2nd Grade Technology Curriculum

2nd Grade Technology Curriculum is the third in a series designed to teach technology by integrating it into classroom inquiry. The choice of hundreds of school districts, private schools and homeschoolers around the world and tens of thousands of students, this nine-volume tech ed curriculum is the all-in-one solution to running an effective, efficient, and fun technology program for kindergarten-eighth grade (each grade level textbook sold separately) whether you are the lab specialist, IT coordinator, or classroom teacher.

Each lesson is aligned with both Common Core State Standards and  National Educational Technology Standards, and includes:

• academic applications for lessons
• additional resources
• assessment strategies
• big idea
• class exit tickets
• class warmups
• Common Core Standards
• domain-specific vocabulary
• emphasis on comprehension/problem-solving/critical thinking/preparing for career and college
• essential question
• examples
• focus on transfer of knowledge and blended learning, collaboration and sharing
• grading rubrics
• homework
• how to extend learning
• ISTE Standards
• materials required
• options for adapting lessons to a class or lab
• options for adapting lessons to PCs, iPads, Chromebooks, or Macs
• problem-solving for lesson
• skills required for lesson and learned during lesson
• steps to accomplish goals
• teacher preparation required
• time required to complete

Using a tested approach that promotes literacy, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making, students learn the technology required to prepare for their future. The secret is providing the appropriate lessons at the right time.

Each book/ebook includes:

• K-6 wide-ranging Scope and Sequence
• K-8 technology curriculum map
• 32 weekly lessons
• monthly homework (3^rd-8^th only)
• student Certificate of Completion
• comprehensive list of websites to support learning
• articles that address tech pedagogy
• posters ready to print and hang on your walls

With your purchase, you receive FREE access to a wealth of online resources (through our free companion wikis and blogs) including hundreds of teacher materials that differentiate instruction, websites that extend learning, a weekly video to show you how to teach the current lesson (via a free subscription included in the text) and free help from professionals using the curriculum.

2nd grade technology units include:

1. Coding/Programming
2. Develop Details
3. Digital Templates
4. Digital Tools in the Classroom
5. Google Earth
6. Graphic Organizers
7. Holiday Projects
8. Internet and Digital Citizenship
9. Internet Pictures
10. Intro
11. Keyboarding
12. My Body
13. Presentations
14. Problem Solving
15. Reading on the Internet
16. Reports
17. Slideshows
18. Spreadsheet formulae and summative
19. Stories with Words and Pictures
20. Tools and Toolbars
21. Website Evaluation
22. Where I Live
23. Word Processing—Intro and projects
24. Writing with Graphics

Why should you upgrade? Consider these changes:

• aligned with computers, iPads, Chromebooks
• perfect for both classroom and tech teachers
• calls out higher order thinking skills
• lists new and scaffolded skills in each lesson
• shows academic applications for projects
• perfect for project- and skills-based learning
• highlights collaboration
• warm-up and exit tickets for each lesson
• includes a comprehensive list of assessments
• lots more images and how-to’s
• includes curriculum map—by year and month