3rd Grade Technology Lesson Plans and Activities

3rd grade technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or a 3rd grade teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!
In the tech lab, my 3rd grade students learn perseverance and a LOT of tech skills. In this year, I have them learn word processing, presentation software, spreadsheet basics, we do a keyboarding bootcamp, and of course internet safety. They actually don’t spend as much time online as the other grade levels because of all of the time we put in learning software programs. The benefit is that they will be totally ready to create things by the end of 3rd grade and going into 4th. 
So, I created these 3rd Grade Technology Lessons and Activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. They are ideal for a technology teacher or a second grade teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!

Would you like to try my K-5 Technology Curriculum for 30 days to see if it is a good fit for your students? Click here and use the code TRYK5TECH1 at checkout to get the first 30 days for just $1!

3rd grade technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or a 3rd grade teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!
What you need in order to use these lesson plans:
– Laptops are ideal (PC or Chromebooks) because the software lesson instructions are based on the desktop version of the programs.
– Access to either MS Office or Google Apps products. There are units on each of the software programs for MS Office and Google Apps.
Each lesson or project includes:
-a rationale page
3rd grade technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or a 3rd grade teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!
-an editable lesson planning page
3rd grade technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or a 3rd grade teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!
-a web page with linked prompts, directions, and activities
3rd grade technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or a 3rd grade teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!
-Unit cover pages for a binder if you want to print out these plans
3rd grade technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or a 3rd grade teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!

3rd Grade Technology Lessons Scope and Sequence

These are the lesson titles you will find in this resource:

Rules and Procedures

  1. First Day in Technology rules and vocabulary review

Word Processing

  1. Word Processing 1-5
  2. Word Processing Test
  3. Word Processing Typing
  4.  Alternate word processing modules – 5 weeks
    • Fonts
    • Text
    • Lines
    • Spacing
    • Lists

Internet Safety

  1. Internet Safety 1-6
    • Online safety rules
    • Online communication
    • Passwords
    • Cyberbullying
    • Assessment

Typing

  1. Typing Olympics (4 Weeks)
  2.  Color coded typing 2 weeks

Presentation Software

  1. PowerPoint OR Google Slides
    • Changing the font
    • Inserting pictures
    • Fun with word art

Spreadsheet Software

  1. Excel Lessons OR Google Sheets
    • Fill in a Chart
    • Make a Bar Graph
    • Make your own Graph

Online Search

  1. Learn about Search Engines
  2. Internet Search 1 and 2

Coding

  1. Code an Avatar

BONUS if you have time:

  • Google Slides (or PowerPoint) Digital Stop Motion Animation Project
  • Digital breakouts
  • Technology vocabulary activities
  • Typing sight words

FAQs:

Question: How does student access work?

Answer: With your purchase you get one class account that all students use to access the lesson pages. Think of this website like a textbook but digital. The username and password’s purpose is to give students access to the textbook. Then from there you (the teacher) still facilitate student progress by letting them know which lesson page to go to and you’ll still collect their finished assignments for assessment.

Question: What platform will the students be using? Are they done in google drive? Like an interactive notebook?

 Answer: All of the digital content is housed on my website. The lesson plans and rationale pages are for the teacher (and administrators, right?) as PowerPoint files, and the website is set up to just click and go for the students to complete the activities. Think of the PPT files like the teacher manual and the website like the student workbook (but digital). Visit it ahead of time at k5technologycurriculum.com to get an idea how it works. You can find several free pages on the Samples dropdown menu. If/when you purchase access, you will create a class username and password to access the grade level pages included for your purchase.

Question: Do these include Google Apps or MS Office?

Answer: Both! Starting in 1st grade there are lessons to teach excel/sheets, word/docs, and PPT/slides.

You can pick and choose which lessons to do with your students. If you have access to Google Apps but not to MS Office, just skip the MS Office lessons and vice versa.

Question: Can I attach the lessons to Google Classroom?

Answer: Some teachers will choose to use Google Classroom as a way to collect student assignments in order to grade them, but students will still need to go to the website to complete the lesson.

Question: Do I need to buy anything additional software for my students to use this curriculum?

Answer: No! Everything you need is included. There are optional outside subscriptions for some activities. If you want to use the lessons for digital passport from common sense media (4th grade) then you will need to make a free teacher account. There are optional “early finisher” activities like Moby Max and discovery education that could be used if you have an account but there are tons of other options if you don’t.

Question: Do I have to buy all of the grade levels or can I just buy the one(s) I need?

Answer: Individual grade levels can be purchased and if you decide you need more, it is easy to add additional grade levels at any time. Scroll down to see the purchase options.

Ready to subscribe to the 3rd grade curriculum for this school year? Click here to check out. 


This 3rd Grade set of lessons is also part of a larger bundle of K-5 technology lessons. I made a Frequently Asked Questions blog post about it, which you might find very informative.


I also offer a free technology teacher email course. It is 5 parts and walks you though how I do my planning and collect data.

3rd grade technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or a 3rd grade teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!

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