Grade 2 Scope and Sequence
Scope and Sequence Grade 2 Technology
The scope and sequence listed below are the recommended Instructional Technology units to teach. Connections to the Grade 2 content area scope and sequence are included. Be sure to check with your second grade team to align with classroom instruction as needed.
| Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1 | Community Building | Computational Thinker | Computational Thinker Cornerstone Task | Creative Communicator/ Global Collaborator Cornerstone Task |
| Unit 2 | Empowered Learner - Keyboarding | Empowered Learner - Tech Skills Checklist | Digital Citizen Cornerstone Task | Empowered Learner - Tech Skills Checklist |
| Unit 3 | Digital Citizen |
Artificial Intelligence | ||
| Unit 4 | Artificial Intelligence |
Last Updated: 8/11/2024
Quarter 1
Quarter 1
Outcomes:
Community Building:
- Share that classrooms are a community
- Identify that each and every individual contributes to the classroom community
- Identify norms for respectful, trusting, and safe engagement in the community
- Define equity and how it looks, sounds, and feels in our community
Empowered Learner - Keyboarding:
- Develop an understanding of appropriate keyboarding positions
- Develop a set of rules that outline the roles and responsibilities within an online community
- Lesson: Online Community Norms
- Define artificial intelligence and recognize examples of AI in everyday life.
- Lesson: What is AI?
- Lesson: How We Work with AI
Last Updated: 8/26/2022
Additional Technology Lessons:
Below are lessons created by HCPSS Technology teachers for use with Grade 2 students. These lessons are supplemental lessons and are not required. Lessons listed can be taught at any time, but are recommended for Quarter 1. These lessons were created for asynchronous/synchronous instruction. Modifications may be needed.
- Virtual Learning Cycle 1 Lessons
- Welcome to Technology
- Getting to Know You
- Would You Rather?
- Make a Wish
- Typing Agent Introduction
- Emotions
Links to an external site.
- Students use tools in Slides to create create an Emotions slideshow
- Skills: Google Slides
Last Updated: 8/22/2021
Curriculum Connections:
Below are the units of study for each content area in Grade 2. Lessons that are designed for collaboration with technology have been included.
- Health - Social and Emotional Health
- Reading - Communities
- Summative Assessment - Create a poster
- Science - Properties of Matter
- Lesson 7-10 - Design and test sails
- Social Studies - Comparing Communities (unpublished for 2020-21 school year)
- Writing - The Writing Community
Quarter 2
Quarter 2
Outcomes:
- Identify patterns and trends
- Lesson: Scratch Jr. Intro
- Lesson: Dreams
- Combine three elements of coding to reach a goal
- Lesson: Coding Your Dream
- Break down a problem into smaller manageable parts
- Lesson: Setting Up Your Dream
Empowered Learner - Technology Skills Checklist:
- Demonstrate growth towards proficiency in Grade 2 technology skills across all content areas
Last Updated: 8/26/2022
Additional Technology Lessons:
Below are lessons created by HCPSS Technology teachers for use with Grade 2 students. These lessons are supplemental lessons and are not required. Lessons listed can be taught at any time, but are recommended for Quarter 1. These lessons were created for asynchronous/synchronous instruction. Modifications may be needed.
- Media Balance
- Video and PearDeck Links to an external site. for media balance
- Skills: balancing screen time
- ScreenTime - Also included in Grade 1 lessons
- Learn about balance of screen time/devices and real life play using Wixie activity Links to an external site.
- Skills: drag/drop and drawing
- Research and Paraphrasing
- 4 class period lesson introducing research and paraphrasing using PebbleGo, PearDeck, and Wixie
- Day 1 PearDeck Links to an external site. | Day 2 PearDeck Links to an external site. | Day 3 PearDeck Links to an external site.
- Skills: research and paraphrasing
- Who is in Our Online Community?
- Google Slides and discussion board
- Following Digital Community Rules
- read aloud, canvas assignment, Wixie activity Links to an external site.
Last Updated: 10/13/2021
Curriculum Connections:
Below are the units of study for each content area in Grade 2. Lessons that are designed for collaboration with technology have been included.
- Health - Safety, First Aid, & Injury Prevention
- Reading - Folktales and Fables, Fairy Tales
- Science - Earth's Features
- Lesson 3 - Compare and ask questions about different maps/representations of Earth. Collaborate to support students in using online maps.
- Lesson 4 - Explore and apply their understanding of "bird's eye view." Collaborate to support students in using Google Maps or Google Earth
- Lessons 6-8 - Research a land or water feature
- Lesson 11 - Optional integration of the Language Arts writing pieces, teachers can have students create a Earth Features non-fiction fact book
- Social Studies - People and the Environment (unpublished for 2020-21 School Year)
- Writing - Telling More (Narrative), Fiction
Quarter 3
Quarter 3
Outcomes:
Computational Thinker: Cornerstone Task
Digital Citizen: Cornerstone Task
- Discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on society and begin to consider ethical considerations in AI development.
- Lesson: How AI Can Change the World
Last Updated: 8/26/2022
Additional Technology Lessons:
Below are lessons created by HCPSS Technology teachers for use with Grade 2 students. These lessons are supplemental lessons and are not required. Lessons listed can be taught at any time, but are recommended for Quarter 3. These lessons were created for asynchronous/synchronous instruction. Modifications may be needed.
- Catch a Leprechaun Also included in Grade 1 lessons
- Design a way to catch a leprechaun using tools in Wixie Links to an external site.
- Virtual Field Trip: Museum of Industry
- Explore the Museum of Industry as a virtual field trip using Google Slides Links to an external site. and Wixie template Links to an external site.
- Frogs vs. Toads
- Compare the two animals using Pebble Go Animals, share findings in Wixie Links to an external site.
- Skills: Drag/drop, backgrounds, drawing tools, search images
- Women's History Month
- Research in Pebble Go, create a superhero card in Wixie Links to an external site. for that person.
- Skills: Research, text, images
- Digital Citizen Review - Private vs. Personal
- Modified lesson from Common Sense Media to review for Digital Citizen Unit using Google Slides Links to an external site. and Wixie template. Links to an external site.
Last Updated 2/21/2022
Curriculum Connections:
Below are the units of study for each content area in Grade 2. Lessons that are designed for collaboration with technology have been included.
- Health - Nutrition & Fitness, Disease Prevention & Control
- Reading - Expository Nonfiction
- Science - Earth's Changing Landscape
- Lessons 8-11 - Design and test a model of a tree planting to reduce erosion.
- Social Studies - Let's Go Shopping! (unpublished for 2020-21 School Year)
- Writing - Nonfiction (Informational), Letter Writing
Quarter 4
Quarter 4
Outcomes:
Creative Communicator / Global Collaborator: Cornerstone Task
Empowered Learner - Technology Skills Checklist:
- Demonstrate proficiency in Grade 2 technology skills across all content areas
Last Updated: 8/26/2022
Additional Technology Lessons:
Below are lessons created by HCPSS Technology teachers for use with Grade 2 students. These lessons are supplemental lessons and are not required. Lessons listed can be taught at any time, but are recommended for Quarter 4. These lessons were created for asynchronous/synchronous instruction. Modifications may be needed
- Earth Day (Links to an external site.) - Also included in Kindergarten & Grade 1 lessons (Links to an external site.)
- Learn why we celebrate Earth Day with Wixie Template (Links to an external site.)
- Skills: drag and drop, selecting/clicking, deleting
- Keyboarding Practice
- Students will practice typing with both hands and using the shift key for uppercase letters and other characters on the keyboard with Wixie Template Links to an external site..
- Skills: text box, drag and drop
- Teacher Appreciation Choice Board
Links to an external site.
- Students choose from the choice board a way to celebrate and thank their teacher. Then share the URL through the Canvas Inbox with the teacher. Highlight how any teacher can be celebrated, not just the homeroom teacher.
- Skills: drawing tools, drag and drop, text box, video
- Getting Ready for the Summer - Similar lesson included in Grade K & 1 Lessons
- Sharing summer plans and review Chromebook Care
- Skills: Wixie Drawing tooks, Kahoot
- Chromebook Care
- How to take care of your Chromebook Google Slides Links to an external site..
- Skills: Taking care of your Chromebook
- Chromebook Care for Summer - Also included in Grade K & 1 Lessons
- Video covering caring for the Chromebook over the summer.
- Skills: browser updates, refresh/reset procedures, tech support info.
Last Updated 4/8/2022
Curriculum Connections:
Below are the units of study for each content area in Grade 2. Lessons that are designed for collaboration with technology have been included.
- Health - Tobacco, Alcohol & Other Drugs
- Reading - Inventions
- Performance Task -Decide on a real world problem to solve creatively. Draw and write a plan to solve the problem and improve lives. Plans will be presented to classes. The presentation may take the form of writing, drawing, posters, murals, poems, or fact books.
- Science - Relationships in Habitats
- Lessons 4&5 - Making observations of seedlings growing under a variety of conditions, as well as the development of Painted Lady butterfly larvae. Pictures could be taken of the progress and compiled for analysis later in the unit.
- Lessons 9-11 - Design and test hand pollinators
- Social Studies - Citizens in a Community (unpublished for 2020-21 school year)
- Writing - Poems and Words, Opinion Writing Revisiting the Writing Community
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