Before

After

Lesson – Jumping Fish Silhouette

• Use copy/paste to duplicate the fish
• Use the rotate function to pivot the fish
• Explore some of the other shape tools to:
  • Add a splash
  • Add a moon
  • Add some stars

Lesson

• Demonstrate usage of the Shift key for typing capital letters.
• Have volunteers try with the first initial of their name.

Activity

• Type name with proper capitalization.

Accomodations

• Kids who can’t spell their names need it written for them also.
• Kids who can’t distinguish upper/lower case yet will have trouble because the keys display all caps.

• Make your character Dance

• Use checklist when editing the photos.

• Starfall
• Pbskids

Lesson

• Look at an open hard drive.
• Learn 3 basic parts of a hard drive.
  • disk
  • arm
  • case
• Watch video of a hard drive starting up.
• Discuss what an icon is and how it points to a location on the hard drive.

Activity

• Fill out a worksheet by labeling the hard drive parts and giving a brief description of what it does.

Reminders

• Some students have missing work and a missing audio quiz.
• Finish the transcription lesson.
  • Show examples

Remainder of Time

• Work on your video game character
  • 3 separate poses / files   (file -> export bitmap -> pose1.png, pose2.png, pose3.png)
  • We will use Scratch to animate the character