IHMCS Curriculum Overview

Link to Technology by Grades Kindergarten Grade One Grade Two Grade Three Grade Four Grade Five Grade Six Grade Seven Grade Eight

Technology

Kindergarten, Grade One and Grade Two
(Technology)

• Basic skills: save, quit, click and drag, delete, login
• Ethical behaviors: computer care, respect, passwords
• Educational software/Integration: language arts, math, social studies
• Word processing basics

Grade Three and Grade Four (Technology)

• Basic skills: login, passwords, files, applications, print, undo, copy files
• Ethical behaviors: respect, passwords, “Netiquette”
• Educational software/Integration: language arts, math, social studies, science
• Word processing
• Graphics and presentations: introduction
• Keyboarding: introduction
• Basic researching: CD-ROM, internet

Grade Five and Grade Six (Technology)

• Intermediate skills: preview, evaluating sources, citation basics
• Ethical behaviors: respect, passwords, “Netiquette”, citing sources
• Educational software/Integration: language arts, math, social studies, science
• Word processing
• Spreadsheets
• Graphics and presentations
• Keyboarding
• Researching: CD-ROM, internet, databases

Grade Seven and Grade Eight (Technology)

• Advanced skills: school file-sharing, evaluating sources, source citation
• Ethical behaviors: respect, passwords, “Netiquette”, citing sources
• Educational software/Integration: language arts, social studies, art, physical education
• Word processing
• Spreadsheets
• Graphics and presentations
• Keyboarding
• Researching: CD-ROM, internet, databases
• Troubleshooting basics