The Technology Curriculum
Kindergarten to 3rd grade
- Use computers as a learning tool
- Create digital stories, paintings, music and audio products
- Control robots with code
- Build simple circuits with power source, wires and different kinds of loads
4th and 5th Grade
- Build a motor from scratch
- Build circuits with breadboards
- Use voltmeters to measure voltage, current and resistance through a circuit
- Program micro-controllers to control circuits with code
- Build a robot from scratch
- Connect motor controllers
- Add sensors
- Wirelessly control robot through radio and infrared
- Conduct robot races and soccer matches
6th Grade
- Design and print in 3D with TynkerCAD
- Create audio poetry, stories and historical accounts with Audacity
- Create video commercials and movie trailers with Adobe Premiere
- Program the Microbit to make digital tools such as a digital thermometer to collect environmental data for Earth Science investigations
7th / 8th Grade:
- Program in C++ using variables, conditions, loops and arrays
- Use sensors, such as the heart beat sensor - to conduct investigations in the field of Life Sciences
- Investigate speed, velocity, acceleration, force, density and buoyancy and use C++ to collect, store and manipulate data to solve problems in Physical Science