Week 4 – Designing Technology Rich Curricula

Starting my Theme Unit: Kindergarten Careers/Community Helpers
What do you want to be when you grow up?

National Educational Technology Standards(NETS)for K-2 Students addressed:

Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.
Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
Students use technology tools to process data and report results.

Literacy Objectives:
0.7 Exploration/Inquiry: The student uses information and study skills to research personal questions, interests, and real-world contexts.
0.7.1 Asks questions to get information and understand events.
0.7.2 Finds information to answer questions from observation, books, and other people.
0.7.3 Records information and observations.
0.7.4 Contributes to a class report.

0.11 Interpersonal Communication: The student communicates in small group discussions, group work, and collaborative projects (oral language.)
0.11.1 Shares thoughts and information.
0.11.3 Asks questions for information or clarification.
0.11.4 Contributes to classroom discussion.
0.12 Presentations: The student speaks before a group to express or defend an opinion, present information, give directions, tell a story, or share a book.

Character Development:Character Education, accordingObjectives:
C.4 Interacts with others appropriately.
C.4.2 Develop and display communication skills.
C.4.5 Allow others opportunities to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
C.4.7 Lead, follow and work cooperatively with others.

Social Studies:Social Studies, according to LPS Objectives:
SS.K.2.3 Describe sumilarities and differences among city and farm communities.
SS.K.2.4 Discuss the influences of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, Native American, Mideast Asian American and European American men and women.
SS.K.2.6 Recognize that many different people share the earth.

Students will complete a webquest in a group of four students. Groups will select a career or community helper to research. Students will identify 3 things that describe the job they have chosen. They will draw pictures of each of the three items that describe the job and one final picture that reveals the job they have researched. This will be presented like a riddle, pictures will be scanned and put into power point slides for presentation.