Sample Lessons
The Kto8 Curriculum has over 600 lessons. These lessons are organized into integrated and cross-curricular to maximize the effectiveness for your children. In addition to presenting and teaching a technology skill, each of these lessons has quiz that covers the main points of the lesson’s technology objective.
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| Computer Components |
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Students will learn the five basic components of a computer system: the mouse, monitor, keyboard, CPU, and printer. |
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| Short A Words |
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Students will review words that have the short "a" sound: astronaut, apple, ant, animals, alligator, hat, cat, bat, and rat. |
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| Make Change |
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Students will learn how to count coins and bills and make change. The lesson reviews the value of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. |
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| Making A Presentation |
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This lesson takes a student through the process of creating a presentation. The student learns the difference between persuasive, informative, and entertaining presentations. |
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| Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers |
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Students use information from a Census Bureau Web site to solve addition and subtraction problems. Students will use online sources and Excel. |
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| Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs |
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Students review nouns, pronouns, and verbs. They will create PowerPoint slides to demonstrate pronoun-antecedent agreement and singular-plural verbs. |
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| Regular and Irregular Plurals |
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Students review the rules for regular and irregular plurals. Students learn to insert and use tables in Microsoft Word. |
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| Revise and Edit Writing |
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Students will review rules for capitalization, punctuation, spelling and grammar. They will write a story with no punctuation and edit each other's work. |
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| Graphs |
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This lesson reviews how to make comparisons and predictions using line, bar, circle, and picture graphs. Students create graphs with Excel from USA Today information. |
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