Computers (Ms Soha)

Trimester 1

It’s really necessary that kids practice at home the skills they learn to follow up with me every session and kindly make sure that students get all the IT printouts in their computer files every week cause they are graded on their portfolios.

Week 1 & 2
- Launch Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
- Type their names & class in English
- Type their initials in capital letter
- Draw random shapes such as (smiley face, heart, circle.....................)

- Color these shapes

Week 3
- Create a PowerPoint presentation consisting of 2 slides.
- Insert built-in clipart pictures (sun, house, tree, pet, pet's house, kids playing, car, bicycle, motorcycle, clouds .......................... etc
- Save the presentation in their folders

Week 4 & 5
- Create a PowerPoint presentation consisting of 2 slides about jungle & insert some animals, birds, insects & trees .............. etc
- Create a PowerPoint presentation consisting of 4 slides about what lives under the sea.
- Animate objects like pictures and text through "Animations"   "Custom Animation"

- Save the two presentations in their folders.

Week 7
- Save cartoon movies pictures from the Internet in their folders by:
1) Start Internet.
2) Type www.google.com in the address bar.
3) Click "Images" link.
4) Type the name of the cartoon movie such as finding nemo or ice age............etc in the search box.
5) Press "Enter" in the keyboard.
6) Click the picture you like to enlarge in a new window.
7) Right click on the picture  Save Picture As  Choose the location or the folder you want to save in   Click "Save".

Week 8
- Integrate technology with the earth science.
- Access the Internet and save clip art weather images in their folders.
- Create a weather PowerPoint presentation using the saved images from the Internet and WordArt text to represent different kinds of weather.
1) Home   Layout to change the slide layout to "Blank".
2) Insert   Picture to insert these pictures into the presentation.
3) Insert   WordArt to type their names.
4) Click and drag the textbox to be able to move your name.
5) To change the font style, size and color of your name, Highlight your name then press "Home" Tab.
6) Office Button  Save to save the presentation in your folder.