October 14 - 18, 2002
Kindergarten - second grade students worked this week using their desktop publishing skills again. This week they were used to create an identical picture. The students had to determine the differences between two pictures. They were then to use their skills to make the pictures look identical. They had to move and resize graphics frames, as well as use the zoom function.
Below is a sample of the template used in this week's lesson as it appeared at the beginning of the lesson.

The next picture is of the activity after the students had completed the steps in this week's lesson. Notice they also had to add text to the project. They worked using their skills to change the text size and color as well. They also had to delete items as needed. The students worked very hard this week to complete their task.

The skills
needed to complete the steps in this week's lesson included:
Discuss twins
Open the template for today's lesson
Discuss the template
Zoom in on a picture
View the pictures
Identify items in the picture
Select a graphic
Click and drag an object
Zoom in on the page
Flip an image
Zoom out on a page
Delete an object
Double click
Enter text
Change the font of the text
Change the color of the text
Explain keyword searches
Use copy and paste commands
Save and print the document
Exit the program
Launch the web browser
Define URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
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the address used to locate a web site on the Internet.
Enter a URL
Discuss the web page
Find matching designs
Exit the web browser
If the classes had time remaining at the end of the lesson this week, we did a little matching skills activity on the Internet. The web site we used can be accessed by clicking below.
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Technology Related Web Site for this Week:
Bears Web Page
Here is what the web site looks like once the students click on the "hot spot" to go to the web site:

Once they select the two they think are a match, they can click the "match"
button.
If they are correct, the response they receive from the web
site looks like this:

If they are incorrect, they will see two bears with frowns on their faces.
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