Elementary Instructional Technology in the Greenfield Public Schools

Ms. Weissman

This is what you must do today:
May 23, 2011
  • Open a word processor.
  • Write a letter with at least 5 sentences.
 Past Assignments
May 16, 2011
  • Make sure your frog life cycle is done.
  • DRAW a background (don't import it).
May 9, 2011
  • Draw 2 costumes for an adult frog.
  • Write a computer program that makes the frog look like it is moving.
May 2, 2011
  • Draw 2 costumes for a froglet.
  • Write a computer program that makes the froglet look like it is moving.
April 25, 2011
  • Draw a frog egg.
  • Stamp it so you have at least 10 eggs.
  • Make sure your tadpoles are done.

April 11, 2011
  • Copy your tadpole.
  • Edit it so it has moving hind legs for both costumes.
  • Move it to the right spot.
April 4, 2011
  • Draw a tadpole (no hind legs) sprite.
  • Make a 2nd costume for the tadpole (Make it look like it is swimming)
  • Program it to look like it is swimming.


March 28, 2011
We will start a Scratch program on the life cycle of a frog.  This is what you need to do today!
  1. Make a background with 5 arrows.
  2. Make a text sprite for each of the following:
  • egg
  • tadpole
  • tadpole with hind legs
  • froglet
  • frog

March 21, 2011
Finish adding continents to your slide show:
North America
Europe

Australia

March 14, 2011
  • Insert Antarctica and South America.
  • Make sure you have pictures for Africa and Asia too!

 

Antarctica

 

South America


March 7, 2011
  1. Finish your slides from last week
  2. Insert pictures of Africa and Asia into your slide show
Africa
Asia


February 28, 2011
  • Start a new project in PowerPoint
  • You will need:
  1. A title slide
  2. 7 more slides (one for each continent)
  3. Write the name of a continent on each slide.
  • Africa
  • Antarctica
  • Australia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • South America
  • Asia

February 14, 2011
  1. Open your accrostic poem.
  2. Finish it.
  3. Spell check.
  4. Make the first letter of each word size 36.
  5. Make the rest of the letters size 24.

 

February 7, 2011

  • Open a word processor
  • Make an acrostic poem (at least 4 words long)

 

January 31, 2011

Draw 2 more costumes for your liquid.  Make it look like it is moving around.

 

January 24, 2011

  • Draw 2 more costumes for your gas.  Make it look like it is moving around.
  • Write code to make it switch between the costumes.

 

January 10, 2011

  • Start a new Scratch project.
  • Draw the following three sprites.
  1. solid
  2. liquid
  3. gas

January 3, 2011
  • Draw a sprite
  • Make a new costume
  • Program your sprite to change back and forth between costumes

December 13, 2010
  • Make a project in Scratch OR go to First in MATH.

December 6, 2010

  1. Draw or import ONE sprite.
  2. Draw or import ONE background.
  3. Write a computer program to make your sprite move form one part of the stage to another part of of the stage over and over again.

November 29, 2010

  • Open your scratch flower.
  • Make a background.
  • Use the following code to make it dance.

 

 


November 22, 2010

  • Open scratch
  • Make a new plant sprite.
  • Draw roots, stems, leaves (at least)

November 15, 2010

  • Open a word processor
  • Type 5 words. 
  • Make each word a different font and color.
  • Copy and past the words many times so they fill the page.

November 8, 2010

  • Open a word processor.
  • Write your name.
  • Copy your name.
  • Paste it many times so it fills the ENTIRE page.


November 1, 2010

Draw and label a pictue of the things a plant needs to grow.


October 26, 2010
  • Open your map of an imaginary island.  Finish it.  Make sure you have:
  • A compass rose
  • 2 things in the map key
  • 2 other details

 

 

 

October 18, 2010

Draw a map of an imaginary place. Your map will need:

  • A compass rose
  • 2 things in the map key
  • 2 other details

 

October 4, 2010

  • Open your list of 10 words.
  • Make each word a different font.
  • Print it if you want to.

September 27, 2010

  • Open Word
  • Write a list of 10 words
  • Use you spell checker
  • Save your work
  • Call it 10 words

September 20, 2010

  • See if how much you can do in skill set 1.
 

September 13, 2010

First we will review the class rules.

Then we will watch 2 movies about internet safety together.

Finally, you will go to your own computer and do the following 2 activities on your own.

 

Meet the Wizzywigs

 

Which Wizzywig is Which?