This Week in the Lab 9/30

What is happening in the Elementary Project Lab for the week beginning Monday 9/23?

Kindergarten

• Practice logging on the the computer
• Navigating the GCMS website
• Visiting Toy Theater to practice mouse skills (holding the mouse properly, clicking and dragging).

1st Grade

• Practice logging on to the computer
• Navigating the GCMS website
• Play Keyboarding Zoo on ABCYa to practice keyboarding.
• At this point we are not as concerned with using the correct finger for each letter, the main goal is to make the students more familiar with the location of the different letters on the keyboard.

2nd Grade

• Create a document containing their name in a stylized form (fonts, colors, etc)
• Make a printout of the document

3rd Grade

• Practice typing a sentence
• Learn to use Copy/Paste
• Save the files in their class folder.
• Create a printout of the document

4th Grade

• Continue the project from last week.
• Conduct Google Image searches on geography terms and save an image to their folder
• Insert the imate into a Word Document with an appropriate title

5th Grade

• Continue the project from last week.
• Conduct Google Image searches for pictures of organs in different body systems
• Create a PowerPoint featuring the images and the web addresses of their sources