Vocabulary
- Accessibility
- Properties that enable something to be used, understood, or accessed by as many people as possible, including those with disabilities
- Attribute
- Giving credit to the person or group who created something, like citing the author of a quote
- Digital Citizenship
- Responsible, safe, and respectful use of technology to learn, create, and participate
- Efficient
- Accomplishing a task with little to no wasted effort or time
- Electromagnet
- A type of magnet where a magnetic field is produced by an electric current.
- LED Bumper
- A sensor that reports if it is being pressed or not, and can glow red or green
- Password
- A secret sequence of numbers, letters, or symbols, used to control who has access to something
- Perspective
- A point of view
Encouraging Vocabulary Usage
The following are additional ways to facilitate vocabulary usage as students are engaged in the activities throughout this Unit.
Students should be encouraged to use the vocabulary terms:
- Throughout all of the activities
- As they are working in groups
- As they are reflecting
- As they are sharing their knowledge and experience
Tips for Encouraging Vocabulary Usage
- Vocabulary Journal – Have students create a journal entry about each word as they are working throughout the Unit and using that vocabulary word in practice. The journal entry could describe an idea about accessibility and how they learned to attribute that idea to its creator.
- Collaboration Station - Encourage students to collaborate to create a graphic organizer that they can display to help classmates with vocabulary acquisition. Use large chart paper and include the word, the definition of the word, characteristics of the word, non-examples of the word and an example of the word used in the sentence. Have students share with the class and then display their graphic organizers throughout the Unit.