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SBAC Tech Skills for Grades 3-4

Mouse Practice

Mouse Practice

DownloadMouse Practice Lesson 

Skill

Activities and Description

CCSS      

Scroll Practice                                          
 

Students will visit Scroll Practice and follow directions to practice using the mouse. 

Using Math Maven students are expected to apply their mouse skills by scrolling through prompts to solve the math mystery and answer the question.  

 Math
(3.OA.D.8)
(4.OA.A3) 

Highlight Text 

Using Highlighting Text students will wear headphone, listen to the directions and practice highlighting text. 

Students will visit Grade 3 Proofreading Makes Perfect and Grade 4 Proofreading Makes Perfect to practice correcting grammar, spelling usage, and punctuation. Students will need to practice highlighting text, and placing cursor in specific locations in the text.     

ELA 
(L.3.1,L.3.2)
(L.4.1,L4.2)

Mouse Clicking   

Students will play Mouse Clicking to improve the speed and accuracy of mouse clicking. 

Using Spelling Bees students will practice their speed and accuracy of using the mouse.  

ELA
(RF.3.3)
(RF.4.3) 

 

 

Keyboarding

Keyboarding

 

Skill

Activities and Description

CCSS

Keyboarding

Students will use Dance Mat Typing to practice typing skills, choose your level.                                            

ELA            
(W.3.6)
(W.4.6) 

Keyboarding

Students will use Typing Club to follow sequential format for improving a variety of typing skills. 

ELA
(W.3.6)
(W.4.6) 

Number Pad Practice          

Using Number Pad Practice students will focus on using the number key pad and will practice using the number pad for speed and accuracy

Students will play Math Quiz to improve their multiplication fluency while practicing using the number key pad.          

Math
(3.OA.A.3)
(4.OA.A.1) 

 

 

 

 

 


Navigation

Navigation

DownloadNavigation Lesson

Skill

Activities and Description

CCSS

Understanding Symbols      

Using Word Clouds for Kids students will practice interpreting how to navigate an activity by creating content-specific word clouds. 

ELA            
(W.3.6)
(W.4.6) 

Writing into Fields

Using The Friendly Letter Creator, students will practice typing into fields.

Esperanza Rising will allow students to respond to prompts by typing into fields. Once finished, they have the option of printing their writing. 

ELA
(W.3.1)
(W.4.1) 

Navigating Videos

In Study Jams, students can watch videos and play supplemental games on a variety of topics tied to 
CCSS Math standards. Play a video, use navigation tools, and learn! 

Math   

Multiple Navigation Skills 

Using Story Starters, students will use a variety of navigation skills including locating hotspots, toggling to advance to next screen and
typing into fields to create a story. 

ELA
(W.3.3)
(W.4.3)
 

 

 

Drag & Drop

Drag & Drop

DownloadDrag & Drop Lesson 

Skill

Activities and Description

CCSS

Drag and Drop      

Using Thinking Blocks, students will model and solve word problems while practicing their navigation and drag and drop skills. 

Using Clean Up Your Grammar, students will practice dragging and dropping by sorting verbs and nouns. 

Math
(3.OA.) 
(4.OA)  
ELA
(L.3.2)
L.4.2)