Spiraling Curriculum

A spiraling curriculum provides students many opportunities to be exposed to and master certain objectives through out the year. A spiraling curriculum makes vertical alignment across grade levels, as well. For example, the K-2 Technology Applications standards require students to "demonstrate knowledge and appropriate use of hardware components, software programs, and their connections." Each year students are given the opportunity to master this objective with increasing difficulty. They must use appropriate terminology; start and exit programs; create, name, and save files; and use networking technology. Then, in grades 3-5, they must be able to do these things and use this knowledge to use menu options and commands, work with multiple software applications, use digital input and output, solve compatibility issues, and access remote equipment.