Computers Program Year 1 Term 1, 2014 Castle Cove Public School

Lesson # 1 Program/Site Dance Mat Typing Skills Logging on Using the keyboard http://www.bbc.co.uk Google Search /schools/typing/ Lesson Students are reminded how to log on to the computer revise the Ctrl Alt Del and Enter buttons. Students open the internet and type user/password. They locate the address bar and type in Dance Mat Typing, and hit enter. They locate the correct site in the Google search results, click it, and begin at Level 1-1. Students open the internet and type mathletics.com.au into the address bar, and hit Enter. They locate sign in, click, type in their details, hit Sign In, and then play in the lesson and area nominated by the teacher. Students open the internet and type readingeggs.com.au into the address bar, and hit Enter. They locate log in, click, type in their details, and then play. Students open up an MS Word document. Students are shown how to make the ? (shift + /) and ! (shift + 1) marks. They then type a block of text using these two marks. They highlight the block using the mouse, then use Ctrl+C to copy. They use Enter to go down a line and use Ctrl+V to paste the text. They then highlight it again and use the Font Colour buttons to change the colour. They go down a line and paste again, and change the colour again. e.g. Who are you? Im Tash! Who are you? Im Tash! Who are you? Im Tash! Who are you? Im Tash! They are then shown where to save {{In class folder}}

Mathletics

Navigating internet webpages Logging on

Reading Eggs

Navigating internet webpages Logging on Typing Question marks Copy/Paste Changing colours Saving

MS Word

MS Word

Inserting images Duplicating Saving

Students open up a new MS Word document. They open Clipart (Insert tab, Clip Art). They choose an item and type it in, and then double click to insert it. They should resize the image and move it to the top left of the page. They choose another item and repeat process. They then duplicate the first image by clicking on it and pressing Ctrl+D, and do the same with the second image, to make a pattern. E.g.

They can then make a different or more complicated pattern. They are then shown where/how to save the document. 6 MS Word Opening Saving Deleting text Students open the Libraries folder and then locate the Collaboration drive. They open Year 1 and the Computers Lessons folder. They double click to open the Deleting Lesson file. They hit the Enable Editing yellow bar, and then go File>Save As and save in their Class Folder. They then begin deleting the duplicate, coloured words they will need to move the cursor next to the word, click, and hit Delete. Afterwards, they need to hit Save again not Save As. Students open an MS Word doc. They insert a table by going to the Insert tab, clicking Table, and choosing a 5x2 grid. Into the table they type: Name Number of Can it fly? Colours Picture legs

MS Word

Inserting a table Inserting text and images into a table

They pick an animal from the list frog, bee, cat, bird and fill in the columns for their chosen animal. **If you like, you could have the children pick any animal and move from computer to computer, entering their animals details.

MS Word

Putting it all together (assessment)

Students open the Libraries folder and then locate the Collaboration drive. They open Year 1 and the Computers Lessons folder. They double click to open the Assessment file. They are given the following instructions: 1. Open Clipart and find a picture of a bee. 2. Insert the bee, and then duplicate it 3 times. 3. Move the bees above the tree. 4. At the top of the page, type your name. 5. Make your name Red if you are a girl, Green if you are a boy. 6. Copy your name, and go down a line. 7. Paste your name, and change the colour of it to Blue. 8. Put in a picture of a pig. 9. Delete one of the bees. 10. Delete your Last Name from the blue line. 11. Save your file in our folder Teacher can assess by printing the pages, assuming they save correctly!