8th+Grade+Assignments

1. Complete the FINAL 2. Complete the FIVE Additional assignments – Must complete 5 of the assignments listed on this page || Monday, May 20 ||. Career Project - please read over the directions and take a look at the grading rubric that will be used.
 * Welcome to Computer Exploratory Class - Grade 8 ||  ||   ||
 * || Wednesday:
 * Due:

1. Career Directions

2. Rubric for Career Presentation

Tutorials

1. [|How to create a PowerPoint Presentation] 2. [|Presentation Tips] 3. Tutorials for movie maker 4. Animations in Powerpoint || 1. Online payment calculator ||
 * POWERPOINT || Try this activity to review the basics of POWERPOINT ||
 * FINDING a CAR || Use the internet to find your affordable dream car. Calculate the payment using the site below. Does it fit within your budget? If not, you will have to adjust your budget. Most likely your savings.
 * FINDING a CAR || Use the internet to find your affordable dream car. Calculate the payment using the site below. Does it fit within your budget? If not, you will have to adjust your budget. Most likely your savings.
 * == PAYMENTS in Excel == || === 1. Payments using EXCEL MUST DO worksheet 1 and 2 (Example and Car Payment) Worksheet 3 is for BONUS === ||
 * ==CAREER CRUISING==

|| 1. [|Career Cruising Activity] 2. [|Career information]

|| and Poster || == CAREER LETTER: ==
 * ==Career Letter==

2. Poster summarizing your OCCUPATION using Publisher (Microsoft Publisher)
|| =BUDGET= || 1. Excel: calculating pay and creating a budget 2. [|Creating charts and graphs in excel] 3. [|Video demonstrating how to create graphs in excel] || =Password: lvcomputers TO VIEW your classmates presentations of their careers. If you would like to make a prezi, click on NEW presentation.= || 2. Assignment: Twelve Days of School || [|SEARCHING on the INTERNET] 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) SEARCHING ASSIGNMENT:
 * =PAYCHECK and=
 * =CAREER SAMPLES= || =PREZI samples: Login: tsaxton@lvsd.k12.pa.us=
 * Word Lesssons || Online lessons for word and excel ||
 * Excel || ===1.Basic Excel Concepts===
 * = SEARCHING = || Google Searching Process

__ ** Final Day of Computer Class ** __
=== 1. share a favorite website or app with your classmates using Google Slides PLUS add a slide telling me one thing that you learned during this rotation and suggestions on what we should learn in future computer classes. For example, what program or project could the teacher show use to help make 8th grade easier? more productive? Help the average 8th grader? ===

2. Complete Saxton Payroll and Frigid Facts - Word Activity

Are we finished with all of these Assignments: 1.  2. LETTER to your future self. 3.  4. Calculating Budget

Did you finish these assignments? ARE they SAVED in the PUBLIC folder or did you upload them to Google DRIVE and share them with Mrs. Saxton? 1. Word Extras - Texting Phrases 2. Creating Tabs in Word 3. Creating a TABLE 4. Create a Business Card for your Future Job and Certificate 5. Formatting in Word

**All 8th graders must use the following to cite your web sources:** **[|EASY BIB]** **- To use when you need to CITE your sources.**

1. Career Presentation 2. Advanced PowerPoint a. [|Advanced PowerPoint] b. [| 40 PowerPoint Tutorials to take enhance a boring presentation] c. [|New features of 2010 PP]

3. [|Free PowerPoint Templates] - double check with Mrs. Saxton before downloading a. [|another free site] b. [|try this one] c. And another free site to[| use for PPT templates] 4. Career Research: researching your career.

__ Searching Lessons __
EXTRA activities for Excel: [|Pictorial Graphs] or [|Amazing Mazes] or Experimental and Theoretical Probability

Google Docs login: ** Login: first initial, last name @st.lvsd.us ** = ......Find the grid, the three by three dots. These are your apps for the google account. =

Last Day of Computer Class 1. MUST finish your future project. A. If it was a PowerPoint: Save in the PUBLIC drive BUT ALSO upload it to your Google Drive so that you can look at it or add to it every year that you are at LVSD. B. If it was in Google Slides, SHARE IT with Mrs. Saxton

2. FINAL - Follow the directions on the final page.

FUTURE ASSIGNMENT

__ CAREER - What do you want to be when you grow up? __
[|Free PowerPoint Backgrounds] please follow directions carefully Another Free cite to find PowerPoint Templates

= Did you add your starting, average and top salary to Your paycheck? = = Did you finish YOUR BUDGET? What about picking a ? = =Also, did you find a place to live?([|www.rent.com] to rent. Use Mrs. Saxton’s account. Login: tsaxton@lvsd.k12.pa.us PW: lvcomputers)= = MUST finish: = =1. = =2. = = 3. Adding tables in Word and = = 4. Adding tabs in Word = Word: Texting Phrases

Create an Avatar ?
=Bullets and Numbering in Word=

__ Searching Lessons - may work in google docs with a partner __
WHEN YOU FINISH THE ABOVE, you must work on the extra assignments. ||