A Phillips Technology Instructional Plan 2017-2018
This Instructional Plan is intended to provide a guideline for the course of study for the school year. The actual instructional schedule is subject to change as the quarter progresses.
= Instruction/Practice Complete
COS / Week 1: / a / COS / Week 2: / a / COS / Week 3: / aInt / PBS – Class Expectations/Procedures / 9 / Acceptable Use Policy - discussion / Channel One online -- NEWS
Emergency procedures & practice / Procedures Review / 7 / Keyboarding
Syllabus review/ Q & A / 7 / Beginning Keyboarding: / Students will continue with warm-ups and practices to learn the alphabetic keys and the shift key.
Internet Safety Presentation / Students will learn the basics of “touch type” keyboarding starting with Home Row and the upper row of alphabetic keys.
PC Basics Presentation
Typing test (speed & accuracy)
VOC: Acceptable Use, Ethics, Ergonomics, telecommute, virus, identity theft / VOC: Monitor, taskbar, minimize, formatting, toolbar, URL, domain / VOC: tower, component, posture, netiquette
COS / Week 4: / a / COS / Week 5: / a / COS / Week 6: / a
7 / Keyboarding warm-up & practice / 7 / Keyboarding warm-up & practice / 7 / Keyboarding warm-up & practice
12 / Google Productivity – Mail & Sites / 12 / Google Productivity - Calendar: / 12 / Google Productivity: Forms
Students will access their school Google accounts, set up contact lists, and create a blog site. / Students will create a personal calendar for family and school events. / Students will create a form for the purpose of conducting a survey of their classmates about their personal choices in music, food, and activities.
Typing test (speed & accuracy) / Typing test (speed & accuracy) / Typing test (speed & accuracy)
VOC: blog, weblog, inbox, outbox, e-mail, csv, / VOC: format, edit, copy, paste, delete, / VOC: mark-up, draft, visual symmetry, design, content
COS / Week 7: / / COS / Week 8: / / COS / Week 9:
7 / Keyboarding warm-up & practice / 7 / Keyboarding warm-up & practice / 7 / Keyboarding warm-up & practice
5 / Microsoft Word – Basic Documents / 5 / Microsoft Word – Using tables / 5 / Microsoft Word – Document formats
Students will use Microsoft word to format and create a basic document of multiple paragraphs of simple text. / Students will create a table to organize and present information (results from student surveys, week 6)) / Students will format a business letter, short essay, outline, and flyer using multiple fonts, alignment, headers, footers, and text effects.
Typing test (speed & accuracy) / Typing test (speed & accuracy) / Typing test (speed & accuracy)
VOC: indent, double space, single space, kerning, margins, text alignment, tabs / VOC: cells, merging, splitting, borders, shading, table alignment, / VOC: Salutation, content, greeting, block, modern block, cc, attachment
This Instructional Plan is intended to provide a guideline for the course of study for the school year. The actual instructional schedule is subject to change as the quarter progresses.
= Instruction/Practice Complete
COS / Week 10 / a / COS / Week 11 / a / COS / Week 12 / a*7 / Keyboarding / *7 / Keyboarding / * 7 / Keyboarding
5 / AMSTI/Computer Apps Integrated / 5 / Introduction to Microsoft Excel / 5 / Red Ribbon Essay “Stay in the Game
Project: create a presentation of / Create a sample budget incorporating / By Staying Off Drugs” Standard MS
science research (constitutes final / columns for expenses, income & running / Word formatting
exam in Computer Apps / balance / 5 / Complete budget spreadsheet & intro
to grade book product
VOC: Slide, animation, timings, background formats, text formats, slide duplication & insertion, sequencing / VOC: Workbook, spreadsheet, column/row headings, cells, data, function / VOC: balance, series, auto sum, average, overwrite
COS / Week 13 / a / COS / Week 14 / a / COS / Week 15 / a
* 7 / Keyboarding / *7 / Keyboarding / * 7 / Keyboarding
5 / Creating charts and graphs in Excel / 5 / Creating comma delimited rosters / *12a / Uploading / converting documents
16 / Use student poll data to create graphic / *12a / Students will create mailing lists and / 16 / Students will use Google Docs to up-
data and import the graphic to a / import them to their Google mail / load, convert, and share a Power Point
presentation / account / presentation containing graphic infor-
mation from week 4 activity
Assessment Microsoft Excel
VOC: chart wizard, x axis, y axis, data labels, chart format & style, title / VOC: roster, comma delimited, alphanumeric sorts, import, export / VOC: upload, download, convert, attach, file sharing, share security
COS / Week 16 / / COS / Week 17 / / COS / Week 18
* 7 / Keyboarding / * 7 / Keyboarding / * 7 / Keyboarding
12 / Web Page authoring with Google Apps / 12 / Integrating / PROJECT CONTINUES
Students will design and publish a / COMPREHENSIVE FINAL
personal web page using the “sites” app
in the OCBE Google domain.
VOC: / VOC: / VOC: