Grade 5
Unit 1: Blogging

Standards Assessed
(1) Creativity and innovation. The student uses creative thinking and innovative processes to construct knowledge and develop digital products. The student is expected to:
(C) use virtual environments to explore systems and issues.

(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:
(A) draft, edit, and publish products in different media individually and collaboratively.

(3) Research and information fluency. The student acquires and evaluates digital content. The student is expected to:
(A) use various search strategies such as keyword(s); the Boolean identifiers and, or, and not; and other strategies appropriate to specific search engines; and
(D) acquire information appropriate to specific tasks.

Enduring Understandings

Essential Questions
Overreaching…
  • The information needed is driven by the task.
  • Search strategies are essential to locate appropriate information.
Tropical…
  • Students work together using technology to create products for different media.
  • Virtual environments show complex systems and issues where skills are applied to specific circumstances.
Overreaching…
  • How do I know the information I have gathered will allow me to complete my task?
  • What must I do to locate specific information?
Tropical…
  • How can I collaborate with others to complete my product?
  • How can I use a virtual environment to define and solve a problem?

Knowledge 

Skills 
The student will know... 
  • Understand what specific information is need for a specific task.
  • Understand the importance keyword searches and how to conduct one.
  • Understand how be a good team member when collaborating in the digital world.
  • Understand how to be independent when it comes to problem solving in the digital web.
The student will be able to...
  • Know how to correctly search for specific information on the internet.
  • Know what keywords will find specific results when web searching.
  • Know how to correctly collaborate on multiple shared files on Google Drive.
  • Know how to use help functions on the internet and in applications.

Performance Tasks  (main subject integration: all subjects)

  • Goal: Students will create and maintain an e-portfolio website.
  • Role: Students are the webmaster of their own website.
  • Audience: Your audience will be teachers, parents and peers.
  • Situation: Students will create their own personal Weebly site that will serve as an e-portfolio.
  • Product: The Weebly e-portfolio will be a record of the student's work. They will be responsible of updating it through out the year.
  • Standard: See Technology Standards.