Mathematics - Grade 4
Objectives:
• Students will learn to compose their thoughts at the computer.
• Students will use AppleWorks 6 word processing to reflect on the
math skills they learned in Unit 2.
• Students will practice typing skills and proper format.
• Students will become familiar with computers by using the
keyboard, saving work, and printing.
Materials:
Math journal page 50
AppleWorks 6 - word processing
Printers
Anticipatory Set:
Students and teachers discuss and record on the
board all of the math skills covered in Unit 2. Look over journal
page question together.
Procedure:
Each student is assigned a computer. Everyone
opens up a new document on AppleWorks 6 word processing. Students
type the journal questions and their responses. Then, students need
to Spell-check their work and get it edited by the teacher. Journal
reflections are to be saved and printed.
Closure:
Students return to the classroom with their typed
work. As a group, discuss journal responses.
English Language Arts Standards and Benchmarks:
Michigan English Language Arts Standard: Meaning and
Communication: Content Standard 1:
All students will read and comprehend general and technical material.
Benchmark1.1:
Use reading for multiple purposes, such as enjoyment, gathering
information, learning new procedures, and increasing conceptual
understanding.
Michigan English Language Arts Standard: Meaning and
Communication: Content Standard 2:
All students will demonstrate the ability to write clear and
grammatically correct sentences, paragraphs, and compositions.
Benchmark 2.1:
Write fluently for multiple purposes to produce compositions, such as
stories, reports, letters, plays, and explanations of processes.
Benchmark 2.4:
Identify multiple language conventions and use them when editing text.
Examples include recognition of nouns, verbs, and modifiers,
capitalization rules, punctuation marks, and spelling.
Michigan English Language Arts Standard: Meaning and
Communication: Content Standard 3:
All students will focus on meaning and communications as they listen,
speak, view, read, and write in personal, social, occupational, and civic
contexts.
Benchmark 3.8:
Express their responses to oral, visual, written, and electronic texts,
and
compare their responses to those of others.
National Educational Standards for Students (Grades 3-5)
Content Standard 1: Basic operations and concepts
Benchmark 1:
Use keyboards and other common input and output devices (including
adaptive devices when necessary) efficiently and effectively.