Learning Word
Understand: I will use my skills in Word processing applications to create, save, open, and edit a Word document.
Activity One: Headers and Footers
Learning Target: My learning target is to be able to format the header and footer of a new Word document. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can insert a header, page numbers and a page break into a new Word document, saving and printing the document correctly.
Activity Two: Like It or Not?
Learning Target: My learning target is to create, edit, save and reopen a Word document. I will know I have met my learning target if I can insert a header and create a list, appropriately printing and saving my document.
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Activity Three: Shortcut Keys
Learning Target: My learning target is to edit a document using the appropriate shortcut keys. I will know I have met my target if I use the command keys to perform common editing tasks in the correct way.
Activity Four: Party Invitation
Learning Target: My learning target is to be able to format a new Word document to create a generic party invitation. I will know I have met my learning target if I can format the page orientation and vertically center align text on a page to create a generic party invitation.
Activity Five: Texting Phrases
Learning Target: My learning target is to be able to format text in a Word document. I will know that i have met my learning target if I can use common formatting features to edit a document's text, saving and printing the document correctly.
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Activity Six: Symbols
Learning Target: My learning target is to insert symbols and special characters into a new Word document. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can use my editing command to insert symbols and special characters into an email, appropriately printing and saving my document.
Activity Seven: Glee
Learning Target: My learning target is to be able to edit texts using the common editing commands. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can make changes to my text using the "Find and Replace" editing command, saving and printing my document appropriately.
Activity Eight: America's Got Talent
Learning Target: My learning target is to be able to use proofreading features to improve my document. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can use the "Spelling and Grammar" and "Thesaurus" features to proofread and improve my document.
Activity Nine: Homonyms
Learning Target: My learning target is to be able to create, edit and print a Word document with minimal spelling and grammar errors. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can proofread my document closely and make appropriate changes where necessary.
Activity Ten: Movie Ratings
Learning Target: My learning target is to be able to
Activity Eleven: Menu
Learning Target: My learning target is to be able to use dot leaders effectively in a Word document. I will know that I have met my learning target if I use dot leaders to divide information within columns in a way that is easier for the reader to visually line up the text.
Activity Twelve: World Series Team Roster
Learning Target: My learning target is to sort a set of text. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can sort textual information into ascending order that i have organized into columns.
Activity Thirteen: TV Show
Learning Target: My learning target is to format a document correctly, meeting certain word count requirements. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can correctly double space a document and write a summary that is between 175 and 300 words, total.
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Activity Fourteen: Winter Scene
Learning Target: My learning target is to be able to improve my documents with images I create. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can use and format the drawing tools to enhance my Word document.
Activity Fifteen: Creative Clip Art
Learning Target: My learning target it to use clip art to present an idea. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can insert clip art from the Word Gallery that appropriately conveys the meaning of the text.
Activity Sixteen: In The News
Learning Target: My learning target is to be able to randomly arrange text and images together on a document. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can format text boxes and clip art to create a collage of information in a Word document.
Activity Seventeen: Wipeout
Learning Target: My learning target is to format my document so that it is easier to read and includes an image related to the topic. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can format my text into two columns and wrap my text around an image.
Activity Eighteen: Buying a Used Car
Learning Target: My learning target is to format my document so that it is easier to navigate through multiple pages. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can create bookmarks and connect them with hyperlinks so the reader can easily move through multiple pages.
Activity Nineteen: Good News Memo
Learning Target: My learning target is to be able to create a document that is shared internally, within a company. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can format a memo correctly.
Activity Twenty One: Business Letterhead 1
Learning Target: My learning target is to format my document so that I have a business letterhead. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can create and format a professional looking letterhead that includes text and images.
Activity Twenty Two: Business Letterhead 2
Learning Target: My learning target is to format my document so that I have a business letterhead. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can create and format a professional looking letterhead that includes text and images.
Activity Twenty Three: Thank You Letter
Learning Target: My learning target is to appropriately format a professional Thank You letter. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can correctly set margins and tabs of a document so it is in a modified block letter style.
Activity Twenty Four: Cover Letter
Learning Target: My learning target is to appropriately format a professional cover letter. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can correctly set the margins of a document so it is in block letter style.
Activity Thirty Two: College Application Process
Learning Target: My learning target is to format my document so that I have an outline. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can create and format a document in an alphanumeric outline.
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Activity Thirty Three: Teens Going Green
Learning Target: My learning target is to format my document into a MLA style. I will know that i have met my learning target if I can create and format a document that uses the proper MLA format style in the "Works Cited" page.
Activity Thirty Four: The New You!
Learning Target: My learning target is to combine multiple documents into one. I will know that i have met my learning target if I can insert files into a document.
Activity Thirty Five: Months of the Year
Learning Target: My learning target is to edit the text of my document. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can effectively use the change case feature and insert drop caps into the text of a document.
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Activity Thirty Seven: Presidents and Their Dogs
Learning Target: My learning target is to organize a set of data into a table. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can create and format a table, appropriately inserting rows and merging cells.
Activity Thirty Eight: Worldwide Movies
Learning Target: My learning target is to sort information and perform basic mathematical calculations in a table. I will know that I have successfully sort the text data and use the formula feature to add numerical data in a table.
Activity Thirty Nine: Summer Daze
Learning Target: My learning target is to create an acceptable calendar page. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can format a table's properties to create a calendar page, including changing text orientation, row height, and text alignment.
Activity Forty Two: American Idol Winners
Learning Target: My learning target is to insert a table into a block letter. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can successfully insert and format a table into a block letter.
Activity Forty Three: Marching Band Fundraiser
Learning Target: My learning target is to find the sum of a number in a table. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can insert a table into a document and find the sum of the numbers in its columns.
Activity Forty Four: College Links
Learning Target: My learning target is to embed a hyperlink. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can create a table that includes hyperlinks attached to the text to the images related to a set of colleges and universities.
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Activity Forty Four, Part Two: Inserting Your Own Hyperlinks
Learning Target: My learning target is to embed a hyperlink. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can create a table that includes hyperlinks attached to the text to the images related to a set of bands.
Activity Forty Seven: School Newsletter
Learning Target: My learning target is to create a newsletter. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can format a new Word document into a school newsletter.
Activity Fifty: File Links
Learning Target: My learning target is to link text to files. I will know that I have met my learning target if I can add a hyperlink to text that will direct the reader to a file on my desktop.