7th Grade Technology Education Schedule of Events Q1

(All dates are approximate and may change due to field trips, etc.)

(Green = projects, yellow = presentation days, Red = Quizzes / Tests)

 

Week 1

                   8/7:      1st day of school

·        1st day of class.  Go over procedures what is expected and what will be done during the quarter.

 

8/8:      Continue going over procedures, syllabus, and Discipline contracts

 

8/9:      Internet safety activities

 

8/10:    Go over Internet use guidelines and handout parental permission packets.

 

8/11:    Internet Safety Activity

 

Week 2

 

                   8/14-8/18:        Learning to Type

·        Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

 

Week 3

 

                   8/21-8/25:        Continue Typing Unit

·        Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

 

Week 4

 

                        8/28:    Microsoft Word in Review

Ø      Begin Summit Peak Review Project

 

                        8/29:    Microsoft Word Review Continued

Ø      Finish up Summit Peak Review Project

 

8/30:    Begin second Microsoft Word Project

Ø      Creating a Research Paper

 

8/31:    Creating a Research Paper

Ø      MLA documentation

Ø      Resetting menus and toolbars

Ø      Changing margins

Ø      Zooming

Ø      Line spacing

Ø      Headers

 

9/1:      Creating a Research Paper

Ø      Typing the body of a research paper

Ø      Formatting

Ø      Fonts

Ø      Shortcut keys

Ø      Indenting paragraphs

Ø      Autocorrect

 

 

Week 5

 

                        9/4:      Labor Day

 

                        9/5:      Professional day

 

                        9/6:      Creating a Research Paper

Ø      Adding footnotes

Ø      Modifying a style

Ø      Automatic page breaks

Ø      Inserting symbols

Ø      Manual page break

 

9/7:      Creating a Research Paper

Ø      Works Cited page

Ø      Proofing and revising

Ø      Finding text

 

9/8:      Quiz on concepts learned in Creating a Research Project

 

Week 6

 

                        9/11:    Microsoft Word - Resume with cover letter project

Ø      What is a resume

Ø      Using a “wizard”

Ø      Resetting menus and toolbars

Ø      Zoom text width

Ø      Select and replace Resume Wizard supplied text

 

9/12:    Resume with cover letter project

Ø      Bulleted lists

Ø      Line breaks

Ø      Entering information

Ø      Viewing and printing in print preview

 

9/13:    Resume with cover letter project

Ø      Creating a letterhead

Ø      New document window

Ø      Adding color to characters

Ø      Custom Tab stops

Ø      Switching from one open document to another

Ø      Using office clipboard to paste

 

9/14:    Resume with cover letter project

Ø      Inserting symbols into a document

Ø      Adding a bottom border to a paragraph

Ø      Creating a cover letter

Ø      Components of a business letter

Ø      Tab stops using the ruler

Ø      Date, address, salutation

 

9/15:    Quiz on Resume Project skills

 

Week 7

 

                        9/18:    Creating Web Pages Using Word-Word Web Page project

Ø      Ways to use Word for web pages

Ø      Saving a Word document as a web page

Ø      Using the wizard to create a web page

Ø      Adding pages to website

 

9/19:    Word Web Page project

Ø      Modifying a web page

Ø      Resize page frame

Ø      Adding hyperlinks

Ø      Viewing in default browser

Ø      Editing webpage from browser

 

9/20:    Word Web Page project

Ø      Creating a webpage with a hyperlink to a website activity

 

9/21:    Word Web Page project

Ø      Creating a personal web page activity

 

9/22:    Quiz on creating web pages using Word

 

Week 8

 

                        9/25:    Microsoft Excel Project