The table below outlines how specific computer hardware and software skills progress as students progress through the school.
At the end of each school year, students will be able to...
| Year |
Computer Hardware and Peripheral Use |
| Kindergarten |
- Identify and locate components of the computer and related equipment
- Perform basic mouse skills
- Identify and locate letters, numbers and special keys on a keyboard
- Wake a computer from sleep or screen saver mode
- Insert and remove a CD
- Recognize scanners, digital cameras and other related equipment
- Properly turn on and off the computer
- Type own name
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| Grade 1 |
- Use the cursor to insert text
- Use keyboarding skills (left hand on left side, right hand on right side, thumb on space bar, etc.)
- Identify and locate punctuation keys on a keyboard
- Use shift, caps lock, arrow, and space bar keys
- Demonstrate proper posture
- Suggest possible uses for scanners, digital cameras and other related equipment
- Use a mouse to choose a command from a menu bar, open a folder or file, start or quit a program
- Identify and locate punctuation keys on a keyboard
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| Grade 2 |
- Choose a sensible file name and save work in correct folder with teacher assistance
- Perform intermediate mouse skills (highlighting, etc)
- Demonstrate proper keyboarding techniques
- Identify home row keys
- Be aware of how to use appropriate computer peripherals
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| Grade 3 |
- Perform advanced mouse skills (resize and move windows, triple clicking, etc)
- Recognize top row keys
- Perform basics of scanners and digital camera and scanner with teacher assistance.
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| Grade 4 |
- Touch-type 15 wpm with 90% accuracy
- Recognize all alphabet keys
- Import a scanned image/digital photo into a document.
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| Grade 5 |
- Use all essential computer vocabulary
- Recognize all numeric keys
- Know basic keyboard shortcuts
- Touch-type 20 wpm with 90% accuracy
- Upload information from various peripherals. (i.e., video, audio, text files, etc)
- Use digital video cameras with teacher assistance
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| Grade 6 |
- Locate the letters on the keyboard without looking
- Input data at 25-40 wpm with 90% accuracy
- Use digital cameras in class projects independently
- Use various storage medias or disk drives to save and upload to network and computer.
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| Grade 7 |
- Apply keyboard shortcuts such as cut, copy, paste, save and select all
- Use attached peripheral equipment with assistance
- Use disk drives to save and upload to network and computer (hard disks, Zip, Thumbdrives, etc.)
- Attach various storage medias or disk drives to save and upload to network and computer
- Shoot movies independently with digital video cameras
- Use projectors in presentations
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| Grade 8 |
- Set up peripheral equipment (cameras, scanners, projectors) with assistance
- Use a scanner and save images in appropriate file format
- Connect a digital video camera to import video clips
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| Grade 9 |
- Utilize the right-button functions on the mouse of a Windows-based computer
- Utilize peripheral ports on the computer
- Manually adjust digital camera settings and external lighting to enhance images taken in a particular environment
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| Grade 10 |
- Examine attached settings and attachment of peripheral equipment to determine problems and conflicts
- Add and Connect peripherals to computer with teacher assistance
- Choose the necessary driver to add the new computer.
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| Grade 11 |
- Independently set up peripheral equipment to computers
- Connect peripherals to computer
- Examine attached settings and attachment of peripheral equipment to determine problems and conflicts
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| Grade 12 |
- Understand the basic functionality of all parts of a computer and related peripheral equipment to increase productivity and solve problems
- Assemble computer hardware to set up a whole computer system
- Add memory and sound card to a Windows machine
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