The Technology Curriculum

• 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