Fifth Grade students will experience the following skills with assistance as needed to develop mastery:

September/October

• Use standard technology vocabulary to identify hardware and software components
• Use 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 independently
• Saving and printing independently
• Save and retrieve documents
• Recognize icons and their functions
• Activate computers for use

November/December

• Master keyboarding skills, developing speed and accuracy
• Locate numbers, letter, and symbols on a keyboard
• Master proper use of the space bar, punctuation,  shift key, back space, delete
• Develop use of function 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 and plagiarism laws
• Demonstrate appropriate behavior while working independently
• Use on-line and software programs independently
• Name and save a document
• Create/Use shared folders
• Create documents independently
• Format disks with teacher direction
• Use network to select printer
• Follow the school Safety/Acceptable Use policy

January/February

• Continue to develop keyboarding skills
• Locate keys with the correct fingering
• Use keyboard shortcuts
• Use cut and paste
• Use appropriate curriculum based resources to research a topic
• Using proper computer etiquette

March/April

• Develop skills used in navigating a web page with adult assistance
• Insert graphics found on the Internet or in a graphic library
• Use technology resources to locate information with adult assistance
• Explore multimedia and other developmentally appropriate material
• Use of safe search engines
• Acquire images from the internet
• Choose and produce appropriate graphs to represent data
• Sort data and find relationships
• Use keywords to search
• Add/organize bookmarks
• Download and save files to appropriate folders
• Send and receive email
• Cite sources

May/June

• Use of a multimedia presentation tool , such as Microsoft Power Point
• Develop their own ideas using multimedia presentation tools
• Insert text and graphics into multimedia presentations
• Create graphics/fields/buttons in multimedia presentations
• Use tools to manipulate presentations
• Record and import sound