Grade 5 Scope and Sequence
Scope and Sequence Grade 5 Technology
The scope and sequence listed below are the recommended Instructional Technology units to teach. Connections to the Grade 5 content area scope and sequence are included. Be sure to check with your fifth 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 | Artificial Intelligence |
| Unit 2 | Empowered Learner - Keyboarding | Empowered Learner - Tech Skills Checklist |
Computational Thinker Cornerstone Task | Digital Citizen |
| Unit 3 | Artificial Intelligence | Artificial Intelligence | Digital Citizen Cornerstone Task |
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| Unit 4 | Digital Citizen | Empowered Learner - Tech Skills Checklist |
Last Updated: 8/13/2024
Quarter 1
Outcomes:
- 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
- Students will collaborate on interdisciplinary AI projects.
- Lesson: Character Portrait using AI
- Explain how digital content is permanent and cannot be deleted (Community Building)
- Lesson: What is a Digital Footprint
- Identify private information that should not be given to anyone online without the permission of a trusted adult.
- Lesson: What is a Digital Footprint
- Identify strategies for creating strong, secure passwords and its importance in cybersecurity
- Lesson: Creating Strong Passwords
Last Updated: 8/13/2024
Additional Technology Lessons:
Below are lessons created by HCPSS Technology teachers for use with Grade 5 students. These lessons are supplemental lessons and are not required. Lessons listed can be taught at any time, but are recommended for Quarter 1.
- Virtual Learning Cycle 1 Lessons
- Welcome to Technology
- Getting to Know You
- Digital Bootcamp
- Commenting Online
- Typing Agent Introduction
- Chromebook CareLinks to an external site. Also included in Grade 3/4 Lessons
- How to take care of your Chromebook Google Sheets (Links to an external site.).
- Kindness Choice boardLinks to an external site. Also included in Grade 3/4 Lessons
- Wixie Activity (Links to an external site.) - Good for when new students are joining. Promotes SEL.
- Profile PhotosLinks to an external site. Also included in Grade 3/4 Lessons
- Includes a PPT, Video directions and a Discussion
- Intro to WeVideoLinks to an external site. Also included in Grade 4 Lessons
- Students will tell about themselves using a variety of features in WeVideo. This is a prep lesson for a future research lesson.
- Google Slides Learning Log
- Students create a G.Slide deck to record various learning content and practice G-Suite skills.
Last Updated: 8/22/2021
Curriculum Connections:
Below are the units of study for each content area in Grade 5. Lessons that are designed for collaboration with technology have been included.
- Health - Social and Emotional Health
- Reading - Making a Difference
- Week 4 Days 2&3 - Create a bumper sticker to identify theme.
- Science - Earth's Systems
- Lessons 10-13 - Design and test water filters
- Lesson 15 BioBlitz - Use of GIS system for collecting data about presence of plant and animal biodiversity in the schoolyard.
- Social Studies - American Revolution
- Writing - Writing Community, Writing Process, Personal Narrative
Quarter 2
Outcomes:
- Break down a problem into smaller manageable parts and identify key information
- Lesson: Starting from Scratch
- Create innovative solutions using code
- Lesson: Timing is Everything!
- Use patterns and trends in data to generate insights that will inform decisions
- Lesson: Practicing Dialogue
- Apply my understanding of coding to innovate solutions in today's world.
- Lesson: Let's Get Moving!
Empowered Learner - Technology Skills Checklist:
- Demonstrate growth towards proficiency in Grade 5 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 5 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.
- Media Balance
- discuss ways to connect and disconnect with digital media using Wixie Activity Links to an external site.
- ScreenTime - Also included in Grade 3 & 4 lessons
- Wixie activity Links to an external site. to learn about balance of screentime/devices and real life play
- Skills: text-boxes, drawing, goal-setting
- Mars Helicopter Game
Links to an external site.
- Scratch Video game Links to an external site. to explore Mars from helicopter. Created by NASA
- Skills: coding
Last Updated: 10/13/2021
Curriculum Connections:
Below are the units of study for each content area in Grade 5. Lessons that are designed for collaboration with technology have been included.
- Health - Safety, First Aid, & Injury Prevention
- Reading - Investigating and Discovery Personal Strengths
- Science - Earth's Systems, Patterns in Space
- Chesapeake Bay Systems Research - System Interactions within the Chesapeake Bay
- Lesson 7 - Video "A History of the Sky"; collecting and interpreting data from visual cues in the video
- Social Studies - Building a New Nation
- Writing - Personal Narrative, Fiction
Quarter 3
Outcomes:
- Apply my understanding of coding to innovate solutions in today's world.
- Lesson: Let's Get Moving!
- Break down a problem into smaller manageable parts and identify key information.
- Lesson: Creating a Story
- Apply my understanding of coding to innovative solutions in today's world
- Lesson: Creating a Story
Computational Thinker: Cornerstone Task
Artificial Intelligence
- Students will discuss current AI trends and potential future developments, and identify the ethical implications (bias, privacy, intellectual property, and accuracy).
- Lesson: Bias in Artificial Intelligence
Last Updated: 8/26/2022
Additional Technology Lessons:
Below are lessons created by HCPSS Technology teachers for use with Grade 5 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.
- St. Patrick's Day Webquest - Also included in Grade 3 & 4 lessons
- 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 - Also included in Grade 3 & 4 lessons
- Work through the EDP process by creating a music player for an Extraordinaire
- Spring Magnetic Poetry - Also included in Grade 4 lessons
- Create Spring themed poems using words provided in Google Slides Links to an external site.
- Skills: copy/paste and click/drag
- Virtual Field Trip: Philadelphia
- Explore the Philadelphia, PA as a virtual field trip using Google Slides Links to an external site. (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 5. Lessons that are designed for collaboration with technology have been included.
- Health - Tobacco, Alcohol & Other Drugs
- Reading - Mysteries
- Lesson 4 - Create a comic strip
- Science - Structures & Properties of Matter
- Social Studies - Challenges of a New Nation
- Writing - Informational Expository Nonfiction, Speech Writing
Quarter 4
Outcomes:
Artificial Intelligence
- Students will discuss current AI trends and potential future developments, and identify the ethical implications (bias, privacy, intellectual property, and accuracy).
- Lesson: Bias in Artificial Intelligence
- Identify ways to model positive behaviors online
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- Lesson: Being a Responsible Digital Citizen
- Demonstrate the ability to protect online reputations
- Lesson: Your Online Reputation
- Identify appropriate responses to cyberbullying situations
- Lesson: Cyberbullying
Digital Citizen: Cornerstone Task
Empowered Learner - Technology Skills Checklist:
- Demonstrate proficiency in Grade 5 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 5 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
- Kindness
- Kindness Choice board - good for when new students are joining classes or anytime as a reminder using Wixie. Links to an external site.
- Skills: SEL
- Earth Day (Links to an external site.) - also included in the Grade 3 & 4 Lessons
- (Links to an external site.) - (Links to an external siteS (Links to an external site.SStidStudents 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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- (Links to an external site.) - (Links to an external siteS (Links to an external site.SStidStudents 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 Summer - Also included in Grade K -4 Lessons
- Students play a Kahoot game to share a few thoughts on summer & review Chromebook care; If there's enough time a Wixie is included for them to share more thoughts on Summer
- Skills: Kahoot, Wixie
- Chromebook Care for SummerLinks to an external site. - Also included in Grade K-3 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 5. Lessons that are designed for collaboration with technology have been included.
- Health - Puberty Education
- Reading - Love that Poem
- Performance Task - write and share an autobiographical poem
- Science - Matter & Energy in Ecosystems
- Social Studies - We The People
- Writing - Opinion Writing, Poetry, Revisiting the Writing Community
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