INTRO
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Students in this class will be begin the year with several diagnostic tests to establish an understanding of their IT proficiency. Students throughout the year will be developing an IT vocab bank which will include all the IT related words used and their meaning in French and English. This will assist in their learning of the English language and of using IT applications. Students proficiency will be tested in the following programs:
MS Word:
*Introduction to coding - MS Intro - Student will follow this course online - an introduction into programming and what computers are.
* Introduction to coding - LS Intro course outline, covers an introduction to coding concepts such as sequencing, functions, control statements.
MS Word:
- Text formatting
- Inserting and editing text boxes
- Saving/opening and closing a word document
- Inserting and formatting pictures
- MS Intro additions:
- Margin editing
- Headers, Footer, and page numbers
- Using columns
- Detailed image formatting
- Margin editing
- Understanding cell referencing
- Formatting cell content
- Creating a table & chart
- MS Intro additions:
- Using formula
- Using conditional formatting
- Using formula
- Formatting a slide
- Editing font
- Inserting and formatting pictures
- Adding animations and transitions
- MS Intro additions:
- Action buttons
- Formatting background images on slides
*Introduction to coding - MS Intro - Student will follow this course online - an introduction into programming and what computers are.
* Introduction to coding - LS Intro course outline, covers an introduction to coding concepts such as sequencing, functions, control statements.
Unit Resources/Details:
Unit 1 - Lower School:
PowerPoint:
Students use these skills to create several PowerPoint presentations.
Unit 2:
Excel:
Unit 1 - Middle School:
PowerPoint:
Students use these skills to create several PowerPoint presentations and then plan out a science topic presentation.
Unit 2:
Excel:
PowerPoint:
- Students learn PPT vocabulary [presentation, theme, font, slides, audience, pictures]
- Students develop their presentation skills [adding themes, editing font, adding media]
- Students edit media in their presentations
- Students add animations and transitions
Students use these skills to create several PowerPoint presentations.
Unit 2:
Excel:
- Students will understand the vocabulary associated with Excel and tables
- Students will understand and use cell referencing
- Students will understand how to save a workbook and rename sheets
- Students will learn how to edit cell content
- Students will use these skills to design a data table
- Students will learn how to create and edit a chart for the table
Unit 1 - Middle School:
PowerPoint:
- Students learn PPT vocabulary [presentation, theme, font, slides, audience, pictures]
- Students develop their presentation skills [adding themes, editing font, adding media]
- Students edit media in their presentations
- Students add animations and transitions
- Formatting slide backgrounds
- Adding and using action buttons
Students use these skills to create several PowerPoint presentations and then plan out a science topic presentation.
Unit 2:
Excel:
- Students will understand the vocabulary associated with Excel and tables
- Students will understand and use cell referencing
- Students will understand how to save a workbook and rename sheets
- Students will learn how to edit cell content
- Students will use these skills to design a data table
- Students will learn how to create and edit a chart for the table
- Students will understand what formula is and how to use it
- Students will understand what conditional formatting is and how to use it
- Students will use the above knowledge to create a spreadsheet