Students in fourth grade continue to develop their word processing skills and begin to formally learn keyboarding skills. They write out stories, interviews, and short reports in conjunction with classroom activities and assignments. Students also develop multimedia presentations and learn some basic aspects of desktop design and publishing. Students are exposed to numerous software programs that help create and reinforce problem solving skills in a variety of curricular areas. By the fourth grade students use electronic resources to assist in gathering information. They learn how to appropriately use the Internet and critically evaluate its content.

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For the Fourth Grade science unit on plants the girls grew brassica plants in their classroom. To add to their knowledge and understanding of these plants, they completed this Website scavenger hunt.

Once their plants were fully grown, the fourth graders drew and labeled a brassica plant using Hyperstudio.

In Hyperstudio, the girls created flip-card animations of a brassica plant's growth cycle.They copied and pasted each card, adding more to it each time. They also included a pollinator in their animation.

The fourth graders learned about the Dewey Decimal System and made some fun Thanksgiving cards.