21st Century 5th Grade Learners

Kasey Bell provides a template of a learning menu (choice board) for incorporating the 4C's into any lessons. She provides an explanation of each component and a teacher's guide to help you tailor the learning menu to fit your current unit of study.

21st Century Skills: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and technology/media literacy.

Google's Applied Digital Skills has created a lesson plan that teaches students how to animate using Google Slides. Through this lesson, students learn digital skills, tell a story, and communicate original thought. This lesson can be tailored to fit the needs of 5th graders.

21st Century Skills: Communication, technology/media literacy, creativity, critical thinking

Students work together to create an "If-Then Adventure Story" for other classmates to follow. Students will use Google Docs and Google Slides to collaborate and create their stories. This lesson can be tailored to fit the needs of 5th graders.

21st Century Skills: Communication, collaboration, technology/media literacy, creativity, critical thinking, leadership

Digital escape rooms are a great activity to grab the attention of students. This activity can be tailored to fit any content area and may be best used as a review or to explore a topic more. Digital escape rooms are best completed in groups to enhance collaboration skills.

21st Century Skills: Communication, collaboration, technology/media literacy, critical thinking, leadership.

**links to already created digital escape rooms are included in this post.

Code.org has created a lesson that helps students learn about events in coding. With Dance Party, students can use their creativity as they choreograph a dance to a song of their choice. Students learn coding concepts and event programming through this lesson.

21st Century Skills: critical thinking, creativity, and technology/media literacy.

Google's CS First created a lesson plan to help students practice coding concepts. Through Code Your Hero, students select someone they view as a hero and give them superpowers. Using code, they can make their hero move around on the screen, collect objects, score points or tell a story.

21st Century Skills: communication, critical thinking, creativity, and technology/media literacy.

Google's CS First created a lesson that teaches students how to use a block-based programming language as they animate a name. During the lesson, students learn how to create a sequence, use loops, and create events.

21st Century Skills: technology/media literacy, creativity, critical thinking

Students work in pairs to design and program a robot that performs a dance or tells a story through dance. The lesson uses the Lego WeDo 2.0 robotics kit.

21st Century Skills: Communication, technology/media literacy, creativity, critical thinking, and leadership

EdScratch has created a teacher's guide full of lesson plans to help introduce and expand student knowledge with robots. Students explore the basic features of the Edison robot or add features to turn it into various types of robots. They must also use code to program to robot to complete commands.

21st Century Skills: Communication, collaboration, technology/media literacy, creativity, critical thinking, and leadership.