Middle School Computer Applications Lesson Plans

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Typing lessons and practice will be daily.

Week of May 5^th – 9^th:

Monday	Pages 533- 535 Adding Animation and Slide Transitions
Tuesday	Pages 536-538 Cut, Copy, & Paste and Using Ink During a Slide Show
Wednesday	Pages 541-543 Adding Sound and a Movie to a Slide
Thursday	Pages 549-551 Creating a Photo Album
Friday	6^th grade field trip – No class

Week of May 12^th – 16^th:

Monday	Begin “All About Me” Presentations
Tuesday	Work on Presentation
Wednesday	Work on Presentation
Thursday	Work on Presentation
Friday	Share Presentations and Test on PowerPoint

Week of May 19^th – 23^rd:

Monday	Test on PowerPoint and Word NOTE: There will not be an exam in this class.
Tuesday	Exams – No Class
Wednesday	Exams – No Class
Thursday	Exams – No Class
Friday	Exams – No Class

Week of March 24^th-28^th:

Monday	No School
Tuesday	Signing Into Accounts and Practice Emails
Wednesday	Introduction to the U: Drive, Creating Folders, and Creating Backgrounds
Thursday	Introduction to the G: Drive and Data Files
Friday	Internet Searching and Safety

Week of March 31^st – April 4^th:

Monday	Internet Searching and Safety (due to last week’s power problem)
Tuesday	Begin working on Microsoft Word (basics of program)
Wednesday	Begin Pages 87-92 Business Letter in Microsoft Word
Thursday	Finish Business Letter (pages 87-92)
Friday	Keyboarding Day

Week of April 7^th – 11^th:

Monday	Pages 93-98 Spelling and Grammar Check, Smart Tags, Finding and Replacing Text and Using a Thesaurus
Tuesday	Pages 98-105 Formatting Characters and Previewing a Document
Wednesday	Pages 105-108 Paragraph Alignment and Hyperlinks in a Document
Thursday	Pages 108-110 Collaboration and E-mailing a Document
Friday	No Class Due To Weather

Week of April 14^th – 18^th:

Monday	Pages 129-132 Formatting Task Pane, Margins and Pagination
Tuesday	Pages 133-138 Headers and Footers, and Tab Stops
Wednesday	Pages 138-144 Line Spacing, Indenting, Hanging Indents and Creating Links
Thursday	Pages 146-148 Adding Images and Pages 151-152 Creating an HTML File
Friday	HALF DAY (Teacher In-Service) – 1, 3, 5, 7 Day – We do not meet.

Week of April 21^st – 25^th:

Monday	No School (snow day)
Tuesday	Pages 175-178 Using Tables and Formatting Cells w Formatting Fonts
Wednesday	Pages 178-181 Heading Styles, Hyphenation and Creating a Table of Contents
Thursday	Keyboarding
Friday	Microsoft Word TEST

Week of April 28^th – May 2^nd:

Monday	Microsoft PowerPoint Introduction Pages 497-498 (Preparation and Planning)
Tuesday	PowerPoint pages 499-504 Adding & Deleting Slides, Editing a Slide, and Viewing the Presentation
Wednesday	PowerPoint pages 504-508 Design Templates & Color Schemes and Printing a Presentation
Thursday	Pages 508-515 Slide Footers, Slide Masters, Formatting Text & Backgrounds Adding Images to a Slide, and Creating Speaker Notes
Friday	Finish Yesterday’s Assignment