GenYES Activity Guides and Curriculum
When you purchase a GenYES Site License, there are three curriculum units included. These units provide activities, resources, and virtual handouts to start GenYES in a school.
These units were designed to provide lesson plans and activities to run a year-long GenYES club. The GenYES students will learn about their responsibilities as a GenYES student, learn collaboration skills and how to use the online tools. From this starting point, they will use the Teacher Assistance Project (TAP) online tools to track and manage their teacher support activities.
GenYES Basic Curriculum (comes with basic site license)
Unit 1 - Getting Started Guides |
Introducing GenYES, collaboration skills, teaching and mentoring, project planning, using online tools (TAPs, blogs and wiki), beginning tech support, creating tutorials and help guides, and information literacy. |
Unit 2 - Specialty Technology Guides |
Ideas for GenYES projects, suggestions for software and hardware, cyberspace, and GenYES guides to using common school software and hardware. |
Unit 3 - Wrap-up Guides |
Completing the GenYES course, portfolios, surveys, celebrations and certificates. |
Do you need the extended GenYES curriculum?
The basic GenYES site license is designed for a school running GenYES as an extra-curricular activity. It includes activity guides, a teacher implementation guide, and many resources to get your GenYES club up and running.
The optional extended curriculum provides more comprehensive lessons, activities, and resources that are helpful for a daily GenYES class, or for a teacher with less experience teaching a project-based technology course.
GenYES Extended Curriculum (optional)
With the extended GenYES curriculum, the GenYES teacher and students receive access to extensive online curriculum resources designed to help plan, manage and run a daily GenYES class over multiple semesters and years. The materials have been carefully designed to reflect the best practices and experience gained from running GenYES classes over the past eleven years.
The curriculum offers over 21 additional units of technology lessons and activities that can be customized by the GenYES Advisor. Over 100 hours of curriculum covers technology skills, project planning, tech support, community service, media literacy, and more.
These curriculum materials are designed to work with the basic GenYES site license tools to form a complete support system for the GenYES teacher and class. Since there is no limit to the number of students using this curriculum, this curriculum can be used for different classes and grade levels at your school, and to support students at different levels.
Each GenYES curriculum unit contains multiple activities, preparation guides, classroom procedures, assessment and activity extensions.
21 GenYES Extended Curriculum Units
Technology Units
Unit 4: Online Research and Information Literacy Unit 5: Online Communications Unit 6: Digital Media Unit 7: Multimedia Presentations Unit 8: Web Publishing
Technology Support Units Unit 9: Hardware Unit 10: Software Unit 11: Tech Support: Problem Solving and Customer Service Unit 12: Researching Solutions Unit 13: Housekeeping |
21st Century Units Unit 14: Contemporary Social Issues Unit 15: Cyber Safety Unit 16: Media Literacy Unit 17: Media Influence Unit 18: Career Exploration Leadership Units Unit 19: Communications Unit 20: Leadership in the 21st Century Unit 21: Being a Leader Unit 22: Teaching as Leading Community Service Units Unit 23: Community Leaders Unit 24: Community Service Projects |
Sample Resource on Podcasting with Students
Download a sample resource on podcasting. Includes definitions and resources for teachers, ideas for educational uses of podcasts and a handout for students to help them create podcasts for their school. Download the PDF
Curriculum Resources
The GenYES curriculum contains over 200 resources linked to every activity for the teachers and students to use throughout the course. These consist of class handouts, surveys, planner pages, quizzes, and student materials. These resources are online and easily accessible to GenYES students and teachers.
Best Practices/Sample Projects (videos)
Easily accessible online videos show GenYES students and teachers explaining the GenYES model, showing their completed projects, and talking about how GenYES works in their school. These videos are also useful to explain GenYES to parents, administrators and potential partner-teachers.
More about the GenYES Curriculum
From the GenYES Implementation Guide:
