| Lesson Title: | Britain2 | ||
| Curriculum Area: | Social Studies | ||
| Technology Strand: | Keyboard Util./Desktop Pub./Word Processing | ||
| Grade Level: | 6 | ||
| Essential Question: | How do you edit a desktop publishing document? |
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Activity Summary | Using a file called Britain2dtp, students will practice desktop publishing skills using the following tools on the Menu Bar: Format (Tabs; Indenting), Edit (Insert and deleting text; Cut and Paste; Edit, Undo Editing), Tools (Spelling), and entering a paragraph and proofreading. Optional: Insert (Clipart/Graphics; Page Number) |
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Curriculum |
Social Studies 7.01 Identify historical events such as invasions, conquests, and migrations and evaluate their relationship to current issues. |
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Technology |
Keyboard Util./Desktop Pub./Word Processing 1.09 Identify, discuss and use WP/DTP terms/concepts (e.g., minimize document, resize document, toggle between two open documents on the desktop) 3.10 Select and use WP/DTP features/functions to design, format, and publish assignments/products. |
| Activating Strategies |
| As a group demo, display to the whole class, the six question Funbrain quiz reviewing past two lessons . Contact the Technology Facilitator at your school for access. |
| Technology Vocabulary: Word Processing Vocabulary |
| Detailed Technology Instructions: Microsoft Works for Windows Desktop Publishing Instructions |
| Cognitive Teaching Strategies |
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Teacher will pass out the worksheets (Britain2DIR). Instruct students to open the file "Britain2dtp". Teacher Demo: give instructions for using the Format tool "Tabs" to help students set a right tab in the header with student name, right aligned and today's date, left aligned. (Question 1 on Britain2DIR) Teacher will assist student in saving the document to the Student Program folder on the desktop (Save As) and naming the document correctly. (Question 2 on Britain2DIR)(Skill learned in Britain1 lesson) Teacher Demo: (setting a right tab on the section title of paragraph one) Left align the words "A Brief History" and set a right tab for the words "Treason" on the same line. Student Practice: Independently practice left aligning the section title of paragraph two (A Brief History) and setting a right tab for the words "The Rack". Teacher Demo: Review indenting a paragraph by using the tab key on the keyboard. Students Practice: Indent paragraph one and two. Remind students that if the paragraph is highlighted and they try to use tab key to indent, entire paragraph is deleted. Ask how they would get the paragraph back! (Edit, Undo Editing) Teacher Demo: Review inserting text into a document by inserting the word "terrible" between "mean" and "torture" in the first sentence. Use "Edit, Undo" to delete the word "terrible". Show what happens when the Insert key on the keyboard is turned on. OVR (for Overtype) shows in lower, right corner of monitor. Try to insert the word again and notice that words are eaten up (typed over). Student Practice: Insert the words "locked up" between the words "kept" and "in" in the last sentence of the first paragraph (With the Overtype turned on and again with it off). Teacher Demo: How to "cut and paste" using paragraph two and pasting it above paragraph one. Students Practice: Repeat the same process to move the paragraph back where it was. Teacher Demo: Define and demo the term "word wrap" (text automatically moving to the next line when the margin is reached) and discuss the directions "do not worry about any difference in word wrap from the way it appears on the paper". Students Practice: Work independently on questions 3-7 from the document Britain2DIR. Individual students may need assistance. Teacher Demo: Open the separate document (spellckdemo) that includes many of the common spell checking errors. Read the document aloud as it explains what the Spelling tool can do. Instruct students to move the window down so that the misspelled word can be seen in the document underneath (since you did not generate this document, you can only guess what it says unless you can see and read the document). Then click Spelling on Tools menu and demo various spelling errors. (Must proofread AFTER spell check to catch the following errors: Microsoft Windows, United States, trust (truss), your (yore), and spell (spill). Students Practice: Spell check the document Britain2dtp as instructed in Question 8 of "Britain2DIR". Student Practice: Finish Question 9 of "Britain2DIR". |
| Summary Strategies |
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Students will follow the student directions (Britain2DIR) through question 9 to edit paragraph three and paragraph four of the "Britain2dtp" document. If additional activities are needed, students will work on questions 10 and 11 (Review) |
| Resources Click for directions on how to download files on a Windows computer. |
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Funbrain Quiz: http://www.funbrain.com Student word processing file: Britain2dtp Student directions: Britain2DIR Answer key: Britain2Key Spell check demonstration and answer key: Spellckdemo Microsoft Word Files Britain2dtp.doc Britain2Dir.doc Britain2Key.doc spellckdemo.doc Microsoft Works for Windows Files Britain2dtp.wps Britain2Dir.wps Britain2Key.wps spellckdemo.wps Re-teaching Activity Resources Microsoft PowerPoint File Desktop Publishing Jeopardy Game: DTPJeopardy.pps |
| Re-teaching and Enrichment Activities |
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Additional DTP activities: Desktop Publishing Jeopardy Game Follow this lesson with, A Trip to Europe where desktop publishing skills are applied in the creation of an original document. Britain2 was written by Mary Ann James, Joanne Gilmore, and Maude Caudle. |
| Technology Facilitator |
| Prescott Technology Center, Data last modified: 8/12/2006 |