Fourth grade students use technology resources to complete a variety of tasks. Students complete a comprehensive typing unit in fourth grade and learn to use and maintain personal computer accounts. Students begin to analyze different software products toward the completion of tasks including using software to interpret data. Fourth grade students are taught to differentiate the content found in digital resources.

As in third grade, the fourth grade students have fewer regularly scheduled visits to the library, though they use it frequently through Information Literacy and for various class projects on an as-needed basis. Continued exposure to long, harder, and deeper chapter books, as well as sophisticated non-fiction, through book talks is still and important part of the program, as are browsing for and choosing independent reading materials. (Through the Information Literacy program, fourth graders continue to use the online encyclopedia and are introduced to our other subscription product, an online periodicals database which gives access to magazine and newspaper articles, current and past.)

• Use a variety of technology tools to complete curricular projects.
• Share information with others
• Analyze the process of completing tasks
• Collaborate toward the completion of projects
• Use of word processing toward the completion of projects
• Exhibit ability to use technology and general software applications
• Determine which technology is useful and begin to select the appropriate tool when completing a task.
• Type at 12 words per minute at 95% accuracy
• Uses technology tools to retrieve data and report results

• Formulates questions based on information needs
• Shares knowledge and information with others
• Understanding of nature and operation of technology systems
• Uses technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources
• Identifies a variety of potential sources of information
• Develops and uses successful strategies for locating information.
• The information literacy program will help community members develop skills for evaluating resources based upon their needs.
• Determines accuracy, relevance and comprehensivenes.
• Respects the principles of intellectual freedom
• Organizes information for practical application
• Use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
• Integrates new information into one's own knowledge
• Respects intellectual property rights.
• Uses a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
• Produces and communicates information and ideas in appropriate formats
• Develops creative products in a variety of formats (print, graphic, audio, video, multimedia)
  

Refining third grade skills

• Using the catalog
• Locating material
• Evaluating and selecting material