MS+Tech+Curriculum


 * || 6th || 7th || 8th || Resources ||
 * ====**CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION: Use technology to generate knowledge and ideas.** ==== ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Apply common software features || Format, spellcheck, use thesaurus, create charts/graphs to produce a newsletter, brochure, or other publication || Use templates to create authentic products ||  || Microsoft Office and Google Docs; Docs and Office templates ||
 * Create an original project || Use a variety of digital resources to build wiki or create an e-zine || Use software and web apps to create a digital portfolio || Use software to produce 10 minute documentary, podcast, and photo-journal || iMovie, iTunes, iPhoto, iWeb, Google Sites, Docs, Audacity ||
 * Illustate a content-related concept || Use software as a tool to create graphic organizers, concept maps, webs, outlines || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use presentation software effectively to deliver a presentation to an audience || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use modeling to represent systems and objects for analysis and testing || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Inspiration, Prezi, Powerpoint, Keynote, Sketchup ||
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION: Use technology to collaborate and create media-rich products.** ==== ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use digital resources || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use message boards to continue in-class discussions || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use blogs to enable student-led discussions || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use on-line journals to create reflections and feedback || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Penzu ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use collaborative digital tools || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use tools to promote student-to-student/student to teacher collaboration such as Google Docs, Edline, etc. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use tools to promote collaboration within the larger, local community. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use tools to collaborate globally. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Docs, Edline, Blogger.com, Skype, Webinars ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Effective communications || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Communicate with peers to share findings and/or solve problems || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Communicate with community members to share findings and/or solve problems || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Communicate globally to share findings and/or solve problems || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edmodo, Edline, Blogs, ||
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**CRITICAL THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISION-MAKING: Use technology to identifry and define authentic problems and plan/manage activities to develop solutions or complete a project.** ==== ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use a variety of media to create authentic products || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use social media and internet research to promote a certain cause. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Design and create a technology product or system that improves the quality of life and identify trade-offs, risks, and benefits || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">E-publish original writing and make available to authentic audience || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Amazon e-publishing; Facebook; Twitter ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use a model, simulation or concept-mapping software || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Organize information graphically || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Outline debates in a graphical presentation || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Define complex terms and issues graphically || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Photoshop, Wordle, Google data, Visual.ly ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use data collection tools || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use data-collection tools to gather data, examine patterns, and apply information || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use data-collection technologies to view and analyze results for content-related problems ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Docs spreadsheet, Excel ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Investigation || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Write essential questions to investigate an issue using digital tools and resources || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Write essential questions to investigate a topic or issue using digital tools and resources || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Write essential questions to investigate a complex topic or question using digital tools and resources ||  ||
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**RESEARCH AND INFORMATION LITERACY: Use technology to locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.** ==== ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Locate information || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Conduct effective searches using keywords and phrases for research || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use keywords and Boolean operators to discover additional resources and conductive more effective searches || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Contact experts, locally and globally, to maximize research capabailities || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google and other search enginges ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use spreadsheets || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Collect and chart data || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Perform functions and manipulate data with formulas || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make predictions and solve problems || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Excel, Google Docs spreadsheet ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluate information || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify reliable and unreliable sources using a website's authorship, domain name, and other indicators || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Utilize Wikipedia for better research; distinguish fact from opinion; identify misleading or inaccurate information by consulting multiple sources || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check against other sources to determine validity; identify bias in primary and secondary sources || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sweetsearch.com, Google, library databases ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Authoritative sources || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Distinguish primary and secondary sources || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify authoritative primary and secondary sources || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Compare versions of primary sources to determine authenticity || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Gutenberg, library databases ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Copyright || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Apply ethical use of information and media by respecting copyrights and intellectual property; cite sources properly ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Youtube, iMovie ||
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS AND CONCEPTS: Select and use technology processes, systems and applications effectively and productively.** ==== ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Operate peripherals || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Demonstrate skill in keyboarding || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a video with audio recording || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create and edit a video using advanced techniques || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">iMovie, iPhoto, Photoshop ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Substitute technology for various tools || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify and use processes, systems, and applications to simplify typical tasks like citations, note-taking, etc. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify and use processes, systems, and applications for creative purposes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify and use processes, systems, and applications for independent learning || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adobe Creative Suite, iLife, easybib, Khan Academy ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Troubleshoot software and hardware || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">File management and basic malfunctions || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With the help of Internet searches || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Entirely independently ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use Microsoft Office or Google Docs || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For particular assignments and projects || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For every class, to replace routine tasks and for collaboration; transition from Office to Docs || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use Docs for everything || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Docs ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use technology and other resources for the purposes of organizing and sharing information || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Basic file management, emailing documents, utilizing cloud storage || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Basic collaboration; semi-independent organization || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Independent organization of time and resources; rich collaboration || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Windows, Docs, Dropbox ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Demonstrate functional understanding of systems and operations || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify and explain computer hardware, operating system, and software ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP AND FOOTPRINT: Use technology as a tool to understand the cultural, historical, economic and political impacts of technology on individuals and society.** ==== ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use tech responsibly || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Care for digital footprint; communicate with teachers respectfully || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Care for the laptop || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Manage software updates; develop a professional social media presence ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cyber-bullying || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify strategies to deal with and prevent cyber-bullying ||  ||   ||   ||