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Have you ever wished you had an instructional coach at your side to help align your curriculum with the tech-related indicators found in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)? You’re not alone. Nearly all U.S. states have adopted Common Core, and teachers across the country are redesigning their lessons to meet the standards, including the edtech component. In this book (the second in a four-book series), you’ll learn how to shift your instructional practice and integrate technology standards found within Common Core into elementary curriculum. This book: addresses issues that digital age students face and examines the importance of tailoring their learning experiences using technology; discusses technology needed to teach CCSS and shows how to address roadblocks to incorporating technology; explains how the CCSS are organized and offers a deep dive into the standards specific to grades 3-5; includes classroom-tested lesson ideas mapped to tech-related CCSS and ISTE Standards; and shares resources (apps, software and websites) that can be used in meeting CCSS.
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Valerie Morrison has 14 years of experience as a technology director, integration specialist, and technology coach. A regular conference presenter, Morrison also teaches education courses at the college level.
Stephanie Novak, a 27-year educator turned instructional coach, helps teachers in grades K-5 understand how to blend the Common Core State Standards with rigorous curriculum.
Tim Vanderwerff is a 35-year veteran teacher who has worked with learners from kindergarten to adulthood. As an instructional coach, Vanderwerff uses his background in media, technology and English language arts to help elementary teachers implement the CCSS.
Stephanie Novak, a 27-year educator turned instructional coach, helps teachers in grades K-5 understand how to blend the Common Core State Standards with rigorous curriculum.
Tim Vanderwerff is a 35-year veteran teacher who has worked with learners from kindergarten to adulthood. As an instructional coach, Vanderwerff uses his background in media, technology and English language arts to help elementary teachers implement the CCSS.
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Chapter 8: Practical Ideas for Third Grade
We realize that you will want to focus on your particular grade or subject when you are planning your lessons and implementing CCSS, so we have organized the practical ideas chapters by grade level, then subject. Each grade starts with an overview followed by ELA technology standards with accompanying apps, software, and websites that you can use to help your students succeed with that standard. We then continue with the math standard for the grade level, also with accompanying resources. Finally, we have included some sample lessons for each grade level in various subject areas. Although we intend for you to seek your specific grade and subject to help you implement CCSS for your students, please do not disregard other sections of this chapter. To see grades other than 3–5, look for our three additional titles in this collection, as they could provide information to help you differentiate for students at all levels of your class.
The CCSS expect third graders to use technology to enhance their literacy skills. The literacy standards place an emphasis on information gathering and publishing of student writing. Students should also use technology to practice math skills. This includes the use of digital math tools in the form of software programs, apps, or websites. We have pulled out the third grade standards that include technology and list them in this chapter. We also offer ideas and suggestions for which technologies to use and how to teach with them.
Research Ideas
RI.3.5 READING INFORMATION
Use text features and search tools (e.g., keywords, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently
W.3.8 WRITING
Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
WE HAVE COMBINED RI.3.5 WITH W.3.8 because search tools will also
be used when gathering information from digital sources. In third grade, students need to use search tools to find relevant information on the internet. They will need to be taught the features of webpages and how to navigate through them. Understanding the layout of webpages, such as the functions of sidebars and hyperlinks, is also necessary. The best way to do this is to show various webpages (using websites from your literacy or science standards will be a great way to integrate your curriculum with this technology standard), then model and explain what the features are and their functions by using an interactive whiteboard. Don’t have an interactive whiteboard? Check out a free site called RealtimeBoard (www.realtimeboard.com). All you need is a computer and a projector to run this virtual online whiteboard.
Teaching students which keywords to use and how to analyze search results will definitely help them find better sources and think more critically about any information they find on the internet. Following are some tips to help when teaching students to conduct a search.
• Choose your search terms carefully. Be precise about what you are looking for, though you should use phrases and not full sentences.
• Adding more words can narrow a search. Use Boolean searches to narrow your topic with quotation marks. There’s a big difference between the search term
“gopher” and “Habitats of gophers in North America.”
• Use synonyms! If students can’t find what they’re looking for, have them try keywords that mean the same thing or are related.
• Type “site:” Typing the word site: (with the colon) after your keyword and before a URL will tell Google to search within a specific website.
• Add a minus sign. Adding a minus sign immediately before any word, with no space in between, indicates that you don’t want that word to appear in your search results. For example, “Saturn -cars” will give you information about the planet, not the automobile.
Kid-Friendly Search Engines
Protecting students from unsafe content is the most important reason for using search engines made specifically for kids. Allowing your students to have the run of the web using a search engine for young students helps you, because it is difficult to monitor an entire class that is using unfiltered search engines.
Of course, there is no guarantee that results will be safe even when using a search engine tailored for children. Many districts have filters on their networks, but if yours does not, we suggest you explore the following.
SEARCH ENGINES
• Kids Click (www.kidsclick.org): A web search site designed for kids by librarians with kid-friendly results. This site is free and for Grades 2–5.
• Google for Kids (www.safesearchkids.com): Google for Kids Safe Search Kids is a custom search engine using Google’s Safe Search features with additional filtering to block more potentially harmful material than if you simply use Google. It is fun, colorful, and easy for kids to use.
• Google Kid Search (www.kidzsearch.com): This is another safe search engine powered by Google for Grades K–8. However, please be aware there are ads on this site.
• Yahoo for Kids (http://tinyurl.com/nqn4p39): Yahooligans is a safe search engine for young students (K–2) picked by editors at Yahoo.
• Ask Kids (www.ask.com): This is a free, filtered search engine for Grades K–6.
Using programs such as PebbleGo (www.pebblego.com) (must be purchased) is a great online source for PK–3 students to find easy-to-read informational text that includes citation support, videos, and audio recordings, as well as games and activities on many science topics that are typically used at this level. Although you also need to pay for it, Power Knowledge (www.pkearthandspace.com and www. pklifescience.com) is another program that can be used with your third grade science topics to find easy-reading science resources.
Tried and true methods for note taking and categorizing information found in books can still be used to gather and record information on websites. Teaching students to use data sheets, note cards, and KWL (Know, What, Learn) techniques still works; however, there are now ways that technology can make this easier. The Kentucky Virtual Library (http://tinyurl.com/ptnwz4) is a great website to use as a resource for some of these techniques.
Mind-mapping tools will help your students organize their research when gathering information. Several wonderful software programs have been used for mind-mapping for many years. However, there are also free sites out there. Following are some digital tools you can use to teach note taking and categorizing.
NOTE-TAKING TOOLS
• Kidspiration (http://tinyurl.com/dg2cxa): A mind-mapping software program that helps students organize their writing. It can be especially helpful for students who are learning to create paragraphs and organize big ideas into their smaller parts. $40 to $640. Their web-based version is called Webspiration...
We realize that you will want to focus on your particular grade or subject when you are planning your lessons and implementing CCSS, so we have organized the practical ideas chapters by grade level, then subject. Each grade starts with an overview followed by ELA technology standards with accompanying apps, software, and websites that you can use to help your students succeed with that standard. We then continue with the math standard for the grade level, also with accompanying resources. Finally, we have included some sample lessons for each grade level in various subject areas. Although we intend for you to seek your specific grade and subject to help you implement CCSS for your students, please do not disregard other sections of this chapter. To see grades other than 3–5, look for our three additional titles in this collection, as they could provide information to help you differentiate for students at all levels of your class.
The CCSS expect third graders to use technology to enhance their literacy skills. The literacy standards place an emphasis on information gathering and publishing of student writing. Students should also use technology to practice math skills. This includes the use of digital math tools in the form of software programs, apps, or websites. We have pulled out the third grade standards that include technology and list them in this chapter. We also offer ideas and suggestions for which technologies to use and how to teach with them.
Research Ideas
RI.3.5 READING INFORMATION
Use text features and search tools (e.g., keywords, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently
W.3.8 WRITING
Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
WE HAVE COMBINED RI.3.5 WITH W.3.8 because search tools will also
be used when gathering information from digital sources. In third grade, students need to use search tools to find relevant information on the internet. They will need to be taught the features of webpages and how to navigate through them. Understanding the layout of webpages, such as the functions of sidebars and hyperlinks, is also necessary. The best way to do this is to show various webpages (using websites from your literacy or science standards will be a great way to integrate your curriculum with this technology standard), then model and explain what the features are and their functions by using an interactive whiteboard. Don’t have an interactive whiteboard? Check out a free site called RealtimeBoard (www.realtimeboard.com). All you need is a computer and a projector to run this virtual online whiteboard.
Teaching students which keywords to use and how to analyze search results will definitely help them find better sources and think more critically about any information they find on the internet. Following are some tips to help when teaching students to conduct a search.
• Choose your search terms carefully. Be precise about what you are looking for, though you should use phrases and not full sentences.
• Adding more words can narrow a search. Use Boolean searches to narrow your topic with quotation marks. There’s a big difference between the search term
“gopher” and “Habitats of gophers in North America.”
• Use synonyms! If students can’t find what they’re looking for, have them try keywords that mean the same thing or are related.
• Type “site:” Typing the word site: (with the colon) after your keyword and before a URL will tell Google to search within a specific website.
• Add a minus sign. Adding a minus sign immediately before any word, with no space in between, indicates that you don’t want that word to appear in your search results. For example, “Saturn -cars” will give you information about the planet, not the automobile.
Kid-Friendly Search Engines
Protecting students from unsafe content is the most important reason for using search engines made specifically for kids. Allowing your students to have the run of the web using a search engine for young students helps you, because it is difficult to monitor an entire class that is using unfiltered search engines.
Of course, there is no guarantee that results will be safe even when using a search engine tailored for children. Many districts have filters on their networks, but if yours does not, we suggest you explore the following.
SEARCH ENGINES
• Kids Click (www.kidsclick.org): A web search site designed for kids by librarians with kid-friendly results. This site is free and for Grades 2–5.
• Google for Kids (www.safesearchkids.com): Google for Kids Safe Search Kids is a custom search engine using Google’s Safe Search features with additional filtering to block more potentially harmful material than if you simply use Google. It is fun, colorful, and easy for kids to use.
• Google Kid Search (www.kidzsearch.com): This is another safe search engine powered by Google for Grades K–8. However, please be aware there are ads on this site.
• Yahoo for Kids (http://tinyurl.com/nqn4p39): Yahooligans is a safe search engine for young students (K–2) picked by editors at Yahoo.
• Ask Kids (www.ask.com): This is a free, filtered search engine for Grades K–6.
Using programs such as PebbleGo (www.pebblego.com) (must be purchased) is a great online source for PK–3 students to find easy-to-read informational text that includes citation support, videos, and audio recordings, as well as games and activities on many science topics that are typically used at this level. Although you also need to pay for it, Power Knowledge (www.pkearthandspace.com and www. pklifescience.com) is another program that can be used with your third grade science topics to find easy-reading science resources.
Tried and true methods for note taking and categorizing information found in books can still be used to gather and record information on websites. Teaching students to use data sheets, note cards, and KWL (Know, What, Learn) techniques still works; however, there are now ways that technology can make this easier. The Kentucky Virtual Library (http://tinyurl.com/ptnwz4) is a great website to use as a resource for some of these techniques.
Mind-mapping tools will help your students organize their research when gathering information. Several wonderful software programs have been used for mind-mapping for many years. However, there are also free sites out there. Following are some digital tools you can use to teach note taking and categorizing.
NOTE-TAKING TOOLS
• Kidspiration (http://tinyurl.com/dg2cxa): A mind-mapping software program that helps students organize their writing. It can be especially helpful for students who are learning to create paragraphs and organize big ideas into their smaller parts. $40 to $640. Their web-based version is called Webspiration...
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