Begin

• Mavis Beacon Keyboarding

Activity

• Finish up the acrostic poem (Microsoft Word)
• Remember to include:
  • page border
  • graphics – proper text-wrapping
  • special text formatting

• Use Microsoft Word to create an Acrostic Poem using your name.
• Tech Skills:
  • Centering text
  • Formatting text (font, size, color)
  • Inserting a Page Border
  • Inserting Clip Art
  • Apply special formatting to Clip Art
  • Change the text-wrapping for the Clip Art

Follow Up on Last Week’s Assignment

• Ask for volunteers to show their comic made from http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

Lesson

• Students will navigate to 3 different websites with information on Stonehenge.
• Students will browse the web pages to gather facts and information about Stonehenge.
• Students will complete the following worksheet.

• Award prizes for rain forest winners.
• Practice touch-typing with Mavis Beacon.
• Last 15 minutes students will create a comic using
  • http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

What lives inside the rain forest?

Students will work with a partner to navigate through a list of websites on rain forests. They will research a list of websites and input their findings into a spreadsheet.

• inserting sound
• animating objects

• Add slide transitions
• Presentations

Overview

• Opening shortcuts to websites
• Copy/paste pictures from a browser into powerpoint
• Adding titles to slides & descriptions to pictures
• Arranging slides (chronological order)