Scope+and+Sequence

Scope and Sequence
//Presently, this page contains "brainstormed" skill items broken down into grade level groups; no particular sequencing within the grade levels is being proposed by these lists. Eventually, these items will be moved to each grade level page, and summary chart put here in their place.//


 * Kindergarten:**
 * run mouse (left-click, right-click, scroll wheel, drag, click-and-drag)
 * Identify basic hardware
 * Simple keyboard entry
 * Open programs (via START, icons, and shortcuts)
 * Follow shortcuts
 * Minimize, maximize, close windows
 * headphones (plug in, adjust volume)
 * Care of equipment (mousepad, headphones, chair)


 * 1st Grade:**
 * Hen-peck keyboarding
 * Shift
 * Enter
 * Cursors
 * Continue Point & Click skills
 * Basic Browsing skills (back, favorites)


 * 2nd Grade:**
 * Beginnings of Search Engines
 * Begin Word Processing
 * Explain how there are different programs for different purposes
 * Keyboarding (home row, posture, Type-to-Learn software)
 * Cut, copy, paste for pictures **and** text (not saving pic, but using right-click)
 * Print (selecting printers)
 * Saving files using shortcut icons (file naming, file name choice)
 * Opening files using shortcut icons
 * Knowing what file and programs are open
 * Files... what they are in general
 * Text enhancing (bold, underline, alignment, italics)
 * Possible Task: Matching a report template
 * Hyperlinks (ctrl + click to follow within documents
 * 3rd Grade:**
 * logging into student accounts (accounts will need to be made starting in 3rd grade)
 * continue keyboarding skills
 * Word processing skills (2 spaces after a period, tabs, alignment, blank line between paragraphs, line spacing, document styles)
 * Possible Task: Letter writing
 * Email Communication (attachments, pasting in messages, email address formats, opening attachments, inbox, trash)
 * "new program for a new purpose"
 * Possible Task: emailing letter to another teacher
 * 4th Grade:**
 * Presentation software
 * Continue keyboarding skills (look at getting an older kid version of software)
 * Menus (taught using PowerPoint)
 * WordArt (taught to expose the students to unfamiliar interfaces and manipulation of images)
 * Presentation philosophy (titles, transitions, limited material per slide, pacing, enhancing the speaker)
 * MovieMaker as a presentation program (editing, titles, transitions, audio)


 * 5th Grade:**
 * speadsheets (understanding of cells, formating cells, basic math features)
 * publishing
 * Basic Word Processing Skills (Formating, Cuting, Pasting, and Copying Text)
 * Digital Imaging (Scanning, Cropping )

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msolist: Ignore;">o the gradient tool <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o drawing with shapes <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o magic eraser <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; 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font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o indent <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o non-printing characters <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o borders and shading <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Checking spelling and grammar <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Finding synonyms <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o thesaurus <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o graphics and drawing <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o clipart <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o pictures from files <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o linking vs. embedding <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o AutoShapes and WordArt <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o charts <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o vertical alignment <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o page orientation <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o headers, footers, numbering <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o find <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o replace <span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o go to
 * 6th Grade:**
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **** Web Design (Advance Skills) **
 * Linking **
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **** Digital Imaging (Advance Skills) **
 * Correcting Photos **
 * Selecting **
 * Painting and Drawing **
 * Formatting Document Pages **
 * Using Find and Replace **
 * <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· **** Intermediate Word Processing Skills **
 * Formatting Paragraphs **
 * Proofing Documents **
 * Working with Graphics **
 * Formatting Document Pages **
 * Using Find and Replace **