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ter Exploratory Class


 * 7th Grade **

Week 1: Introduction to Computer Class, Google Docs and review some internet lessons and techniques. Week 2: More Google Docs, Ipads, and Microsoft Excel and Word Lessons Week 3: Microsoft PowerPoint and Computer Project Week 4: Extra Tips and Tricks

Week 1
1. Organize your network folder by putting all of your documents into folders or delete documents that you will not longer be using

2. Go to your Google Account by clicking here: [|docs.google.com]

Login: first initial last name (might need to try first TWO, if you have a common name) Password: year of graduation PLUS your student id (20201234 or Student2013)

3. Complete Google Docs Activity

4. Explore through GOOGLE DOCS by creating a drawing.

= Week 2 =

Word Activities: 1. Introduction to Word

2. Drawing in Word. Save as last name_drawing 3. Word Activity 3 - Follow directions on formatting 4. Word Activity 4 5. Adding a TABLE in Word

= Week 3 =

Excel Activities: Introduction to Excel - read over and refer back to when needed

1. Excel Class Activity - HEIGHT (Check your docs or gmail to see if it was shared or sent) 2. Calculating Grades: - Follow these directions to calculate grades for several students.

3. Farmer's Market Activity: Follow these directions to calculate totals, min, and max.

SEARCHING a. Take INTERNET BASICS quiz b. Go through the tutorials: Doing research on the web, evaluating web sites and citing web sources c. TAKE Internet EXPERT quiz (do online and show Mrs. Saxton your score.....try your best) d. [] - an internet site to help you with citing your sources.
 * 1. [|SEARCHING on the INTERNET]

2. Searching Assignment:
 * [[file:lvcomputers/Searching.doc|Download]] ||

= Week 4 =

1. Directions 2. Rubric Tutorials: 1. [|How to create a PowerPoint Presentation] [|Presentation Tips]
 * Vacation Destination Project **

If you finish early on the EXCEL assignments, work on these (due by November 20)
 * Texting Phrases
 * Creating a MENU with TABS
 * Creating a Calendar with Word

a. Google Earth - [|Wonders of the World]

b. Halloween Sites (If these sites are blocked at school, try them at home)

1. [|Library of Congress]

2. [|Carve your own pumpkin - ONLINE]

3. [|Halloween Game]

= __ Last Day of Computer Class __ =

=== Please finish your vacation project. Save it in the PUBLIC computer 7th grade folder or if you created it on Google Slides, SHARE it with Mrs. Saxton. Do you want a copy of your project? If so, upload it to your Google Slides. Go to www.slides.google.com, create a new slide, click on FILE and then select IMPORT. Select your powerpoint, click ok and then select ALL to upload all slides. ===

If you finish this assignment, please go to Tips and Tricks and find some useful tips or easy ways to do things on the Internet.

Good luck with the rest of your 7th grade year. KEEP COMPUTING!

= VACATION PROJECT =

VACATION RUBRIC



Can you find any other online Halloween Activities? If you do find another site, please email it to Mrs. Saxton

Last but not least PLEASE, PLEASE remember how to do Google Docs. Now you may go to coolmath.

1. Final

2. Please finish your Vacation Destination

Previous Assignments:

1. Grade sheet Activity

2. [|Adding pictures to your graphs]

If you finish all of the excel, please check to see if you need to complete any of the following word assignments:

1. Word Extras - Texting Phrases

2. Creating Tabs in Word

3. Creating a TABLE

4. PUBLISHER: Create business card (make your job a TRAVEL AGENT, come up with a creative name for your travel agency. Saxton's Sightseeing (try to come up with something better than that) AND CERTIFICATE.

Finished with any of the ABOVE assignments? Then work on:

7th Grade Extra Assignments or explore through some tips and tricks for the internet and Microsoft or

Cyberbullying Poster

[|Free PowerPoint Backgrounds] - ask Mrs. Saxton for direction

Vacation Budget:

VACATION DESTINATION: Create a PowerPoint or Google Slide Presentation

SAVE to PUBLIC, computer folder, 7thR5

__FREE POWERPOINT BACKGROUNDS__

FINISH the following:

1. Calculating Average AMUSEMENT PARK prices

2. [|Pictorial Graphs] - Add pictures to your EXCEL graphs.

3. Valentine Day Scavenger Hunt

4. [|Web 2.0 Tools] - TRY one of these sites and create a poster, comic strip or wordle that says something about your 7th grade year!!! (your likes, your hobbies, your activities)

5. Word Activity: Adding a TABLE in Word

Excel Basics - refer to this site if you need to review the concepts that were taught in EXCEL.

**Did you finish these assignments:**

*Use excel with weather data


 * Calculating in excel using our class's height. Go to shared files in your drive.google.com and click on the height file.

*** Grades - Follow these directions to create a gradebook in Excel **


 * Word Activity- Follow directions on formatting

***Word Activity 4**



Create an AVATAR

= Week 4 =

__ October 20 - 23, 2014 __

7th Grade Computer Class, please continue working on your vacation project.

Work on Activities and BUDGET.

Research the weather, both summer and winter for the area that you will be traveling to. Need to include history about the place that you will be traveling to. Maybe in your history, you can include who discovered it? Who was it named after? What is it famous/known for?

** Vacation Destination Project **

1. Directions

2. Rubric

Tutorials:

1. [|How to create a PowerPoint Presentation]

[|Presentation Tips]

Week 3 Red-Ribbon Activity and Cyberbullying Poster

Excel Activities:

Introduction to Excel - read over and refer back to when needed

1. [|Excel Basic Formulas]

2. Excel Class Activity - **HEIGHT** (Check your docs or gmail to see if it was shared or sent)

3.Calculating Grades: [|Details]

- Follow these directions to calculate grades for several students.

4. Farmer's Market Activity: Follow these directions to calculate totals, min, and max.

1. Organize your network folder by putting all of your documents into folders or delete documents that you will not longer be need.

2. Go to your Google Account by clicking here: [|docs.google.com]

Login: first initial last name (might need to try first TWO, if you have a common name) Password: year of graduation PLUS your student id (20211234 or Student2015)

3. Complete Google Docs Activity

4. Explore through GOOGLE DOCS by creating a drawing.

GOOGLE SLIDES:

1. Working with an ASSIGNED PARTNER complete the following in GOOGLE SLIDEs: Roller Coaster Activity

2. Now you can pick a partner to work on the next Google SLIDES, Museums in Pennsylvania

EXCEL:

1. Amusement Park Excel Assignment

2. Fast Food Excel Assignment

Review Excel formulas at: Introduction to Excel

Google Docs: Login: first initial last name (might need to try first TWO, if you have a common name) Password: Student2015

What do we remember about PowerPoint? Do you remember how to add transitions and animations?

WHAT DO we need to finish?

1. ** Vacation Destination **

2. Word: Texting Phrases Adding tables in Word and Adding tabs in Word

3. C reate an avatar ?

[|Vacation PROJECTFree PowerPoint __Backgrounds_] _ please following the directions that Mrs. Saxton gave you.

Another Free cite to find PowerPoint Templates

Virtual Tours: Please look at the following sites to see how they create a virtual tour of their museum. Think! How can you incorporate that into your vacation project?


 * [|1. Twenty online museums] **

=2. [|50 Virtual tours of DC]=

=3. [|Virtual tour of LONDON]=

=4.[| Panoramic aerial of the world]=