Students continue to improve their keyboarding skills learning most of the keyboard by touch. They use this skill to write reports, type letters, create banners and cards, and produce computer presentations. Fourth graders have the opportunity to do limited research using the Internet. Last year, many fourth graders used the Internet to look up daily weather maps. There are two computer labs at the Intermediate Center that are used on a regular basis by all fourth grade classes.
Teachers instruct their students in keyboarding.
Lego Logo is a six week unit in the science curriculum in which students use both computerized and non-computerized Lego kits to build machines that cross the spectrum from very simple to quite complex. The Mac Lab will be used for creating multimedia projects, typing documents, and using CD Rom resources. Digital cameras are used to create multimedia projects. Each classroom also has a computer and two AlphaSmart word processing keyboards, which students may use as needed. There are a number of fourth grade appropriate educational software programs which are used.