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= = = = =**Technology Lessons Overview:**=

====Kindergarten and First grade students concentrate on aquiring beginning computing skills with a strong focus on developing typing and word processing skills. Students will learn to change font sizes, styles and colors as well as Insert, size and position clipart, add page borders and print documents. Students will also explore their creativity with the KidPix art program.==== ====Second graders will utilize the foundation in typing and writing to expand into more diverse skillsets including Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint slide shows, internet research, comic creations, and continue their development of word processing and typing proficiency.==== ====Third graders will combine multiple skillsets to complete a long term (8-9 weeks) "City Wild Life" project. This key project challenges students to research facts, collect images, name, store and manage filesets, create title art in PowerPoint and record their voice to create a narrated slideshow. Students will work with a variety of applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, PhotoStory and more. Third graders will also learn to use photo editing software in a fun activitiy to switch their heads onto another body.==== ====Fourth and Fifth graders will be involved in science and social studies PowerPoint presentations, a variety of research assignments, develop skills in graphic and photo editing, website creation, narrated slideshows, video screen capture, video editing, word processing, typing and more.====