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Level 3Unit 1 Projects 1 Taking Notes / Animals

2 Changing Font Size / Arts & Entertainment

3 Deleting Text / Geography

4 Reviewing What You’ve Learned / Health

5 Looking at Worksheets / History & Social Studies

6 Using Titles in Worksheets / Inventions & Technology

7 Formatting Columns / People

8 Reviewing What You’ve Learned / Plants

9 Starting a Presentation / Science & Math

10 Titles and Subtitles / Sports

11 Editing Text in a Presentation / Stories & Literature

12 Reviewing What You’ve Learned / Transportation

Unit 2 Projects 1 Saving Files / Animals

2 Referencing Sources / Arts & Entertainment

3 Using Print Preview / Geography


5 Changing Worksheet Names / History & Social Studies

6 Resizing Columns / Inventions & Technology

7 Printing Worksheets / People


9 Creating Slides / Science & Math

10 Creating Different Types of Slides / Sports

11 Changing Slide Layout / Stories & Literature


Unit 3 Projects 1 Formatting Cells / Animals

2 Aligning Text / Arts & Entertainment

3 Centering Text / Geography


5 Formatting Text / History & Social Studies

6 Creating Multi-Slide Presentations / Inventions & Technology

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7 Using Background Designs / People


9 Using Bold Text / Science & Math

10 Changing Font Colors / Sports

11 Using Copy/Paste / Stories & Literature


Unit 4 Projects 1 Moving Slides / Animals

2 Deleting Slides / Arts & Entertainment

3 Using Single-Color Backgrounds / Geography


5 Using Cut/Paste / History & Social Studies

6 Using Italics / Inventions & Technology

7 Using Underline / People


9 Inserting a Row / Science & Math

10 Deleting a Row / Sports

11 Formatting Dates / Stories & Literature


Unit 5 Projects 1 Changing Fonts / Animals

2 Inserting Text / Arts & Entertainment

3 Writing Titles / Geography


5 Inserting Columns / History & Social Studies

6 Deleting Columns / Inventions & Technology

7 Inserting a Graphic / People


9 Printing Slides / Science & Math

10 Duplicating Slides / Sports

11 Including a Graphic / Stories & Literature


Unit 6 Projects 1 Using Underline / Animals

2 Using Italics / Arts & Entertainment

3 Adding Numbers / Geography


5 Resizing Graphics / History & Social Studies

6 Using AutoShapes in Presentations / Inventions & Technology

7 Inserting AutoShapes / People


9 Inserting a Graphic / Science & Math

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10 Resizing Graphics / Sports

11 Using Styles to Organize / Stories & Literature


Unit 7 Projects 1 Adding Text to an AutoShape / Animals

2 Formatting Text in an AutoShape / Arts & Entertainment

3 Copying AutoShapes / Geography


5 Copying and Pasting Clip Art / History & Social Studies

6 Moving Clip Art / Inventions & Technology

7 Wrapping Text Around Clip Art / People


9 Creating Charts / Science & Math

10 Moving Charts / Sports

11 Creating Graphs / Stories & Literature


Unit 8 Projects 1 Reviewing AutoShapes / Animals

2 Formatting AutoShapes / Arts & Entertainment

3 Viewing a Slide Show / Geography


5 Reviewing Charts / History & Social Studies

6 Reviewing Graphs / Inventions & Technology

7 Reviewing Addition / People


9 Reviewing Cut, Copy, and Paste / Science & Math

10 Saving Using Keyboard Shortcuts / Sports

11 Using Spell Check / Stories & Literature


Level 4Unit 1 Projects 1 Opening, Saving, and Closing a Document / Animals

2 Using the Replace Function / Arts & Entertainment

3 Saving Using a Keyboard Shortcut / Geography


5 Creating Worksheets / History & Social Studies

6 Entering Data in a Worksheet / Inventions & Technology

7 Using AutoSum / People


9 Saving a Presentation / Science & Math

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10 Using Titles and Subtitles / Sports

11 Inserting a New Slide / Stories & Literature


Unit 2 Projects 1 Printing Multiple Copies / Animals

2 Saving to a Portable Drive / Arts & Entertainment

3 Creating a New Folder / Geography


5 Creating a Bar Graph / History & Social Studies

6 Creating a Pie Graph / Inventions & Technology

7 Creating a Line Graph / People


9 Inserting Clip Art / Science & Math

10 Inserting AutoShapes / Sports

11 Formatting AutoShapes / Stories & Literature


Unit 3 Projects 1 Inserting Columns / Animals

2 Inserting Rows / Arts & Entertainment

3 Format Cells for Currency / Geography


5 Inserting Sound in a Presentation / History & Social Studies

6 Changing Slide Order / Inventions & Technology

7 Inserting a New Slide / People


9 Selecting, Deleting, and Replacing Text / Science & Math

10 Selecting and Dragging Text / Sports

11 Inserting Clip Art / Stories & Literature


Unit 4 Projects 1 Create a Slide Show / Animals

2 Applying Design Templates / Arts & Entertainment

3 Inserting and Resizing Text Boxes / Geography


5 Changing Page Margins / History & Social Studies

6 Using Tabs / Inventions & Technology

7 Using Cut, Copy, and Paste / People


9 Multiplying Using a Formula, Part I / Science & Math

10 Multiplying Using a Formula, Part II / Sports

11 Multiplying Using a Formula, Part III / Stories & Literature


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Unit 5 Projects 1 Changing Font Size and Type / Animals

2 Using Bold and Colored Text / Arts & Entertainment

3 Using Italics and Underline / Geography


5 Change Column Width / History & Social Studies

6 Changing Text Alignment / Inventions & Technology

7 Using Bold, Underline, and Italics / People


9 Entering Bulleted Text / Science & Math

10 Deleting a Slide / Sports

11 Changing Slide Configuration / Stories & Literature


Unit 6 Projects 1 Changing Text Color / Animals

2 Changing Cell Fill Color / Arts & Entertainment

3 Adding Borders to Cells / Geography


5 Applying Slide Transitions, Part I / History & Social Studies

6 Applying Slide Transitions, Part II / Inventions & Technology

7 Using Automatic Slide Timing / People


9 Using the Thesaurus / Science & Math

10 Using Spell Check / Sports

11 Automatically Inserting the Date / Stories & Literature


Unit 7 Projects 1 Changing Slide Background Color / Animals

2 Inserting a Picture from a File / Arts & Entertainment

3 Recording Sound / Geography


5 Adding Page Numbers / History & Social Studies

6 Using Automatic Numbering / Inventions & Technology

7 Using Automatic Bullets / People


9 Changing the Font Style / Science & Math

10 Merging and Centering Text / Sports

11 Inserting Clip Art / Stories & Literature


Unit 8 Projects 1 Reviewing Skills From Units 1 and 2 / Animals

2 Reviewing Skills From Units 3 and 4 / Arts & Entertainment

3 Reviewing Skills From Units 5 and 6 / Geography

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4 Reviewing Skills From Unit 7 / Health

5 Reviewing Skills From Units 1 and 2 / History & Social Studies

6 Reviewing Skills From Unit 3 / Inventions & Technology

7 Reviewing Skills From Units 4 and 5 / People

8 Reviewing Skills From Units 6 and 7 / Plants

9 Reviewing Skills From Units 1 and 2 / Science & Math

10 Reviewing Skills From Units 3 and 4 / Sports

11 Reviewing Skills From Units 5 and 6 / Stories & Literature

12 Reviewing Skills From Unit 7 / Transportation

Level 5Unit 1 Projects 1 Creating, Saving, and Closing a Document / Animals

2 Inserting Numbers / Arts & Entertainment

3 Inserting Bullets / Geography


5 Creating, Saving, and Closing a Worksheet / History & Social Studies

6 Reviewing Data Entry Methods / Inventions & Technology

7 Formatting Skills / People


9 Creating, Saving, and Closing a Presentation / Science & Math

10 Creating a Title Slide / Sports

11 Creating a Title Slide and an Informational Slide / Stories & Literature


Unit 2 Projects 1 Using the Thesaurus and Spell Checker / Animals

2 Creating a Table / Arts & Entertainment

3 Formatting a Table / Geography


5 Formatting Rows and Columns / History & Social Studies

6 Aligning Text in Cells / Inventions & Technology

7 Using the AutoSum Function / People


9 Using Background Templates / Science & Math

10 Formatting Font and Font Size / Sports

11 Inserting and Resizing ClipArt / Stories & Literature


Unit 3 Projects 1 Using the Multiplication Formula / Animals

2 Using the Averaging Formula / Arts & Entertainment

3 Adding Borders and Shading to Cells / Geography

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5 Using Transitions Between Slides / History & Social Studies

6 Using Transitions Between Slides, cont’d. / Inventions & Technology

7 Setting Slides to Advance Automatically / People


9 Using Copy and Paste Commands / Science & Math

10 Using Find and Replace / Sports

11 Changing Margins / Stories & Literature


Unit 4 Projects 1 Moving Slides / Animals

2 Applying a Solid-Color Background / Arts & Entertainment

3 Citing Sources in a Presentation / Geography


5 Setting Tabs / History & Social Studies

6 Changing Fonts / Inventions & Technology

7 Changing Font Size and Style / People


9 Inserting Columns / Science & Math

10 Inserting Rows / Sports

11 Deleting Columns and Rows / Stories & Literature


Unit 5 Projects 1 Inserting a Date / Animals

2 Setting the Page Orientation / Arts & Entertainment

3 Creating Columns of Text / Geography


5 Creating and Resizing a Pie Chart / History & Social Studies

6 Creating and Resizing a Bar Graph / Inventions & Technology

7 Creating and Resizing a Line Graph / People


9 Creating an Automated Slide Show / Science & Math

10 Inserting and Resizing ClipArt / Sports

11 Inserting and Resizing Text Boxes / Stories & Literature


Unit 6 Projects 1 Renaming Worksheets / Animals

2 Inserting New Worksheets / Arts & Entertainment

3 Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in a Worksheet / Geography


5 Inserting a Slide Between Two Slides / History & Social Studies

6 Deleting a Slide / Inventions & Technology

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7 Exploring Different Types of Slide Configurations / People


9 Inserting ClipArt / Science & Math

10 Resizing ClipArt / Sports

11 Cutting and Pasting Text / Stories & Literature


Unit 7 Projects 1 Inserting a Picture from a File / Animals

2 Inserting Sound / Arts & Entertainment

3 Recording Sound / Geography


5 Using Keyboard Shortcuts / History & Social Studies

6 Printing a Document / Inventions & Technology

7 Adding Headers and Footers / People


9 Using the Sort Function / Science & Math

10 Changing Font Style, Size, and Color / Sports

11 Printing a Worksheet / Stories & Literature


Unit 8 Projects 1 Reviewing Skills from Units 1 – 2 / Animals

2 Reviewing Skills from Unit 3 – 4 / Arts & Entertainment

3 Reviewing Skills from Units 5 – 6 / Geography

4 Reviewing Skills from Unit 7 / Health

5 Reviewing Skills from Units 1 – 2 / History & Social Studies

6 Reviewing Skills from Unit 3 / Inventions & Technology

7 Reviewing Skills from Units 4 – 5 / People

8 Reviewing Skills from Units 6 – 7 / Plants

9 Reviewing Skills from Units 1 – 2 / Science & Math

10 Reviewing Skills from Unit 3 – 4 / Sports

11 Reviewing Skills from Units 5 – 6 / Stories & Literature

12 Reviewing Skills from Unit 7 / Transportation

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8 Geography and Word Processing • Project 3

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Imagine that you are writing a paper on culture in Thailand.Would you rather use a pencil with or without an eraser?

A pencil without an eraser is the same thing as a keyboardwithout a delete key. The BackspaceBackspace and DeletDelet ee keys let you erasetext that you have keyed in. What are some reasons that youmight want to erase text?

Find It!1 On the Kids InfoBits homepage, click on the icon labeled

GeographGeograph yy. Next, click the CC ountriesountries icon. Scroll down thelist of countries until you see TT hailandhailand. Click on it.

2 Open the MM agazinesagazines tab and find the article titled “TheElephant Round-up.”Open this article and read it.

Use It!1 Open the file called Elephants. Go to the FF ileile menu.

Choose SS aa vv ee. Save the file as Elephants_Your Name. Askyour teacher to help you decide where to save this file.

2 The paragraph in the data file is from the article. Let’spractice deleting text in this paragraph. First, put yourcursor after the word all in the first line.

3 Find the BackspaceBackspace key on your keyboard. Push it fourtimes. You just deleted the word “all”and the extra spacethat went with it!

PPPPrrrroooo jjjj eeeecccc tttt 3333 ----Thailand and Deleting Text

Objectives:In this project, you will:

• search for and select usefulinformation

• create and save a newdocument

• key in text

• delete text

Time: about 20 minutes

Delete– erase

Backspace or Delete?Some buttons differ dependingon what kind of computer youare using. If you are using a PCcomputer, the rectangularbutton two buttons above theReturnReturn key is yourBackspaceBackspace key. It erases textbehind the cursor. The DeletDelet eekey to the right erases text infront of the cursor. If you areusing a Mac computer, the but-ton two spaces above theReturnReturn key says DeletDelet ee, but itacts like the BackspaceBackspace key,erasing text behind the cursor.The DeletDelet ee key to the right of iterases text in front of the cursor.

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4 Now, let’s delete a larger amount of text. First,highlight the following text: Is the winner crownedand beribboned? No, the prize is better than that.

5 Push the BackspaceBackspace key. The highlighted text disappeared!

6 Let’s do that one more time. Highlight the word big in thelast sentence. Now, key in the word huge. You just replacedthe word big with huge!

7 Go to the FF ileile menu. Choose SS aa vv ee.

Your project should look something like this:

8 Now, write a short paragraph about what you read aboutelephants in this project. Practice making corrections byusing the BackspaceBackspace key and by highlighting and replacingtext. These are skills that will be very useful!

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Tip: If you push theBackspaceBackspace key once and holdit down, it keeps erasing text.Be careful, though! The cursormoves fast when you hold downthe BackspaceBackspace key.

Tip: To highlight text, click atone end of what you want tohighlight. While you hold downthe mouse, drag the cursoracross the text.

Enter this keyword:

delete

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Is there life on Mars? Countless science fiction books and moviessay yes. Recent missions to Mars have shed new light on theplanet. Evidence shows that there might have been water onMars at some time. With this new evidence, it is harder to say thatthere has never been life on the Red Planet. What do you think?

Read an article about Mars and complete a paragraph. Writeabout whether you think there is or has been life on Mars. Explainyour reasoning. In this lesson we will learn how to replace wordsusing the thesaurus. Here we go!

Find It!1 On the Kids InfoBits homepage click on the SS cience & Mcience & M aa thth

icon. Then click on the SS pace & Apace & A strstr onomonom yy icon. Find MM arsarsin the list of items. Click on the planet’s name.

2 In the MM agazinesagazines tab, find the article called “Life on Mars?”Click on it.

3 Read the article and think about your paragraph. Takenotes on any information that you want to include.

Use It!1 Open the file called Mars. Save the file as Mars_Your Name.

Ask your teacher to help you decide where to save this file.

2 Read the beginning of the paragraph. Use your notes tocomplete the paragraph about life on Mars.


• Use the thesaurus


PPPPrrrroooo jjjj eeeecccc tttt 9999 ----Using a Thesaurus in a Reportabout Mars

thesaurus– a book of synonyms or wordswith similar meanings

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3 Save your work.

4 Let’s use the thesaurus to change some of the words.Double-click on the word ee videncevidence in the secondsentence.

5 In the TToolsools dropdown menu, select TT hesaurushesaurus.

6 Read the definition of the word, then read the list ofsynonyms.

7 Select a word like “proof”to replace “evidence.”

8 Now click on ReplaceReplace or InserInser tt.


9 Practice using the thesaurus by replacing at least twomore words in your paragraph.

10 Save your work. Check with your teacher to find out if youshould print your paragraph.

Tip: You may have to chooseLL anguageanguage from the TToolsoolsdropdown menu, and thenselect TT hesaurushesaurus. Your the-saurus may not look just like thisone. But there should be a defin-ition and a choice of synonyms.

If you enjoyed this project andwould like to know more aboutthe planets, ask your teacherabout Gale’s book The SolarSystem (0-7377-1290-2).

Enter this keyword:

thesaurus

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Picture a beautiful mountainside covered in snow. Suddenly, youhear a roar and the side of the mountain comes crashing down.That’s the awesome power of an avalanche. When you presentinformation about an avalanche, you want people to see theinformation clearly, but you also want the presentation to lookexciting. In this project, you will gather some basic informationabout avalanches to add to a presentation. Then you will changethe background template of a presentation to make it moreexciting.

Find It!1 On the Kids InfoBits homepage, click on SS cience & Mcience & M aa thth.

Then click on WWeaea therther. Click on the category AA vv alanchesalanches.

2 Click on the MM agazinesagazines tab. You will see about 15 articlesabout avalanches. Choose the article called “Avalanche!Can anything stop this deadly force of nature? Scientistssearch for answers.”

3 What does the large picture show? Read to find out howavalanches like these take place. Take notes on what youread. Check with your teacher to find out if you shouldprint this article.

Use It!1 Open your presentation software. Open the file called

Avalanche. Save the file as Avalanche_Your Name. Ask yourteacher to help you decide where to save this file.

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PPPPrrrroooo jjjj eeeecccc tttt 9999 Avalanches and DesignTemplates in a Presentation


• search a database by category

• change a design template in apresentation


design template– program or file that makesslides or documents look alike

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2 Look at the window that comes up when you open thepresentation. This is the first slide in the presentation.

3 The other slides are in the column on the left. If you clickon a slide, it will appear much larger in the center window.

4 You need to add some information to the third slide. Clickon it. It has definitions of terms about avalanches. You canfind these terms in the article. Click next to the definitionand type in the correct term.

5 Now you can make your presentation more colorful andexciting to look at. A background template will do thetrick. Go to the FFormaorma tt menu and click on SS ll ide Designide Design. Youwill see a menu at the right that looks like this:

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Tip: Mac users will see a list ofall the slide design names. Clickon a name and click ApplyApply tosee what the design looks like.

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6 Click on Design Design TTemplaempla tt eses. You will see severaldesigns. Click on the design that you like best. It willchange all of the slides in your presentation!


7 Go to the SS ll ide shoide sho w w menu. Select VV ieie w show sho ww.

8 After viewing the show, go to the FF ileile menu. Choose SS aa vv eeto save your work. Then close your presentation and thepresentation program.

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Tip: A good design will goalong with your topic and makeyour information easy to see.

Enter this keyword:

design template

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