Technology Lessons for the Elementary Classroom

Sometimes using a little “bit” of technology can go a long way! These activities are a way to support your
curriculum instruction or to differentiate learning for students by meeting their needs, interests, and learning styles.
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Reading and Writing Standards

1. Students read and understand a variety of materials.

Students use word recognition skills and resources such as phonics (letters / sounds / chunks / syllables / word endings.)
  Rhyming Words Kidspiration 2 Grades K - 2
  Word Families 1 Word Families 2
 Kidspiration 2
 Grades K - 2
Students will use information from their reading to increase vocabulary and enhance language usage.
  Olympics 2006 Inspiration 7 Grades 1 - 5
Students will use skills such as previewing and inferring to help them comprehend new material.
  Martin Luther King Inspiration 7 Grades 3 - 5
Students will use comprehension skills such as previewing and determining the main idea and details to write a summary.
  Benjamin Franklin
Key Events
Main Idea 		 Inspiration 7 Grades 3 - 5
Students will adjust reading strategies for different purposes such as reading carefully, idea by idea; skimming and scanning; fitting materials into an organizational patterns.
  African American Inventors Inspiration 7 Grades 3 - 5
  Keys to Success
Biographies
Inspiration 7 Grades 4 - 5
 
2. Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Students will write and speak for audiences such as peers, teachers, and the community.
  The Iditarod Internet Grades 1 - 5
3. Students write and speak using conventional grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Students will know and use correct grammar in speaking and writing.
  Word Sort Grammar Inspiration 7 Grades 3 - 5
       
4. Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.

(Art 5) Students analyze and evaluate the characteristics, merits, and meaning of works of art.

  Title This! Inspiration 7

Grades 3 - 5

Students will make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze what they read, hear, and view.
  Analogies Inspiration 7

Grades 1- 5

Students will be able to paraphrase, summarize, organize, and synthesize information.
Students will be able to using organizational features of electronic information such as headings for accessing nested information in hypertext media.
  Rosa Parks Inspiration 7 Grades 3 - 5
 

Math Standards l

1. Students develop number sense and use numbers and number relationships in problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems.
Students demonstrate meanings for whole numbers, and commonly-used fractions. (for example, 1/3, 3/4)
  Name That Fraction Inspiration 7 Grades 2 - 5
2. Students use algebraic methods to explore, model, and describe patterns and functions involving numbers, shapes, data, and graphs in problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems.
Students will describe the connections among representations of patterns and functions, including words, tables, graphs, and symbols.
  Iditarod Winner Inspiration 7 Grades 3 - 5
Students will reproduce, extend, create, and describe patterns and sequences using a variety of materials.
  Create a Pattern Inspiration 7 Grades 1- 5

Science Standards l

2. Students know and understand common properties, forms, and changes in matter and energy.
Students can examine, describe, classify, and compare tangible objects in terms of common physical properties (for example, state of matter, size, shape, texture, flexibility, color).
Students can predict what changes and what remains unchanged when matter experiences an external influence.
  Solids, Liquids, Gases Kidspiration 2

Grades 1 - 3
3. Students know and understand the characteristics and structure of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with each other and their environment.
Students identify characteristics of plants and animals that allow them to live in specific environments.
  Habitats Inspiration 7
Grades 2 - 5
Students classify a variety of organisms according to selected characteristics (for example, backbone vs. no backbone.)
  Classifying Critters Inspiration 7
United Streaming Videos		 Grades 2 - 5
Students recognize that there are differences in appearance among individuals of the same population or group.
  Butterflies Inspiration 7
QT Video
 Grades 1 - 4
 
  Life Cycles Inspiration 7
United Streaming Videos 		Grades 1 - 4
4. Students know and understand the processes and interactions of Earth’s systems and the structure and dynamics of Earth and other objects in space.
Describe existing weather conditions by collecting and recording weather data.
  Cloud Formations Inspiration 7 Grades 3 - 5
Students identify observable patterns and changes in their lives and predict future events based on those patterns (for example, seasonal weather patterns).
  Seasons Inspiration 7 Grades 1 - 2

Social Studies Standards

1. (History) Students understand the chronological organization of history and know how to organize events and people into major eras to identify and explain historical relationships
Students know how to use chronology to organize historical events and people.
  The Road to Revolution Inspiration 7 Grade 5
  Remember Segregation Inspiration 7 Grade 5
3. (History) Students understand that societies are diverse and have changed over time.
Students describe the history, interactions, and contributions of the various peoples and cultures that have lived in or migrated to the area that is now Colorado (for example, African-Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Latino Americans, and Native Americans).
  A Picture is Worth a 1000 Words Inspiration 7 Grades 3 - 5
       
5. (History) Students understand the purposes of government, and the basic constitutional principles of the United States republican form of government.
Students relate the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights to the powers granted to the Congress, the president, the Supreme Court and those reserved to the states.
  The Constitution Inspiration 7 Grades 3 - 5
       
5. (Geography) Students understand the effects of interactions between human and physical systems and the changes in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
Students will understand the physical and human characteristics that make up a place, as well as how humans interact with the environment.
  Community Jobs Inspiration 7 Grades 1- 3