Wednesday, February 26th- 7th Grade- Achieve3000 Literacy Lesson

Bellringer:
1. Open your Typing file and on page 20 type lines 4, 5, and 6.           
    Use your left INDEX finger for the V exercise.
2. Get out your Pink Worksheet and your GREEN rubric.

What are we learning?
Literacy Techniques
PowerPoint 5.0 Presentation basics

Guided Practice: 
@ Click on https://portal.achieve3000.com/
    Your user name is your lunch number. Your password is your birthday.  
     Go to the email section and click on article titled "The New Power of PowerPoint."
DO NOT START!!!!!!!!!! We are going to review:
@ Synonym means words that have the same meaning like "cold" and "freezing."
@ Antonym means words that have the opposite meaning like "cold" and "hot." 
@ If you get a synonym or antonym question
    try the different choices in the sentence.
@ We will review the Cause and Effect relationship question.

Independent Exercises:
@ Take your time the 1st score will be a class participation grade.
@ Complete the "The New Power of PowerPoint" article and activity questions carefully.

@ 1st 9 weeks typing assessment (class participation grade)
     go to http://www.typingtest.com to get their new IMPROVED words per minute
     round up all numbers (2nd 9 weeks percentages will be higher)
     10% improvement is a 100
      5%  improvement is a 90
      0% improvement is a 80
      slower than before improvement is a 70

Example if you typed 20 wpm in January
22 = 100, 21 = 90,  20 = 80, 19 and lower = 70

Example if you typed 15 wpm in January
17 = 100, 16 = 90, 15 = 80, 14 and lower = 70

Past Lessons
Step 1- Determine the Purpose of PowerPoint
            Most students picked Educational and some students picked Narrative.
Step 2- Identify the Target Audience
            Our target audience will be other students so we want to have colorful
            slides, animation, all of the design ideas we discussed.
            **** You will need to find a game for your audience to play***
             type the word "QUIA" and the name of your topic 
Step 3- Storyboard the content
            We researched 8 key facts and storyboarded them as a rough draft.
Step 4-  Create a Design
Step 5-  Edit the Master slide (OPTIONAL)
Step 6-  Enter the Content (notice you enter the words before the pictures)

Step 7-  Add and format graphics (pictures), audio and video      
              Remember to use the PINK PICTURE TOOLBAR
              to add a frame style and effects
              You need citations for pictures from the Internet.
              You don't want to spend all of your time looking for 1 picture!!!!

Wednesday's Lesson- Literacy lesson and Achieve 3000 article

Thursday's Lesson
Step 8- Add animations and transitions
Step 9- Practice (review the rubric)
Step 10- Revise (check spelling)
Working in Teams students will FIND THE EVIDENCE for their answers to the 4 Presentation Procedures Revised PowerPoint questions 24 through 28.
 
Independent Exercise:
@ If time, continue with your PowerPoint project following the steps listed above.

Exit Activity:  Typing Adventure http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games/keyboarding_games_typing_adventure1.html