Computer Technology Skills — Grade 1

The Little Yellow Chicken

The students will be following an integrated unit on "Helping." They will use reading, math, social studies, science, technology, and other areas of study. Students will read, as a group, the book The Little Yellow Chicken by Joy Cowley. The students will be incorporating prediction, prior knowledge, comprehension skills, and language skills for the word family "-ook", the vowel sound "e", and the exclamation mark. The technology to be utilized by the students consists of use of the HyperStudio for math review, Math Software, Graph Club to create a graph of favorite party foods, Inspiration to guide and create graphic organizers for writing, and the Ultimate Writing Machine to create their own version of The Little Yellow Chicken. They will also incorporate color words to practice the Spanish Language.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, Computer Technology Skills, Mathematics, and )

By diane williams.

Math in the White House

This plan uses an online tour of the White House to reinforce the concept of tallying.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills, Visual Arts Education, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Computer Technology Skills)

By Bunnie R. Brewer.

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Gingerbread Phonics

Early readers use familiar words from a traditional story to learn letter-sound correspondence. The teacher conducts a shared reading of The Gingerbread Man with the whole class. Students then use words from the story to practice letter-sound correspondence and write and publish their own stories online using some of these words. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Computer Technology Skills and English Language Arts)

Provider: IRA/NCTE