Classroom Curriculum, 8th Grade

Microsoft Word :  Create formal documents used in school and business.  ie. reports w/footnotes, letters, tables, newletters

Inspiration:  Continue with webbing/outlining .  Create web designs and outlines.  Develop sub-topics to the "main idea."  Create an autobiographical web.  

Graphing in MS Excel:  Create spreadsheets with "formulas."

Use the "Auto Sum" function.

Discuss and create examples of how you can use these spreadsheets and how their functions help you in your other classes.

Microsoft Publisher :  Create a basic webpage with navigational links, sound and motion art.  Use pictures and text researched from the Internet and properly saved to research folders and properly cited. Digital Imagery: Take pictures, crop, resize, and use edited photographs in assignments.