Third Grade students will experience the following skills with assistance as needed: 

September/October

• Use standard technology vocabulary
• Develop proper care of handling technology hardware and software
• Identify parts of the computer
• Identify parts of the desktop/screen
• Using a mouse for pointing, clicking, double-clicking, and dragging
• Opening, using, closing and quitting a program
• Manipulate windows
• Saving and printing independently
• Recognize icons and their functions
• Activate computers for use

November/December

• Develop keyboarding skills
• Locate numbers, letter, and symbols on a keyboard
• Develop proper use of the space bar, punctuation, and shift keys
• Use various fonts, sizes and colors of text
• Change alignment of text
• Insert and delete characters
• Observe ethics and respect when using computers
• Observe copyright laws
• Follow the school Safety/Acceptable Use Policy
• Demonstrate appropriate behavior while working independently
• Develop ideas about respecting one's own work as well as others
• Use on-line and software programs independently
• Name and save a document
• Create short writing pieces

January/February

• Continue to develop keyboarding skills
• Locate keys with the correct fingering
• Continue to develop skills using various computer programs
• Develop Internet skills with adult assistance
• Use keyboard shortcuts
• Use cut and paste

March/April

• Develop skills used in navigating a web page with adult assistance
• Insert graphics found on the Internet or in a graphic library
• Begin to use technology resources to locate information with adult assistance
• Explore multimedia and other developmentally appropriate material
• Begin the use of safe search engines with adult assistance

May/June

• Develop use of a multimedia presentation tool , such as Microsoft Powerpoint and Google Slides
• Develop their own ideas using multimedia presentation tools
• Insert text and graphics into multimedia presentations