Integrating Technology Into the 3-5 Curriculum June 22, 2010 Thalia Matthews 4th grade teacher, NBCT, MA Instructional Technology Lyle Creek Elementary.

Integrating Technology Into the 3-5 Curriculum

June 22, 2010

Thalia Matthews4th grade teacher, NBCT, MA Instructional TechnologyLyle Creek ElementaryThalia_Matthews@catawbaschools.net

Kristi Guptill4th grade teacher, NBCTClyde Campbell ElementaryKristi_Guptill@catawbaschools.net

How do we integrate technology?

• North Carolina SCOS content and technology

• Project/ Product• Technology Tools to

find and share information

• Websites and stations • Publisher, Powerpoint, Excel,

Photostory, Webquests• Blogs, Wikis, Gaggle, Podcasts, GPS• SchoolPad and Netbooks

Technology Tools To Use in the Classroom

Websites & Stations

•Websites can be used to collect information or to practice concepts. Websites for a project should be housed on your class webpage.

•Stations can be set up during reading, math, or writing rotations. Ex. Cybermath

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Publisher, Powerpoint, Excel, Photostory, Webquests

• Kids and teachers use these tools to share information within classroom

• Publisher—posters, brochures, postcards, book jackets, calendars

• Powerpoint/ Photostory—delivering instruction, biographies, places

• Excel—charts, graphs, data, survey

Blogs, Wikis, Gaggle, Podcasts, GPS

• Kids and teachers can participate in these beyond classroom

• Blogs— online journals, commentaries, contain text and images

• Wikis— can edit or add to information on pages, links, text, private or public

• Gaggle— student email, blogs, digital lockers• Podcasts— audio or video files that can

broadcast information through playback, episodes downloaded automatically

• GPS—find caches and integrate into a learning activity

SchoolPad and Netbooks• SchoolPad is used

in place of overhead projector. Scan items in, use websites, write, and use manipulatives.

• Netbooks/Laptops are used individually or in groups for research, create products, responding on wikis and blogs

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Iditarod

• Walter McKenzie• Websites on CCS

page • Blog,

Gypsy’s Blog• Lapbooks• Wall Map• GPS

Oh, the Places You’ll Go!• Research Template• Virtual Field trip

• ProductsBuild the landmarkAnimal AdaptationsTravel BuddiesPhotostoryTravel Brochures

Alaskan Animal Research ProjectAnimal Name __________________________________Habitat ________________________________________Diet ___________________________________________________________________________________________Physical Description _____________________________________________

Body Part Adaptations______________________________________________________________________________________

Behavioral Adaptations______________________________________________________________________________________

Other Interesting Facts_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Places in NC and Catawba County

Flat Stanley

Other ideas• Blogs— Reading Response• Flip Camera— Biography

puppets, Folktales• Wikis—problem solving, share

research for projects• GPS— Math Vocabulary, Flat

Stanley, Soft Rain• Publisher—Brochure, calendar,

Newspaper• Photostory--Limericks• Powerpoint—Interactive slides,

games

Integrating Technology Into the 3-5 Curriculum

June 22, 2010

Thalia Matthews4th grade teacher, NBCT, MA Instructional TechnologyLyle Creek ElementaryThalia_Matthews@catawbaschools.net

Kristi Guptill4th grade teacher, NBCTClyde Campbell ElementaryKristi_Guptill@catawbaschools.net