Common Core Unit For Computers
Unit Title: Google Drive Grade: 7
Pacing (Approximate)- 4 classes
Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings:
Google Drive is a central location that stores all your created documents.
It is a secure, cloud-based, application that only requires an internet connection.
It allows you to create Docs, Sheets, and Presentation
It also allows you to use it as a flash drive and upload non-Google documents
It allows the originator to share documents with others and control the others users access.
Essential Questions:
What are the advantages of using Google Drive vs. Microsoft Office?
How do I create, organize, share my documents?
How do I control the access to my documents by others I collaborate with?
Common Core Focus Standards
Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.
Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression.
Students will know (content) and will be able to do (skills)
The advantages of using Google Drive.
How to organize their documents to make them easy to access.
How to create and share a document.
How to create a folder.
Why they should use folders to organize their work.
How to control the permissions of other shared users on their documents.
Vocabulary
Google Drive
Google Docs
Google Sheets
Google Slides
Format
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Folders
Assignments
Students will be expected to keep their documents organized appropriately throughout the semester. They will be expected to share their documents in class in order to receive credit for their work.
Assessments
All assessments are hands-on portfolio assessments which are created and/or practiced every class.