Productivity Software
- Level Elementary School
- Number of Lessons 9
- Grade 3rd, 4th, 5th
Students use common productivity software (Google® and/or Microsoft®) and understand their purposes. The course culminates in a project using all types of software: spreadsheets, word processing, and presentations.
UNITS - 3 (9 lessons)
This module introduces students to comparing and selecting appropriate productivity software applications for different computing tasks.
This module provides hands-on overviews of core word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools across both Google and Microsoft platforms, including editing documents, visualizing data, and building presentations.
This culminating module has students use document, spreadsheet, and presentation software together to organize research and present findings to others.
Explore a sample lesson from this course!
Students learn what productivity software is and how to pick the right tool for a task. They practice editing documents in a word processor, creating an "All About Me" presentation, and entering, organizing, sorting, and graphing data in a spreadsheet. The course ends with an inquiry project where students take notes in a document, organize data and create a graph in a spreadsheet, and present their findings with a slideshow.
Both. The course includes separate lessons for Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Sheets as well as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, so teachers can choose the lessons that match the tools their school uses. The introduction lesson, the introduction to spreadsheets, and the final project work with either platform. Students complete their work in Google or Microsoft, so they will need access to those tools on a classroom device.
Productivity Software is designed for grades 3-5, and no prior experience with these tools is needed. The software overview lessons introduce each tool step by step, and the final project builds on the skills students learn in those lessons.
Most lessons take about 45 minutes, and the final inquiry project takes about 2 hours and 15 minutes. Because the course includes lessons for both Google and Microsoft, teachers following a single platform can complete the course in about 6 hours. Most lessons include slides and printable instructions in both English and Spanish.
Productivity Software is aligned to state computer science standards, CSTA standards, and the ISTE Standards for Students.
