| Computer and Network Basics | MS Word/Keyboarding | Spreadsheets | PowerPoint | Databases | Web pages |
| Desktop Publishing | Internet Fairuse Practices | Digital Imaging | GIS | Summer Enrichment Program |
2011 - 2012 Schedule
Aug/September Network Basics
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1. Selecting Appropiate Web Sites / Evaluating Web Sites
2.
Teacher Domain Network Activity
3. Computing Basics Teach the Class Assignment
4. MS Word Instruction (Videos)
**Cyberbullying (2010)
**MS Access Database & Miss Children
Database project
** Database Vocabulary.
. ** Image manipulation using Gimp photo editor
** Network &
Computer Basics Vocabulary and Vocabulary Basics Quiz #2
** Network Structure and Working with
files. Clean Folders
** Network and Computer Basics Vocabulary
Basics Quiz #1
** Titanic
Spreadsheet Activity
** Ice Breaker Powerpoint (2010)
** Mail Merge
October
1. Spreadsheets Rich Relative Project (2010)
2.
Gym Design Project (2010)
3. ** Ice Breaker Windows Movie Maker
** Create a spreadsheet timeline.
** I am Thankful For Powerpoint
**
Food For Thought Spreadsheet Activity >Vocabulary Quiz
**
What's
Cooking America Nutritional Chart
Virtual
Grocery Store Nutrional chart
** Web pages -MS Publisher- Create website for one of
the presidential
candidates PART 4 under the Web
Pages of this page.
November 1. Nov 2 - Nov 5 SOLARS
2. Keyboarding - Mavis Beacon
**Powerpoint "What I am Thankful For" project
** Christmas
Around the World
Research
** Fill in Cartoon Blank
December 1. Storyboarding Commercials (2010)
2. Brainstorming & Storyboarding Charterhouse Commercial (2010)
3. Video and Photography for Charterhouse Commercial (2010)
2. MovieMaker: 30 second Charterhouse Commercial (2010)
** Desktop Publishing/Publisher Flyer, invitation, Personal Stationary, ETC
** Christmas Around the World
PowerPoint
** Science Moviemaker Projects - Picture Dictionary (camera, video)
January 1.Gimp
2.
JAN 24-28 2011 SOLAR
TESTING
** Time Permitting: Internet Fair Use/Copyright laws: Web field trip and test
**Personal Budget Spreadsheet
*Career PowerPoint*
February
1. Day School - Database
Treatment: Collaborative Science/English/Technology
project: Science Video: 3rd 9wks
2. Collaborative Science/English/Technology project: Science Video: 3rd 9wks
** Past assignments:
Network/Computer Basics,Modifying Graphics
and Picture files:
**Science/Technology Folder Cover, NVU Black History Webpage Project 2010
March 1.
Alice
2.
Past assignments: Making Web Pages Using MS
Publisher, Smokey's Magazine Ad Design Challenge
April 1. Evaluating Web Sites: Go to this web site. Copy and paste it into a MS Word Document. Complete the exercises. Save this in your F drive folder.
2. Who Am I Project (2011) What Am I Project (2010)
3. Create your own South Park Character
April 18-22 Easter Break
4. Cow Chow Steakhouse Website Project
*** Keyboarding Spring Session (3 WKs: Drill and Skill.AlphaSmarts)
May 1. Cow Chow Steakhouse Website Project
2. Vacation Getaway Database
3. Evaluating websites. http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalexpl.html Get an evaluation sheet and evaluate web sites 1.1 and 4.1
*** Non-linear Powerpoints
*** Word Processing: Report title pages, footnotes,
bibliography.
***Commencement Banner Design
***GIS WEB Activities: National Atlas Activities
#1 & 2
***Innovators in computing scavenger hunt
(PDF)
***Innovators in computing webquest and Quiz
***. MS Word Tables - Mazes
***
*** Network Proposal Project (Virus, Spyware,Malware Keyboarding)
*** Alice Programming Game Project
*** [Networking Basics] or Collaborative Science/Music/Technology project: Science Video: 4 th 9wks #2
***
Time permitting
June
1.
2. Treatment Center SOL Testing June 7 -
June 10 2011
Day School SOL Testing June 14- June 17 2011
3. Teacher Domain Network Activity
4.
* Fair Use Practices Time permitting
* Computer Terms [Basic 2010] - Maintaining computers
* Home Architect Builder Program/Game
*. GIS WEB Activities: National Atlas Activities #1 & 2
July 1. Stop Motion Movie Maker Youtube Video
2. Alice
3. Keyboarding
Aug 1. Virtual Field Trips using Google Maps
2. Recreating and Creating Painting Master Pieces
Basic Computer Terms #2 Name ______________
Instructions:
Copy and paste this into a Microsoft Word document. Use the following online dictionary http://www.webopedia.com to define the terms below.
1. desktop
2. motherboard
3. browser
4. operating
system
5. Microsoft windows
6. Internet
Explorer
11. Application
Online Computer Basic Terms Quiz #2
Computer Vocabulary #3
Look
words 1-10 up at http://www.tekmom.com/buzzwords/
1.
Bit
2.
Binary
3. Byte
4.
KiloByte
5.
Megabyte
6.
GigaByte
7.
Icon
8.
Pixel
9.
Network
10.Cursor
Look up words 11-18 at **Webopedia: http://www.webopedia.com
11.Broadband
12.
DSL
13.
Favorites
14.
Hardware
15,
Software
16.
Download
17.
Clipboard
18.
format (disk)
Online Computer Vocabulary #3 Quiz
Evaluating Information on the Web -
Webquest
4. History of Computers Webquest1
5. History
of Computing Quiz
6. Choose one of the following people from the
History of Computers Webquest1 and make a 10 slide
presentation. These will be presented to the class
when we are finished.
People you may do a slide show
on:
Bill Gates
Paul Allen
Steve Jobs
Steve Woznaik
Donna Dubinsky
Tom Anderson
Mark Zuckerberg
Jack Dorsey
Michael Dell
Douglas Engelbart
Tim Berners-Lee
Dan Bricklin
Steve Case
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper
Larry Page
Sergey Brin
Marcian Hoff
David Filo
Jerry Yang
Robert Noyce
Gordon E. Moore
Jeff Hawkins
Linus Torvalds
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales
Larry Sanger
Use the search to find other computing innovators at the Computer
History Museum
-OR-
Research one of the following items below and write 250 word newsletter including pictures, the history of the item, who invented the item, how the item works.
Sound Card
USB Flash Drive
Windows
Pentium Processor
Eniac Computer
Mouse
Floppy disk
The first hobby computers including the Apple 1, Apple 2 and the Tandy Trs-Dos
computers
Integrated Circuit
ARPAnet
Intel 1103 Computer Memory
Google
Yahoo
America Online - AOL
Spreadsheet
Microsoft
Palm Pilot
Intel Corporation
MySpace
IPOD
IPHONE
GPS
Linux - (computer operating system)
Wikipedia
ITUNES
And others History of
Computers
Slides are to include the following information outlined below, contain pictures and have at least a total of 150 OF YOUR OWN WORDS. Copying and pasting information except for the last slide (citations) will not be accepted and will result a failing grade. As we have done in the past, use MS Encarta and/or the internet. Use the guidelines for finding good websites to find reliable information on the web.
Slide #1 Title Slide: Name of the person in computing history, your name and classroom number.Keyboarding
** Powertyping
** TypingTest.com
** Super
Hyper Spider Typer
** Online Typing Games Martian City Defender, Meteor Blaster, Spacebar invaders,etc.
Click here for
Mr. Kent's Basic
Keyboarding exercise:
A. Settings: Home row, 1 minute,
slow
Click here for
Mr. Kent's Basic
Keyboarding exercise:
A. Settings: Home row, 1 minute,
slow
B. Settings: Home row. 1 minute,
medium
Word Processing
I Have a Dream project. GET THE PICTURE HEREMS
Word Tables Reference
MS Word Reference
Assignment #1 Spreadsheet/Sorting, NBA Finalists
Assignment #2 Spreadsheet/Graphing, High & Low Temperatures
Assignment #3 Spreadsheet: Shop at walmart.com and target.com for 5 CD's. Calculate the saving between the highest and lowest prices and use the Aum Sum/Sum Function to add up the columns.
Spreadsheet Vocabulary
Directions: Highlight, copy and paste this webpage into a Microsoft Word Document.
Use the online Computer User Dictionary : Use Webopedia: http://www.webopedia.com for terms 1-10
1. spreadsheet
2. cell
3. cell address
4. column
5. grid lines
6. row
7. worksheet
8. data
9. graph
10. sort
Use Webopedia: http://www.webopedia.com for the terms 11-13
11. Formula (definition #2)
12. Range
13. label
Answer the following questions using the following link: http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110054/History.html
14. First, click on the vocabulary at this website. Read over the definitions there and click the back button. Now click on the Puzzle and fill out the crossword puzzle.
15. Name the current spreadsheet programs used today?
16. Who developed the first spreadsheet ?
17. Finish working on your assigned spreadsheet.
Assignment #2 Online Spreadsheet Vocabulary Terms Quiz
Civil War Battles (POC HISTORY) activity Webquest/Spreadsheet. (Thank you Ms. Branch!!)
Assignment #1
For a November History SOL (that you used for the Spreadsheet timeline), make a 10 slide PowerPoint presentation.
Slide #1
Title Slide: Title Industrial Revolution
in America and your name
Slide #2-5 Give the background to your
topic explaining, who, what, when, why (& how) about
the topic of your SOL.
Slide #6-9 Timeline of Events of the Industrial Revolution:
Use the dates from your http://rbvhs.vusd.k12.ca.us/~groswell/apeuro/unit6/docs/ind_rev_chronology.htm
Slide #10 Internet bibliography: List internet
links you have used for research on this project.
December
Christmas Around the World PowerPoints
1. Choose one of the following countries:
| Russia | France | Finland | Brazil |
| Britain | Ukraine | Spain | Italy |
| Mexico | Switzerland | Ethiopia |
2. Use the provided library books and an internet
search engine, tell about the Christmas
traditions and how they are celebrated in the country you have chosen.
3. Create an 8 slide PowerPoint Presentation. Include graphics/pictures
and include 5 lines of text with about 7 words per line on each
slide.
1. Complete the word search http://akidsheart.com/bible/birthws.htm
2. Complete the stocking puzzle http://blackdog.net/holiday/christmas/slidepuz/03-d.html
3. Color Mary http://akidsheart.com/bible/dec/mt1_23c.htm
4. Find the buried Gift http://akidsheart.com/ws/cdig.htm
1. Choose one of the following people for the list ( http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/index.htm)
3. Get 10 index cards and put the your research IN YOUR OWN WORDS in the following order:
Index card 1 Title of your
presentation/Name of your person
Index card 2 When your person was born and the date they passed away
if they are not living.
Index Card 3 Your person's family (parents),
brothers and sisters, where they grew up.
Index Card 4 Your person's education including
elementary education, high school education, college education.
Index Cards 5, 6, 7 Accomplishments of your person.
Index Card 8 What person characteristics
did your person possess to enable them to accomplish what they did.
Index Cards 9 How did your person make a contribution
to our culture/society/world?
Index Card 10 List of internet address, encarta
articles that you got your research from.
4. After putting your information on the index cards and having them checked by the teacher, create your PowerPoint presentation. The PowerPoint presentation is to include pictures, clip art, custom animation and slide transitions. Choose fonts and font colors that are easy to read. Use 5-7 bullets per page and short phrases or sentences should be used. No paragraphs.
Assignment #3 Women's Month Database
1. Create a database consisting of a table, a form and a report using MS Access.
2. Using the following link, http://www.nwhp.org/whm/all-honorees.html fill in the fields for 10 women using the database form you have created.
Assignment #4 Mail Merge and Form Letters (TECHNOLOGY CLASS)
1. Create a Database using MS
Access.
2. Create a Form Letter that automatically inserts
information from a field MS Access database.
3. Database Vocabulary
4. Create a MS Access Database and Form letter inviting 4
cottage staff and/or administration to Commencement on
September 8th.
Database Vocabulary and Terms
Use the following link to look up the database vocabulary terms: Webopedia: http://www.webopedia.com
1. Database
2. Table
3. Field
4. Query
5. Record
6. Data
7. Data entry
8. Sort
9. Primary Key
4. Mail Merge and Form Letters
1. Create a Database using MS
Access.
2. Create a Form Letter that automatically inserts
information from a field MS Access database.
Part
1
Copy and Paste this into a Word document.
Name
___________________
Complete by using the computer term dictionary on
the web @ http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary
to
define the terms below.
World Wide Web
Web page
URL
Surf
Web site
HTML
Homepage
WYSIWYG (web page editor)
Hyperlink
Wizard
Browser
__________
Download
Electronic Mail (email)
Graphics
Internet
Upload
Multimedia
Web Site
Web Page
Telecommunication
Web Terms QUIZ Take the online
Web Terms quiz
Project 1 ELECTION WEBSITE
Choose on of the presidential candidates (G W Bush or John Kerry) and create a 4 page web site about this candidate. Include pictures, graphics and at least 75 words (NOT COPIED AND PASTED TEXT) per page. The 75 words are to be put in YOUR OWN WORDS.
Page 1 Introduction to the website and the candidate.
Page 2 Biography of the candidate.
Page 3 Where does the candidate stand on issues in the upcoming election.
Page 4 Why you would vote for this candidate.
Project 2 Planet Website
A. Choose one of the following
9 planets:
Use Microsoft Publisher and create 5 web pages on that planet. Include graphics and/or pictures along with text. Information is to include.
1.
Location
of planet from the sun
2.
Size
of the planet.
3.
Length
of the planets year.
4.
Temperatures
(highs/lows)
5. Number of moons, their names, and a description of each (size, etc).
Useful Links For this Project:
| The Nine Planets: Multimedia Tour |
Exploring
the NINE PLANETS |
B. Fall
Choose one of the New World explorers below. Use
Microsoft Publisher and create a web page on that
explorer. Include graphics and/or pictures along
with text. Information should include some
information about their life, when explored the New
World and where in the New World they explored.
Sites with free pictures not directly to your person:
http://www.bigfoto.com/
http://www.morguefile.com/
http://www.sxc.hu/
http://freefoto.com
3. Sound files for your movie are located in My Computer - Networkdrives - (s:) social studies on chssrv2/users05. Choose the Technology folder and then the Windows Movies Files folder.
GIS:Geospatial Information Systems
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/gis/
http://nationalatlas.gov/natlas/Natlasstart.asp
JUNE
3. Copy and paste this word search into MS Word, type your name on it, print it and then complete the puzzle.
B. Week 2 Greece
Day
1 & 2
1. Greek
god Scavenger Hunt
2.
Choose 1 of the 12 Greek Olympian gods and create a 10 Slide PowerPoint.
Your PowerPoint is to include the following information:
a. Title Slide: Name of your Greek god and your name.
b. Your god is the god of what?
c. Picture/Pictures of your god.
d. How does your god relate to the other Olympian gods.
e. Tell a myth/story of about your god.
f. Cite your sources: Google is NOT a source for
a citation, but the give the specific URL.
JULY
Week 1
1. Present slideshow of
Greek god/goddess.
2.
Choose a person in the list of week 2 and create a picture
collage using Publisher of that person.
You should include the text of (1) who your
person is, (2) what their contribution to the
renaissance was and (3) the years they were alive.
July: Week 2
1. Choose one of the following
persons who lived during the European Renaissance and
complete a 1.5 - 2 page report on this individual.
Johann Gutenberg
Galileo
Leonardo de Vinci
Michelangelo
William Shakespeare
Isaac Newton
Christopher Columbus
Hernando de Soto
Francisco Cornado
July: Week 3 Harlem Renaissance
. Using MS Publisher and MS Paint, construct an 8 x 12 collage (1 page) representing important people, books, paintings, poems, plays and places of the Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem Renaissance Links to Start for research:
1. People, plays & books
of the Harlem Renaissance: http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/harlem/thematic.html
2. ArtsEdge People, places and themes of the
Harlem Renaissance:
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/artsedge.html
AUGUST
1. Latin
America Webquest -Travel Brochure
Choose a Latin American
country and create a travel brochure using MS Publisher.
2. Asia
3.
Career Month
a. Week 1: Career- Va View: Interest Survey,
Choose 1 Career
b. Week 1: Fill in Career Worksheet
c. Week 1: Build PowerPoint from Index Card Notes
done in English Classes.
d. Week : Practice Presenting Career PowerPoints
e. Week Present Career PowerPoints in the
Auditorium
Project Details
Name: ___________________
Choose one of the wildlife
animals of Africa.
B. For
the animal you chose, answer the following questions in complete sentences the
following using http://www.awf.org/wildlives/ [DO NOT COPY AND PASTE]:
1.
What is the lifespan of you animal.
2.
What is the diet of the animal? Be specific on the foods they eat.
3.
What is the length of pregnancy of your animal?
4.
Describe the habitat of your animal.
5.
What are the predators of your animal?
6.
Describe the behavior of your animal.
Please be specific.
7.
What size and weight does your animal get to be?
8.
What country(ies) does you
animal live in? This may require
you to go to other websites to find this information.
C.
Using http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
give the following information about the country your animal lives in:
1.
Location
2.
Climate
3.
Terrain
4.
Land use
5.
Environment - current issues
6.
Picture of map