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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

WASC
Good Shepherd Parish
Archdiocese of SF
ADSF Catholic Schools

Our School is accredited by the

Western Catholic Educational Association (WCEA) & by the

Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

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909 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica, CA 94044

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