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KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS LOVE COMPUTER LESSONS!

This Is Me

In this unit of work, students identify personally significant events, places and people and compare these with those of their peers. They use language associated with time, change and place. Students examine characteristics common to people, describing some of the similarities and differences. They acquire information by direct observation, talking to others, and by viewing, reading and listening to texts.

In conjunction with classroom activities, students completed two learning experiences in the computer room: recording and describing themselves pictorially; and discussing and documenting a current event, their computer lesson.

Technology

One important objective of early kindergarten technology lessons is to introduce new users of the computer room to using effective learning strategies in computing studies, particularly listening skills and following instructions.

Students managed the following computer skills with some teacher assistance:

• Cares for and correctly uses computer equipment and behaves appropriately around these items

• Identifies hardware components, e.g. keyboard, mouse, monitor or screen

• Starts an application, closes application

• Identifies cursor and manages clicking/dragging operations

• Uses the keyboard effectively, including spacebar and backspace

• Inserts a digital image from a file

• Uses undo command

• Uses freehand drawing tools: pencil, straight and curved lines

• Uses paintbrush, paintbox or fill with colour, spray can or airbrush and eraser

• Uses fill pattern, colours or shading

Curriculum areas include:

English

• TES1.2 Demonstrates basic skills of classroom and group interaction, makes brief oral presentations and listens with reasonable attentiveness.

H.S.I.E.

• CUES1 Communicates some common characteristics that all people share, as well as some of the differences.

• CCES1 Describes events or retells stories that demonstrate their own heritage and the heritage of others.

• SSES1 Identifies ways in which their own needs and the needs of others are met, individually and cooperatively.

Science & Technology

• UTES1.9 Identifies and uses a limited range of equipment, computer-based technology, materials and other resources when undertaking exploration and production.

   Cheryl Hill © 2007