Grade PreK • Instructional Technology What Your Child Will Learn

Grade PreK Instructional Technology

What Your Child Will Learn

  • Identify parts of a computer and its peripherals: desktop, laptop, monitor/screen, mouse/trackpad, keyboard, headphones/speakers, microphone, camera/webcam, CD/DVD drive, printer, power adapter.
  • Identify parts of a tablet device - i.e., screen, home button, volume buttons, headphone port, camera, power button, microphone speakers, connector port.
  • Use mouse/trackpad to point, select/click, double click, move cursor, drag & drop, and highlight.
  • Use home button and touchscreen to open & close apps, navigate pages & folders.
  • Use a tablet touchscreen to select/tap, drag & drop, highlight, move cursor.
  • Files & folders - Open, close, and save files.
  • Files & folders - Retrieve files from teacher-chosen location
  • Log-in & Logout to the computer.
  • Open applications.
  • Use and adjust the volume control.
  • Use special function keys: delete/backspace, shift, space, return/enter, arrow keys, caps lock, escape, control, fn, windows, multi-function keys, alt, print screen, screenshot
  • Select appropriate printer to print.
  • Complete a teacher-assigned template.
  • Open a hyperlink.
  • Navigate a website - i.e., scrollbar, arrow keys, gestures.
  • Use basic navigation buttons - back. forward, home, refresh, stop
  • Select and edit text: font size, font type, font color
  • Select shapes or graphics to represent ideas. (Search through categories to find an image.)
  • Within a graphic organizer or web tool, show relationships by adding or modifying color, shapes, and size, sorting, adding or modifying links and arrows.
  • Edit, add or label information on an existing organizer.

What Your Child Will LearN
With assistance:

Empowered Learner

  • Use software and hardware appropriately.
  • With assistance type first and last name
  • With assistance type or enter text/number combinations
  • Identify the different parts of a Chromebook and how they function.

Digital Citizen

  • Understand the importance of being safe, responsible, and respectful online.

Knowledge Constructor

  • With assistance, identify, obtain, and use information from electronic data sources such as databases and the Internet.

Innovative Designer

  • With assistance, contribute to the solution of real-world problems and make informed decisions using technology as a tool.
  • With assistance, demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and contribute to the development of innovative products and processes using technology


Computational Thinker

  • With assistance, identify how coding is used in my life.
  • With assistance, identify patterns
  • With assistance, create a sequence to reach a goal

Creative Communicator

  • Use word processing software to create and print documents.
  • Use a graphics program to create an original picture.
  • Create a document that includes words and pictures.
  • Construct tables and graphs with assistance.
  • Contribute to a multimedia presentation.
  • Communicate ideas or information using technology.
  • With assistance, use various media and formats for multiple purposes.

Global Collaborator

  • Recognize technology’s role in the world around them.
Revised: 12/2022