Grade 3 Scope and Sequence
Scope and Sequence Grade 3 Technology
The scope and sequence listed below are the recommended Instructional Technology units to teach. Connections to the Grade 3 content area scope and sequence are included. Be sure to check with your third 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 | Digital Citizen |
| Unit 2 | Empowered Learner - Keyboarding | Computational Thinker Cornerstone Task | Artificial Intelligence | Digital Citizen Cornerstone Task |
| Unit 3 | Digital Citizen | Empowered Learner - Tech Skills Checklist | Empowered Learner - Tech Skills Checklist |
Last Updated: 8/13/2024
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
Empowered Learner - Technology Skills Checklist:
- Demonstrate baseline proficiency in Grade 3 Technology skills across all content areas.
- Understand that information put online creates a permanent footprint
- Lesson: What is a Digital Footprint?
- Communicate clearly and effectively using digital devices
- Lesson: Communication Online
- Evaluate how online tools improve their ability to communicate, collaborate, be productive, and achieve goals.
- Lesson: Online Communication Improves Productivity
Last Updated: 8/26/2022
Additional Technology Lessons:
Below are lessons created by HCPSS Technology teachers for use with Grade 3 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
- Digital Bootcamp
- Exploring the World
- Typing Agent Introduction
- Chromebook Care
- How to take care of your Chromebook Google Sheets Links to an external site..
- Kindness Choice board
- Wixie Activity Links to an external site. - Good for when new students are joining. Promotes SEL.
- Profile Photos
- Includes a PPT, Video directions and a Discussion
Last Updated: 8/22/2021
Curriculum Connections:
Below are the units of study for each content area in Grade 3. Lessons that are designed for collaboration with technology have been included.
- Health - Social and Emotional Health
- Reading - Community of Learners
- Science - Life Cycles & Traits
- Lesson 3 & 4 - Capturing Images of Plant Growth
- Social Studies - Changing Communities
- Writing - Writing Community, Writing Process, Personal Narrative
Quarter 2
Outcomes:
- Break down a problem into smaller manageable parts and identify key information.
- Lesson: Introduction to Blockly Programming and Loops
- Use patterns and trends in data to inform decisions
- Lesson: Introduction to Dash Robot
- Compare and contrast two solutions.
- Lesson: Repeat and Nested Loops
- Use patterns and trends in data to inform decisions
- Lesson: Loops with Dash Challenge Cards
- Identify how coding is used to solve a real world problem.
- Lesson: If/Then Conditionals
- Identify how coding is used to solve a real world problem.
- Lesson: If/Then with Dash Challenge Cards
Empowered Learner - Technology Skills Checklist:
- Demonstrate growth toward proficiency in Grade 3 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 3 students. These lessons are supplemental lessons and are not required. Lessons listed can be taught at any time, but are recommended for Quarter 2. These lessons were created for asynchronous/synchronous instruction. Modifications may be needed.
- ScreenTime - Also included in Grade 1 lessons
- Learn about balance of screentime/devices and real life play using a Wixie activity Links to an external site.
- Skills: drag/drop and drawing
- Book Review
- listen to choice of books and post recommendation in discussion post
- skills: participating in online discussions
- Mystery Science - Where do Rainbows Come From?
- video about prisms, connection to art, complete show what you know worksheet in Wixie Links to an external site.
- Skills: note-taking, paint tools, voice recordings
- Introduction to WeVideo
- Tell about themselves using features in WeVideo
- Skills: video production
Last Updated: 10/13/2021
Curriculum Connections:
Below are the units of study for each content area in Grade 3. Lessons that are designed for collaboration with technology have been included.
- Health - Safety, First Aid, & Injury Prevention
- Reading - Relationships
- Performance Assessment - Conduct a Press Conference for the members of the Marine Hospital
- Science - Weather & Climate
- Lesson 3 - Collect Weather Data in Spreadsheet
- Lesson 6 & 7 - Research about climate zones
- Lesson 8 & 9 - Presentation and analysis of weather data using graphs
- Lesson 13-15 - Design and test arrangement of sand bags
- Social Studies - Mapping Our World
- Writing - Personal Narrative, Fiction
Quarter 3
Outcomes:
Computational Thinker: Cornerstone Task
- Students explore AI concepts and their application in real-world contexts.
- Lesson: What is AI?
- Students will explore how AI is used in entertainment and engage in creative projects using AI.
- Lesson: AI Text Effects
- Students will discuss the potential impact of AI on future job opportunities and develop adaptability skills.
- Lesson: AI Impact on Jobs
Last Updated: 8/26/2022
Additional Technology Lessons:
Below are lessons created by HCPSS Technology teachers for use with Grade 3 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.
- Women's History Month - Also included in Grade 2 lessons
- Research in Pebble Go, create a superhero card in Wixie Links to an external site. for that person.
- Skills: Research, text, images
- St. Patrick's Day Webquest
- Research and answer questions using a Wixie Template Links to an external site.. (Remixed Template Links to an external site. for Special Education Students)
- Skills: Research
- Extraordinaire Design Studio
- Work through the EDP process by creating a music player for an Extraordinaire
Last Updated 2/21/2022
Curriculum Connections:
Below are the units of study for each content area in Grade 3. Lessons that are designed for collaboration with technology have been included.
- Health - Tobacco, Alcohol & Other Drugs
- Reading - Determination
- Science - Forces & Interactions
- Lessons 14 & 15 - Design a device to be used in the classroom using magnets
- Social Studies - Money Matters
- Writing - Informational Expository Nonfiction, Functional Writing
Quarter 4
Outcomes:
- Identify plagiarism and copyright laws; how it impacts my work and respects the rights of others
- Lesson: A Creator's Rights and Responsibilities
- Practice being a respectful user of digital media providing citations, putting information into their own words, and quoting authors
- Lesson: Citation Heroes
- Identify strategies for creating strong, secure passwords and its importance in cybersecurity.
- Lesson: Creating Strong Passwords
Digital Citizen: Cornerstone Task
Empowered Learner - Technology Skills Checklist:
- Demonstrate proficiency in Grade 3 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 3 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
- Poetry
- Kaiju (Giant Monsters)
- Day 1: Students will create a Kaiju (Giant Monster) in Wixie and complete fun information about it. Day 2: Students will transfer their monster to Scratch and code some actions.
- Template Links: Wixie Kaiju Information Links to an external site., Wixie Monster Templates Links to an external site., Google Doc with Monster Ideas Links to an external site.
- Skills: Coding and Wixie
- Virtual Field Trip to Ellicott City #1
Links to an external site.
- Students will explore downtown Ellicott City using Wixie Links to an external site.
- Skills: Wixie
- Virtual Field Trip to Ellicott City #2
Links to an external site.
- Students will explore downtown Ellicott City using Wixie Links to an external site.
- Skills: Wixie
- Earth Day
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- Students will learn why humans can only live on Earth, why we celebrate Earth Day and a brief history, Vocabulary activities (crossword and word search) and jigsaw puzzles. Easy to modify for intermediate grade levels.
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- Students will learn why humans can only live on Earth, why we celebrate Earth Day and a brief history, Vocabulary activities (crossword and word search) and jigsaw puzzles. Easy to modify for intermediate grade levels.
- Getting Ready for the Summer - Similar lesson included in Grade K -2 Lessons
- Students watch a BrainPOP to review Internet Safety, then play a Kahoot game to review Chromebook care. Finally, they complete a Wixie to share thoughts on summer.
- Skills: BrainPop, Kahoot, Wixie
- Chromebook Care for Summer - Also included in Grade K-2 Lessons
- Video covering caring for the Chromebook over the summer. Consider expanding teaching students how to organize bookmarks and clean out old ones and create a tech tip bookmark folder as part of their lesson.
- 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 3. Lessons that are designed for collaboration with technology have been included.
- Health - Disease Prevention & Control
- Reading - Citizens and the Community
- Week 5: Lessons 3-5 - Create presentation for a Citizen Project
- Science - Plant & Animal Survival
- Social Studies - Project Citizen
- Writing - Functional Writing, Opinion Writing, Poetry, Writing Community
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