Grade 3
Unit 2: Google Docs & Presentations

Standards Assessed
(2) Communication and collaboration. The student collaborates and communicates both locally and globally using digital tools and resources to reinforce and promote learning. The student is expected to:
(C) collaborate effectively through personal learning communities and social environments.

(3) Research and information fluency. The student acquires and evaluates digital content. The student is expected to:
(B) collect and organize information from a variety of formats, including text, audio, video, and graphics.

(5) Digital citizenship. The student practices safe, responsible, legal, and ethical behavior while using digital tools and resources. The student is expected to:
(D) protect and honor the individual privacy of oneself and others.

(6) Technology operations and concepts. The student demonstrates knowledge and appropriate use of technology systems, concepts, and operations. The student is expected to:
(D) troubleshoot minor technical problems with hardware and software using available resources such as online help and knowledge base.

Enduring Understandings

Essential Questions
Overreaching…
  • Students work together using social media to create products.
  • Students should acquire information in various formats as part of any process.
Tropical…
  • Students should know that a question mark or help tab in a program will allow them to get the help they may need.
  • Damage that is done in cyberspace is complicated, if not impossible to undo.
Overreaching…
  • How can I collaborate with others to complete my product?
  • How do I gather and categorize my information to evaluate it?
Tropical…
  • How do I take something back that either I or someone else has published electronically?
  • How can I fix that?

Knowledge 

Skills 
The student will know... 
  • Understand the importance of collaborate online and offline.
  • Correctly be able to gather information from the internet and properly be able to cite their source.
  • Understand the importance of a their digital foot print and repercussions of their online actions.
  • Social norms and private issues of information on the internet.
The student will be able to...
  • Be able to collaborate over Google Drive on school assignments.
  • Know how to find information and images from the internet and to give the author credit.
  • Know that once it's on the internet it's out their forever.
  • Understand what is ok to post online and what is not.

Performance Tasks  (main subject integration: Science)

  • Goal: You and your group will create and host a game show based on weather and the water cycle.
  • Role: You are a TV game show producer, and will need to create a live game show experience.
  • Audience: Your audience will be the contestants and the people watching from the auditorium.
  • Situation: “Are you Smarter than a 3rd Grader?” is coming to Korea, and challenging the brightest minds of KIS fourth and fifth graders. You have been assigned the job of creating the show format, the questions, and participating in the show itself.
  • Product: You will design a format, create questions, and using Google Docs and Presentations.  All work will be done by collaborating through Google Drive.
  • Standard: See Technology Standards.