital citizen.","Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Digital Citizenship: Make It A Game - Level 4","In this activity students will use what was learned in the Level 4 Digital Citizenship module to show knowledge of the importance of being a good digital citizen and keeping a good digital footprint. Students will be able to create a game to best represent their knowledge of digital citizenship. Student work may include open-ended questions, correct/incorrect responses, a final product and/or self-assessment. An optional rubric is provided to assist in grading student products.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Safety: Texting Safety Discussion Reflection","Texting Safety: Teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concept of texting, emphasizing cell phone safety, netiquette, and cyber bullying.","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Vocabulary Introduction - Level 4","This animated video introduces students to the vocabulary terms and definitions related to information literacy.","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Vocabulary Practice - Level 4","In this interactive vocabulary practice, students match the information literacy vocabulary term with its definition.","Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Murphy's Bakery Blues - Level 4","In this engaging animated video, Murphy, the Hometown Café owner, introduces the learner to information literacy through an experience about how to use CARP for evaluating the source of information.","Instruction","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: C.A.R.P. Practice - Level 4","In this interactive practice, students will match evaluation questions with the correct step in the process of evaluating sources using CARP.","Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Evaluating Your Sources Part 1 - Level 4","In this two-part activity, students will apply their knowledge and skills related to information literacy by using the C.A.R.P. method to evaluate the source of a fake online post. Students will identify the fake sections and explain why they think it is fake. Finally, students complete an exit ticket activity to share what they think is the biggest danger in not evaluating online posts.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Evaluating Your Sources Part 2 - Level 4","In this two-part activity, students will apply their knowledge and skills related to information literacy by using the C.A.R.P. method to evaluate the source of a fake online post. Students will identify the fake sections and explain why they think it is fake. Finally, students complete an exit ticket activity to share what they think is the biggest danger in not evaluating online posts.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level 4 (Post)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level 4 (Post) evaluates 4th grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Begin the school year by walking students through how to create a digital portfolio. The lessons in this unit are spiraled from previous years to help set a firm foundation for safe, appropriate, responsible, and effective technology use throughout the year. Some assignments suggest sharing projects with the whole class, so plan accordingly."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Home Row","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in the area of basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the home row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",13]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row: Review Home Row","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Upper Row","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with the basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the upper row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture, and are provided a review of the home row keys in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",14]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row: Review Home Row G, H, E, O, R","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row & Upper Row - A, S, D, F, J, K, L, ;, G, H, E, O, R, I, T","This guided practice item covers the Home row and Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Lower Row","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice with the basic keyboarding techniques needed to type using the lower row keys. The learners will gain knowledge about proper finger placement and posture, and are provided a review of the home and upper row keys. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",13]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Shift Key","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice in keyboarding using the Shift key to type capital letters and symbols. The learners will use proper posture and finger placement, identify touch keys and reach keys, and type basic punctuation in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",11]
[null,"Keyboarding","Lower Row: Add Left Shift and Colon","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","Lower Row: Add Right Shift and C","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","Lower Row: Add Period","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Number Row","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with keyboarding techniques needed to type using the number row keys, proper finger placement and posture, and a review of the home, upper, and lower row keys. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Consider creating a group or a class just for keyboarding. After students complete their daily classwork, have them practice keyboarding and provide opportunities to practice keyboarding skills for fun and meaningful tasks. Having students type spelling or vocabulary words allows your students to apply their keyboarding skills in core subject areas. Remember that the skills focus for keyboarding should be technique and accuracy before words per minute."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Private and Personal Information","What information about you is OK to share online? It's in our student's nature to share and connect with others. But sharing online comes with some risks. How can we help kids build strong, positive, and safe relationships online? Help your students learn the difference between what's personal and what's best left private.","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level 4 (Pre)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level 4 (Pre) evaluates 4th grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Network Basics","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with networking concepts, such as LANs, WANs, and file format compatibility. They will gain knowledge about how to use remote equipment and review intellectual property in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Desktop","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using the desktop, working with files and folders, navigating file structures, moving and opening files and folders, and deleting files. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Windows and Controls","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with dialog boxes and options windows, making selections using check boxes, radio buttons, scroll bars, and dropdown menus, and controls to close, maximize, minimize, restore, and resize windows.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Toolbars and Menus","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice navigating program menus and using toolbars, recognizing and using symbols, properties, and online help, and understanding the connection between program menu icons and toolbar buttons.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Software and File Formats","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with software programs and file formats as they identify software groups, select task-appropriate software, start and exit software programs, and create, name, save, print, and close files in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: Devices and Compatibility Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand basic computer concepts such as input and output devices, networks, and compatibility.","Instruction","Independent",30]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Mobile Devices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with smartphones, tablets, phablets (larger phones), and applications, and understand how mobile devices connect to a wireless network, store information using cloud computing, and use GPS for tracking.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Compatibility","Students identify terms related to compatibility, evaluate computer platform issues and propose solutions.    ","Application","Guided",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level 4 (Post)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level 4 (Post) evaluates 4th grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.    ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - This is a good time to implement ‘tech buddies’ in your classroom to help struggling students when lessons are not mastered. Try to use the ‘talk, not touch’ or ‘point, not press’ approaches with your buddies so the learner retains control of his/her equipment.  "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level 4 (Pre)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level 4 (Pre) evaluates 4th grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.  ","Assessment  ","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Netiquette in Online Communications","In this animated video, Trey and two of his classmates are collaborating on their Virtual Science Fair project in a private chatroom when netiquette issues derail them from their task. The lesson introduces what netiquette is, why it’s important, and shows some of the negative sides of online communication.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Online Information Basics","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice browsing the Internet as they examine the difference between a web page and website, browse by following a series of hyperlinks, and learn to differentiate the Internet from the World Wide Web.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","My State Research","Students participate in electronic communities by visiting their state websites and finding information.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","A Creator's Rights and Responsibilities","What rights and responsibilities do you have as a creator? It's common for kids to use images they find online, for school projects or just for fun. But kids don't often understand which images are OK to use and which ones aren't. Help your students learn about the rights and responsibilities they have when it comes to the images they create and use. Note: Lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Sending Email Messages","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with online communication. They are introduced to email addresses and experience how to write and send email messages. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Email the President","Students will compose a message about a community issue to the President of the United States using a sample email program.    ","Application","Guided",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Responding to Email Messages","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with replying, forwarding, and deleting email messages as they use an email inbox, respond to multiple recipients simultaneously, and delete junk mail and old messages during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Using Digital Collaboration Tools","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using personal learning communities and digital environments as they use collaboration tools such as instant messaging and video conferencing to interact and share with their peers and experts.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level 4 (Post)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level 4 (Post) evaluates 4th grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.  ","Assessment  ","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  Remember to provide students with additional time each week to improve their keyboarding technique, accuracy, and speed through Adaptive Keyboarding. Now is a good time to remind students to save work products to their digital portfolio."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","My Media Choices","What makes a healthy media choice? We all make choices every day about the media we consume and create. But do kids understand what makes a media choice healthy or not? Hint: It's about more than just screen time. Use the activities in this lesson to give kids a framework for making informed media choices. Note: Lesson plan and resource available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level 4 (Pre)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level 4 (Pre) evaluates 4th grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Business Applications: Audience and Media Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concept of audience and how to use font, color, white space, and graphics to design documents for print- and screen-viewing.","Instruction  ","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating and Organizing Content","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice with using a word processing program to help with the writing process. The learners will gain knowledge about how to organize information, create lists, and insert pictures to better engage their audience.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",11]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Revising and Formatting","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice revising and formatting, as part of the writing process, while they use font style, color and size, paragraph alignment, spacing, page break, symbols, and moving text and images to enhance their document. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Formatting a Poem","Students will use a word processing program to format a poem. ","Application","Guided",20]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Editing and Proofreading Your Work","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice using a word processing program   as part of the writing process. Learners will edit and proofread text, check for spelling and grammar mistakes, and improve writing by using the thesaurus and word count tools.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Page Layout","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in styling a page layout while considering specific audiences by adjusting page size, setting margins and page orientation, formatting columns, and inserting page numbers. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Guidebook","Students write \"how to\" instructions and then format them into a guidebook.    ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Introduction to Desktop Publishing","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using more than one software application to create documents using text, graphics, and templates to enhance design and layout, creating checklists, and using print preview to evaluate work progress and final products in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Computer Rules Sign","Students use word processing software to create signs for the computer lab illustrating the rules in the acceptable use policy.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Cumulative Story","In groups, students use pictures as prompts to write creative stories.    ","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level 4 (Post)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level 4 (Post) evaluates 4th grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[]
[null,"  Tips & Suggestions - Provide your students with opportunities to publish their classroom writing in word processing documents and place copies in their technology portfolios. Encourage students to illustrate their writing with digital or hand drawn art. Help students to understand that being aware of their audience goes beyond projects to their every day communications."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title",null,null,"Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Keeping Games Fun and Friendly","How can I be positive and have fun while playing online games, and help others do the same? Social interaction is part of what makes online gaming so popular and engaging for kids. Of course, online communication can come with some risks. Show your students how to keep their gaming experiences fun, healthy, and positive.","Instruction","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level 4 (Pre)","Presentations Skills Check - Level 4 (Pre) evaluates 4th grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Audience and Organization","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners will receive direct instruction and practice organizing and developing a slide show using presentation software. They learn how to consider the audience and the purpose of the slide show to tell stories, present information, and share ideas. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Composing Slides","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice composing slides using presentation software as they consider and use design elements, layouts, backgrounds, text, images, and white space to create and modify engaging slide shows.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Life Slideshow Booklet","Students create a booklet of slides about themselves using presentation software.    ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Enhancing Slides","The learners receive direct instruction and practice enhancing presentation slides to communicate their voice to an audience. They learn to choose and use effective color palettes, apply color and formatting to text, draw and customize objects, and add animation and sound in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Evaluating and Presenting","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with enhancing and editing a slideshow before presenting to an audience. They will edit and organize slides, use tools to add consistent and appropriate transitions, and evaluate their work before presenting in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Business Applications","Tourism Guide","Students form a group and create slideshow presentations about geographical locations of their choice.    ","Application","Small Groups",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Tourism Guide (Presentations)",null,"Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level 4 (Post)","Presentations Skills Check - Level 4 (Post) evaluates 4th grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[]
[null," Tips & Suggestions - Student-created presentations are a great way to integrate technology with core content subject areas. Have students utilize their new skills to create a presentation about something they are learning in language arts, math, science, or social studies and use that presentation as review for the class. Be sure to keep copies of students' final products to add to their portfolio!"]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Our Online Tracks","How does our online activity affect the digital footprints of ourselves and others? Your digital footprint can affect your online reputation for a long time. But kids don't always realize that digital footprints aren't just a personal matter. Show your students how they can contribute to a positive digital reputation, both for themselves and for others. Note: Lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level 4 (Pre)","Computational Thinking - Level 4 (Pre) evaluates 4th grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Algorithms","As part of computational thinking, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using algorithms to solve a problem, make a decision, or accomplish a task. They will analyze a situation, create an algorithm to solve the problem, test for reliability and accuracy, and understand that computers use algorithms, called programs, to complete tasks or help solve problems. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Modeling","As part of computational thinking, learners receive direct instruction and practice using models to represent a process, data, or solutions. They will organize information using simulations and prototypes, develop and test algorithms, and define solutions. They are introduced to binary language, how digital tools use this language, and the importance of algorithms in computer programming.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Bedroom Blueprint","A crucial component of computational thinking is building and understanding models. In this application exercise, students utilize two methods of modeling to create their ideal bedroom.    ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level 4 (Post)","Computational Thinking - Level 4 (Post) evaluates 4th grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  When students finish their work with class time remaining, encourage them to open skill mode in the EasyCode map and complete unlocked challenges. This is the perfect time of year to put together mini-projects in core subject areas which end in digital publication to highlight each student's entire year of learning."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level 4 (Pre)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level 4 (Pre) evaluates 4th grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Pie Charts","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with pie charts in a spreadsheet program. They will use data found in a spreadsheet to create and label pie charts, then practice reading and interpreting data found in a pie chart during this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Bar Charts","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice as the learners work with bar charts in a spreadsheet program. They will use data found in a spreadsheet to create and label bar charts, then practice reading and interpreting data found in a bar chart. ","Instruction","Independent",11]
[null,"Business Applications","Classroom Measurements","Students estimate the length of common classroom items, measure the actual items, and record both sets of data in a spreadsheet to compare.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Line Charts","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice as the learners work with line charts in a spreadsheet program. They will use data found in a spreadsheet to create and label line charts, then practice reading and interpreting data found in a line chart. ","Instruction","Independent",8]
[null,"Business Applications","Weekly Reading Graph","Students will keep track of how many pages they read in a week and display that data in a line graph.   \n","Application","Guided  ",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Using Formulas to Add and Subtract","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners will receive direct instruction and practice adding and subtracting data using formulas in spreadsheet tables. Learners will experience using cell names and addresses to create formulas, entering data in a cell, and using the sum command.","Instruction","Independent",13]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Using Formulas to Multiply and Divide","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners will receive direct instruction and practice multiplying and dividing data using formulas in spreadsheet tables. Learners will experience using cell names and addresses to create formulas and entering data and numerical formulas in a cell. ","Instruction","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Grocery Store Spreadsheet","Students will use a spreadsheet to calculate how many of certain items to buy in order to maintain a budget.","Application","Guided",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Copying Formulas and Functions","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice with copying and pasting formulas in spreadsheets. Learners will use functions and gain additional experience working with formulas and tables.","Instruction","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Camping Supplies Spreadsheet","Based on supplies needed for a camping trip, students create and perform calculations in a spreadsheet.   ","Application","Guided",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Performing Searches and Filtering Data","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice searching online databases with keywords as they perform a category search, apply a simple filter, and explore how database searches can help solve information needs in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",11]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Search and Filter Journal","Students use an Internet search engine to research three bodies of water, choosing among rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans. They then create Activity Cards using the information they find and play a \"filtering\" game with the cards to exemplify how a database filters information.    ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Sort and Filter","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice organizing data and finding information in a database as they sort data in both ascending and descending orders, and sort filtered data.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Sort and Filter Journal","Using a database program, students enter information about their favorite book(s) into a classroom database and then sort and filter the data to find specific information.  ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Planning and Building a Database","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in planning and building a database. They will create a form, start a new file, create, edit, and define fields, and review, edit, and delete data.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",18]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Database Creation Journal","Students go on a scavenger hunt to observe different types of transportation signs. They enter the information into a datasheet and modify the datasheet daily based on the signs they find and the criteria they use to describe them.    ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Designing Queries and Reports","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice designing basic queries as they query data to find answers, save queries for future use, and share data by creating and printing reports.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Queries and Reports Journal","Students use the information they gathered for the EasyTech Database Creation Lesson to run queries and create reports that will be shared and evaluated by peer teams.    ","Application","Guided",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level 4 (Post)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level 4 (Post) evaluates 4th grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.  ","Assessment  ","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Discuss with students how computational thinking can impact the way you design, create, and use a database. Have students practice entering data to create databases based on content being studied in core curriculum, physical education, or other classes."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Be A Super Digital Citizen","How can we be upstanders when we see cyberbullying? Online tools are empowering for kids, and they also come with big responsibilities. But do kids always know what to do when they encounter cyberbullying? Show your students appropriate ways to take action and resolve conflicts, from being upstanders to helping others in need.","Instruction","Independent",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety Presentation","Students will create an online safety presentation to remind students about how to stay safe online during the summer.    ","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety Presentation (Presentations)",null,"Application","Whole Group"]
[null,null,"Technology Showcase (Optional)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.  ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Online safety is important to revisit at the end of the year to remind students that they need to be smart when online - whether at home or at school. Provide parents with resources to help them keep their students safe online, like the 'Parent Online Safety Guide' linked below. Host an in-person or virtual technology showcase to share student work to wrap up the school year and provide students and parents with ideas for continuing to practice their digital literacy skills during the summer. "]
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[null,"EasyTech Curriculum Map - 5th Grade"]
[null,"2022-2023"]
[]
[null,"This Curriculum Map provides a suggested order of assignments for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum in your classroom. For planning purposes, it is recommended that approximately 45 minutes of digital literacy curriculum is delivered each week through whole group, independent, or guided practice implementation models."]
[]
[null,"Prior to beginning the school year, it is recommended that you create student technology portfolios (digital or print) to provide students with a way to share their learning. The portfolio may include EasyTech certificates, reports, and application exercise entries and work products. Pictures are a great way to show your students in the learning process and can be used at the end of the year for a class slideshow or technology showcase."]
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[null,"Remember to provide students with time each week to improve their keyboarding technique, accuracy, and speed through Adaptive Keyboarding after they have completed the keyboarding lessons and guided practice exercises."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level 5 (Pre)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level 5 (Pre) evaluates 5th grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","3-5 Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Introduction Video","This engaging unit introduction video introduces students to what they will be learning about during the Online Safety and Digital Citizenship unit. ","Instruction","Independent",3]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Vocabulary Introduction - Level 5","This animated video introduces students to the vocabulary terms and definitions related to cyberbullying.","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Vocabulary Practice - Level 5","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of Cyberbullying vocabulary terms and definitions.","Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: The Quack Attack - Level 5","In this engaging animated video, Sal accidentally takes part in cyberbullying his friend Opal. She explains her feelings and the two come to understand that cyberbullying takes many forms.","Instruction","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Banter vs Bully - Level 5","In this interactive practice, students practice identifying the difference between friendly banter and harmful cyberbullying. ","Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Cyberbullying: Keeping the School Community Safe - Level 5","In this activity, students will apply their knowledge and skills related to cyberbullying by creating a school wide campaign about the importance of understanding and dealing with cyberbullying.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Acceptable Use Policies Discussion Reflection","In this discussion, teachers use the discussion points to introduce students to EasyTech as well as usernames and passwords, online help, acceptable use policies, and intellectual property.","Discussion","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Vocabulary Introduction - Level 5","This animated video introduces students to the vocabulary terms and definitions related to Digital Citizenship. ","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Digital Citizenship: Vocabulary Practice - Level 5","In this interactive learning experience, students improve their knowledge of digital citizenship vocabulary terms and definitions.","Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Digital Citizenship: Bean There, Done That - Level 5","In this engaging animated video, Mayor Naise explores the benefits and downsides of being a digital citizen in the modern world. He defines and provides examples for malware, viruses, phishing, and more.","Instruction","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Digital Citizenship: Unpacking Hacking - Level 5","In this interactive practice, students will be presented with questions regarding digital citizenship. They will tackle the positive and negative aspects of being online as well as identify suspicious online situations.","Practice","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Digital Citizenship: Security Spotlight on Hackers - Level 5","In this Application Exercise, students will apply their knowledge and skills related to digital citizenship by creating a DC (digital citizenship) Superhero poster about the importance of protecting themselves and others against malware, viruses, phishing and more.","Application","Guided",35]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Safety: Texting Safety Discussion & Reflection","Texting Safety: Teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concept of texting, emphasizing cell phone safety, netiquette, and cyber bullying.","Discussion","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Vocabulary Intro - Level 5","This animated video introduces students to the vocabulary terms and definitions related to information literacy. ","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Vocab Practice - Level 5","In this interactive vocabulary practice, students match the information literacy vocabulary term with its definition.","Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Opal's Online Post - Level 5","In this engaging animated video, Opal introduces the learner to the importance of information literacy through an experience she had posting online about the new biscuit from the Hometown Café. ","Instruction","Independent",5]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: C.A.R.P. Is On Your Side","In this interactive practice, students will watch a video and apply the C.A.R.P. method to answer embedded questions. ","Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Bad Information Can Take A Hike! Part 1","In this two-part activity, students will apply their knowledge and skills related to information literacy by creating fake posts about the importance of evaluating information they find online. ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Information Literacy: Bad Information Can Take A Hike! Part 2","In this two-part activity, students will apply their knowledge and skills related to information literacy by creating fake posts about the importance of evaluating information they find online. ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level 5 (Post)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level 5 (Post) evaluates 5th grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Creating a portfolio will provide students with a way to collect their work in one digital location. The curriculum for this unit is spiraled from previous years to help set a firm foundation for safe, appropriate, responsible, and effective technology use throughout the year. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Discussion","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level 5 (Pre)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level 5 (Pre) evaluates 5th grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: Devices and Compatibility Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand basic computer concepts such as input and output devices, networks, and compatibility.","Discussion","Whole Group",30]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Mobile Devices","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with smartphones, tablets, phablets (larger phones), and applications, and understand how mobile devices connect to a wireless network, store information using cloud computing, and use GPS for tracking.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Technology Devices","Students choose and describe how three technology devices perform input, output, and processing functions.    Application Exercises give students an opportunity to apply concepts they have learned in previous instruction. Work completed by a student will be graded through a variety of scoring options including participation and teacher assessment via rubric to provide flexibility with the type of grade sent to the Learning Management System (LMS) gradebook. Student work may include open-ended questions, correct/incorrect responses, a final product and/or self-assessment.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Basic Components","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in computer basics as they understand names and functions of basic components such as processor, input, output, and storage devices, and differentiate between analog and digital information.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Software, Buttons, and Controls","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice related to various types of software. The learners will gain knowledge about types of software, how to select the appropriate software to complete a task, and how to use the buttons and controls found in software.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Using Program Menus and Toolbars","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with toolbars and program menus as they use the help tool to understand how to perform a task in a program, use the toolbar for common tasks, open programs and create, print, and save documents in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Navigating Ribbon Interfaces","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using the ribbon interface in software including the applications button, help tool, tabs and labels, commands and groups found on each tab, dialog box, shortcuts, and setting up quick access buttons in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level 5 (Post)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level 5 (Post) evaluates 5th grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice their keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. Having students also type spelling or vocabulary words allows your students to apply their keyboarding skills in core subject areas.       "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Discussion","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level 5 (Pre)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level 5 (Pre)  evaluates 5th grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Browsing on the Internet","The learners receive direct instruction and practice finding information on the World Wide Web. They gain understanding about the characteristics of websites, web pages, and browsers, using URLs to navigate, and dialog boxes to download files and software from the internet during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: URLs and Websites","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice identifying the source and purpose of a URL, using bookmarks to save links for future reference, troubleshooting basic error messages, and displaying web pages through HTML.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Web Searches","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with effective Internet search strategies. They will learn to use keywords, search phrases, truncation, and evaluate the relevance of search result information. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Validity and Sourcing","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with website credibility, information privacy, copyright, fair use, and sourcing as they safely log in to sites with restricted access and use critical thinking to determine the validity of online information in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",20]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Reading News Online","What are the important parts of an online news article? Kids find and read news in lots of different ways. But studies show they're not very good at interpreting what they see. How can we help them get better? Teaching your students about the structure of online news articles is an important place to start.","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Home Sweet Home","Students are given a scenario about a family looking for a new place to live. They research different cities in different regions in the United States to determine which area would make the best home for the family.","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Netiquette in Online Communications","In this animated video, Trey and two of his classmates are collaborating on their Virtual Science Fair project in a private chatroom when netiquette issues derail them from their task. The lesson introduces what netiquette is, why it’s important, and shows some of the negative sides of online communication.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",7]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Using Digital Collaboration Tools","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using personal learning communities and digital environments as they use collaboration tools such as instant messaging and video conferencing to interact and share with their peers and experts.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Sending Email Messages","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with online communication. They are introduced to email addresses and experience how to write and send email messages. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Responding to Email Messages","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with replying, forwarding, and deleting email messages as they use an email inbox, respond to multiple recipients simultaneously, and delete junk mail and old messages during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Communicating with Instant Messaging","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice collaborating via instant messaging (IM) as they communicate clearly, safely, and successfully online, use proper netiquette and responsible Internet safety practices during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Reading and Writing Blogs","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using critical thinking skills as they use Web logs to communicate ideas effectively, read and write blogs, and practice responsible use of blog information and software.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",18]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Communicating with Podcasts","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice planning, producing, and promoting podcasts as they recognize ethos, pathos, and logos in speech, effectively communicate ideas to an audience, and use podcasts to produce other creative works. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Digital Citizenship: Online Status Message Basics Discussion Reflection","Teachers use discussion points to talk about online safety rules for using online status messages on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.","Discussion","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Sharing on a Community Site","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice sharing information on community sites as they use productivity tools for collaboration, produce visual images and messages based on their audience, and practice ethical use of technology.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level 5 (Post)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level 5 (Post) evaluates 5th grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - It is important to remind students that they need to be careful when online - whether at home or at school. When students finish their work with class time remaining, encourage them to utilize Adaptive Keyboarding to improve their technique, accuracy and speed. Now is a good time to remind students to save work products to their digital portfolio."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Is It Cyberbullying?","What is cyberbullying and what can you do to stop it? Let's face it: Some online spaces can be full of negative, rude, or downright mean behavior. But what counts as cyberbullying? Help your students learn what is -- and what isn't -- cyberbullying, and give them the tools they'll need to combat the problem.","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level 5 (Pre)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level 5 (Pre) evaluates 5th grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Business Applications: Audience and Media Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concept of audience and how to use font, color, white space, and graphics to design documents for print- and screen-viewing.","Discussion","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating and Organizing Content","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice with using a word processing program to help with the writing process. The learners will gain knowledge about how to organize information, create lists, and insert pictures to better engage their audience.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",11]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Revising and Formatting","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice revising and formatting, as part of the writing process, while they use font style, color and size, paragraph alignment, spacing, page break, symbols, and moving text and images to enhance their document. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Informational Interview","Student will decide on a topic relating to a community problem in his or her hometown, interview two people who have ideas for solutions, transcribe the interview notes using a word processing program and compare and contrast the solutions.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Editing and Proofreading Your Work","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice using a word processing program   as part of the writing process. Learners will edit and proofread text, check for spelling and grammar mistakes, and improve writing by using the thesaurus and word count tools.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Page Layout","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in styling a page layout while considering specific audiences by adjusting page size, setting margins and page orientation, formatting columns, and inserting page numbers. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Creating a Newsletter","Students work in small groups to create and format newletters. ","Application","Small Groups",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Proofreading and Correcting - Level 2","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides practice applying proofreading skills while using a word processor. The learners will complete four focused exercises that require them to find and correct errors in spelling (using a spell checker), punctuation, capitalization, and homonyms. ","Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Introduction to Desktop Publishing","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using more than one software application to create documents using text, graphics, and templates to enhance design and layout, creating checklists, and using print preview to evaluate work progress and final products in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Create a Set of Instructions","Students tap creativity and show their understanding of technology by developing instructions to help Grade 2 students create an \"All About Me\" page using available technology tools. To inform their design decisions, they analyze data about the Grade 2 student skills. The project includes: - Instructions that Grade 2 students can use to create an \"All About Me\" page - A reflective description of their ideas, decisions, reasoning, and problems and solutions as they created the instructions.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level 5 (Post)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level 5 (Post) evaluates 5th grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Provide students with opportunities to publish their classroom writing in word processing documents along with digital or hand drawn art that illustrates their writing. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice their keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Digital Friendships","How do you keep online friendships safe? Kids make friends everywhere they go -- including online. But are all of these friendships the same? How can kids start online friendships and also learn ways to stay safe? Help your students understand both the benefits and the risks of online-only friendships. Note: Lesson plan & resources available. ","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level 5 (Pre)","Presentations Skills Check - Level 5 (Pre) evaluates 5th grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Audience and Organization","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners will receive direct instruction and practice organizing and developing a slide show using presentation software. They learn how to consider the audience and the purpose of the slide show to tell stories, present information, and share ideas. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Composing Slides","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice composing slides using presentation software as they consider and use design elements, layouts, backgrounds, text, images, and white space to create and modify engaging slide shows.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Enhancing Slides","The learners receive direct instruction and practice enhancing presentation slides to communicate their voice to an audience. They learn to choose and use effective color palettes, apply color and formatting to text, draw and customize objects, and add animation and sound in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Evaluating and Presenting","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with enhancing and editing a slideshow before presenting to an audience. They will edit and organize slides, use tools to add consistent and appropriate transitions, and evaluate their work before presenting in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",9]
[null,"Business Applications","Natural Resources Presentation","Students create a presentation about a natural resource for two different audiences.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Natural Resources Presentation (Presentations)",null,"Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level 5 (Post)","Presentations Skills Check - Level 5 (Post) evaluates 5th grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null," Tips & Suggestions - Student-created presentations are a great way to integrate technology with core content subject areas. Have students utilize their new skills to create a presentation about something they are learning in language arts, math, science or social studies and then use the presentation as review for the class."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level 5 (Pre)","Computational Thinking - Level 5 (Pre) evaluates 5th grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Modeling","As part of computational thinking, learners receive direct instruction and practice using models to represent a process, data, or solutions. They will organize information using simulations and prototypes, develop and test algorithms, and define solutions. They are introduced to binary language, how digital tools use this language, and the importance of algorithms in computer programming.","Instruction","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Bedroom Blueprint","A crucial component of computational thinking is building and understanding models. In this application exercise, students utilize two methods of modeling to create their ideal bedroom.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level 5 (Post)","Computational Thinking - Level 5 (Post) evaluates 5th grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - If your students are new to computational thinking, utilize the lesson on algorithms to begin the unit. When students finish their work with class time remaining, encourage them to open skill mode in the EasyCode map and complete unlocked challenges."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* You Won't Believe This","What is clickbait and how can you avoid it? The internet is full of catchy headlines and outrageous images, all to make us curious and get our attention. But kids don't usually realize: What you click on isn't always what you get. Show your students the best ways to avoid clickbait online.","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level 5 (Pre)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level 5 (Pre) evaluates 5th grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Pie Charts","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with pie charts in a spreadsheet program. They will use data found in a spreadsheet to create and label pie charts, then practice reading and interpreting data found in a pie chart during this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Bar Charts","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice as the learners work with bar charts in a spreadsheet program. They will use data found in a spreadsheet to create and label bar charts, then practice reading and interpreting data found in a bar chart. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",11]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Line Charts","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice as the learners work with line charts in a spreadsheet program. They will use data found in a spreadsheet to create and label line charts, then practice reading and interpreting data found in a line chart. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Business Applications","Mixtures and Solutions","Students observe physical properties of solutions and mixtures, and then create and interpret graphs about specific samples.","Application","Guided   ",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Using Formulas to Add and Subtract","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners will receive direct instruction and practice adding and subtracting data using formulas in spreadsheet tables. Learners will experience using cell names and addresses to create formulas, entering data in a cell, and using the sum command.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",13]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Using Formulas to Multiply and Divide","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, learners will receive direct instruction and practice multiplying and dividing data using formulas in spreadsheet tables. Learners will experience using cell names and addresses to create formulas and entering data and numerical formulas in a cell. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Bake Sale Spreadsheet","Students create a table of bake sale information and calculate totals using formulas in a spreadsheet.","Application","Guided",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Copying Formulas and Functions","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice with copying and pasting formulas in spreadsheets. Learners will use functions and gain additional experience working with formulas and tables.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Planning and Building a Database","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in planning and building a database. They will create a form, start a new file, create, edit, and define fields, and review, edit, and delete data.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",18]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Database Creation Journal","Students go on a scavenger hunt to observe different types of transportation signs. They enter the information into a datasheet and modify the datasheet daily based on the signs they find and the criteria they use to describe them.    ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Designing Queries and Reports","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice designing basic queries as they query data to find answers, save queries for future use, and share data by creating and printing reports.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",10]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Queries and Reports Journal","Students use the information they gathered for the EasyTech Database Creation Lesson to run queries and create reports that will be shared and evaluated by peer teams.    ","Application","Guided",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level 5 (Post)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level 5 (Post) evaluates 5th grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Have students practice entering data to create spreadsheets, build charts, and produce graphs based on content being studied in core curriculum, physical education, or other classes to show how the data is represented."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Finding My Media Balance","What does media balance mean for me? Helping kids learn what makes different media choices healthy or not is a good start. But how do we help them actually make responsible choices in the real world? Give your students the opportunity to create a personalized media plan.","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Onlin Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Summer Online Safety PSA","Students will work in groups to create a PSA (Public Service Announcement) to remind students about how to stay safe online during the summer.","Application","Small Group",120]
[null,"Onlin Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety PSA (Presentations)"]
[null,"Onlin Safety & Digital Citizenship","Update Student Portfolios"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: The Great Keyboarding Adventure","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Online safety is important to revisit at the end of the year to remind students that they need to be smart when online - whether at home or at school. Provide parents with resources to help them keep their students safe online, like the 'Parent Online Safety Guide' linked below. Host an in-person or virtual technology showcase to share student work to wrap up the school year and provide students and parents with ideas for continuing to practice their digital literacy skills during the summer. "]
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[null,"EasyTech Curriculum Map - 6th Grade"]
[null,"2022-2023"]
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[null,"This Curriculum Map provides a suggested order of assignments for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum in your classroom. For planning purposes, it is recommended that approximately 115 minutes of digital literacy curriculum is delivered each week through whole group, independent, or guided practice implementation models."]
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[null,"Prior to beginning the school year, it is recommended that you create student technology portfolios (digital or print) to provide students with a way to share their learning. The portfolio may include EasyTech certificates, reports, and application exercise entries and work products. Pictures are a great way to show your students in the learning process and can be used at the end of the year for a class slideshow or technology showcase."]
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[null,"Remember to provide students with time each week to improve their keyboarding technique, accuracy, and speed through Adaptive Keyboarding after they have completed keyboarding lessons and guided practice exercises."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Dealing with Cyberbullying","The learners receive direct instruction and practice dealing with cyberbullying as they understand how to treat everyone with respect, avoid gossip, and the effects of cyberbullying. Learners are introduced to privacy settings and blocking messages as a way to respond to cyberbullies, and who to reach out to for help in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Digital Citizenship","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in digital citizenship and responsible use of technology. They learn about digital footprints, the importance of privacy settings and creating a strong password and how to avoid websites that ask for personal information in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Getting Started","Creating a Portfolio","Students create a portfolio that includes technology projects and a corresponding checklist.","Application","Whole Group",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Creating a portfolio will provide students with a way to collect their work in one digital location. This unit helps set a firm foundation for safe, appropriate, responsible, and effective technology use throughout the year. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Healthy Computing Discussion Reflection","Computer addiction, ergonomics, preventing Repetitive Motion Injuries (RMI), effects of sleep deprivation: Teachers use discussion points to introduce students to the concept of using computers and technology in a healthy way, addressing topics such as addictive behaviors, effects of excessive computer use on other areas of life, and risks of ergonomic-related injuries. The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning. ","Instruction","Whole Group",35]
[null,"Keyboarding","Lower Row: Add Right Shift and C ","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","A: Lazy Days","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","S: A Wax Axe","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","D: Dad Does Deeds","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","F: Fred Raved","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","G: Green Tiger","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","H: Henry's Hill","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","J: Jake's Jars","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","K: Kelly Keeps","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","L: Lord Lillian","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Lower Row: Add Left Shift and Colon ","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Q: Quills Quip","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","W: Wally Waxes","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","E: Ed Eats Emu","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","R: Rita Writes","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","T: Tina's Trench","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Y: Flying Fly","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","U: Ugly Mule","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","I: Ike Likes Ice","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","O: Wooly Todd","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","P: Pip Pop","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row: Review Home Row G, H, E, O, R","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home, Upper & Lower Row: Mike the Spy","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home, Upper & Lower Row: Spoons and Oars","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home, Upper & Lower Row: Yes and No","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row & Upper Row - A, S, D, F, J, K, L, ;, G, H, E, O, R, I, T","This guided practice item covers the Home row and Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Keyboarding","Z: Zed's Quiz","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","X: Lex's Axe","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","C: Racing Aces","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","V: Very Viv","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","B: Big Bill","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","N: Nora Nags","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","M: Major Jam","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home, Upper & Lower Row: Cool Eels","This guided practice item covers the Home, Upper and Lower row skill areas. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 0 Soil Bags","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 1 Quip and Quay","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 2 Wax Away","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 3 Red Deers","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 4 More","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 5 Great Fevers","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 6 May Try","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 7 Joyful Hymns","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 8 Poi Plates","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 9 Poison Spines","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","'-: Lolo's Pop","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","; : Paul's Position","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - It is recommended that keyboarding should be practiced throughout the year for 15-30 minutes at least twice per week to help students build their skills through technique, accuracy, and speed.                 Note:  Adaptive Keyboarding can be found on the student map and in the Arcade. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Basic Components","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in computer basics as they understand names and functions of basic components such as processor, input, output, and storage devices, and differentiate between analog and digital information.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Using Program Menus and Toolbars","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with toolbars and program menus as they use the help tool to understand how to perform a task in a program, use the toolbar for common tasks, open programs and create, print, and save documents in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Creating Program Menus","Students create program menus and toolbars for an imaginary computer program.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Operating Systems and Browsing","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the area of operating systems and browsing as they gain knowledge about computer and mobile device operating systems, graphical user interfaces, icons, apps, and how to find files and folders.  ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Software, Buttons, and Controls","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice related to various types of software. The learners will gain knowledge about types of software, how to select the appropriate software to complete a task, and how to use the buttons and controls found in software.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Navigating Ribbon Interfaces","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using the ribbon interface in software including the applications button, help tool, tabs and labels, commands and groups found on each tab, dialog box, shortcuts, and setting up quick access buttons in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","It's a Good Life","Students poll other students to learn specific ways students think their day-to-day lives could be improved. Using this information, they create \"Good Life\" software interfaces with custom toolbar buttons and menus, and then a custom ribbon interface, positioning the same commands into appropriate ribbon tabs and groups. Students are given time to explain their choices, including how their interface tools compare and how their software would help improve daily lives.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: Input, Output, and Files Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concepts of computer fundamentals such as input, output, and processing devices, analog vs. digital information, storage devices, and file formats.","Instruction  ","Whole Group",30]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware and Software Fundamentals: Networking","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice related to the basic components and functions of a network as they gain knowledge about file sharing and storage, compatibility, and ethical use of networks. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Mobile Devices are Technology To Go","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) that have built-in browsers, apps, and connect to a wireless computer or cell phone network. Learners are introduced to in-app purchases and ad-supported apps, limiting push notifications, and reviewing the terms, privacy policies, and practices of all apps.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware and Software Fundamentals: Computing in the Cloud","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with cloud computing as they explore what cloud computing is and understand that cloud services can automatically synchronize and save data across multiple devices. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Prep for Online Learning","Troubleshooting Basics for Online Learning","In this animated video, Trey and Summer help fellow classmates and a teacher troubleshoot some technical problems related to the virtual classroom. Topics include no internet, no audio and downloading software.","Instruction","Independent",6]
[null,"Prep for Online Learning","Virtual Classroom Meetings","In this animated video, Trey introduces the learner to video conferencing and how to prepare for and participate in virtual classroom meetings using available software and hardware tools.","Instruction","Independent",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Finding Balance in a Digital World","How do we balance digital media use in our lives? We use digital media every day, from texting, streaming TV shows, and gaming all the way to using voice assistants or ordering our food online. For today's kids, it's a lot more than just \"screen time.\" So how can we help students balance their online and offline lives? It starts with recognizing just how much media we use.    This engaging video-based instructional item is from the Finding Balance in a Digital World lesson and is intended for independent learning. ","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G78:G94)","v":426}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice their keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Browsing on the Internet","The learners receive direct instruction and practice finding information on the World Wide Web. They gain understanding about the characteristics of websites, web pages, and browsers, using URLs to navigate, and dialog boxes to download files and software from the internet during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: URLs and Websites","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice identifying the source and purpose of a URL, using bookmarks to save links for future reference, troubleshooting basic error messages, and displaying web pages through HTML.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Web Searches","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with effective Internet search strategies. They will learn to use keywords, search phrases, truncation, and evaluate the relevance of search result information. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Validity and Sourcing","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with website credibility, information privacy, copyright, fair use, and sourcing as they safely log in to sites with restricted access and use critical thinking to determine the validity of online information in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",20]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Finding Credible News","How do we find credible information on the internet? The web is full of questionable stuff, from rumors and inaccurate information to outright lies and so-called fake news. So how do we help students weed out the bad and find what's credible? Help students dig into why and how false information ends up online in the first place, and then practice evaluating the credibility of what they're finding online.","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Validating Information","Students brainstorm and use methods to evaluate electronic information for validity, accuracy, and to resolve conflicts.","Application","Guided",120]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Don't Feed the Phish","How can you protect yourself from phishing? Internet scams are part of being online today, but many kids might not be aware of them. How do we help our students avoid being tricked into clicking malicious links or giving out private information? Use this lesson to help kids avoid online identity theft and phishing schemes.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Online Ethics Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concepts of online ethics, including acceptable use policies, copyright laws, computer hacking, piracy, intentional virus setting, and invasion of privacy. The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning.","Instruction","Whole Group",35]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Ethical Use of Digital Resources","The learners receive direct instruction and practice identifying reliable, valid online information, accurately citing resources, identifying sources within the public domain or covered by creative commons, and requesting permission to create a derivative work in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Navigating the World Wide Web","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice navigating a website's URL, bookmarking a website for faster future access, and troubleshooting page errors and Internet connectivity issues as they use webpages.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Effective Search Strategies","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using search engines as they search with keywords and phrases relevant to desired results, navigate search results to find and validate specific information, and properly cite web-based content.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Let's Take a Trip","In this lesson, students will use Internet search tools to research and plan a trip to a destination of their choice.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Chatting Safely Online","How do you chat safely with people you meet online? Games, social media, and other online spaces give kids opportunities to meet and chat with others outside the confines of their real-life communities. But how well do kids actually know the people they're meeting and interacting with? Help students consider whom they're talking to and the types of information they're sharing online.    This engaging video-based instructional item is from the Chatting Safely Online lesson and is intended for independent learning. ","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Online Safety: Texting Safety Discussion Reflection","Texting Safety: Teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concept of texting, emphasizing cell phone safety, netiquette, and cyber bullying.","Instruction","Whole Group",35]
[null,"Prep for Online Learning","* Netiquette in Online Communications","In this animated video, Trey and two of his classmates are collaborating on their Virtual Science Fair project in a private chatroom when netiquette issues derail them from their task. The lesson introduces what netiquette is, why it’s important, and shows some of the negative sides of online communication.","Instruction","Independent",7]
[null,"Prep for Online Learning","Commenting in the Virtual Classroom","In this animated video, Trey introduces the learner to an online classroom, his class message board, the right ways to leave comments online, and what to do if you see someone cyberbullying.","Instruction","Independent",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Online Personal Communication","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice safely and responsibly using personal online communication tools for collaboration, such as email, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), instant messaging, and private chats.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","A Personal Approach to Effective Online Communication","Learning to use the Internet effectively benefits each individual who chooses to go online. In this application exercise, you will find essential strategies to yield the greatest benefit during your online communication. Specifically, you will learn the basics of utilizing proper email etiquette when preparing email to send to others as well as how to distinguish between safe and unsafe online communication.","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Using Personal Learning Networks","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice creating and using personal learning networks as they use digital tools like blogs, wikis, and audio/video communication to collaborate with peers and experts, and understand the value of connectivism in learning in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Career Exploration","Students choose a possible career and create a presentation that explores the characteristics of that career.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Career Exploration (Presentations)","Students deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G101:G124)","v":797}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Facilitate a discussion with students about the various ways they communicate online and how it has impacted their in-person communication. Help students understand that learning to communicate with an audience (whether online or in-person) is an important skill that students will use throughout their life. Remind students to add their work to their portfolio. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Overview of Basic Skills","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners organize a script as they receive direct instruction and practice with word processing skills. They will locate and open recent documents, copy, cut, paste, save, print, and use the bold, italic, and underline buttons to emphasize text.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating Professional Documents","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using proofreading and organization tools to make professional documents. They will check for and correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors, include page numbers and bullets, and utilize auto-correct in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Put Word Processing to Work for You!","Students work in groups to review a submission to the school newspaper, making formatting and editing recommendations. This scenario challenges students to apply their knowledge of basic word-processing formatting techniques. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson \"Functions and Formats.\"    ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Flyer Print Design","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson as they format a flyer by importing an image, using the sizing tool, applying text wrap and text justification, inserting tab stops and a table, and creating visual contrast with font styles and sizes.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Tools of the Trade","When people create posters, flyers, or other documents on the computer, they want them to look nice. Not only do the right font and image size make a document look more appealing, they also make it easier for people to read and understand the information that the document contains. In this lesson, students will pay attention to specific text and image formatting techniques as they create hypothetical welcome packets designed to provide valuable information to visitors of their town. ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Visual Design","Through direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will use color, vertical alignment, page layout, indents, margins, borders, and orientation in the design of websites, magazines, book covers, and logos to impact a reader's interpretation of information.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Newsletter","Students work in small groups to create and format newsletters.","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Formatting Essays Using MLA","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using a word processor to format essays following MLA guidelines. They will use proper spacing to enhance readability, understand the difference between headers and footers, cite sources, and create a bibliography in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Avoiding Plagiarism","Plagiarism is a serious issue in schools today, especially with the widespread availability of information on the Internet. In this lesson, students will learn the importance of properly citing work and be able to recognize when a citation is incorrect.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating Original Works","Through this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in the area of applying existing knowledge and skills to generate new ideas, products, or processes, and to create original works.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Know and Show","Students choose a digital tool to research. They start by documenting what they already know about the tool and what questions they have. They then research the tool and organize their information in order to write a how-to guide to pass on the learning to another classmate. ","Application","Guided",35]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Provide students with opportunities to publish their classroom writing in word processing documents along with digital or hand-drawn art that illustrates their writing. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. Be sure to take time to add student products to their portfolio."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Presentations Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Basic Slide Show Elements","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using basic presentation software tools and elements, such as text and graphics, to design an eye-catching and easy-to-read presentation. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Enhanced Presentations with Basic Elements","In this lesson, students will modify an existing presentation about area and volume to include a sharp design and engaging elements. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson Presentation: Basic Elements video. ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Consistency and Visual Design","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using a variety of presentation tools with consistent design elements and themes to ensure a slide show presentation looks professional and conveys information in a focused and interesting way. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Consistency and Good Visual Design in Presentations","What makes an ordinary presentation extraordinary? Students will incorporate elements of good visual design and consistency in creating an effective presentation using slide presentation software. They will learn to use consistent font types and sizes, colors, bullets, and image alignments to create a visually appealing presentation. Students should complete this activity after viewing the Consistency and Visual Design lesson.","Application","Small Group",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Motion Design","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with advanced features and tools in presentation software to gain a better understanding of how and when to use transitions and animations, add notes to slides, and use slide show preview. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Interesting Inventions","Using presentation software, students create a non-linear presentation about some interesting inventions of the early 20th century.    Application Exercises give students an opportunity to apply concepts they have learned in previous instruction. Work completed by a student will be graded through a variety of scoring options including participation and teacher assessment via rubric to provide flexibility with the type of grade sent to the Learning Management System (LMS) gradebook. Student work may include open-ended questions, correct/incorrect responses, a final product and/or self-assessment.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a presentation from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Application","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Presentations Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Digital Drama Unplugged","How can you de-escalate digital drama so it doesn't go too far? For kids, miscommunication is a common occurrence online and on social media. Plus, being behind a screen makes it easier to say things they wouldn't say in person. So how do we help kids avoid the pitfalls of digital drama? Help them learn tips on avoiding online drama in the first place and de-escalating drama when it happens.","Instruction","Whole Group"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G149:G159)","v":405}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Remind students that presentations are more than just what is engaging on the screen. Help students understand that presenting includes their attitude, body language, and voice tones. Facilitate a discussion about how to make a presentation engaging through voice to help students prepare for the 'Consistency and Good Visual Design' presentation. Be sure to allow time for students to add finished prooducts to their portfolio. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Multimedia Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Multimedia. It assesses the learner's knowledge of the basics of graphic design, desktop publishing, and video editing as a way to communicate ideas.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Creating and Enhancing Images and Graphics","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with digital images and graphics as they use graphics software to create and edit documents with bitmap and vector images, enhance and manipulate images, use layers for multiple elements, and compress files in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Creating a Map","Students will read a book and use graphics software to draw a map of a location described in the book.","Application","Independent",60]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Designing Documents with Desktop Publishing","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using desktop publishing software to create clean and consistent visual design elements. They will consider text, images, white space, templates, guides, and use advanced tools and features in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","H2O, We Need You So!","In this lesson, students will create a brochure explaining the importance of not throwing chemicals or waste into their local waterway (nearest ocean, river, lake, etc.) and ways to actively protect this environment. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson Desktop Publishing. ","Application","Small Group",75]
[null,"Multimedia","Class Survey Report","Students create a report analyzing data they collected from their classmates about a chosen topic. Application Exercises give students an opportunity to apply concepts they have learned in previous instruction. Work completed by a student will be graded through a variety of scoring options including participation and teacher assessment via rubric to provide flexibility with the type of grade sent to the Learning Management System (LMS) gradebook. Student work may include open-ended questions, correct/incorrect responses, a final product and/or self-assessment.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Creating and Editing Video and Audio","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with tools and terms used in video editing software as they add, trim, and assemble video and audio clips into a finished project, including elements like transitions, titles, graphics, and music.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Acceptable Use Policy Video","Students create and record skits about a rule in the school's acceptable use policy. Application Exercises give students an opportunity to apply concepts they have learned in previous instruction. Work completed by a student will be graded through a variety of scoring options including participation and teacher assessment via rubric to provide flexibility with the type of grade sent to the Learning Management System (LMS) gradebook. Student work may include open-ended questions, correct/incorrect responses, a final product and/or self-assessment.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Multimedia","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a presentation from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Multimedia Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Multimedia. It assesses the learner's knowledge of the basics of graphic design, desktop publishing, and video editing as a way to communicate ideas.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*How Would You Feel","Cyberbullying - Prevention, deterring the potential cyberbully, empathy: Students learn about the effects of cyberbullying. They create scripts and write short skits about a cyberbullying situation. They explore how people who have been cyberbullied feel and what they can do about cyberbullying.","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - This is the perfect time of the year to put together mini projects which end in digital publication to highlight students' entire year of learning. Remind students to add their work products to their portfolios. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. "]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Computational Thinking - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Algorithmic Problem Solving","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with algorithmic problem solving and computational thinking. They will identify algorithms, inputs and outputs, construct problem statements, and use sample cases, abstraction, and decomposition to analyze problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Exploring the World Through a Disability","This activity allows students to learn about algorithms by experiencing what life could be like with a disability. Students will create their own algorithms and research adaptive technology that people with disabilities must utilize in order to complete everyday tasks.","Application","Small Group",60]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Models and Simulations","The learners analyze and evaluate algorithmic processes through modeling and flowcharts, and use simulations as tools to test different variables and conditions as they receive direct instruction and practice with the modeling process and computational thinking in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Implement and Test","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with algorithms, the testing process, and computational thinking as they find ways to simplify and clarify the algorithmic process, develop testing methods for algorithms, find errors, and improve the efficiency of algorithms in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Egg-cellent Egg","The implementation and testing component of computational thinking challenges students to be innovative and reflective of their work. In this exercise, students will utilize the \"Use-Modify-Create\" method to create a safe landing for their egg drop. ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Computational Thinking - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Who Are You Online?","What are the benefits and drawbacks of presenting yourself in different ways online? What does it actually mean to \"be yourself\" or to \"be real\"? Those are deep thoughts for any middle-schooler. For kids today, these questions matter online, too. Help your students explore why some people create different or alternate personas for themselves online and on social media.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G183:G191)","v":315}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - If you are new to computational thinking or coding, complete the lessons alongside your students. Facilitate a discussion about other areas of life where computational thinking can be applied. Remind students to update their portfolio."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Parts and Navigation","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with components and navigation of a spreadsheet as they navigate cells, rows, and columns, enter, select, and organize data, and select groups of cells and entire rows and columns in a spreadsheet in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Basic Formatting","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice entering data to enhance spreadsheets using titles, borders, colors, and various formatting tools, sorting information alphabetically and numerically, and organizing data. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Basketball Budget Spreadsheet","Students decide how to spend the remainder of a budget for a youth basketball team.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Analyzing Data","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice using spreadsheet software to analyze data. The learners will create, label, and modify pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs to effectively read, interpret, and communicate information. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Number Cube Probability","Students roll number cubes and use a spreadsheet to record how many times they land on numbers one through six, and demonstrate knowledge of mathematical probability.  ","Application","Small Group",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Formulas","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice identifying a cell's row and column location, entering mathematical formulas in cells, and copying and pasting formulas across multiple cells in spreadsheets in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Data Collection and Line Graphs ","Students collect numerical science data related to weather in their state and display the results using a line graph. Students will also find the mean, median, mode and range, and understand why these math concepts are important.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Functions","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice formatting the functions of sum, mean, minimum and maximum, locating the function library, using the function tool, and specifying function cell ranges in spreadsheets.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","School Supplies Spreadsheet","Using a spreadsheet program, students calculate discounts and add sales tax to find out the total cost for a list of school items.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Sharing and Filtering","The learners receive direct instruction and practice organizing and analyzing spreadsheet data as they add and remove filters, save and store spreadsheets, use wrap text, scroll and freeze panes, and collaborate and share through cloud computing and web-based software in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheet Layout","Students create two spreadsheets and choose portrait or landscape layouts.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Trends and Forecasts","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using spreadsheets to identify trends and forecast possibilities as they explore primary source data, published data and original data, enter data and insert a chart or graph into a spreadsheet, and evaluate types of trend lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Creating and Maintaining a Database","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in planning, creating, and maintaining a database as they define fields and types, add and edit data and properties, and filter records using Boolean logic.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"Business Applications","Movie Database","Students create and use a database about movies.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Rock Database","Students create and use a database about rocks. ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G197:G214)","v":550}]
[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Have students practice entering data to create spreadsheets and databases based on content being studied in core curriculum, physical education, or other classes to show how the data is represented. Remind students to update their portfolios."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Safekeeping Personal Information Discussion Reflection","Keeping Personal Information Safe: In this lesson, teachers use discussion points to stress the importance of not revealing personal information online, addressing the types of information that should be kept private, safety rules students should follow to prevent unwanted contact, and how to “ignore and report” when they receive inappropriate messages.","Instruction  ","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety Brochure","Students will create an online safety brochure to remind other students about how to stay safe online during the summer.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship",{"$f":"HYPERLINK(\"https://platform.learning.com/interface/TeacherSky/Default.aspx#stepname=CurriculumItemDetails&Id=F397E717-08FC-4DD2-AB98-7C89215C2B20%7CEN\",\"Summer Online Safety Brochure (Presentations)\")","v":"Summer Online Safety Brochure (Presentations)"},"Students deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience."]
[null,null,"Technology Showcase (Optional)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G221:G225)","v":165}]
[]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Year",{"$f":"SUM(G226,G215,G192,G178,G160,G144,G125,G95,G20, G73)","v":3761}]
[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Online safety is important to revisit at the end of the year to remind students that they need to be smart when online - whether at home or at school. Provide parents with resources to help them keep their students safe online, like the 'Parent Online Safety Guide' linked below. Host an in-person or virtual technology showcase to share student work to wrap up the school year and provide students and parents with ideas for continuing to practice their digital literacy skills during the summer. "]
[null,{"$f":"HYPERLINK(\"https://support.learning.com/parent-resources/online-safety-guide-for-parents-english/\",\"Parent Online Safety Guide\")","v":"Parent Online Safety Guide"}]

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[null,"EasyTech Curriculum Map - 7th Grade"]
[null,"2022-2023"]
[]
[null,"This Curriculum Map provides a suggested order of assignments for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum in your classroom. For planning purposes, it is recommended that approximately 115 minutes of digital literacy curriculum is delivered each week through whole group, independent, or guided practice implementation models."]
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[null,"Prior to beginning the school year, it is recommended that you create student technology portfolios (digital or print) to provide students with a way to share their learning. The portfolio may include EasyTech certificates, reports, and application exercise entries and work products. Pictures are a great way to show your students in the learning process and can be used at the end of the year for a class slideshow or a technology showcase."]
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[null,"Remember to provide students with time each week to improve their keyboarding technique, accuracy, and speed through Adaptive Keyboarding after they have completed keyboarding lessons and guided practice exercises."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Dealing with Cyberbullying","The learners receive direct instruction and practice dealing with cyberbullying as they understand how to treat everyone with respect, avoid gossip, and the effects of cyberbullying. Learners are introduced to privacy settings and blocking messages as a way to respond to cyberbullies, and who to reach out to for help in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Digital Citizenship","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in digital citizenship and responsible use of technology. They learn about digital footprints, the importance of privacy settings and creating a strong password and how to avoid websites that ask for personal information in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.  \n","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Getting Started","Creating a Portfolio","Students create a portfolio that includes technology projects and a corresponding checklist.","Application","Whole Group",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G14:G18)","v":105}]
[]
[null,"Tips & Suggestions - These lessons are spiraled from previous years to help set a firm foundation for safe, appropriate, and effective technology use throughout the year. Remind students about the importance of using the internet wisely in all of their interactions, whether at school or at home. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Healthy Computing Discussion Reflection","Computer addiction, ergonomics, preventing Repetitive Motion Injuries (RMI), effects of sleep deprivation: Teachers use discussion points to introduce students to the concept of using computers and technology in a healthy way, addressing topics such as addictive behaviors, effects of excessive computer use on other areas of life, and risks of ergonomic-related injuries.","Instruction","Whole Group",35]
[null,"Keyboarding","Lower Row: Add Right Shift and C ","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","A: Lazy Days","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","S: A Wax Axe","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","D: Dad Does Deeds","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","F: Fred Raved","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","G: Green Tiger","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","H: Henry's Hill","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","J: Jake's Jars","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","K: Kelly Keeps","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","L: Lord Lillian","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Lower Row: Add Left Shift and Colon ","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Q: Quills Quip","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","W: Wally Waxes","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","E: Ed Eats Emu","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","R: Rita Writes","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","T: Tina's Trench","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Y: Flying Fly","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","U: Ugly Mule","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","I: Ike Likes Ice","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","O: Wooly Todd","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","P: Pip Pop","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row: Review Home Row G, H, E, O, R","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home, Upper & Lower Row: Mike the Spy","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home, Upper & Lower Row: Spoons and Oars","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home, Upper & Lower Row: Yes and No","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row & Upper Row - A, S, D, F, J, K, L, ;, G, H, E, O, R, I, T","This guided practice item covers the Home row and Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Keyboarding","Z: Zed's Quiz","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","X: Lex's Axe","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","C: Racing Aces","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","V: Very Viv","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","B: Big Bill","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","N: Nora Nags","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","M: Major Jam","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home, Upper & Lower Row: Cool Eels","This guided practice item covers the Home, Upper and Lower row skill areas. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 0 Soil Bags","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 1 Quip and Quay","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 2 Wax Away","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 3 Red Deers","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 4 More","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 5 Great Fevers","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 6 May Try","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 7 Joyful Hymns","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 8 Poi Plates","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 9 Poison Spines","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","'-: Lolo's Pop","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","; : Paul's Position","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practie and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - End the unit  with a whole group introduction to Adaptive Keyboarding so that students understand how to access and use it when they finish their classwork early. Remind students that Adaptive Keyboarding can be found in the Arcade for year round practice. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* The Power of Digital Footprints","What is a digital footprint, and what does yours convey? What others find about us online shapes who they think we are and how they feel about us. But do kids know what kinds of tracks they've already left? Help your students learn about their digital footprints and the steps they can take in the future to shape what others find and see about them online.","Instruction","Independent",50]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Basic Components","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in computer basics as they understand names and functions of basic components such as processor, input, output, and storage devices, and differentiate between analog and digital information.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Using Program Menus and Toolbars","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with toolbars and program menus as they use the help tool to understand how to perform a task in a program, use the toolbar for common tasks, open programs and create, print, and save documents in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Operating Systems and Browsing","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the area of operating systems and browsing as they gain knowledge about computer and mobile device operating systems, graphical user interfaces, icons, apps, and how to find files and folders.  ","Instruction and Independent","Lesson",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Software, Buttons, and Controls","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice related to various types of software. The learners will gain knowledge about types of software, how to select the appropriate software to complete a task, and how to use the buttons and controls found in software.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Navigating Ribbon Interfaces","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using the ribbon interface in software including the applications button, help tool, tabs and labels, commands and groups found on each tab, dialog box, shortcuts, and setting up quick access buttons in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware and Software Fundamentals: Networking","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice related to the basic components and functions of a network as they gain knowledge about file sharing and storage, compatibility, and ethical use of networks. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Share and Tell","File-sharing and peer-to-peer networks: Students research the pros and cons of file sharing and participate in classroom debates to clearly examine the benefits of file sharing and to be aware of the drawbacks and how to stay safe and legal while using these programs. ","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Mobile Devices are Technology To Go","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) that have built-in browsers, apps, and connect to a wireless computer or cell phone network. Learners are introduced to in-app purchases and ad-supported apps, limiting push notifications, and reviewing the terms, privacy policies, and practices of all apps.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware and Software Fundamentals: Computing in the Cloud","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with cloud computing as they explore what cloud computing is and understand that cloud services can automatically synchronize and save data across multiple devices. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Virtual Classroom Meetings","In this animated video, Trey introduces the learner to video conferencing and how to prepare for and participate in virtual classroom meetings using available software and hardware tools.","Instruction","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Troubleshooting Basics for Online Learning","In this animated video, Trey and Summer help fellow classmates and a teacher troubleshoot some technical problems related to the virtual classroom. Topics include no internet, no audio and downloading software.","Instruction","Independent",6]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  Provide time for students to reflect on the assignments they have completed to select items to save to their portfolio. Consider a written reflection in addition to or as an alternative. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice their keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. Remind students to add work to their portfolios."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","My Social Media Life","How does social media affect our relationships? For most middle-schoolers, being on social media can mean connecting with friends, sharing pictures, and keeping up to date. But it can also mean big-time distractions, social pressures, and more. Help students navigate the different feelings they may already be experiencing on social media.","Instruction","Blended",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Prep for Online Learning","*Commenting in the Virtual Classroom","In this animated video, Trey introduces the learner to an online classroom, his class message board, the right ways to leave comments online, and what to do if you see someone cyberbullying.","Instruction","Independent",10]
[null,"Prep for Online Learning","* Netiquette in Online Communications","In this animated video, Trey and two of his classmates are collaborating on their Virtual Science Fair project in a private chatroom when netiquette issues derail them from their task. The lesson introduces what netiquette is, why it’s important, and shows some of the negative sides of online communication.","Instruction","Independent",7]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Using Personal Learning Networks","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice creating and using personal learning networks as they use digital tools like blogs, wikis, and audio/video communication to collaborate with peers and experts, and understand the value of connectivism in learning in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Communicating with Instant Messaging","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice collaborating via instant messaging (IM) as they communicate clearly, safely, and successfully online, use proper netiquette and responsible Internet safety practices during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Reading and Writing Blogs","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using critical thinking skills as they use Web logs to communicate ideas effectively, read and write blogs, and practice responsible use of blog information and software.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",18]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Navigation and Mapping","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with the navigation and operation of mapping technology through global navigation systems (GPS), longitude and latitude, mapping software, and the technical writing skills required to produce clear directions in this engaging and interactive digital lesson","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Ethical Use of Digital Resources","The learners receive direct instruction and practice identifying reliable, valid online information, accurately citing resources, identifying sources within the public domain or covered by creative commons, and requesting permission to create a derivative work in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","The Four Factors of Fair Use","What rights to fair use do you have as a creator? Kids can be voracious consumers -- and creators -- of media, and it's easier than ever for them to find and share digital content online. But do middle-schoolers know about concepts like fair use, copyright, and public domain? Give students a framework they can use to better understand how fair use works in the real world.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Navigating the World Wide Web","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice navigating a website's URL, bookmarking a website for faster future access, and troubleshooting page errors and Internet connectivity issues as they use webpages.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Online Personal Communication","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice safely and responsibly using personal online communication tools for collaboration, such as email, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), instant messaging, and private chats. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Effective Search Strategies","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using search engines as they search with keywords and phrases relevant to desired results, navigate search results to find and validate specific information, and properly cite web-based content.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Validity and Sourcing","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with website credibility, information privacy, copyright, fair use, and sourcing as they safely log in to sites with restricted access and use critical thinking to determine the validity of online information in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",20]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Searching for Scientists","Students determine the usefulness and appropriateness of information found on the Internet.","Application","Guided",120]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Sharing Safely Online","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with Internet safety as they use smart practices for public online communication tools like blogs, forums, and media sharing sites, and understand the permanent nature of publishing information online in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Be an Open Book","The importance of open communication with responsible adults, and reporting illegal activities and communications on the Internet: Students learn the importance of open communication with responsible adults. They realize the responsibility they have to report illegal activities and communications on the Internet by analyzing the effect of the decisions they make. Students then write children's books to share their learning.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Person of Interest","In this activity, students will utilize a class web-based discussion forum and write a post as a person of interest (scientist, author, mathematician, historian). ","Application","Guided",75]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Sharing and Collaborating Online","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice safely using shared online communication tools, successfully sharing content and collaborating online with others, and setting up and using shared resources like folders, files, calendars, and video meetings in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Collaboration: Easier Than Offline Collaboration?","Students will learn how to share documents using a district-approved collaboration product. Students will then prepare a shared presentation on a weather event using a collaboration presentation product. ","Instruction and Practice","Small Group",180]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","What's Private?","Every day, websites collect data from students, and most students don't even know it. In this lesson, students will explore how and why websites collect and use personal information by reading a website's privacy policies and examining the online privacy rights available to them. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech Online Safety lesson.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Discuss with students why it matters if we use someone else’s work without giving them credit. Ask how they would feel if they put a lot of hardwork into something and then someone else used it without their permission. How can this impact someone who creates digital work for a living? Remind students to add completed work products to their portfolio."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","*Upstanders and Allies: Taking Action Against Cyberbullying","How can you respond when cyberbullying occurs? When cyberbullying happens, everyone involved brings their own perspective to the situation. Help students learn about the importance of empathy, how to consider others' feelings, and how to be an upstander when cyberbullying occurs.","Instruction and Practice","Blended Learning",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Overview of Basic Skills","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners organize a script as they receive direct instruction and practice with word processing skills. They will locate and open recent documents, copy, cut, paste, save, print, and use the bold, italic, and underline buttons to emphasize text. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Electronic Journal","Students use a word processing program to keep an electronic journal. ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating Professional Documents","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using proofreading and organization tools to make professional documents. They will check for and correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors, include page numbers and bullets, and utilize auto-correct in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Flyer Print Design","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson as they format a flyer by importing an image, using the sizing tool, applying text wrap and text justification, inserting tab stops and a table, and creating visual contrast with font styles and sizes. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Tools of the Trade","When people create posters, flyers, or other documents on the computer, they want them to look nice. Not only do the right font and image size make a document look more appealing, they also make it easier for people to read and understand the information that the document contains. In this lesson, students will pay attention to specific text and image formatting techniques as they create hypothetical welcome packets designed to provide valuable information to visitors of their town. ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Visual Design","Through direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will use color, vertical alignment, page layout, indents, margins, borders, and orientation in the design of websites, magazines, book covers, and logos to impact a reader's interpretation of information.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Following Directions","Students form groups and write step-by-step instruction guides about how to travel from one part of their school to another.  ","Application","Small Group",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Formatting Essays Using MLA","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using a word processor to format essays following MLA guidelines. They will use proper spacing to enhance readability, understand the difference between headers and footers, cite sources, and create a bibliography in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","What a Cite! MLA ","How to cite sources using MLA format, why citing is important: Students study the ethical use of information and media in research reports and presentations. They learn what kind of information must be cited and how to cite sources correctly. For a final project, students choose a topic and create an annotated bibliography of relevant resources in correct MLA style. Note: There is also a APA version of this application exercise. Use the one appropriate to the style your district uses.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Effective Technical Writing ","Students evaluate the effectiveness of technical writing instructions and revise the steps to be more accurate. This application exercise is a follow-up to the Formatting Reports lesson.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating Original Works","Through this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in the area of applying existing knowledge and skills to generate new ideas, products, or processes, and to create original works.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Collaborative Tools in Word Processors","Students use collaborative word processor tools to edit, add, and track changes and write comments in documents.  ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Finding Alternative Solutions to Problems","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in finding alternate solutions to problems. The learners will begin solving problems and finding alternate solutions by looking at a problem through diverse perspectives, variables, data, and processes.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a project from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Provide students with opportunities to publish their classroom writing in word processing documents along with digital or hand drawn art that illustrates their writing. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. Remind students to add their completed projects to their portfolio. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Presentations Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Basic Slide Show Elements","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using basic presentation software tools and elements, such as text and graphics, to design an eye-catching and easy-to-read presentation. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Consistency and Visual Design","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using a variety of presentation tools with consistent design elements and themes to ensure a slide show presentation looks professional and conveys information in a focused and interesting way. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Career Exploration","Students choose a possible career and create a presentation that explores the characteristics of that career.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Motion Design","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with advanced features and tools in presentation software to gain a better understanding of how and when to use transitions and animations, add notes to slides, and use slide show preview. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Saving the Environment Within My Community","In this application exercise, students will be required to construct a problem/solution presentation on an assigned topic that has to do with protecting the environment. Students will incorporate information they have learned regarding motion design and presenting as well as information learned through research about an assigned environmental topic. ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Designing Non-Linear Presentations","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with the design, create, and publish process. They will use advanced tools to create master slides, add animations, transitions, video elements, and hyperlinks to develop non-linear slide show presentations in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Product Description","Using presentation software, students create a non-linear presentation that persuades an audience to buy a chosen fictitious product.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Presentations Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a project from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Remind students that presentations are more than just what is engaging on the screen. Help students understand that presenting includes their attitude, body language, and voice tones. Facilitate a discussion about how to make a presentation engaging through voice to help students prepare for the 'Saving the Environment Within My Community' presentation. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. Presentations should be added to the student portfolio."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Big, Big Data","How do companies collect and use data about you? Every time we go online, we're giving away information about ourselves. But just how much data are companies collecting from us? Hint: It's probably a lot more than we realize. Show your students these three tips on how to limit the data that companies collect.","Instruction and Practice","Blended Learning",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Parts and Navigation","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with components and navigation of a spreadsheet as they navigate cells, rows, and columns, enter, select, and organize data, and select groups of cells and entire rows and columns in a spreadsheet in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Weather Spreadsheet","Students will keep track of weather patterns in a chosen location and create a spreadsheet using collected data.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Basic Formatting","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice entering data to enhance spreadsheets using titles, borders, colors, and various formatting tools, sorting information alphabetically and numerically, and organizing data. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Analyzing Data","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice using spreadsheet software to analyze data. The learners will create, label, and modify pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs to effectively read, interpret, and communicate information. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Earthquake Line Graph","Students enter provided data into a spreadsheet and create corresponding line graphs, according to directions.","Application","Guided",30]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Formulas","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice identifying a cell's row and column location, entering mathematical formulas in cells, and copying and pasting formulas across multiple cells in spreadsheets in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Creating a Budget","Students are asked to create a budget with a set amount of money in which to pay for housing, food, and other expenses, while trying to maintain a savings plan for short and long term goals.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Functions","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice formatting the functions of sum, mean, minimum and maximum, locating the function library, using the function tool, and specifying function cell ranges in spreadsheets.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Orchestra Inventory","Using a spreadsheet program, students calculate the average number of musical instruments in three schools' orchestras.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Sharing and Filtering","The learners receive direct instruction and practice organizing and analyzing spreadsheet data as they add and remove filters, save and store spreadsheets, use wrap text, scroll and freeze panes, and collaborate and share through cloud computing and web-based software in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Paintings Spreadsheet","Using a spreadsheet program, students input information from a data table and format page orientation, cell alignment, and headers and footers as directed.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Trends and Forecasts","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using spreadsheets to identify trends and forecast possibilities as they explore primary source data, published data and original data, enter data and insert a chart or graph into a spreadsheet, and evaluate types of trend lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Cell Phone Usage","Students will look at information and create tables, equations, and graphs about cell phone plans. Students will come up with comparisons between cell phone plans and look at different representations of the data. Students will use the different representations to make an argument for the best plans. After deciding what is the best cell phone plan, students will explain why they think the plan is the best. Additionally, students will write an effective word problem.","Application","Guided",35]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Creating and Maintaining a Database","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in planning, creating, and maintaining a database as they define fields and types, add and edit data and properties, and filter records using Boolean logic.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"Business Applications","History Database","Students create and use a database about an historical topic.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Vacation Letter Mail Merge","Students create and use a database and perform a mail merge to generate personalized letters. ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a project from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or other audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  Have students practice entering data to create spreadsheets and databases based on content being studied in core curriculum, physical education, or other classes to show how the data is represented.When students finish their work with class time remaining, encourage them to utilize Adaptive Keyboarding to improve their technique, accuracy and WPM. Updating portfolios to include current work should happen all year. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety and Digital Citizenship","My Media Use: A Personal Challenge","What is your strategy for finding media balance? Most of us use a lot of digital media in our daily lives -- even when we don't realize it! Having a balance between online and offline time is important, but healthy media balance might look different for everyone. Help students create a personalized plan for healthy media use.","Instruction and Practice","Blended Learning",55]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Computational Thinking - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Algorithmic Problem Solving","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with algorithmic problem solving and computational thinking. They will identify algorithms, inputs and outputs, construct problem statements, and use sample cases, abstraction, and decomposition to analyze problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Algorithmic Government","Students will research how a bill becomes a law in order to learn about the algorithms used to drive this governmental process. ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Models and Simulations","The learners analyze and evaluate algorithmic processes through modeling and flowcharts, and use simulations as tools to test different variables and conditions as they receive direct instruction and practice with the modeling process and computational thinking in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Time Is Money","A crucial component of computational thinking is building and understanding models. In this application exercise, students utilize two methods of modeling to simulate the purchase of an electronic device with the money earned from an after school job.    ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Implement and Test","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with algorithms, the testing process, and computational thinking as they find ways to simplify and clarify the algorithmic process, develop testing methods for algorithms, find errors, and improve the efficiency of algorithms in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Computational Thinking - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a project from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or other audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G191:G200)","v":355}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  Facilitate a discussion about areas of life where computational thinking can be applied. If you are new to coding, complete the lessons alongside your students. This is a good time of year to remind students to place all of their projects in their digital portfolio. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Multimedia Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Multimedia. It assesses the learner's knowledge of the basics of graphic design, desktop publishing, and video editing as a way to communicate ideas.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Creating and Enhancing Images and Graphics","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with digital images and graphics as they use graphics software to create and edit documents with bitmap and vector images, enhance and manipulate images, use layers for multiple elements, and compress files in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Do I need it?","In this lesson, students will learn the importance of visual graphics in a document and how to implement graphics in their projects to enhance their ideas. Students will be asked to design an advertisement using visual images to convey a message.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Designing Documents with Desktop Publishing","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using desktop publishing software to create clean and consistent visual design elements. They will consider text, images, white space, templates, guides, and use advanced tools and features in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Appliance Guide","Students form groups and write technical instruction guides about how to use an appliance. ","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Multimedia","Geometry Study Sheet","Students create study sheets about the properties of geometric shapes. ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Creating and Editing Video and Audio","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with tools and terms used in video editing software as they add, trim, and assemble video and audio clips into a finished project, including elements like transitions, titles, graphics, and music.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Interviewing Historical Figures","Students research an historical figure from a notable era, role-play, and use a digital video camera and video editing software to create a filmed interview.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Multimedia","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a multimedia project from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or other audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Multimedia","Portfolio Development","Provide time for students to reflect on the assignments they have completed to select items to save to their portfolio. Consider a written reflection in addition to or as an alternative.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G207:G217)","v":450}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - This is the perfect time of the year to put together mini projects which end in digital publication to highlight students' entire year of learning. Remind students to add their work products to their portfolios. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Don't Even Go There!","Inappropriate Content - avoiding sites, exiting sites : Students learn about how to avoid inappropriate content on the Internet by creating a Dos and Don'ts list and then choosing one of the Dos or Don'ts to create a comic strip showing the scenario and the right thing to do in each situation.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety Presentation","Students will create a poster to teach others how to stay safe online.","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,null,"Technology Showcase (Optional)","Students present their portfolios, favorite projects, or Summer Online Presentations to a selected audience.","Assessment","Whole Group"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G223:G226)","v":180}]
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[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Year",{"$f":"G227+G218+G201+G186+G160+G145+G122+G92+G72+G19","v":4181}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Online safety is important to revisit at the end of the year to remind students that they need to be smart when online - whether at home or at school. Provide parents with resources to help them keep their students safe online, like the 'Parent Online Safety Guide' linked below. Host an in-person or virtual technology showcase to share student work to wrap up the school year and provide students and parents with ideas for continuing to practice their digital literacy skills during the summer. "]
[null,{"$f":"HYPERLINK(\"https://support.learning.com/parent-resources/online-safety-guide-for-parents-english/\",\"Parent Online Safety Guide\")","v":"Parent Online Safety Guide"}]

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[null,null,null,null,"Blended Learning Path"]
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[null,"EasyTech Curriculum Map - 8th Grade"]
[null,"2022-2023"]
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[null,"This Curriculum Map provides a suggested order of assignments for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum in your classroom. For planning purposes, it is recommended that approximately 115 minutes of digital literacy curriculum is delivered each week through whole group, independent, or guided practice implementation models."]
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[null,"Prior to beginning the school year, it is recommended that you create student technology portfolios (digital or print) to provide students with a way to share their learning. The portfolio may include EasyTech certificates, reports, and application exercise entries and work products. Pictures are a great way to show your students in the learning process and can be used at the end of the year for a class slideshow or technology showcase."]
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[null,"Remember to provide students with time each week to improve their keyboarding technique, accuracy, and speed through Adaptive Keyboarding after they have completed the keyboarding lessons and guided practice exercises."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Dealing with Cyberbullying","The learners receive direct instruction and practice dealing with cyberbullying as they understand how to treat everyone with respect, avoid gossip, and the effects of cyberbullying. Learners are introduced to privacy settings and blocking messages as a way to respond to cyberbullies, and who to reach out to for help in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Digital Citizenship","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in digital citizenship and responsible use of technology. They learn about digital footprints, the importance of privacy settings and creating a strong password and how to avoid websites that ask for personal information in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Getting Started","Creating a Portfolio","Students create a portfolio that includes technology projects and a corresponding checklist.  ","Application","Whole Group",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G14:G18)","v":105}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - These lessons are spiraled from previous years to help set a firm foundation for safe, appropriate, responsible, and effective technology use throughout the year."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Healthy Computing Discussion Reflection","Computer addiction, ergonomics, preventing Repetitive Motion Injuries (RMI), effects of sleep deprivation: Teachers use discussion points to introduce students to the concept of using computers and technology in a healthy way, addressing topics such as addictive behaviors, effects of excessive computer use on other areas of life, and risks of ergonomic-related injuries.","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Keyboarding","Lower Row: Add Right Shift and C ","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",3]
[null,"Keyboarding","A: Lazy Days","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","S: A Wax Axe","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","D: Dad Does Deeds","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","F: Fred Raved","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","G: Green Tiger","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","H: Henry's Hill","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","J: Jake's Jars","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","K: Kelly Keeps","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","L: Lord Lillian","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Lower Row: Add Left Shift and Colon ","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Q: Quills Quip","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","W: Wally Waxes","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","E: Ed Eats Emu","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","R: Rita Writes","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","T: Tina's Trench","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Y: Flying Fly","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","U: Ugly Mule","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","I: Ike Likes Ice","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","O: Wooly Todd","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","P: Pip Pop","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row: Review Home Row G, H, E, O, R","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home, Upper & Lower Row: Mike the Spy","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home, Upper & Lower Row: Spoons and Oars","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home, Upper & Lower Row: Yes and No","This guided practice item covers the Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home Row & Upper Row - A, S, D, F, J, K, L, ;, G, H, E, O, R, I, T","This guided practice item covers the Home row and Upper row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",8]
[null,"Keyboarding","Z: Zed's Quiz","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","X: Lex's Axe","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","C: Racing Aces","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","V: Very Viv","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","B: Big Bill","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","N: Nora Nags","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","M: Major Jam","This guided practice item covers the Lower row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Home, Upper & Lower Row: Cool Eels","This guided practice item covers the Home, Upper and Lower row skill areas. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 0 Soil Bags","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 1 Quip and Quay","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 2 Wax Away","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 3 Red Deers","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 4 More","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 5 Great Fevers","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 6 May Try","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 7 Joyful Hymns","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 8 Poi Plates","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","Number Row: 9 Poison Spines","This guided practice item covers The Number row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",2]
[null,"Keyboarding","'-: Lolo's Pop","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","; : Paul's Position","This guided practice item covers the home row skill area. It can be used to help students with accuracy and proper finger placement in a guided practice environment.","Practice","Independent",1]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Whole Group",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Total minutes in unit",{"$f":"SUM(G25:G72)","v":148}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - End the unit  with a whole group introduction to Adaptive Keyboarding so that students understand how to access and use it when they finish their classwork early. Remind students that Adaptive Keyboarding can be found in the Arcade for year round practice. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Digital Media and Your Brain","How does digital media try to hook you, and what can you do about it? Sometimes when you're using media, it's hard to stop. Lots of people even say they feel \"addicted\" to their phones or the apps and games they use. But is digital media actually designed to get you hooked? Have students think about the ways different digital media does -- and does not -- help us find healthy media balance.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",45]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Basic Components","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in computer basics as they understand names and functions of basic components such as processor, input, output, and storage devices, and differentiate between analog and digital information.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Using Program Menus and Toolbars","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with toolbars and program menus as they use the help tool to understand how to perform a task in a program, use the toolbar for common tasks, open programs and create, print, and save documents in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Operating Systems and Browsing","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the area of operating systems and browsing as they gain knowledge about computer and mobile device operating systems, graphical user interfaces, icons, apps, and how to find files and folders.  ","Instrution and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Creating File Structures","Students create file structures in a word processing or drawing program, demonstrating their understanding of how files are hierarchically organized in a computer. This application exercise is a follow-up to the Operating Systems and Browsing lesson.   ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Software, Buttons, and Controls","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice related to various types of software. The learners will gain knowledge about types of software, how to select the appropriate software to complete a task, and how to use the buttons and controls found in software.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Technology in the Workplace","Students research to write a speech about how technology has affected different occupations.    ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Navigating Ribbon Interfaces","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using the ribbon interface in software including the applications button, help tool, tabs and labels, commands and groups found on each tab, dialog box, shortcuts, and setting up quick access buttons in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware and Software Fundamentals: Networking","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice related to the basic components and functions of a network as they gain knowledge about file sharing and storage, compatibility, and ethical use of networks. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: Network Compatibility Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concepts of LANs and WANs, cross-platform connectivity, file format issues, and using help menus.","Whole Group","Discussion",30]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Mobile Devices are Technology To Go","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) that have built-in browsers, apps, and connect to a wireless computer or cell phone network. Learners are introduced to in-app purchases and ad-supported apps, limiting push notifications, and reviewing the terms, privacy policies, and practices of all apps.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware and Software Fundamentals: Computing in the Cloud","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with cloud computing as they explore what cloud computing is and understand that cloud services can automatically synchronize and save data across multiple devices. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Prep for Online Learning","Troubleshooting Basics for Online Learning","In this animated video, Trey and Summer help fellow classmates and a teacher troubleshoot some technical problems related to the virtual classroom. Topics include no internet, no audio and downloading software.","Independent","Lesson",6]
[null,"Prep for Online Learning","Virtual Classroom Meetings","In this animated video, Trey introduces the learner to video conferencing and how to prepare for and participate in virtual classroom meetings using available software and hardware tools.","Instruction","Independent",10]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a project from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G78:G95)","v":471}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice their keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. "]
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[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Online Ethics Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concepts of online ethics, including acceptable use policies, copyright laws, computer hacking, piracy, intentional virus setting, and invasion of privacy.","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Ethics and Consequences","Students answer questions about privacy, ethical issues and consequences for computer hacking, piracy, intentional virus setting, and invasion of privacy. ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Prep for Online Learning","* Netiquette in Online Communications","In this animated video, Trey and two of his classmates are collaborating on their Virtual Science Fair project in a private chatroom when netiquette issues derail them from their task. The lesson introduces what netiquette is, why it’s important, and shows some of the negative sides of online communication.","Instruction","Independent",7]
[null,"Prep for Online Learning","Commenting in the Virtual Classroom","In this animated video, Trey introduces the learner to an online classroom, his class message board, the right ways to leave comments online, and what to do if you see someone cyberbullying.","Instruction","Independent",10]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Communicating with Instant Messaging","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice collaborating via instant messaging (IM) as they communicate clearly, safely, and successfully online, use proper netiquette and responsible Internet safety practices during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","What Is Thy Message?","In this activity, students learn about various types of dialog techniques. They work in teams to translate a scene from a play by Shakespeare and re-create the scene in modern-day language to show their own understanding and interpretation. Students then act out their written dialog aloud for the class. The class analyzes differences between written and spoken communication and how online technologies tie into those concepts. ","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Responding to Online Hate Speech","How should you respond to online hate speech? Kids can come across all kinds of negative content online and on social media, whether it's rude, mean, or even hateful. But what counts as actual \"hate speech,\" and how should kids respond when they see it? Use these activities to help students identify online hate speech and discuss the best ways to respond.","Instruction","Whole Group",55]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Reading and Writing Blogs","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using critical thinking skills as they use Web logs to communicate ideas effectively, read and write blogs, and practice responsible use of blog information and software.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",18]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Communicating with Podcasts","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice planning, producing, and promoting podcasts as they recognize ethos, pathos, and logos in speech, effectively communicate ideas to an audience, and use podcasts to produce other creative works. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Sharing on a Community Site","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice sharing information on community sites as they use productivity tools for collaboration, produce visual images and messages based on their audience, and practice ethical use of technology.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Using Personal Learning Networks","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice creating and using personal learning networks as they use digital tools like blogs, wikis, and audio/video communication to collaborate with peers and experts, and understand the value of connectivism in learning in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Project Teamwork!","Student teams are assigned a global environmental change caused by natural processes or human activity. Each team member conducts individual research, uses a wiki to share what they've found with their team, and independently suggests possible solutions to the problem. Finally, students work together to plan and create a podcast to explain the problem and their proposed solutions.   ","Application","Small Group",35]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Navigating the World Wide Web","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice navigating a website's URL, bookmarking a website for faster future access, and troubleshooting page errors and Internet connectivity issues as they use webpages.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Effective Search Strategies","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using search engines as they search with keywords and phrases relevant to desired results, navigate search results to find and validate specific information, and properly cite web-based content.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Don't Even Go There!","Inappropriate Content - avoiding sites, exiting sites : Students learn about how to avoid inappropriate content on the Internet by creating a Dos and Don'ts list and then choosing one of the Dos or Don'ts to create a comic strip showing the scenario and the right thing to do in each situation.  ","Small Group","Application Exercise",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Being a Global Citizen with Mapping Tools","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in mapping technology such as using interactive online maps for driving and public transportation directions, satellite, street view, and GPS technology for navigation, and how maps can help solve logistical problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Booking Brian's Vacation","In this lesson, students (acting as travel agents) will research travel times and locations for when their friend, Brian, takes a vacation to the location of their choice. Students will not only use various mapping applications to calculate the costs associated with Brian's visit, but will utilize their knowledge of writing informational texts to create an itinerary for their time together. Building on their work, this activity will then ask students to think about the greater implications of their itinerary and how it can be used to benefit people around the globe.  ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a project from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
[]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Remind students that using the Internet and communicating online are a responsibility and that they need to be careful whether at school or not. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. Be sure to have students add their work to their portfolios."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Social Media and Digital Footprints: Our Responsibilities","How does using social media affect our digital footprints? Social media can be a place to connect, learn, and, most of all, share. But how much do kids know about what they're sharing -- and not just about themselves but each other? Help students think critically about their digital footprints on social media.","Instruction","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Overview of Basic Skills","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners organize a script as they receive direct instruction and practice with word processing skills. They will locate and open recent documents, copy, cut, paste, save, print, and use the bold, italic, and underline buttons to emphasize text.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Electronic Journal","Students use a word processing program to keep an electronic journal. This application exercise is a follow up for the Basic Operations lesson.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Up! Word Processing 101","In this application exercise, students will create a quick reference for different word processing programs on a variety of devices. The reference will include menu navigation, icons, and keyboard shortcuts. Students should complete this application exercise after viewing the EasyTech lesson \"Word Processing: Overview of Basic Skills.\"   ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating Professional Documents","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using proofreading and organization tools to make professional documents. They will check for and correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors, include page numbers and bullets, and utilize auto-correct in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Flyer Print Design","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson as they format a flyer by importing an image, using the sizing tool, applying text wrap and text justification, inserting tab stops and a table, and creating visual contrast with font styles and sizes.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Visual Design","Through direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will use color, vertical alignment, page layout, indents, margins, borders, and orientation in the design of websites, magazines, book covers, and logos to impact a reader's interpretation of information.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Visual Communication","Students work in small groups to create posters using visual design skills such as color, alignment, indents, margins, and borders. This activity will allow students to apply and master the visual design skills they have been learning in previous lessons. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson \"Visual Design.\"","Application","Small Group",75]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Formatting Essays Using MLA","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using a word processor to format essays following MLA guidelines. They will use proper spacing to enhance readability, understand the difference between headers and footers, cite sources, and create a bibliography in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","What A Cite! APA ","How to cite sources using APA format, why citing is important: Students study the ethical use of information and media in research reports and presentations. They learn what kind of information must be cited and how to cite sources correctly. For a final project, students choose a topic and create an annotated bibliography of relevant resources in correct APA style. Note: There is also a MLA version of this application exercise. Use the one appropriate to the style your district uses.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Formatting a Report","Using a word processing program, students retype a report about the Industrial Revolution and format it with footnotes and a bibliography. This application exercise is a follow up to the Formatting Essays Using MLA lesson.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating Original Works","Through this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in the area of applying existing knowledge and skills to generate new ideas, products, or processes, and to create original works.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Vocabulary Guide","Students write descriptive sentences using literary devices and vocabulary words in a data table, and then create and format a vocabulary guide using a word processing program.","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Collaborative Tools in Word Processors","Students use collaborative word processor tools to edit, add, and track changes and write comments in documents.  ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Finding Alternative Solutions to Problems","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in finding alternate solutions to problems. The learners will begin solving problems and finding alternate solutions by looking at a problem through diverse perspectives, variables, data, and processes.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Well Stated! Technical Writing","Students compare two writing samples using a Venn Diagram. Then, use a rating guide to rate three different kinds of technical writing pieces based on certain criteria, and optionally, share and discuss their findings with a partner. Using what they have learned, students create their own technical writing example.  ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","What's the Problem?","Students choose the type of word problem they would like to create and then write the problem with an answer key. Students then switch problems, and using a provided chart, predict, find, and justify solutions. Partners then meet to check each other's work.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a project from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Provide students with opportunities to publish their classroom writing in word processing documents along with digital or hand drawn art that illustrates their writing. Remind students to reflect on the assignments they have completed to select items to save to their portfolio. Consider a written reflection in addition to or as an alternative. Add projects to student portfolios."]
[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,15]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Being Aware of What You Share","How can you protect your privacy when you're online? Kids share a lot of information whenever they go online -- sometimes on purpose, sometimes not. But do they understand that online privacy isn't just what they say and post? Help your students learn about their digital footprints and the steps they can take to shape what others find and see about them.","Instruction","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Presentations Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Basic Slide Show Elements","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using basic presentation software tools and elements, such as text and graphics, to design an eye-catching and easy-to-read presentation. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Consistency and Visual Design","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using a variety of presentation tools with consistent design elements and themes to ensure a slide show presentation looks professional and conveys information in a focused and interesting way. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Dream Career","Students choose a career that interests them based on a curricular area they have recently studied. (For example a unit on the environment could lead to research in careers such as scientists, environmental engineers, and so forth.) Students interview people in a relevant career field, and then plan and create material using various software for Career Day presentations.","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Motion Design","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with advanced features and tools in presentation software to gain a better understanding of how and when to use transitions and animations, add notes to slides, and use slide show preview. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Controversial Issue","Students create a presentation listing the pros and cons of an issue, ultimately persuading the audience toward a chosen point of view.","Application","Guided",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Designing Non-Linear Presentations","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with the design, create, and publish process. They will use advanced tools to create master slides, add animations, transitions, video elements, and hyperlinks to develop non-linear slide show presentations in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Gaming to Learn","In this activity, students will create a game that employs nonlinear slide features. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson Nonlinear Presentation Design video.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Presentations Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a presentation from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Business Applications","Portfolio Development","Provide time for students to reflect on the assignments they have completed to select items to save to their portfolio. Consider a written reflection in addition to or as an alternative.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  Remind students that presentations are more than just what is engaging on the screen. Help students understand that presenting includes their attitude, body language, and voice tones. Facilitate a discussion about how to make a presentation engaging through voice. Have students add their completed products to their portfolio."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Understanding Identity Theft Discussion","Teachers use discussion points to introduce students to identity theft, the dangers and the safety rules to prevent it.","Whole Group","Discussion",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Parts and Navigation","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with components and navigation of a spreadsheet as they navigate cells, rows, and columns, enter, select, and organize data, and select groups of cells and entire rows and columns in a spreadsheet in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Healthy Habits","Spreadsheets are powerful organizational tools that allow the user to manage and understand large amounts of data. In this lesson, students will conduct a survey, create a spreadsheet, and input data into the spreadsheet in order to analyze results.   ","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Basic Formatting","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice entering data to enhance spreadsheets using titles, borders, colors, and various formatting tools, sorting information alphabetically and numerically, and organizing data. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Planning for the Future","In this lesson, students will reformat an existing spreadsheet using specific tools to enhance the functionality of a report and to make the information easier to understand. Students will use what they have learned and create their own spreadsheet to help them plan for the future. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson Using Spreadsheets: Basic Formatting.  ","Application","Guided",65]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Analyzing Data","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice using spreadsheet software to analyze data. The learners will create, label, and modify pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs to effectively read, interpret, and communicate information. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Sell Me On It","In this project-based lesson, students (like marketing experts) will work in competitive teams to create an advertisement for a product of their choice. Students will accomplish this task by creating and analyzing line, pie, and column graphs that reveal helpful information about their target audience and product. Each step of the project is accompanied by a formative assessment that will check student learning and guide them in creating a successful project that showcases their knowledge.","Application","Small Group",80]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Formulas","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice identifying a cell's row and column location, entering mathematical formulas in cells, and copying and pasting formulas across multiple cells in spreadsheets in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Very Interesting","Students study the concepts of compound interest, saving, and credit card debt. They use spreadsheets to calculate the impact of factors such as interest, deposits, and payments on savings accounts and credit card debt. They reflect on their learning and set goals for making good decisions about saving and credit card use.","Application","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Functions","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice formatting the functions of sum, mean, minimum and maximum, locating the function library, using the function tool, and specifying function cell ranges in spreadsheets.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Now I'm Hungry","Do you like the idea of being able to do your work faster and more efficiently? How about learning strategies that will speed up your progress in finishing math assignments, with complete accuracy? This application exercise will help you learn to calculate, organize, and interpret data at the click of a button using computer software.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Sharing and Filtering","The learners receive direct instruction and practice organizing and analyzing spreadsheet data as they add and remove filters, save and store spreadsheets, use wrap text, scroll and freeze panes, and collaborate and share through cloud computing and web-based software in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","It's Just Business","Students collaborate in pairs to navigate and read data in a spreadsheet using text wrapping, freezing rows, and filtering. They will also learn to share a spreadsheet stored in the cloud with another user. This activity will help them organize, read, and analyze data. Students should complete this activity after viewing the Sharing and Filtering lesson.","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Trends and Forecasts","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using spreadsheets to identify trends and forecast possibilities as they explore primary source data, published data and original data, enter data and insert a chart or graph into a spreadsheet, and evaluate types of trend lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Creating and Maintaining a Database","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in planning, creating, and maintaining a database as they define fields and types, add and edit data and properties, and filter records using Boolean logic.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"Business Applications","Event Letter Mail Merge","Students create and use a database and perform a mail merge to generate personalized letters.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications"," Student Choice Presentations","Students select a project from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,null,null,null,null,"Total minutes in unit"]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Have students practice entering data to create spreadsheets based on content being studied in core curriculum, physical education, or other classes to show how the data is represented. When students finish their work with class time remaining, encourage them to utilize Adaptive Keyboarding to improve their technique, accuracy and WPM. Completed projects should be added to portfolios throughout the year. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Computational Thinking - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Algorithmic Problem Solving","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with algorithmic problem solving and computational thinking. They will identify algorithms, inputs and outputs, construct problem statements, and use sample cases, abstraction, and decomposition to analyze problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Models and Simulations","The learners analyze and evaluate algorithmic processes through modeling and flowcharts, and use simulations as tools to test different variables and conditions as they receive direct instruction and practice with the modeling process and computational thinking in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","The Perfect Park","In this application exercise, the student takes on the role of an architect. The student is presented with the task of creating a community's ideal park with a budget of $750,000. The student is provided with a list of the community's requirements and budget and the student creates an illustrated model of the community park. The student utilizes a data model by creating a spreadsheet of the park costs. Finally, the student creates a flowchart that decomposes the task of seeking community approval for the park.  ","Application","Guided",120]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Implement and Test","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with algorithms, the testing process, and computational thinking as they find ways to simplify and clarify the algorithmic process, develop testing methods for algorithms, find errors, and improve the efficiency of algorithms in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Just Dance","Students will use their knowledge of algorithms to design a process for hosting a school dance.    ","Application","Guided",60]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Computational Thinking - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a project from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Business Applications","Portfolio Development","Provide time for students to reflect on the assignments they have completed to select items to save to their portfolio. Consider a written reflection in addition to or as an alternative.","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - If you and your students are new to computational thinking, facilitate a discussion about other areas of life where computational thinking can be applied. Completing the coding lessons alongside your students is a great way to share the learning experience. Provide time for students to reflect on the assignments they have completed to select items to save to their portfolio. Consider a written reflection in addition to or as an alternative."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","This Just In!","How should we react to breaking news? With mobile phone alerts, social media updates, and 24/7 news cycles, it's hard to escape the daily flood of breaking news. But do kids really understand what they're seeing when stories first break? Help students analyze breaking news with a critical eye for false or incomplete information, and discuss the downsides of our \"always-on\" news media culture.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Multimedia Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Multimedia. It assesses the learner's knowledge of the basics of graphic design, desktop publishing, and video editing as a way to communicate ideas.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Creating and Enhancing Images and Graphics","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with digital images and graphics as they use graphics software to create and edit documents with bitmap and vector images, enhance and manipulate images, use layers for multiple elements, and compress files in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","The Next Hot Product","Students tap creativity and show their understanding of technology by developing an idea for a new product that follows trends in technology and writing a reflection about their creative process. They pitch their new products to the Research and Development department of a company to persuade the company to turn their idea into reality. The pitch includes: - A graphic representation of the product - A description of what the product does - An explanation of the current technology trends that will make the product a success - A prediction of the impact the product will have on the user and on society.","Application","Guided",90]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Designing Documents with Desktop Publishing","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using desktop publishing software to create clean and consistent visual design elements. They will consider text, images, white space, templates, guides, and use advanced tools and features in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Completing a Task","Students form groups and write step-by-step instruction guides about how to complete a software or hardware task.","Application","Small Group",120]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Creating and Editing Video and Audio","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with tools and terms used in video editing software as they add, trim, and assemble video and audio clips into a finished project, including elements like transitions, titles, graphics, and music.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Storytelling Through Film","This application exercise allows students to build on previous knowledge of audio and video to create their own short film. In addition to demonstrating their knowledge of various applications, students' stories will have to reflect their understanding of basic story structure and include an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. The culmination of this mini-project will result in a small \"film festival\" where students can showcase their two-minute films and evaluate one another's strengths and areas that need improvement.  \n","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Multimedia","Storytelling Through Film Festival (Presentations)","Students present their film with whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Assessment","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Multimedia Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Multimedia. It assesses the learner's knowledge of the basics of graphic design, desktop publishing, and video editing as a way to communicate ideas.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Student Choice Presentations","Students select a project from this module and deliver a presentation whole class, small group, or to an alternate audience.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,null,null,null,null,"Total minutes in unit",{"$f":"SUM(G220:G231)","v":510}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - This is the perfect time of the year to put together mini projects which end in digital publication to highlight students' entire year of learning. Remind students to add their work products to their portfolios. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. Include completed assignments in the student portfolio."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
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[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Online Status Message Basics Discussion Reflection","Teachers use discussion points to talk about online safety rules for using online status messages on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety PSA","Students will work in groups to create a PSA (Public Service Announcement) to remind students about how to stay safe online during the summer. ","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety PSA (Presentations)","Students will work in groups to create a PSA (Public Service Announcement) to remind students about how to stay safe online during the summer.","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,null,"Technology Showcase (Optional)","Students present their portfolios, favorite projects, or Summer Online Presentations to a selected audience."]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Online safety is important to revisit at the end of the year to remind students that they need to be smart when online - whether at home or at school. Provide parents with resources to help them keep their students safe online, like the 'Parent Online Safety Guide' linked below. Host an in-person or virtual technology showcase to share student work to wrap up the school year and provide students and parents with ideas for continuing to practice their digital literacy skills during the summer. "]
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[null,"EasyTech Curriculum Map - Middle School Course"]
[null,"2022-2023"]
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[null,"This Curriculum Map provides a suggested order of assignments for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum in your classroom. For planning purposes, it is recommended that approximately 180 minutes of digital literacy curriculum is delivered each week through whole group, independent, or guided practice implementation models."]
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[null,"Prior to beginning the school year, it is recommended that you create student technology portfolios (digital or print) to provide students with a way to share their learning. The portfolio may include EasyTech certificates, reports, and application exercise entries and work products. Pictures are a great way to show your students in the learning process and can be used at the end of the year for a class slideshow or technology showcase."]
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[null,"Remember to provide students with time each week to improve their keyboarding technique, accuracy, and speed through Adaptive Keyboarding after they have completed keyboarding lessons and guided practice exercises."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Getting Started","Creating a Portfolio","Students create a portfolio that includes technology projects and a corresponding checklist.","Application","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Keyboard Layout and Keyboarding Procedures","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.  ","Practice and Assessment","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Safekeeping Personal Information Discussion Reflection","Keeping Personal Information Safe: In this lesson, teachers use discussion points to stress the importance of not revealing personal information online, addressing the types of information that should be kept private, safety rules students should follow to prevent unwanted contact, and how to “ignore and report” when they receive inappropriate messages. The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning.","Instruction","Whole Group",35]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Dealing with Cyberbullying","The learners receive direct instruction and practice dealing with cyberbullying as they understand how to treat everyone with respect, avoid gossip, and the effects of cyberbullying. Learners are introduced to privacy settings and blocking messages as a way to respond to cyberbullies, and who to reach out to for help in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Cyberbullying Case Study: Beyond the Victim","Students will read a case study of a cyberbullying situation and determine a course of action to resolve the situation. Students will look at the case from the perspectives of the victim, the cyberbully, a parent, and a friend. This approach will encourage students to consider the impact that cyberbullying has on more than the victim. The students will share their assigned perspective with the class and discuss possible resolutions to the situation. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson Dealing with Cyberbullying. ","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Get the Word Out","Cyber Bullying - How to stop being cyber bullied, what to do when others are cyber bullied: Students will research ways to stop cyber bullying and then create a survey to poll other classrooms in the school about their knowledge of cyber bullying. With this information, students will analyze the results and create key slogans to help design a poster to post around the school to educate and make others aware of cyber bullying. ","Application","Small Group",270]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Being Aware of What You Share","How can you protect your privacy when you're online? Kids share a lot of information whenever they go online -- sometimes on purpose, sometimes not. But do they understand that online privacy isn't just what they say and post? Help your students learn about their digital footprints and the steps they can take to shape what others find and see about them.","Instruction","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Healthy Computing Discussion Reflection","Computer addiction, ergonomics, preventing Repetitive Motion Injuries (RMI), effects of sleep deprivation: Teachers use discussion points to introduce students to the concept of using computers and technology in a healthy way, addressing topics such as addictive behaviors, effects of excessive computer use on other areas of life, and risks of ergonomic-related injuries. The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning. ","Instruction","Whole Group",35]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Digital Media and Your Brain - Student Video","How does digital media try to hook you, and what can you do about it? Sometimes when you're using media, it's hard to stop. Lots of people even say they feel \"addicted\" to their phones or the apps and games they use. But is digital media actually designed to get you hooked? Have students think about the ways different digital media does -- and does not -- help us find healthy media balance.    This engaging video-based instructional item is from the Digital Media and Your Brain lesson and is intended for independent learning.","Instruction","Whole Group",4]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Digital Citizenship","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in digital citizenship and responsible use of technology. They learn about digital footprints, the importance of privacy settings and creating a strong password and how to avoid websites that ask for personal information in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Netiquette in Online Communications","In this animated video, Trey and two of his classmates are collaborating on their Virtual Science Fair project in a private chatroom when netiquette issues derail them from their task. The lesson introduces what netiquette is, why it’s important, and shows some of the negative sides of online communication.    [Tips for Online Communication](https://content.learning.com/teacher/pdf/remote-learning/NetiquetteTips.pdf)","Instruction","Independent",7]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Who Are You Online?","What are the benefits and drawbacks of presenting yourself in different ways online? What does it actually mean to \"be yourself\" or to \"be real\"? Those are deep thoughts for any middle-schooler. For kids today, these questions matter online, too. Help your students explore why some people create different or alternate personas for themselves online and on social media.","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Be Cyber Safe!","Students work in groups to recommend online safety strategies for a given scenario. This activity will challenge students to think about how to best protect themselves from potentially harmful situations in terms of appropriate online behavior and sharing information. Using this information, students create a list of Internet Safety Rules and prepare design specifications for an online slide show on cyber safety. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech Online Safety lesson. ","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Texting Safety Discussion Reflection","Texting Safety: Teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concept of texting, emphasizing cell phone safety, netiquette, and cyber bullying. The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning.","Instruction","Whole Group",35]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Think Before You Text","Texting Safety, Prevention of \"Sexting:\" Students research information on cell phone safety focusing on how to prevent and protect themselves from potentially harmful situations when it comes to using cell phones and texting. Using this information, students create their own \"contracts\" for acceptable/safe texting use and benefits.","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Online Status Message Basics Discussion Reflection","Teachers use discussion points to talk about online safety rules for using online status messages on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning. ","Instruction","Whole Group",35]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* The Power of Digital Footprints - Student Video","What is a digital footprint, and what does yours convey? What others find about us online shapes who they think we are and how they feel about us. But do kids know what kinds of tracks they've already left? Help your students learn about their digital footprints and the steps they can take in the future to shape what others find and see about them online.    This engaging video-based instructional item is from the The Power of Digital Footprints lesson and is intended for independent learning.","Instruction","Independent",1]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","My Social Media Life","How does social media affect our relationships? For most middle-schoolers, being on social media can mean connecting with friends, sharing pictures, and keeping up to date. But it can also mean big-time distractions, social pressures, and more. Help students navigate the different feelings they may already be experiencing on social media.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Social Media and Digital Footprints: Our Responsibilities","How does using social media affect our digital footprints? Social media can be a place to connect, learn, and, most of all, share. But how much do kids know about what they're sharing -- and not just about themselves but each other? Help students think critically about their digital footprints on social media.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Chatting Safely Online - Student Video","How do you chat safely with people you meet online? Games, social media, and other online spaces give kids opportunities to meet and chat with others outside the confines of their real-life communities. But how well do kids actually know the people they're meeting and interacting with? Help students consider whom they're talking to and the types of information they're sharing online.    This engaging video-based instructional item is from the Chatting Safely Online lesson and is intended for independent learning. ","Instruction","Independent",4]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Halt! Who Goes There? Avoiding Online Creeps","Students complete activities in which they practice identifying language that might indicate when they are dealing with online creeps, and devise strategies for avoiding and dealing with individuals who may want to harm them. Students then create presentations to inform fourth graders about how they can communicate safely online. ","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Understanding Identity Theft Discussion Reflection","Teachers use discussion points to introduce students to identity theft, the dangers and the safety rules to prevent it. The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning.","Instruction","Whole Group",20]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Finding Balance in a Digital World - Student Video","How do we balance digital media use in our lives? We use digital media every day, from texting, streaming TV shows, and gaming all the way to using voice assistants or ordering our food online. For today's kids, it's a lot more than just \"screen time.\" So how can we help students balance their online and offline lives? It starts with recognizing just how much media we use.    This engaging video-based instructional item is from the Finding Balance in a Digital World lesson and is intended for independent learning. ","Instruction","Independent",2]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","My Media Use: A Personal Challenge","What is your strategy for finding media balance? Most of us use a lot of digital media in our daily lives -- even when we don't realize it! Having a balance between online and offline time is important, but healthy media balance might look different for everyone. Help students create a personalized plan for healthy media use.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",55]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety and Digital Citizenship: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Online Safety & Digital Citizenship Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe, ethical online practices. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about proper online behavior, dealing with and preventing cyberbullying, and demonstrating strategies for safe and open communication.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - These lessons help set a firm foundation for safe, appropriate, responsible, and effective technology use throughout the year. Include a whole group introduction to Adaptive Keyboarding so that students understand how to access and use it when they finish their classwork early."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Basic Components","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in computer basics as they understand names and functions of basic components such as processor, input, output, and storage devices, and differentiate between analog and digital information.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Using Program Menus and Toolbars","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with toolbars and program menus as they use the help tool to understand how to perform a task in a program, use the toolbar for common tasks, open programs and create, print, and save documents in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Operating Systems and Browsing","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the area of operating systems and browsing as they gain knowledge about computer and mobile device operating systems, graphical user interfaces, icons, apps, and how to find files and folders.  ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Software, Buttons, and Controls","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice related to various types of software. The learners will gain knowledge about types of software, how to select the appropriate software to complete a task, and how to use the buttons and controls found in software.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software and Society","Students choose an application, research and interview to find out how the application is used, describe how their application could help complete a chosen task and hold a class debate about which programs are best for certain tasks. ","Application","Small Group",180]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Navigating Ribbon Interfaces","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using the ribbon interface in software including the applications button, help tool, tabs and labels, commands and groups found on each tab, dialog box, shortcuts, and setting up quick access buttons in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware and Software Fundamentals: Networking","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice related to the basic components and functions of a network as they gain knowledge about file sharing and storage, compatibility, and ethical use of networks. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Using Networks","Students identify terms related to networks and answer questions. ","Application","Independent",60]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: Network Compatibility Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concepts of LANs and WANs, cross-platform connectivity, file format issues, and using help menus. The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning.","Instruction","Whole Group",35]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Share and Tell","File-sharing and peer-to-peer networks: Students research the pros and cons of file sharing and participate in classroom debates to clearly examine the benefits of file sharing and to be aware of the drawbacks and how to stay safe and legal while using these programs. ","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","IT Fundamentals: Input, Output, and Files Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concepts of computer fundamentals such as input, output, and processing devices, analog vs. digital information, storage devices, and file formats. The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning.   ","Instruction","Whole Group",35]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Mobile Devices are Technology To Go","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) that have built-in browsers, apps, and connect to a wireless computer or cell phone network. Learners are introduced to in-app purchases and ad-supported apps, limiting push notifications, and reviewing the terms, privacy policies, and practices of all apps.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware and Software Fundamentals: Computing in the Cloud","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with cloud computing as they explore what cloud computing is and understand that cloud services can automatically synchronize and save data across multiple devices. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","The Computer Fundamentals Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computer Fundamentals. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about symbols of technology, computer systems, network basics, and hardware and software - including the ethical use issues surrounding them.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Keyboarding is a skill that should be practiced with a focus of technique, accuracy and then WPM. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice using Adaptive Keyboarding."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Communicating with Instant Messaging","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice collaborating via instant messaging (IM) as they communicate clearly, safely, and successfully online, use proper netiquette and responsible Internet safety practices during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","What is Thy Message?","In this activity, students learn about various types of dialog techniques. They work in teams to translate a scene from a play by Shakespeare and re-create the scene in modern-day language to show their own understanding and interpretation. Students then act out their written dialog aloud for the class. The class analyzes differences between written and spoken communication and how online technologies tie into those concepts. ","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Reading and Writing Blogs","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using critical thinking skills as they use Web logs to communicate ideas effectively, read and write blogs, and practice responsible use of blog information and software.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",18]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Navigation and Mapping","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with the navigation and operation of mapping technology through global navigation systems (GPS), longitude and latitude, mapping software, and the technical writing skills required to produce clear directions in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Communicating with Podcasts","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice planning, producing, and promoting podcasts as they recognize ethos, pathos, and logos in speech, effectively communicate ideas to an audience, and use podcasts to produce other creative works. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Sharing on a Community Site","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice sharing information on community sites as they use productivity tools for collaboration, produce visual images and messages based on their audience, and practice ethical use of technology.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Using Personal Learning Networks","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice creating and using personal learning networks as they use digital tools like blogs, wikis, and audio/video communication to collaborate with peers and experts, and understand the value of connectivism in learning in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Present and Future You","Students create an action plan for lifelong learning. Students research three digital tools and then choose one to create an action plan. The action plan explains how students can use this digital tool as part of their personal learning network now and in the future, as a college student and future career.  ","Application","Independent",35]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Ethical Use of Digital Resources","The learners receive direct instruction and practice identifying reliable, valid online information, accurately citing resources, identifying sources within the public domain or covered by creative commons, and requesting permission to create a derivative work in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Safety: Online Ethics Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use the discussion points to help students understand the concepts of online ethics, including acceptable use policies, copyright laws, computer hacking, piracy, intentional virus setting, and invasion of privacy. The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning. ","Instruction","Whole Group",30]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Ethics and Consequences","Students answer questions about privacy, ethical issues and consequences for computer hacking, piracy, intentional virus setting, and invasion of privacy. This application exercise is a follow up to the Online Ethics discussion.","Application","Independent",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","The Four Factors of Fair Use","What rights to fair use do you have as a creator? Kids can be voracious consumers -- and creators -- of media, and it's easier than ever for them to find and share digital content online. But do middle-schoolers know about concepts like fair use, copyright, and public domain? Give students a framework they can use to better understand how fair use works in the real world.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Navigating the World Wide Web","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice navigating a website's URL, bookmarking a website for faster future access, and troubleshooting page errors and Internet connectivity issues as they use webpages.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet? Web? Potato, Potato. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off","In this beginning search lesson, students will take a look at the Internet, the web, browsers, and search engines. After becoming acquainted with the basics of the Internet and how the Internet works, students will be ready to dive into searching. ","Application","Independent",60]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Finding Credible News","How do we find credible information on the internet? The web is full of questionable stuff, from rumors and inaccurate information to outright lies and so-called fake news. So how do we help students weed out the bad and find what's credible? Help students dig into why and how false information ends up online in the first place, and then practice evaluating the credibility of what they're finding online.","Instruction and Practice","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Effective Search Strategies","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using search engines as they search with keywords and phrases relevant to desired results, navigate search results to find and validate specific information, and properly cite web-based content.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Let's Take a Trip","In this lesson, students will use Internet search tools to research and plan a trip to a destination of their choice.   ","Application","Independent",60]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Online Personal Communication","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice safely and responsibly using personal online communication tools for collaboration, such as email, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), instant messaging, and private chats. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","A Personal Approach to Effective Online Communication","Learning to use the Internet effectively benefits each individual who chooses to go online. In this application exercise, you will find essential strategies to yield the greatest benefit during your online communication. Specifically, you will learn the basics of utilizing proper email etiquette when preparing email to send to others as well as how to distinguish between safe and unsafe online communication.","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Sharing Safely Online","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with Internet safety as they use smart practices for public online communication tools like blogs, forums, and media sharing sites, and understand the permanent nature of publishing information online in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Sharing and Collaborating Online","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice safely using shared online communication tools, successfully sharing content and collaborating online with others, and setting up and using shared resources like folders, files, calendars, and video meetings in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Person of Interest","In this activity, students will utilize a class web-based discussion forum and write a post as a person of interest (scientist, author, mathematician, historian). Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson Online Communication: Public.  ","Application","Small Group",75]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Being a Global Citizen with Mapping Tools","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in mapping technology such as using interactive online maps for driving and public transportation directions, satellite, street view, and GPS technology for navigation, and how maps can help solve logistical problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Booking Brian's Vacation","In this lesson, students (acting as travel agents) will research travel times and locations for when their friend, Brian, takes a vacation to the location of their choice. Students will not only use various mapping applications to calculate the costs associated with Brian's visit, but will utilize their knowledge of writing informational texts to create an itinerary for their time together. Building on their work, this activity will then ask students to think about the greater implications of their itinerary and how it can be used to benefit people around the globe.  ","Application","Independent",60]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage and Online Communication: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Internet Usage & Online Communication Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for safe use of online communication tools and successful navigation and searching of the World Wide Web. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about performing safe and effective online searches, using digital collaboration tools, reading and writing blogs, and practicing online ethics.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Facilitate a discussion with students about the various ways that they communicate online and how it has impacted their in-person communication. Remind students about the importance of using the Internet wisely whether at school, home, or elsewhere. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice their keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. Remind students to add completed work to their portfolios."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Overview of Basic Skills","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners organize a script as they receive direct instruction and practice with word processing skills. They will locate and open recent documents, copy, cut, paste, save, print, and use the bold, italic, and underline buttons to emphasize text. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating Professional Documents","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using proofreading and organization tools to make professional documents. They will check for and correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors, include page numbers and bullets, and utilize auto-correct in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Put Word Processing to Work for You!","Students work in groups to review a submission to the school newspaper, making formatting and editing recommendations. This scenario challenges students to apply their knowledge of basic word-processing formatting techniques. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson \"Functions and Formats.\"","Application","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Flyer Print Design","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson as they format a flyer by importing an image, using the sizing tool, applying text wrap and text justification, inserting tab stops and a table, and creating visual contrast with font styles and sizes. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Tools of the Trade","When people create posters, flyers, or other documents on the computer, they want them to look nice. Not only do the right font and image size make a document look more appealing, they also make it easier for people to read and understand the information that the document contains. In this lesson, students will pay attention to specific text and image formatting techniques as they create hypothetical welcome packets designed to provide valuable information to visitors of their town. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson \"Word Processing: Flyer Print Design.\" ","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Visual Design","Through direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will use color, vertical alignment, page layout, indents, margins, borders, and orientation in the design of websites, magazines, book covers, and logos to impact a reader's interpretation of information.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Following Directions","Students form groups and write step-by-step instruction guides about how to travel from one part of their school to another.  ","Application","Small Group",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Formatting Essays Using MLA","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using a word processor to format essays following MLA guidelines. They will use proper spacing to enhance readability, understand the difference between headers and footers, cite sources, and create a bibliography in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","What a Cite! MLA","How to cite sources using MLA format, why citing is important: Students study the ethical use of information and media in research reports and presentations. They learn what kind of information must be cited and how to cite sources correctly. For a final project, students choose a topic and create an annotated bibliography of relevant resources in correct MLA style. Note: There is also a APA version of this application exercise. Use the one appropriate to the style your district uses.   ","Application","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","What A Cite! APA","How to cite sources using APA format, why citing is important: Students study the ethical use of information and media in research reports and presentations. They learn what kind of information must be cited and how to cite sources correctly. For a final project, students choose a topic and create an annotated bibliography of relevant resources in correct APA style. Note: There is also a MLA version of this application exercise. Use the one appropriate to the style your district uses. ","Application","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Avoiding Plagiarism","Plagiarism is a serious issue in schools today, especially with the widespread availability of information on the Internet. In this lesson, students will learn the importance of properly citing work and be able to recognize when a citation is incorrect. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson \"Word Processing: Formatting Essays Using MLA.\"","Application","Small Group",60]
[null,"Business Applications",{"$f":"HYPERLINK(\"https://platform.learning.com/interface/TeacherSky/Default.aspx#stepname=CurriculumItemDetails&Id=13dc9455-9091-4daa-82ed-fc08e77f2b5c%7CEN\",\"Word Processing: Proofreading and Correcting - Level 3\")","v":"Word Processing: Proofreading and Correcting - Level 3"},"This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides four practice opportunities for the learners related to spelling (using a spell checker), punctuation, capitalization, and homonyms as they assist several newspaper reporters edit their articles.","Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating Original Works","Through this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in the area of applying existing knowledge and skills to generate new ideas, products, or processes, and to create original works.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Know and Show","Students choose a digital tool to research. They start by documenting what they already know about the tool and what questions they have. They then research the tool and organize their information in order to write a how-to guide to pass on the learning to another classmate. ","Application","Small Group",35]
[null,"Business Applications","Collaborative Tools in Word Processors","Students use collaborative word processor tools to edit, add, and track changes and write comments in documents.  ","Application","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Finding Alternative Solutions to Problems","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in finding alternate solutions to problems. The learners will begin solving problems and finding alternate solutions by looking at a problem through diverse perspectives, variables, data, and processes.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Well Stated! Technical Writing","Students compare two writing samples using a Venn Diagram. Then, use a rating guide to rate three different kinds of technical writing pieces based on certain criteria, and optionally, share and discuss their findings with a partner. Using what they have learned, students create their own technical writing example.  ","Application","Small Group",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Word Processing Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Word Processing. It assesses the learner's knowledge and skills about appropriate use of word processing applications when creating and communicating ideas, including basic document creation, editing, proofreading and correcting, formatting reports, and creating original works.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Provide students with opportunities to publish their classroom writing in word processing documents along with digital or hand-drawn art that illustrates their writing. Remind students to place copies of their completed work in their technology portfolio. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. Adding completed project to the student portfolio should happen all year."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Presentations Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Basic Slide Show Elements","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using basic presentation software tools and elements, such as text and graphics, to design an eye-catching and easy-to-read presentation. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Enhanced Presentations with Basic Elements","In this lesson, students will modify an existing presentation about area and volume to include a sharp design and engaging elements. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson Presentation: Basic Elements video. ","Application","Independent",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Consistency and Visual Design","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using a variety of presentation tools with consistent design elements and themes to ensure a slide show presentation looks professional and conveys information in a focused and interesting way. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Consistency and Good Visual Design in Presentations","What makes an ordinary presentation extraordinary? Students will incorporate elements of good visual design and consistency in creating an effective presentation using slide presentation software. They will learn to use consistent font types and sizes, colors, bullets, and image alignments to create a visually appealing presentation. Students should complete this activity after viewing the Consistency and Visual Design lesson.  ","Application","Independent",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Motion Design","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with advanced features and tools in presentation software to gain a better understanding of how and when to use transitions and animations, add notes to slides, and use slide show preview. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Saving the Environment Within My Community","In this application exercise, students will be required to construct a problem/solution presentation on an assigned topic that has to do with protecting the environment. Students will incorporate information they have learned regarding motion design and presenting as well as information learned through research about an assigned environmental topic. ","Application","Independent",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Saving the Environment Within My Community (Presentations)","Class presentations","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Designing Non-Linear Presentations","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with the design, create, and publish process. They will use advanced tools to create master slides, add animations, transitions, video elements, and hyperlinks to develop non-linear slide show presentations in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Gaming to Learn","In this activity, students will create a game that employs nonlinear slide features. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson Nonlinear Presentation Design video.  ","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Gaming to Learn (Presentations)","Class presentations","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Business Applications","Career Exploration","Students choose a possible career and create a presentation that explores the characteristics of that career.","Application","Independent",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Career Exploration (Presentations)","Class presentations","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Presentations Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Presentations. It assesses the learner's knowledge of basic presentation skills using slideshow applications.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.   ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Remind students that presentations are more than just what is engaging on the screen. Help students understand that presenting includes their attitude, body language, and voice tones. Facilitate a discussion about how to make a presentation engaging through voice as they prepare for their 'Saving the Environment Within My Community' presentation. Remind students to add their presentation materials to their portfolio."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Multimedia Skills Check - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Multimedia. It assesses the learner's knowledge of the basics of graphic design, desktop publishing, and video editing as a way to communicate ideas.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Creating and Enhancing Images and Graphics","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with digital images and graphics as they use graphics software to create and edit documents with bitmap and vector images, enhance and manipulate images, use layers for multiple elements, and compress files in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Do I need it?","In this lesson, students will learn the importance of visual graphics in a document and how to implement graphics in their projects to enhance their ideas. Students will be asked to design an advertisement using visual images to convey a message.   ","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Designing Documents with Desktop Publishing","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using desktop publishing software to create clean and consistent visual design elements. They will consider text, images, white space, templates, guides, and use advanced tools and features in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Family Biography","Students use desktop publishing software to create and format a family biography. ","Application","Independent",90]
[null,"Multimedia","H2O, We Need You So!","In this lesson, students will create a brochure explaining the importance of not throwing chemicals or waste into their local waterway (nearest ocean, river, lake, etc.) and ways to actively protect this environment. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson Desktop Publishing. ","Application","Small Group",75]
[null,"Multimedia","H2O, We Need You So! (Presentations)","Class presentations","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Creating and Editing Video and Audio","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with tools and terms used in video editing software as they add, trim, and assemble video and audio clips into a finished project, including elements like transitions, titles, graphics, and music.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Interviewing Historical Figures","Students research an historical figure from a notable era, role-play, and use a digital video camera and video editing software to create a filmed interview.","Application","Small Group",90]
[null,"Multimedia","Interviewing Historical Figures (Presentations)","Class presentations","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Multimedia","Acceptable Use Policy Video","Students create and record skits about a rule in the school's acceptable use policy.  ","Application","Small Group",60]
[null,"Multimedia","Acceptable Use Policy Video (Presentations)","Class presentations","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Multimedia Skills Check - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Multimedia. It assesses the learner's knowledge of the basics of graphic design, desktop publishing, and video editing as a way to communicate ideas.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
[]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Remind students that a digital portfolio is a multimedia product, and encourage students to place all of their projects in their digital portfolio. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. Multimedia projects should be included in the student portfolio."]
[]
[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Computational Thinking - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Algorithmic Problem Solving","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with algorithmic problem solving and computational thinking. They will identify algorithms, inputs and outputs, construct problem statements, and use sample cases, abstraction, and decomposition to analyze problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Exploring the World Through a Disability","This activity allows students to learn about algorithms by experiencing what life could be like with a disability. Students will create their own algorithms and research adaptive technology that people with disabilities must utilize in order to complete everyday tasks.  ","Application","Blended Learning",60]
[null,"Computer Science","Algorithmic Government","Students will research how a bill becomes a law in order to learn about the algorithms used to drive this governmental process. ","Application","Blended Learning",135]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Models and Simulations","The learners analyze and evaluate algorithmic processes through modeling and flowcharts, and use simulations as tools to test different variables and conditions as they receive direct instruction and practice with the modeling process and computational thinking in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","The Perfect Park","In this application exercise, the student takes on the role of an architect. The student is presented with the task of creating a community's ideal park with a budget of $750,000. The student is provided with a list of the community's requirements and budget and the student creates an illustrated model of the community park. The student utilizes a data model by creating a spreadsheet of the park costs. Finally, the student creates a flowchart that decomposes the task of seeking community approval for the park.  ","Application","Blended Learning",120]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Implement and Test","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with algorithms, the testing process, and computational thinking as they find ways to simplify and clarify the algorithmic process, develop testing methods for algorithms, find errors, and improve the efficiency of algorithms in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Egg-cellent Egg Drop","The implementation and testing component of computational thinking challenges students to be innovative and reflective of their work. In this exercise, students will utilize the \"Use-Modify-Create\" method to create a safe landing for their egg drop.  ","Application","Blended Learning",90]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Computational Thinking - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Computational Thinking. It assesses the learner's understanding and ability to use digital tools in the problem solving process.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - If you are new to coding, complete the lessons alongside your students. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level MS (Pre)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level MS (Pre) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Parts and Navigation","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with components and navigation of a spreadsheet as they navigate cells, rows, and columns, enter, select, and organize data, and select groups of cells and entire rows and columns in a spreadsheet in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Weather Spreadsheet","Students will keep track of weather patterns in a chosen location and create a spreadsheet using collected data. ","Application","Independent",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Basic Formatting","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice entering data to enhance spreadsheets using titles, borders, colors, and various formatting tools, sorting information alphabetically and numerically, and organizing data. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Basketball Budget Spreadsheet","Students decide how to spend the remainder of a budget for a youth basketball team. Application Exercises give students an opportunity to apply concepts they have learned in previous instruction. Work completed by a student will be graded through a variety of scoring options including participation and teacher assessment via rubric to provide flexibility with the type of grade sent to the Learning Management System (LMS) gradebook. Student work may include open-ended questions, correct/incorrect responses, a final product and/or self-assessment.","Application","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Analyzing Data","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice using spreadsheet software to analyze data. The learners will create, label, and modify pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs to effectively read, interpret, and communicate information. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Planning for the Future","In this lesson, students will reformat an existing spreadsheet using specific tools to enhance the functionality of a report and to make the information easier to understand. Students will use what they have learned and create their own spreadsheet to help them plan for the future. Students should complete this activity after viewing the EasyTech lesson Using Spreadsheets: Basic Formatting.","Application","Blended Learning",65]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Formulas","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice identifying a cell's row and column location, entering mathematical formulas in cells, and copying and pasting formulas across multiple cells in spreadsheets in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","A Spoonful of Sugar?","Using data charting a person's average daily sugar consumption in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, students will learn to write formulas with relative and absolute references using addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (\\*), and division (/).  ","Application","Blended Learning",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Functions","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice formatting the functions of sum, mean, minimum and maximum, locating the function library, using the function tool, and specifying function cell ranges in spreadsheets.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Orchestra Inventory","Using a spreadsheet program, students calculate the average number of musical instruments in three schools' orchestras.  ","Application","Independent",60]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Sharing and Filtering","The learners receive direct instruction and practice organizing and analyzing spreadsheet data as they add and remove filters, save and store spreadsheets, use wrap text, scroll and freeze panes, and collaborate and share through cloud computing and web-based software in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","It's Just Business","Students collaborate in pairs to navigate and read data in a spreadsheet using text wrapping, freezing rows, and filtering. They will also learn to share a spreadsheet stored in the cloud with another user. This activity will help them organize, read, and analyze data. Students should complete this activity after viewing the Sharing and Filtering lesson.","Application","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Trends and Forecasts","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using spreadsheets to identify trends and forecast possibilities as they explore primary source data, published data and original data, enter data and insert a chart or graph into a spreadsheet, and evaluate types of trend lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Cell Phone Usage","Students will look at information and create tables, equations, and graphs about cell phone plans. Students will come up with comparisons between cell phone plans and look at different representations of the data. Students will use the different representations to make an argument for the best plans. After deciding what is the best cell phone plan, students will explain why they think the plan is the best. Additionally, students will write an effective word problem.","Application","Small Group",35]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Creating and Maintaining a Database","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in planning, creating, and maintaining a database as they define fields and types, add and edit data and properties, and filter records using Boolean logic.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"Business Applications","Movie Database","Students create and use a database about movies.   ","Application","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Event Letter Mail Merge","Students create and use a database and perform a mail merge to generate personalized letters.","Application","Independent",90]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets and Databases: Skills Check - Level MS (Post)","Spreadsheets & Databases - Level MS (Post) evaluates 6th-8th grade concepts for Spreadsheets and Databases. It assesses the learner's understanding of knowledge and appropriate use of spreadsheet applications to arrange, evaluate, store, and share data and understanding of database applications to search different types of information.  ","Assessment","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Have students practice entering data to create spreadsheets and databases based on content being studied in core curriculum, physical education, or classes related to the arts. Have students pick something outside of school that interests them and use that data for their spreadsheet or database. Be sure to have students update their portfolios."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety PSA","Students will work in groups to create a PSA (Public Service Announcement) to remind students about how to stay safe online during the summer. ","Application","Small Group",120]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Summer Online Safety PSA (Presentations)","Class presentations","Application","Whole Group"]
[null,null,"Add all completed projects to student portfolio",null,null,"Independent"]
[null,null,"Technology Showcase (Optional)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Urban Keyboarding Explorer","This engaging and interactive app uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure.   ","Practice and Assessment","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Online safety is important to revisit at the end of the year to remind students that they need to be smart when online - whether at home or at school. Provide parents with resources to help them keep their students safe online, like the 'Parent Online Safety Guide' linked below. Host an in-person or virtual technology showcase to share student work to wrap up the school year and provide students and parents with ideas for continuing to practice their digital literacy skills during the summer. "]
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[null,"This Curriculum Map provides a suggested order of assignments for utilizing the EasyTech curriculum in your classroom. For planning purposes, it is recommended that approximately 90 minutes of digital literacy curriculum is delivered each week through whole group, independent, or guided practice implementation models."]
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[null,"Prior to beginning the school year, it is recommended that you create student technology portfolios (digital or print) to provide students with a way to share their learning. The portfolio may include work products created using digital literacy skills in core curriculum subject areas. Pictures are a great way to show your students in the learning process and can be used at the end of the year for a class slideshow or technology showcase."]
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[null,"Remember to provide students with time each week to improve their keyboarding technique, accuracy, and speed through Adaptive Keyboarding after they have completed keyboarding lessons and guided practice exercises. A reminder has been added to the beginning of each unit for a minimum of 45 minutes of keyboarding practice. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,null,"* CIPA Required topic"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Keyboarding: Keyboard Layout and Keyboarding Procedures","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the layout of the keyboard, correct keyboarding procedures, proper posture and technique, and are introduced to digital keyboarding standards as they work to increase their accuracy and speed.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Online Etiquette Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use discussion points and online activities to introduce students to concepts of netiquette, including proper online behavior, communication conventions, and online safety. The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning.","Instruction","Independent",95]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Digital Citizenship","The learners receive direct instruction and practice dealing with cyberbullying as they understand how to treat everyone with respect, avoid gossip, and the effects of cyberbullying. Learners are introduced to privacy settings and blocking messages as a way to respond to cyberbullies, and who to reach out to for help in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Online Status Messages for High School Discussion Reflection","In this lesson, teachers use discussion points and online activities to introduce students to safety rules for online status message sites. The learner will utilize this reflection to evaluate their participation in the corresponding discussion and reflect on their level of learning.","Instruction  ","Independent",55]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Protecting Online Reputations ","How can you respect the privacy of others online? Tagging friends on social media is a great way to connect with others and capture memorable experiences. But what if they don't want to be tagged? Encourage your students to take responsibility for how they may affect the digital footprints of others.","Instruction  ","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Chatting and Red Flags","How can you tell when an online relationship is risky? Getting to know someone online, without nonverbal cues or being able to see them, can be risky -- from simple misunderstandings to manipulation. Help students navigate and avoid these situations before they go too far.","Instruction","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Curated Lives","How can I create a social media presence that represents the real me? Social media gives us a chance to choose how we present ourselves to the world. We can snap and share a pic in the moment or carefully stage photos and select only the ones we think are best. When students reflect on these choices, they can better understand the self they are presenting and the self they aim to be.","Instruction","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Social Media and How You Feel","How can you use social media in a way that feels positive and healthy? Social media plays a big role in most teens' lives, and research shows that it causes intense feelings -- both positive and negative. But not all media use is the same. There are many benefits that come with both active and passive media use. For better social and emotional well-being, encourage students to become creators of digital media, not just consumers.","Instruction","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Watch your Step! Avoiding Online Creeps","Defense against online predators for grades 9-12. Students complete activities that deal with real-life situations that deal with online creeps, and devise strategies for avoiding and dealing with individuals who may want to harm them. Students then create presentations to inform middle school students about how they can communicate safely online.","Application","Independent",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Text Assured","Prevention of Sexting for grades 9 - 12 ( For middle school students use \"\"Think Before You Text\"\"). Students research information on the statistics of sexting by teenagers, and on how to prevent and protect themselves from potentially harmful situations when it comes to using cell phones and texting. After investigating real-life dangerous texting stories, students use their research information to write letters to cell phone companies explaining the importance of cell phone safety advocacy.   ","Instruction","Independent",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","It's a Scam","Recognizing and avoiding online scams, email scams, and online gambling: Students research information on Internet and e-mail safety in relation to scamming and create games that highlight the main threats and tips on prevention of possible scamming. The games will include specific requirements as well as individual creativity. Students will then use the games to teach younger students about online safety. Students also learn how to shop online safely, and avoid the dangers of public wifi and public computers. ","Application","Independent",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","* Online Safety: Dealing with Cyberbullying","The learners receive direct instruction and practice dealing with cyberbullying as they understand how to treat everyone with respect, avoid gossip, and the effects of cyberbullying. Learners are introduced to privacy settings and blocking messages as a way to respond to cyberbullies, and who to reach out to for help in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","What You Send In \"That Moment When…\"","How can we act with empathy  and positivity when we're online? We've all faced thorny situations where what we say or do could potentially harm or hurt someone. Being honest is important, but is there such a thing as being too honest? Sometimes, innocent -- but insensitive -- comments can easily escalate to digital drama or even cyberbullying. Help students recognize and navigate these types of situations that happen online.","Instruction","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Spread the Word","Cyberbullying awareness and response for grades 9-12. Students research ways to stop cyberbullying and then create an online survey to poll middle school student regarding their knowledge of cyberbullying. With this information, students analyze the results and create presentations and pamphlets to present to middle school students in order to spread the word about the dangers of cyber bullying. ","Application","Guided",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","My Digital Life Is Like…","What is the role of digital media in our lives? We often use our phones or other devices without even thinking about it. But paying closer attention to how -- and how much -- we use digital media can help us find better balance in our lives. Challenge students to truly consider how digital media adds to -- or takes away from -- their overall quality of life.","Instruction","Whole Group",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Hoaxes and Fakes","How can you avoid being fooled by fake videos  and other information online? We know not to believe everything we hear, but what about what we see? Advancements in computer-generated graphics, facial recognition, and video production have led to a world of viral videos that are often difficult to identify as fake. Help your students learn to read what they see on the web \"laterally\" by showing them how to get off the page, check credibility, and find corroboration.","Instruction","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","The Big Data Dilemma","What are the benefits and drawbacks of online tracking? Many of us are aware that we're being tracked when we go online. It's one of the ways our favorite websites and apps know how to recommend content just for us. But how much information are companies actually collecting? And what are they doing with it? Digging into the details can help us make smart decisions about our online privacy and how to protect it.","Instruction","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Risk Check for New Tech","What privacy risks do new technologies present, and how do we decide if they're worth it? New tech, like location services and smart devices, helps make our lives easier and opens opportunities that didn't exist before. But these innovations also come with a cost -- especially to our privacy. Help students consider the benefits and drawbacks of these new technologies -- and decide whether they're ultimately worth it.","Instruction","Whole Group",50]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G14:G32)","v":875}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - These learning experiences help set a firm foundation for safe, appropriate, responsible, and effective technology use throughout the year. Include a whole group introduction to Adaptive Keyboarding so that students understand how to access and use it when they finish their classwork early. Adding student work to the portfolio should happen all year."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Basic Components","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in computer basics as they understand names and functions of basic components such as processor, input, output, and storage devices, and differentiate between analog and digital information.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Using Program Menus and Toolbars","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with toolbars and program menus as they use the help tool to understand how to perform a task in a program, use the toolbar for common tasks, open programs and create, print, and save documents in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Computer Fundamentals: Operating Systems and Browsing","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice in the area of operating systems and browsing as they gain knowledge about computer and mobile device operating systems, graphical user interfaces, icons, apps, and how to find files and folders.  ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Software, Buttons, and Controls","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice related to various types of software. The learners will gain knowledge about types of software, how to select the appropriate software to complete a task, and how to use the buttons and controls found in software.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Software Fundamentals: Navigating Ribbon Interfaces","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using the ribbon interface in software including the applications button, help tool, tabs and labels, commands and groups found on each tab, dialog box, shortcuts, and setting up quick access buttons in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",12]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware and Software Fundamentals: Networking","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice related to the basic components and functions of a network as they gain knowledge about file sharing and storage, compatibility, and ethical use of networks. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware Fundamentals: Mobile Devices are Technology To Go","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) that have built-in browsers, apps, and connect to a wireless computer or cell phone network. Learners are introduced to in-app purchases and ad-supported apps, limiting push notifications, and reviewing the terms, privacy policies, and practices of all apps.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"IT Fundamentals","Hardware and Software Fundamentals: Computing in the Cloud","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice with cloud computing as they explore what cloud computing is and understand that cloud services can automatically synchronize and save data across multiple devices. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Keyboarding is a skill that should be practiced with a focus of technique, accuracy and then WPM. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice using Adaptive Keyboarding."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Communicating with Instant Messaging","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice collaborating via instant messaging (IM) as they communicate clearly, safely, and successfully online, use proper netiquette and responsible Internet safety practices during this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Reading and Writing Blogs","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using critical thinking skills as they use Web logs to communicate ideas effectively, read and write blogs, and practice responsible use of blog information and software.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",18]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Navigation and Mapping","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with the navigation and operation of mapping technology through global navigation systems (GPS), longitude and latitude, mapping software, and the technical writing skills required to produce clear directions in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Communicating with Podcasts","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice planning, producing, and promoting podcasts as they recognize ethos, pathos, and logos in speech, effectively communicate ideas to an audience, and use podcasts to produce other creative works. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Sharing on a Community Site","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice sharing information on community sites as they use productivity tools for collaboration, produce visual images and messages based on their audience, and practice ethical use of technology.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Using Personal Learning Networks","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice creating and using personal learning networks as they use digital tools like blogs, wikis, and audio/video communication to collaborate with peers and experts, and understand the value of connectivism in learning in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Ethical Use of Digital Resources","The learners receive direct instruction and practice identifying reliable, valid online information, accurately citing resources, identifying sources within the public domain or covered by creative commons, and requesting permission to create a derivative work in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Navigating the World Wide Web","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice navigating a website's URL, bookmarking a website for faster future access, and troubleshooting page errors and Internet connectivity issues as they use webpages.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Effective Search Strategies","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners receive direct instruction and practice using search engines as they search with keywords and phrases relevant to desired results, navigate search results to find and validate specific information, and properly cite web-based content.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communications: Online Personal Communication","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice safely and responsibly using personal online communication tools for collaboration, such as email, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), instant messaging, and private chats. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Sharing Safely Online","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with Internet safety as they use smart practices for public online communication tools like blogs, forums, and media sharing sites, and understand the permanent nature of publishing information online in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Online Communication: Sharing and Collaborating Online","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice safely using shared online communication tools, successfully sharing content and collaborating online with others, and setting up and using shared resources like folders, files, calendars, and video meetings in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Online Safety & Digital Citizenship","Internet Usage: Being a Global Citizen with Mapping Tools","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in mapping technology such as using interactive online maps for driving and public transportation directions, satellite, street view, and GPS technology for navigation, and how maps can help solve logistical problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G57:G69)","v":198}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Facilitate a discussion with students about the various ways that they communicate online and how it has impacted their in-person communication. Remind students about the importance of using the Internet wisely whether at school, home, or elsewhere. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice their keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Overview of Basic Skills","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners organize a script as they receive direct instruction and practice with word processing skills. They will locate and open recent documents, copy, cut, paste, save, print, and use the bold, italic, and underline buttons to emphasize text. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating Professional Documents","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using proofreading and organization tools to make professional documents. They will check for and correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors, include page numbers and bullets, and utilize auto-correct in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Flyer Print Design","The learners receive direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson as they format a flyer by importing an image, using the sizing tool, applying text wrap and text justification, inserting tab stops and a table, and creating visual contrast with font styles and sizes. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Visual Design","Through direct instruction and practice in this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will use color, vertical alignment, page layout, indents, margins, borders, and orientation in the design of websites, magazines, book covers, and logos to impact a reader's interpretation of information.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Formatting Essays Using MLA","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using a word processor to format essays following MLA guidelines. They will use proper spacing to enhance readability, understand the difference between headers and footers, cite sources, and create a bibliography in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Creating Original Works","Through this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in the area of applying existing knowledge and skills to generate new ideas, products, or processes, and to create original works.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Word Processing: Finding Alternative Solutions to Problems","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice in finding alternate solutions to problems. The learners will begin solving problems and finding alternate solutions by looking at a problem through diverse perspectives, variables, data, and processes.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G78:G84)","v":135}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Provide students with opportunities to publish their classroom writing in word processing documents along with digital or hand-drawn art that illustrates their writing. Remind students to place copies of their completed work in their technology portfolio. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Basic Slide Show Elements","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using basic presentation software tools and elements, such as text and graphics, to design an eye-catching and easy-to-read presentation. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Consistency and Visual Design","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice using a variety of presentation tools with consistent design elements and themes to ensure a slide show presentation looks professional and conveys information in a focused and interesting way. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Motion Design","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice with advanced features and tools in presentation software to gain a better understanding of how and when to use transitions and animations, add notes to slides, and use slide show preview. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Presentations: Designing Non-Linear Presentations","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with the design, create, and publish process. They will use advanced tools to create master slides, add animations, transitions, video elements, and hyperlinks to develop non-linear slide show presentations in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G93:G96)","v":60}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Remind students that presentations are more than just what is engaging on the screen. Help students understand that presenting includes their attitude, body language, and voice tones. Facilitate a discussion about how to make a presentation engaging through voice. Remind students to add presentation materials to their portfolio."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Creating and Enhancing Images and Graphics","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with digital images and graphics as they use graphics software to create and edit documents with bitmap and vector images, enhance and manipulate images, use layers for multiple elements, and compress files in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Designing Documents with Desktop Publishing","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice using desktop publishing software to create clean and consistent visual design elements. They will consider text, images, white space, templates, guides, and use advanced tools and features in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Multimedia","Multimedia: Creating and Editing Video and Audio","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with digital images and graphics as they use graphics software to create and edit documents with bitmap and vector images, enhance and manipulate images, use layers for multiple elements, and compress files in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G103:G107)","v":90}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Remind students that a digital portfolio is a multimedia product, and encourage students to place all of their projects in their digital portfolio. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding. "]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Algorithmic Problem Solving","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with algorithmic problem solving and computational thinking. They will identify algorithms, inputs and outputs, construct problem statements, and use sample cases, abstraction, and decomposition to analyze problems in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Models and Simulations","The learners analyze and evaluate algorithmic processes through modeling and flowcharts, and use simulations as tools to test different variables and conditions as they receive direct instruction and practice with the modeling process and computational thinking in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Computer Science","Computational Thinking: Implement and Test","The learners receive direct instruction and practice with algorithms, the testing process, and computational thinking as they find ways to simplify and clarify the algorithmic process, develop testing methods for algorithms, find errors, and improve the efficiency of algorithms in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G116:G118)","v":45}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - If you are new to coding, complete the lessons alongside your students. When students finish their work with class time remaining, have them practice keyboarding skills using Adaptive Keyboarding."]
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[null,"Digital Literacy Concept","Curriculum Title","Description","Learning Component","Implementation Model","Time             (in minutes)"]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Parts and Navigation","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice with components and navigation of a spreadsheet as they navigate cells, rows, and columns, enter, select, and organize data, and select groups of cells and entire rows and columns in a spreadsheet in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Basic Formatting","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice entering data to enhance spreadsheets using titles, borders, colors, and various formatting tools, sorting information alphabetically and numerically, and organizing data. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Analyzing Data","This engaging and interactive digital lesson provides direct instruction and practice using spreadsheet software to analyze data. The learners will create, label, and modify pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs to effectively read, interpret, and communicate information. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Formulas","The learners will receive direct instruction and practice identifying a cell's row and column location, entering mathematical formulas in cells, and copying and pasting formulas across multiple cells in spreadsheets in this engaging and interactive digital lesson. ","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Functions","During this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice formatting the functions of sum, mean, minimum and maximum, locating the function library, using the function tool, and specifying function cell ranges in spreadsheets.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Sharing and Filtering","The learners receive direct instruction and practice organizing and analyzing spreadsheet data as they add and remove filters, save and store spreadsheets, use wrap text, scroll and freeze panes, and collaborate and share through cloud computing and web-based software in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Spreadsheets: Trends and Forecasts","The learners receive direct instruction and practice using spreadsheets to identify trends and forecast possibilities as they explore primary source data, published data and original data, enter data and insert a chart or graph into a spreadsheet, and evaluate types of trend lines in this engaging and interactive digital lesson.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",15]
[null,"Business Applications","Databases: Creating and Maintaining a Database","In this engaging and interactive digital lesson, the learners will receive direct instruction and practice in planning, creating, and maintaining a database as they define fields and types, add and edit data and properties, and filter records using Boolean logic.","Instruction and Practice","Independent",25]
[null,"Keyboarding","Adaptive Keyboarding: Archaeological Expedition","This engaging and interactive lesson uses diagnostic exercises to provide learners with individualized touch-typing practice to address areas of weakness and help improve accuracy and speed at any skill level. Learners receive badges for specific achievements during their keyboarding adventure. ","Assessment and Practice","Independent",45]
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[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Unit",{"$f":"SUM(G127:G134)","v":130}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions -  Have students practice entering data to create spreadsheets and databases based on content being studied in core curriculum, physical education, or other classes to show how the data is represented. When students finish their work with class time remaining, encourage them to utilize Adaptive Keyboarding to improve their technique, accuracy and WPM. All complete projects should be added to the student portfolio."]
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[null,null,null,null,null,"Minutes in Year",{"$f":"SUM(G137,G121,G110,G99,G87,G72,G51,G35)","v":1700}]
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[null,"Tips & Suggestions - Online safety is important to revisit at the end of the year to remind students that they need to be smart when online - whether at home or at school. Provide parents with resources to help them keep their students safe online, like the 'Parent Online Safety Guide' linked below. Host an in-person or virtual technology showcase to share student work to wrap up the school year and provide students and parents with ideas for continuing to practice their digital literacy skills during the summer. "]
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