Rotation #10 Goals

Students will experience the world through detailed cultural information using Culture Grams as they choose a country to research. This cultural

project is a unit designed so that students will learn that all cultures have value while learning

to make an electronic slideshow using PowerPoint. Students will research background

information on a country of their choice and then learn how to create and deliver a multimedia presentation. This unit will focus on how to

research and cite sources. This unit will spread over 3 months (October-

December)

Standards: 1.24, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 3.2, Reading: Informational Text ELA-Literacy Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently

•Demonstrate correct posture and position and correct touch-system technique for a s d f h j k

l ; h e o m r i t n c . w , g space bar enter keys. We will learn B U and Left Shift Keys. 1.9

•How to edit slide text, add clip art, and enhance a presentation by using a color scheme

•How to format background, format text boxes, change text color and bullet styles

•Qwertytown Unit 2—Top Row Reaches Lesson 1-10 Due 12/2

•Basic understanding of MS Word by taking an online Word Basic assessment

Ribbons in Office 2007

• the new Ribbon feature in Office 2007 takes time to learn…

• In 2007Microsoft products introduced a form of modular ribbon as their main interface where large tabbed toolbars, filled with graphical buttons and other graphical control elements, are grouped by functionality. Such ribbons use tabs to expose different sets of controls, eliminating the need for many parallel toolbars.

TODAY’S AGENDA

Rotation 10 Class #1

You don’t need anything today!

Open up your ABC 7 Word file Lesson 1.9 B U Left Shift Key

• Change text color to Red Poor Richard size 20 • Type today’s school heading Title: Page 31-32

• Answer the questions on the big screen

• New Keys 1.9 B U Left shift –lines 3-14 once each! • Do Terms to Know in word….review for assessment Class #2 • Add Clip art “anything red!” Arrange at the end of your lines.

QWERTYTOWN

Standards: 1.5, 1.6, 1.7

Today we will learn new keys: 1.9 B U Left Shift Key

Looking Ahead: MS Word Test class # 2

Open up word and answer the questions.. 1. What do the commands do? Ctrl B, Ctrl U, Ctrl V, Ctrl S, Ctrl i

2. What are Ribbons in word?

3. What is the Clipboard?

4. What does Navigate mean in Word?

5. What is the Undo button do in word?

6. change the font style to Bold, Italic, or Underline by using the ribbon. And Ctrl

7. Deselect

8. How do you save a document in word?

9. Paragraph Tab---margins

10. How do you change something (Example the size of text) in word?

11. What is the Quick access toolbar

12. What are the Alignment buttons used for?

Terms to Know Word….. 1. Ctrl B, Ctrl U, Ctrl V, Ctrl S, Ctrl I

2. Ribbons replace menus and toolbars

3. Clipboard temporary storage area for copied and cut text.

4. Navigate to move around in a document

5. Undo to undo what you just did

6. change the font style to Bold, Italic, or Underline by using the ribbon. And Ctrl

7. Deselect

8. How to save a document in word file save as

9. Paragraph Tab---margins

10. How do you change something in word? Select how do you select text?

11. Quick access toolbar

12. Alignment buttons left center right justify

TODAY’S AGENDA

Rotation 10 Class #2

• You don’t need anything Log onto computer Get an Internet Connection --type in teacher web beck ma click on the link—

teacherweb go to the green pencil, click the 1st link word assessment log in with group# last name first initial password is ….

• Go to start programs PowerPoint open up your culture project • Begin criteria boxes slide 1-5 • Qwertytown Due December 1

Standards: 1.24

What is a color scheme and why is it important to have one?

Why use the 5 color rule?

How do I order text/pictures?

You can change bullet style? How???

Slide 1 Flag as your background—right

mouse click Order send to back

Slide 2 4-6 facts, 3 pieces of clip art, white

background

Slide 3

4-6 facts, 1 piece of clip art,

2 maps, white background

Slide 4

4-6 facts, 1 piece of clip art, picture of land in

your country---you may google (cite source) put

as background, rearrange slide to read text

Slide 5

4-6 facts, 3 pieces of clip art, format background

a color in your color scheme, change text color

in your color scheme

Skills Slides 1-5

1. Color scheme will be your flag color you may choose 3 colors +white, +black

2. Send to back to place the flag behind the text: Right mouse on the flag—order—send to back

3. Move text boxes Click on the text box—4 sided arrow—move

4. Add clip art Insert Picture---clip art (same as Word)

5. Format Background—to color in the whole background of the slide

Right Mouse--Format Background—down arrow choose color

6. Change text color Select what you want to change—go to the A underlined on the Font Ribbon

choose a color

Life As a Kid in Finland Demo

Clinton Middle School

Date Criteria: Country Flag as your background…right mouse click—order send to back

Land & Climate

• Latitude: 60.10

• Longitude: 24.58

• Area, sq. mi.: 130,127

•Winter freezing summers cool

•2/3 land--fir trees

•187,800 water bodies

Criteria: 4-5 facts 1 piece of clip art Picture of land in your country—google image search—copy url and paste on this slide

Location & Map • Continent Europe

• Capital Helsinki

• Currency Euro

• “Our Land.”—National Anthem

• 1948-Adopted National Anthem

• Flag Adopted-5-29-1918

• Official name Republic of Finland

Criteria: 4-5 facts 1 piece of clip art map

Population/Language

• 5.2 million people

• 93% of the people are Finns

• 93% speak Finnish

• English is a popular second language

• Finnish speakers must study Swedish

Criteria:

4-5 facts

3 piece of clip art/pictures

Format background

Did You Know?

Finnish soldiers fought Russians on skis

Finnish troops known for their bravery

Finnish women gave birth in saunas

Finns lived in Finland since 3000 BC

187,800 bodies of water in Finland

Finns love the sauna

Criteria: 4 facts 3 pieces of clip art

TODAY’S AGENDA

Rotation 10 Class #3

• You don’t need anything today!

Work on PowerPoint slides 6-10 Criteria boxes or typing in text.

Qwertytown when done with formatting slides 1-10

Standards: 1.24

What is a color scheme and why is it important to have one?

What does a patterned background look like with text?

How do I add a border to my text boxes or pictures?

How do you insert pictures from your H drive?

Slide 6 4-6 facts, 2 pieces clip art, pie

chart from culture grams

Slide 7 4-6 facts, 2 pictures from culture grams

(Google) Format background pattern your

choice (color scheme) color in text box and border

Slide 8

4-6 facts, 2 pictures from culture grams

(Google) Format background pattern

your choice (color scheme) color in text box and border

Slide 9

4-6 facts, 2 pictures from culture grams

(Google) Format background pattern

your choice (color scheme) color in text box and border

Slide 10

4-6 facts, 3 pieces of clip art,

white background

Skills Slides 6-10 Home Ribbon

1. Pattern Background: • Can’t do in this version of word…your choice

2. Color in a text box • Click on the text box—Click on the Paint can choose a color

3. Add clip art: • Insert Picture---clip art (same as Word)

4. Format Background—to color in the whole background of the slide

• Right Mouse--Format Background—down arrow choose color

5. Border a Text Box • Select the text—Drawing toolbar (ribbon) Shape Outline

6. Change Bullets • Select text---Paragraph--choose what you want

Direction Sheet

Religion • 89% Evangelical

Lutheran

• Freedom of religion since 1923

• 9% Finnish Orthodox Church

• 1% not part of any religion

Criteria: 4 facts 2 piece of clip art Copy/paste pie chart from culture grams if possible

History

• Inhabited since 8000 BC

• 1570–95 Sweden-Russia fight for Finland

• 1809 Sweden surrenders Finland to Russia

• 1917 Finland declares independence

• 1919 Finland becomes a Republic

Tarja Halonen,

President

Criteria:

4-5 facts

2 picture from culture grams

Format background—pattern your choice (color scheme)

Color in fact text box—add border

Games and Sports/Fun

• Finns love outdoor activities

• Cross country skiing, swimming, bicycling, hockey

• Love golf--play it on ice

• Pesäpallo (Finnish baseball)

• Pitcher and batter at home base Criteria:

4-5 facts

1 picture/clip art

Format background—pattern your

choice (color scheme)

Color in fact text box and title box

Holidays

• Celebrate Midsummer with bonfires at lake

• Christmas is peace, family, gifts

• Visit cemeteries-place candles on graves

• Enjoy the sauna on Christmas Eve

Criteria:

Schools

Education is important

All Finns go to preschool free

Nine years of (elementary) school

Choose a trade or high school

College is free Criteria:

4 facts

3 pieces of clipart/pics

TODAY’S AGENDA

Rotation 10 Class #4

Work on PowerPoint slides 11-15 Criteria boxes or typing in text.

Qwertytown when done with formatting slides 1-20

Standards: 1.24

You don’t need anything today

How to use the order feature—send to the back, bring to the front

Slide 11 4-6 facts, 2 pieces clip art, pie

chart from culture grams

Slide 12 4-6 facts, 2 pictures from culture grams

(Google) Format background pattern your

choice (color scheme) color in text box and border

Slide 13

4-6 facts, 2 pictures from culture grams

(Google) Format background pattern

your choice (color scheme) color in text box and border

Slide 14

4-6 facts, 2 pictures from culture grams

(Google) Format background pattern

your choice (color scheme) color in text box and border

Slide 15

4-6 facts, 3 pieces of clip art,

white background

Kids like video and computer games

Spend more time outdoors than US

Pick berries in forest with parents

Play floor-ice hockey and swim

Most kids have cell phones

Kids are independent

Food

• Breakfast is coffee/tea adults

• Hot chocolate/milk for kids

• Finns eat potatoes, cheese, sausage, fish

• Berries--strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, lingonberries

• A favorite dinner is meatloaf

Criteria:

4 facts

4-5 pieces of clipart/pics that match your food

Recipe

• Ingredients: Crust: 2/3 cup butter or margarine 1/4 cup sugar 1 egg 1/4 cup cream 1/4 cup flour Filling: 1 quart blueberries Sugar 1 tablespoon dried bread crumbs or potato flour

• Directions: – Whisk the butter or margarine and add sugar, if desired. – Add the egg, mixing well, and then the cream and flour in

turns. Don't beat too much or the dough will get tough. – Let the dough stand for a while in a cool place. – Roll out the dough into a thin sheet on a baking pan. – Mix the blueberries with sugar and dried bread crumbs or

potato flour. – Spread the filling onto the dough and raise the edges. – Bake at 400°F until the crust is golden brown,

approximately 30 minutes.

Finnish Name: Mustikkapiirakka

http://www.myllynparas.fi/ap-pics/reseptit/makeat_leivonnaiset/maistuvainen_mustikkatorttu.jpg

Transportation Getting Around

• Most Finns own 1 car

• Subway, busses and trains

• Bikes are popular

• Ferries are used when crossing water

Criteria:

3-4 facts

3-4 pieces of clipart/pictures at least 1 motion

Fill in the fact box with color

Add a border

Most Finns have blue eyes

Has more than 1.5 million saunas

Eat reindeer steak for special meals

ALL Finnish men serve in military

More cell phones per person than anywhere else in the world!

Criteria: Be creative! Your choice!!!

Money & Economy

• Finns use euros to buy things

• Green gold” nickname Finnish forests

• Makes lots of paper products

• enjoy a high standard of living

• people work in high technology fields

Why would you want to visit this country?

I would like to visit Finland:

– To learn about the education

– To visit a middle school and see if they have computer classes

– To learn more about my heritage

– To visit a shopping mall

– To eat at McDonalds

What would you hope to learn?

I would love to learn:

– how to speak a few words

– About the culture and holidays celebrated

– How many years kids go to school

– More about the economy/ what jobs are available

– Where the families pick berries

– Why Finland has most amount of cell phone per person

Interesting Facts! The national instrument of Finland is the kantele, a

stringed instrument played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers.

. R. R. Tolkien based his Elvish language from The Lord of the Rings series on Finnish.

http://sartenada.wordpress.com/category/kantele/