Technology Integration

In this 4 week unit, primary students will work in groups of 4-5 to form a business, create, market & sell their product, and track their expenses and profits. Needs updated technology but a great idea for a unit.

Students learn about dinosaurs through online research writing, and development of an electronic presentation.

This is a culminating activity for the “In the Barnyard” theme from the Houghton Mifflin Invitations to Literacy Readiness Series. We are recalling and brainstorming farm animals, identifying sounds that they make, drawing the animals on paper to create a book and drawing the animals on the computer, creating a slide show which includes the recorded class song.

The purpose is to get children excited and to understand the process of electing a President. They will construct a HyperStudio program to tell about their candidates, in order to get them elected. When they are through they should know what qualifications a person must have to be President, as well as how to elect a President. They will also be able to write persuasive speeches and use good speaking skills when they are giving their speeches.

Students utilize tools from the KidPix Deluxe program, a given Internet Web site, and the Eyewitness Encyclopedia Nature 2.0 CD-ROM to produce a slide show “teaching” others about the following concepts in science:
1. What a habitat is.

2. How organisms can change their environments.

3. What an adaptation is.

4. How adaptations help organisms meet their needs.

5. What a food chain is.