Mr. Miller's Lesson Plans   

This week's rotation schedule includes grades 3 - 5.

Tuesday Classes: Ms. Counts, Ms. Luten, & Mr. Achor

Wednesday Classes: Ms. Creech

Thursday Classes: Ms. Deleon, Ms. McKeller, & Ms. Masopust

Friday Classes: Ms. Gilmer, & Ms. L. White

This is Week Ten

Description of the Lesson:  The pupils will working with desktop publishing skills as they complete their design for a box cover for a computer knowledge board game.  To create the cover, they will enter and format text, create a WordArt title, insert a graphic and apply a page border.

Materials:  The students will be using Microsoft Publisher.  They will also use a Template titled "Box.pub".

Skills Covered will include:

• Define desktop publishing program

• Open a document stored on a disk

• Zoom in and out on a page

• Use the scroll bar

• Discuss enhancing a cover's appearance

• Select tools from the toolbar menu

• Add a text frame

• Define layout grids

• Enter text

• Define font

• Resize a text frame

• Center text

• Bold text

• Select the picture frame tool

• Create a graphics frame

• Define clipart

• Access the Science & Technology category

• Insert an image

• Change the color scheme of the project

• Save the new additions to their document on a disk

Additional Skills Covered will include:

• Defining the Internet - an international network of computers connecting schools, government agencies, and other organizations for the purpose of sharing information.  This information is transfered primarily through telephone lines which link the computers together.

• Discuss loggin on to a computer and the Internet

• Launch a web browser

• Define World Wide Web - a large part of the Internet where users can access millions of Web pages containing text, graphics, and other elements.

• Access the school web site.

• Discuss our school web pages - including the technology lab links, lesson plans, and curriculum pages.

• Explore sample web sites that demonstrate games and/or game boards or boxes that can be found for purchase in the United States.

• Explore and play games on the Internet with the remaining class time.

• Take student pictures for their personal web page on the Internet if they have the proper permission slips returned.

Technology Related Web Sites for Demonstration: 

1.     Scrabble Web Page

2.     Introduction to Chess