Mrs. Jarvis - Nivens
Design & Technology

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5th - 8th Grade Technology Resources

To help prepare our students for the Next Generation Assessments on computers, they need to master typing and navigating the keyboard. Below are a bunch of great links to keyboarding and typing games for all grade levels that students can work on at home or during free time at school to increase their computer skills.

Computer Applications Activities Computer Literacy Activities

Design Technology Activities Information Technology Activities

Technology Activities

Online Learning Tutorials: Basic Computer Essentials

Keyboarding Games

Keyboarding Zoo Key Seeker Find the Letter Keyboarding Zoo 2 Cup Staking Jump Key

Keyboard Climber Type Rocket Jr. Wack-A-Letter

Typing Course Typing Factory Learn to Keyboard

Keyphant Keyboard Revolution Alpha Munchies

Snake ABC Tip Tap Keys Meteor Game Bubbles Typing Adventure Type Rocket Cluttergrams Jr. Typing Keyboard Climber Typing Factory

Arachnid Falls Keyboard Ninja Keyboard Game

Tetris Key Bricks Alpha Munchies

Typing Racing Spider Letters Retro Typer

Sky Chase Keyboard Invasion Spelling Practice

Fun Typing Games

Typing Games

Tetris Meteor Typing Blast Pac Man

Trick or Type Spacebar Invaders Keyboard Puzzle

Dessert Typing Racer Nitro Type Racing Story Typing

Ghost Typing Cluttergrams Letter Blocks Pop Words Excuses

Typing Course Dance Mat Typing Typing Games

Number Mahjong Animal Quiz Opposite Adjectives

Cluttergrams Jr. Typing Keyboard Jump Keyboard Climber 2

Fun Typing Games Typing Club

Typing.io - Typing Practice for Programmers

Hour of Code

Learn how to code and program with step by step lessons to create your own video games and apps.

Online Safety

Interland

Play various games to learn how to be safe online and be Internet Awesome!

Internet Safety Video Internet Safety Video: Cyber 5

Internet Safety with NetSmartz Kids NetSmartz Tweens

NetSmarts Tween Videos about being safe and smart online

Watch the Rules of Online Safety rap

Watch What Rule Is It Anyways? and see if you know how to be safe on the Internet.

Watch the Outlaw Roundup Interactive Video and learn about the bad people to watch out for online and help charge them to put the bad guys in jail.

Online Outlaws

Meet Me Mack - He tries to get kids to meet him face to face off the Internet

Wanta Know Wally- He tries to get your personal information like phone number and address

Look At Dis Louie- He shows kids bad pictures and websites on the Internet that might make them feel sad, scared, or confused

Potty Mouth Pete- He is a cyberbully and uses mean and bad words on the Internet

Bitsbox - Hour Of Code:

Students can learn how to develop apps for tablets and phones

Elements of Art & Principals of Design

Elements of Art: Line, Shape, Color, Value, Form, Texture, Space

(Click on each Art Element for the video)

Principals of Design: Balance, Contrast, Emphasis, Movement, Pattern,

Rhythm, Unity

Explore the Elements of Art & Principals of Design online with The Artist Tool Kit

--Click on each section, watch the video, find the vocabulary, and then create your own.

After completing the activities you should be able to describe each Element of Art and Principals of Design then give an example. Principals of Design: Pattern Video

Shapes

Shape Challenge

Use the Shape Tool Site to create...

1. Create an animal using shapes

2. Create a means of transportation using shapes

3. Create a person or face using shapes

4. Create a picture/scene using shapes

Tangrams

Emojis

The word emoji literally means "picture" (e) + "character" (moji) = emojiAn emoji is a small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication.

Using the shape tools create a happy emoji and a sad emoji

in Microsoft Paint or Shape Tool and incorporate the

Elements of Art- line, color, value, and shape.

Think about how colors convey moods and feelings:

Warm Colors (Red, Orange, Yellow) convey happiness

Cool Colors (Blue, Green, Violet) convey sadness

Who I Am! Self Portraits

Create a self portrait (a picture of yourself) on Microsoft Paint Sketchpad

using the Art Elements: Shape, Line, Color, Value, and Space

Think about your hair color, hair style, skin color, eye color, and other distinguishing characteristics (i.e. glasses, freckles).

Use shapes to create a self portrait. In the background/negative space type your name and 10 adjectives that describe yourself (i.smart, funny, athletic) Make A Face

OP Art- Optical Illusion Art

Optical Art (Op Art) is a mathematically-themed form of Abstract art, which uses repetition of simple forms and colors to create vibrating effects, patterns, foreground-background confusion, an exaggerated sense of depth, and other visual effects. Op Art is based on tricks of visual perception: manipulating rules of perspective to give the illusion of three-dimensional space, mixing colors to create the impression of light and shadow, and so on. With Optical Art, the rules that the viewer's eye uses to try to make sense of a visual image are themselves the "subject" of the artwork.

Create a Moving Op Art slide show

Op Art Color Families & Shapes Project:

Use the Elements of Art- Color, Value, Line, and Shape to create an Op Art picture using one of the color families: warm colors, cool colors, primary colors, or secondary colors. Students can use various values of the warm and cool colors. Completely cover the Microsoft Paint or Sketchpad "canvas" with geometric shapes layering the shapes over top of each other all over the "canvas" using the shape tools. Then use the paint bucket tool to fill in the areas created by the layering shapes.

Do not put the same color next to itself.

Sketchpad (drawing tool)

Primary Colors:

Red, Blue, Yellow

Warm Colors:

Red, Orange, Yellow

Secondary Colors:

Orange, Green, Violet/Purple

Cool Colors:

Blue, Green, Violet/Purple

Pattern Games

Moon Rock Patterns Pattern Game Pattern Memory Pattern Vortex Recognize Patterns Pattern Matcher Paul Pattern Complete Pattern Describing Patterns Growing Patterns Safe Code Pattern Pattern Grow

Superhero Patterns Pattern Quest Goose Patterns Pattern Games Shape Patterns Fuzz Bugs Patterns

Pattern Practice

Use the Shape Tool Site to...

Create Your Own Repeating Pattern Rangoli

Geometry - Learn the Basics of Patterns Video

Rangoli is an art form from India in which patterns are created on the floor in living rooms or courtyards using materials such as colored rice, dry flour, colored sand or flower petals. Rangolis are usually made during Indian festivals such as Diwali and contain repeating patterns.

Silk Pattern Art Kaleidoscope Painter

Symmetry

Symmetry Sort Symmetry of Objects Symmetry Dot to Dot Symmetry Garden Lines of Symmetry Drag Lines of Symmetry

Reflective Symmetry Art Symmetry Match Symmetry Shuffle

IXL Lines of Symmetry Cuckoo Symmetry Symmetry Painting

Silk Pattern Art Kaleidoscope Painter Symmetry Art Patterns

Symmetry Song Symmetry Video

M.C. Escher Tessellations

Maurits Cornelis (M.C) Escher (June 17,1898 – March 27,1972)

was a graphic artist born in the Netherlands who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity,reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra,

hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations.

A tessellation is a pattern of shapes that tiles a plane with no gaps and no overlaps. Each of the six shapes available in this Shape Tool Site are able to tessellate. That is, you can arrange multiple copies of any of the shapes to completely cover the plane or use the Polygon Tessellation Creator

Create a Quilt Patch Pattern Tessellation Using Shapes

Create your own tessellation pattern

...or see if you can create one of these

orange squares and green triangles
yellow hexagons and orange squares
red trapezoids and blue parallelograms
blue parallelograms and pink rhombi

Can't Wait To Tessellate Video and Game

Patterns in Architecture

Isometric Drawing Tool

Use this interactive tool to create dynamic drawings on isometric dot paper. Draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes. You can shift, rotate, color, decompose, and view in 2‑D or 3‑D. Start by clicking on the cube along the left side; then, place cubes on the grid where you would like them.

Building and Design Challenges

Test Your Architect Skills: Try to recreate the different types of 3D Block Buildings

Challenge 1: Create a house with an area of 24 cubes, and 1/2 the cubes the same color

Challenge 2: Create a bridge people can walk across using an area of 50 cubes and a height of no less than 3 cubes.

Build it With Chrome

Online Lego Building site to create a whole town of buildings

Username: [email protected] Password: imagine2016

Sound Patterns

Sound Patterns Melody Maker Sound Burst Monster Music

Create your own music patterns on Soundation

Alliteration Project

Alphabet Alliteration Books 5th-8th Grade

Assign a letter to each student (Alphabet Sign-up Sheet)
Create a picture in Sketchpad
Complete Alphabet Alliteration Plan Sheet- Write an alliteration sentence using your letter, and plan out how to illustrate your sentence by drawing the objects in your sentence and choosing a background.
On the back of the paper draw 5 other objects that start with your letter and label them.
Draw or type your letter in Uppercase and Lowercase (Bb)
Create an Alliteration sentence using your letter
(Big beautiful blue butterflies bounce by the beach)
Illustrate your alliteration sentence by drawing objects that start with your letter and by adding images from the Internet that start with your letter (blue butterflies, beach)
Add other objects that start with your letter into the picture, 10 objects all together
(baseball, bat, baseketball, bumblebee, bee hive, bear, bow tie, Batman, bird, bike)
Alliteration Sentence Breakdown WS - Complete the worksheet on your alliteration sentence

We will put all the students' Alphabet Alliteration pictures together to create a Class Book and they will present and read their class books to the kindergarten and 1st grade students.

Technology Careers

Video Game Design

Create Your Own Mario Brothers Flash Game

Create 3 of your own Super Mario Brother game levels under "Level Editor". Then test your own level to see if you need to make it harder, easier, or add more objects and details.

Beginning Video Game Design:

Gamestar Mechanic Join My Class

Design your own maze style video game where you create a maze and you have to navigate your avatar through the maze without being hit by the enemies and get to the door.

Name: Jarvis-Nivens Tech Class (JNTech)

Username: IHPCS Password: Imagine

Advanced Video Game Design:

Design a variety of different video games

Scratch Username: IHPCS Password: imagine

Flowlab Email: [email protected] Password: hornets

Username: Imagine

Create Your Own Lego Super Hero

Design your own Super Hero using Microsoft Paint or Sketchpad

Paste or Import the Lego Person Template for your Super Hero's body and design their super hero costume.

What colors are their costume?

Do they have a cape?

Do they wear a face mask or an eye mask

Do they wear a hat?

Do they carry an item?

What is your Super Hero's name?

Super Hero Emblem

Create a logo for your Super Hero using the various shapes to create several designs of logos and color schemes for your hero.

Ask the students around you for their input in picking the best logo.

What kind of super powers do they have?

Will you use a letter, number, or symbol in the logo?

What colors will it be and do the colors match their costume?

Is their logo on the front of their costume, on their cape, on a shield?

Pick your favorite Super Hero Emblem design and copy it into your Super Hero Microsoft Paint or Sketchpad project.

Clik SELECT and draw a box around the emblem, then click COPY, next open your Super Hero project, and hit PASTE, move your emblem beside your Super Hero. You can hit COPY again to get more emblems to use in your Super Hero's costume or on their cape.