by Joanne Fortunato and Keith Humphrey
J. Weston Walch, Publisher
Grades 5-9. Are you ready to develop or update a computer program at your middle school? Well, this text can save you hours of research and development. This complete curriculum, designed to work with any computer; gives students the chance to practice with Apple, MS-DOS, and Macintosh programs. The activity text presents 40 hands-on lessons that cover everything from keyboarding to simple programming. This text was created by two middle school computer teachers with over 17 years of experience.
Topics include:
- Keyboarding
- Word processing
- Database
- Spreadsheets
- Painting/Drawing
- Desktop Publishing
- Programming
- CD-ROM
- Telecommunications
Students work on motivating projects, such as writing poetry or setting up a spreadsheet for a business venture, that let you easily assess their progress.
The Teacher Book includes:
- An entire middle school computer curriculum
- Sample pages for student portfolios
- Classroom management techniques including the layout of a computer lab
- Lesson plans
- Additional reproducible activities
- Tests and Quizzes
- Sample screens
- Answers
Reproducible Data Disk includes:
- All student and solution files are saved in a variety of formats that will fit your software or can easily be imported into it. Macintosh formats include: ClarisWorks, Microsoft Works, ASCII. MS-DOS/Windows formats include: ClarisWorks, Microsoft Works for Windows and DOS, ASCII.
- Student files for many activities.
- Additional activities.
- Netscape and Microsoft Explorer bookmark files to excellent teacher and student resource sites on the Internet.
- A 20 page booklet describing all student and teacher files.