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Appendix
                                            Proposed ES/MS Computer Curriculum Starting 2015-2016

Grade          Quarter 1                            Quarter 2                               Quarter 3   Quarter 4

4 Keyboarding - Typing Agent                Keyboarding - Typing Agent Keyboarding - Typing Agent       Keyboarding- Typing Agent
                                                                                                        (every other library class)
       (every other library class)          (every other library class)   (every other library class)

5 Keyboarding - Typing Agent                Keyboarding - Typing Agent Keyboarding - Typing Age         Keyboarding - Typing Agent
                                                                                                        (every other library class)
       (every other library class)          (every other library class)   (every other library class)

6 Keyboarding Review                        Unit 1                        MS Word (Unit 3, Ch 6)        MS Powerpoint (if needed)

       Begin Century 21 Jr.: Computer MS Word (Unit 3 Ch 5)               Science Research project      Coding (Coding unit may be

       Applications with Keyboarding                                      MS Powerpoint                 reduced in the 2015-2016 year)
                                                                          (Ch 10)
       Unit 1                               History Research project                                    www.code.org

       (2015-2016 school year -- 6th grade                                                              History President’s Project

       needs to complete Typing Agent

       Units 4-7 in Quarter 1)

7 Digital Citizenship                       MS Word Review                History - Country Project     Science Planet Project
                                            Chs. 7,8                      Research and Paper            History Country Powerpoint
       (selected sections of Common
       Sense Media MS Band) via                                           MS Excel Ch 11                Coding
       Google Classroom                                                                                 Khan Academy or www.code.org

       Google Drive                                                                                     End of the year group assessment
                                                                                                        (Shark Tank)

                                                                                                           Word processing, spreadsheet
                                                                                                            powerpoint presentation

8 Presentation Skills                       Coding                        Making movies                 Making Podcasts
                                            (Khan Academy)                (Movie maker/ imovies/
           Rhetoric Skills                                                wemovie app)                  ELA Memoirs Project
           Powerpoint                       Google Drive – Collaboration                                 Word processing, desktop
           Prezi                            skills                        ELA Romeo and Juliet Project     publishing, video/podcast

       Note: Use student-response sites as part of teaching methodology: Kahoot, Socrative

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