6th+Woman's+History

in coordination with Mrs. Sisco

PA Standards-


 * NETS.1.6-8: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
 * NETS.2.6-8: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
 * NETS.6.6-8: Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems and operations.
 * NETS.1.6-8: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.

Objectives -


 * * The various ways to select text
 * Using insert mode
 * Working with toolbars
 * Changing menu and toolbar
 * Using the Formatting Palette
 * Entering text into a document
 * Using Save and Save As
 * Working with the Toolbox
 * Cut, Copy, and Paste
 * Creating columns
 * Modifying columns
 * Evening Out Column Length
 * Resizing objects
 * Scaling
 * Object Size palette
 * Modifying tool behavior || * Create folders in Save As
 * Document views
 * Zooming and Full Screen views
 * Basic text editing
 * Working with the Clipboard
 * Drag and drop editing
 * Using undo and redo
 * Spelling and grammar check
 * Using the custom dictionary
 * Working with fonts
 * Changing character case
 * Flipping and Rotating Objects
 * Using Free Rotate Mode
 * Setting object preferences || * Place a Border Around Text
 * Page borders
 * Creating a Draw Object
 * Selecting objects
 * Object placement
 * Fill effects
 * Formatting lines
 * Resizing objects
 * Deleting an object
 * Clip Art Task Pane
 * Inserting a picture
 * Picture Formatting Options
 * Creating WordArt
 * Modifying WordArt
 * WordArt placement ||

__Tech lab__ - WP and graphic design

Evidence of best practice – students will be able to refer to the video and helpful tips on my wiki at anytime they get stuck and Model lesson before students are allowed to complete task.

__Activity__- Students will create a 3 panel brochure about Woman's history. The Woman's history brochures can be used as a bookmark or a trifold as well.

__Guidelines __ Name of Woman, Picture of person (clear), Date of birth & Death, place of birth || **panel 2 ** Education, Background, Family life/ interesting facts || **panel 3 ** Accomplishments
 * **panel 1 **

why did you choose this person, ||

greatwomen.org/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You will use a template in Microsoft Word for a 3 panel brochure. Design it as you please but include all the items needed on the 3 panels. do NOT go outside the margins...


 * 1) Choose a template from Microsoft Word for a 3 panel brochure
 * 2) plan your visual brochure in your mind (where will put your text?, what pictures will you want?, will you move things around the template?, which tips will you include?, Will you change the text design?
 * 3) start on panel 1 - design an interesting front
 * 4) look at panel 2 guidelines and decide what tips you will include. Make a nice presentation and have word art and/or picture
 * 5) look at panel 3 guidelines and decide what tips you will include. Make a nice presentation and have word art and/or picture


 * Scoring Guide:**
 * template used
 * panel one - intersting, appealing and eye catching - all info needed
 * panel two - all info needed and accurate
 * panel three -all info needed and accurate
 * three pictures
 * spelling correct (no red or green lines)
 * the brochure is appealing and eye catching
 * the brochure is readable


 * 1) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Ella Fitzgerald]
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Fannie Lou Hamer]
 * 3) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Gwendolyn Brooks]
 * 4) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Betty Ford]
 * 5) <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Shirley Chisholm]
 * 6) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Althea Gibson]
 * 7) <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Coretta Scott King]
 * 8) <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Maya Angelou]
 * 9) <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Beverly Sills]
 * 10) <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Sandra Day O'Connor]
 * 11) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Ruth Bader Ginsburg]
 * 12) <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Gloria Steinem]
 * 13) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Geraldine Ferraro]
 * 14) <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Barbara Jordan]
 * 15) <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Madeleine Korbel Albright]
 * 16) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Janet Reno]
 * 17) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Marian Wright Edelman]
 * 18) <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Wilma Rudolph]
 * 19) <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Billie Jean King]
 * 20) <span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Hillary Rodham Clinton]
 * 21) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Sally Ride]
 * 22) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Mae Jemison]
 * 23) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Maya Y. Lin]
 * 24) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">Aretha Franklin
 * 25) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">Josephine Baker
 * 26) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">Eleanor Roosevelt
 * 27) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">Amelia Earhart (flying)
 * 28) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">Julia Child (cooking)
 * 29) <span style="color: #264165; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;"> Coco Channel (fashion)
 * 30) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Marie Curie
 * 31) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Indira Gandhi
 * 32) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Margaret Mead
 * 33) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Golda Meir
 * 34) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Anne Frank
 * 35) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Helen Keller