Whitnall School District - Old - Information Technology Class

Energy Usage

Project using Excel and a web site to track how much energy the student personally consumes. Assignment has three parts to be completed (1. create the table, 2. chart the data, 3. Write a minimum five sentence paragraph analyzing the data and identifying where the student could save more energy or identifying how well the student is currently doing) WE-Energies Appliance Calculator

Assignment 18 - Practice Making Charts

In class practice making various types of charts based on specific tables and then customizing the charts. Click on each tab for each sheet. The final table/graph is the students choice to research and then chart

Assignment 17

Practice making excel spreadsheets and charts in class. This is a group class activity.

Assignment 16

MERGE AND CENTER - students will learn to merge cells together to create a larger cell
MILES FROM MILWAUKEE - in class spreadsheet activity where students will create spread sheets that list their estimated miles to various cities in America, the actual miles to those destinations, and a formula calculating the difference.

Assignment 15 (EXCEL Math)

Create the formulas that will give us the correct answers to 12 problems adding (sum), subtraction (difference), multiplication (product) and division (quotient). Your responses must be in the form of a formula. Simply entering the correct number is not correct.

Assignment 14

In class activity using Excel spreadsheets sorting data and creating simple formulas to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

Assignment 13

In class activity using Excel spreadsheets sorting list of items by columns alphabetically and numerically.

Assignment 12

Keyboarding using the in class text book (pages 49-50) as well as an in class review activity for the next district technology assessment covering word processing skills. Review of required skills handed out in class today.

London

Practice working with Headers, Footers, indentation, page numbers, margins, and Spell Checking. Class activity preparing for District Word Assessment. This is an 'in class' assignment only.

Assignment 11

Keyboarding activity using classroom text book (pages 43-44). As well as an in class review activity for the District Word Assessment.

Movie Poster

Students use MS Word and the clip art gallery to create an imaginary 'Movie Poster'. Students required to use five clip arts and text wrap them around the words and to be layered on top of other clip art.

Assignment 10

Practice inserting clip art / images into a word document and changing how the text wraps around the clip art / image.

Place Holder Text

Sample text to use in place of the actual copy.

Assignment 9

Keyboarding assignment using the classroom keyboarding text book.
We will also be reviewing for the first district technology assessment.

Assignment 8

Keyboarding assignment from classroom text book.

Roller Coaster History

Practice formatting using line spacing, alignments, and margins. This is an in class activity only, instructions will be given in class.

Jog the Web

Jog the web through these Milwaukee web site to copy/paste text and images and write the citations for all of the information you take from the net.
LOOK THROUGH THE SITE CAREFULLY, THEY ARE NOT ALL EASY TO FIND THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT OWNERS!

Assignment 7

Work completed in class this day. If you were absent please click the link to read what you missed.

Info Tech Quiz 2

Questions summarizing Boolean Operators and Web Extensions and Citing information (MLA) taken from the Internet.
STUDENTS MAY NOT USE ANY NOTES FROM CLASS TO COMPLETE THE QUIZ

Assignment 6
Assignment 6 - M.L.A. citations for information taken from the internet. Students navigate to the New York Times online website, and select text from an article to write the citation for and select an image to write the citation.

Assignment 5
Work completed in class this day. If you were absent please click the link to read what you missed.

Assignment 4
Assignment 4 covers citing information taken from the internet using the M.L.A. format. Students select articles and images to cite from the Milwaukee Journal Online web site.

Assignment 3
Assignment covers URL's and web extensions. Students need to use Boolean Operators and make a specific search and from the results find five different URL's. One must be a government site (.gov)

Assignment 2
Assignment 2 covers a sample use of Boolean Operators in search engines. Students do a sample search using Boolean Operators to reduce their final search to 10 or less results.

Assignment 1
Assignment #1 - Using the HEADER and FOOTER. Keyboarding assignment 1, pages 3-6, activities C, D, E, F, G, and H.

Blogging Entry 2
Students post a blog on the class wiki and then comment on other students - click link to read the actual assignment and due dates

Internet Summary
Summary Evaluation of class discussion of computer communications and on line Internet Safety.
Download and 'OPEN' the Word Document. Answer the questions completely, then save your work in your H-drive at school or save your work at home and bring a printed copy to school.
STUDENTS MAY NOT USE ANY NOTES TO RESPOND TO QUESTIONS.

Blogging Entry 1
Students post a blog on the class wiki and then comment on other students - click link to read the actual assignment and due dates.

Internet Safety Quiz 1
Short quiz based on class discussion of internet safety. Student MAY NOT USE NOTES to complete the questions.