B1-2 Technology:
While the B1-2 students focus on ants in their classroom, in the tech lab we are all about butterflies, especially monarchs. After our keyboarding, we spent 30 seconds "catching" some butterflies so we could examine them more closely. We noticed that butterflies and ants both have the same body parts since they are both insects. Just like people, though, there are still lots of differences even though the body parts are the same. We looked at some butterfly photos and took a few minutes to make our own unique butterfly. Next, we looked more closely at the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and compared it to an ant's life cycle. It was so exciting to see the caterpillar munch milkweed, go into it's chrysalis, and emerge as an adult butterfly! Students played the life cycle game, colored the life cycle online, and made a butterfly garden. Next week we get ready to migrate!
3-4 Technology:
This week we took a break from Type to Learn to do a little Dance Mat Typing. We continued our internet safety lessons by discussing a Word document about being Cyber SMART-Safe (Don't give out personal information or meet people offline), Manners (Don't be a cyber bully!), Attachments (Don't open emails or download things from people you don't know to avoid getting a computer virus), Reliable (People online might not be who they say they are and don't believe everything you read online), and Tell (a trusted adult if something or someone bothers you online.) The real fun came when students learned how to format the background of a document! After experimenting with several backgrounds and then saving the finished product, students used a space background in Kerpoof to make a Cyber Space Rules picture. Here is a an example:
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