| Monday - Ms. Williams & Ms. Speed Tuesday - Ms. M. White and Ms. Catlett
Wednesday - Ms. O'Neal, Ms. Duke, & Ms. King
Thursday - Ms. Roberson & Ms. Love
Friday - Ms. Tredway,
Ms. Plummer, & Ms. Saracini
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This is Week Eleven
 Description of the Lesson:
By using their desktop publishing skills, the children uncover the meaning
of a secret coded message. Proper disk-handling techniques are
practiced as they open a file containing a picture of gold treasure, then
decorate the scene. The pupils add more graphic images and apply
advanced layout skills to complete their pictures.
Materials: The students will be using
Print Artist 15.0. They will also use a Template
titled "code.sgn" and "gold.sgn". The students will also be
using their 3 1/2 Floppy Disk.
Skills Covered will include:
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Review the Bear Lesson from the last
visit
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Discuss "Secret Codes" - people
use codes everyday to communicate: the alphabet is a code that stands
for different sounds
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Open a computer document
(find the icon on the desktop and activate by double clicking)
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Discuss the code sign template
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Define floppy disk - also
called a disk, is used to hold computer files. A disk is like a
sandwich, but instead of bread on the outside, the disk has square
pieces of plastic to protect the inside. On the inside of the disk
is a dark, think, round, flat piece of material. This is where
computer information is saved.
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Show the students a disk broken apart.
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Edit the color of the Title
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Reposition items on the document
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Click and drag items on the
document
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Read the secret message
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Delete items on the document
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Zoom in on an image
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Flip and image
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Insert a floppy disk into the
computer's a:drive
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Open the "gold.sgn" document
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Insert a text frame
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Enter your name
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Resize a text frame
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Access the graphics library
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Select a graphics category
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Insert a graphic
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Resize a graphic
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Copy and Paste an item
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Change the font
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Insert a border
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Resize a border
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Save the document to a disk
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Print the document
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Eject the disk
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Store the disk properly
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