Third Nine Weeks

In the 3rd Nine Weeks, 5th grade students continue to develop two hand home row typing proficiency. Focus on typing accuracy and correct finger placement, not speed. Speed will be acquired naturally over time in the future months and years of typing lessons.

Students will use a photo editor to crop, adjust brightness and contrast, remove red eye, and resize photos.

Students will learn to remove picture backgrounds and use layers to combine photos to make a wanted poster, cartoon a face, create Andy Warhol pop art and more.

Students can use these skills and techniques to improve the photos used in their technology integrated assignments with Powerpoint, slideshows, brochures, posters, movies, websites, etc.

These assignments also build strong file management skills. Students will open, save, name and rename files, as well as create and name folders throughout these weekly projects.

Week 1

• Assign 25-30 minutes or until done with Dance Mat Typing.
• Start it and project on the big screen / whiteboard for kids to see.
• Typing Stage 7 - V, M
• Typing Stage 8 - N, B
• Typing Stage 9, C and Comma
• Typing State 10, Z, X
• Keyboarding Without Tears and students work through their lessons.
• Assign 3 Minutes of: Typing Rocket Jr. Students type with both hands, try to get a final score of 60 points or more.
• Assign: Keyboard Climber 2. Students type with both hands. Finish level 3.
• More Typing Practice

Week 2

Digital Photo Editing | Enrichment

Students will learn to use the cropping tool of a typical photo editing program.

Students will also practice managing and renaming the files with descriptive names as well as inserting them into the "Photo Editing Cropping" template.

Instructions:

1) Download photos to be cropped.

2) Choose 5 photos to edit.

3) Crop an area of (about 300px width X 225px height) for each picture.

4) Save each cropped image with a new name by adding the word "cropped" to the file name. Example: 2-kittens-cropped.jpg

5) Insert the 5 original images and the 5 edited pictures into the before and after photo editing template.

Download: photo-editing-cropping-template.docx

Photos for Cropping practice.

Use the Paint Program to edit.

Week 3

• Assign 25-30 minutes or until done with Dance Mat Typing.
• Start it and project on the big screen / whiteboard for kids to see.
• Typing Stage 7 - V, M
• Typing Stage 8 - N, B
• Typing Stage 9, C and Comma
• Typing State 10, Z, X
• Keyboarding Without Tears and students work through their lessons.
• Assign 3 Minutes of: Typing Rocket Jr. Students type with both hands, try to get a final score of 60 points or more.
• Assign: Keyboard Climber 2. Students type with both hands. Finish level 3.
• More Typing Practice

Week 4

Week 5

• Assign 25-30 minutes or until done with Dance Mat Typing.
• Start it and project on the big screen / whiteboard for kids to see.
• Typing Stage 7 - V, M
• Typing Stage 8 - N, B
• Typing Stage 9, C and Comma
• Typing State 10, Z, X
• Keyboarding Without Tears and students work through their lessons.
• Assign 3 Minutes of: Typing Rocket Jr. Students type with both hands, try to get a final score of 60 points or more.
• Assign: Keyboard Climber 2. Students type with both hands. Finish level 3.
• More Typing Practice

Week 6

Week 7

• Assign 25-30 minutes or until done with Dance Mat Typing.
• Start it and project on the big screen / whiteboard for kids to see.
• Typing Stage 7 - V, M
• Typing Stage 8 - N, B
• Typing Stage 9, C and Comma
• Typing State 10, Z, X
• Keyboarding Without Tears and students work through their lessons.
• Assign 3 Minutes of: Typing Rocket Jr. Students type with both hands, try to get a final score of 60 points or more.
• Assign: Keyboard Climber 2. Students type with both hands. Finish level 3.
• More Typing Practice

Week 8

Week 9

• Assign 25-30 minutes or until done with Dance Mat Typing.
• Start it and project on the big screen / whiteboard for kids to see.
• Typing Stage 7 - V, M
• Typing Stage 8 - N, B
• Typing Stage 9, C and Comma
• Typing State 10, Z, X
• Keyboarding Without Tears and students work through their lessons.
• Assign 3 Minutes of: Typing Rocket Jr. Students type with both hands, try to get a final score of 60 points or more.
• Assign: Keyboard Climber 2. Students type with both hands. Finish level 3.
• More Typing Practice