Fourth+Grade

__**Grade Level: Fourth Grade Benchmark Assessments**__

The students will work individually to create a presentation about a curricular topic. The presentation will include key components like: research, credits/citations, images/clip gallery items. Representing research findings and other information in a digital form aids access and assists with understanding. Visual elements are an important part of representing data.
 * __Performance Task: Multi-Media Presentation__**
 * __Essential Question or Enduring Understanding__**
 * __NETS Student Standards Assessed__**
 * 1. Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
 * B. Students create original works as a means of personal or group expressions.
 * 3. Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:
 * A. plan strategies to guide inquiry.
 * B. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.
 * C. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.
 * 6. Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. Students:
 * A. understand and use technology systems.
 * D. transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.
 * __Suggested Curricular Areas:__**
 * Biography Studies
 * Oceans/Sea Creatures
 * Endangered Species in PA
 * Topic of Interest
 * __Resources (Applications, sites, templates, etc.)__**
 * PowerPoint, PhotoStory
 * clip art collections and web sites
 * __Files__**
 * Templates:
 * Files:

The students will design a brochure or poster for a specific topic. The brochure/poster will include key components like: research, quick facts, image/clip gallery items. Desktop publishing software creates a working environment that is more closely related to graphic arts than to word processing. __Suggested Curricular Areas:__ __Resources (Applications, sites, templates, etc.)__ __Files__
 * __Performance Task: Graphic Design Project__**
 * __Essential Question or Enduring Understanding__**
 * __NETS Student Standards Assessed__**
 * 1. Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
 * A. Students apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or process.
 * 3. Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:
 * A. plan strategies to guide inquiry.
 * **B. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.**
 * **C. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.**
 * **6. Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. Students:**
 * **A. understand and use technology systems.**
 * **D. transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.**
 * United States Geography
 * US Regions
 * Study of PA
 * Summarizing a Book
 * Microsoft Word/Publisher
 * Brochure Template
 * Clip Art collections and web sites
 * Templates
 * Examples: [[file:Ocean Adventures.doc]]
 * PPT Checklist: [[file:ppt_rubric_OceanAnimlasdoc.doc]]
 * Photostory Rubric: [[file:Rubric for Photostpry.doc]]
 * Publisher Travel Sample:[[file:Brazil Flyer.pub]] [[file:Austraila Trip.pub]]

__Performance Task: Geometry Project__
 * The students will visually represent concepts of geometry through the use of images and drawing tools. Key concepts will include:**

__Essential Question or Enduring Understanding__ __NETS Student Standards Assessed__ __Suggested Curricular Areas:__ __Resources (Applications, sites, templates, etc.)__ __Files**__
 * Technology can be used to communicate information and ideas effectively.**
 * 1. Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products anf process using technology.
 * A. Students apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
 * 6. Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations.
 * A. Students understand and use technology systems.
 * Math - Geometry
 * **Microsoft PowerPoint**
 * **Microsoft Publisher**
 * Templates: [[file:house.pub]] [[file:Find the Polygon.ppt]]
 * Examples: [[file:houseexample.pub]] [[file:Find the Polygons Sample.ppt]]
 * Templates: [[file:4th Geometry.ppt]]