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Computer Studies
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COURSE TITLE:  Computer Studies – High School

COURSE LENGTH:  One Semester Per Year

COURSE DESCRIPTION:           
High school students practice and refine knowledge and skills in keyboarding/word processing/desktop publishing, spreadsheets, and multimedia, while preparing classroom assignments and projects. 

Students use Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point in completing a variety of assignments designed to strengthen computer skills and provide an overview of the Microsoft Office software package. 

Students will understand important issues of a technology-based society and will exhibit ethical behavior in the use of computer and other technologies.  In addition, students will demonstrate responsible behavior relating to technology issues (e.g., security, privacy, passwords, personal information) and will recognize possible consequences of misuse.

Students will use technological tools for class assignments, projects, and presentations. 

TOPICS:
  • The Candidate Word Processing Simulation
  • Excel Spreadsheets
    • “Buying a Car”
    • “Renting an Apartment”
    • “Furnishing an Apartment”
    • “Supermarket Shopping Spree”
    • “Family Budget”
  • PowerPoint Slide Presentations
    • “My Perfect Car”
    • “Ten Years from Now”
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITES:

Grade 9

Students will:
  • Participate in a word processing simulation to use word processing skills in a realistic environment
  • Format and process business documents such as letters, memos, reports, tables, news releases, flyers and minutes
  • Use basic word processing commands such as paragraph formatting, applying headers and footers, inserting images and graphics
  • Work from a variety of input, including handwritten and rough drafts
  • Use word processing and/or desktop publishing for a variety of writing assignments/projects
  • Use electronic resources for research

Grade 10

Students will:
  • Use word processing commands to format indented text, hanging indents, set margins and move text
  • Create and format an outline
  • Use menu commands to format columns and insert section breaks in word processing
  • Create and format simple spreadsheets
  • Enter labels and make simple corrections in a spreadsheet
  • Demonstrate correct label alignment in spreadsheet cells
  • Adjust/change spreadsheet column widths
  • Create simple PowerPoint slides, including a title slide using templates
Grade 11

Students will:
  • Demonstrate the formatting of headers and footers and drop caps
  • Create letters with special notations
  • Format a table and create a word search puzzle
  • Improve keyboarding technique, speed and accuracy
  • Utilize a spreadsheet to perform mathematical calculations
  • Create graphs within a spreadsheet, including bar graphs and pie charts
  • Enhance spreadsheets by formatting text and style
  • Format PowerPoint slides, including bulleted lists and add to a presentation
  • Import graphics to PowerPoint slides
Grade 12
Students will:
  • Recognize and discuss how Copyright Laws protect ownership of intellectual property and identify and discuss consequences of misuse
  • Use electronic resources for research needed to complete senior year projects
  • Create and format a 5 to 7 page report (including cover page and bibliography) to fulfill senior project requirements
  • Create a properly formatted Works Cited page or Bibliography
  • Increase keyboarding speed and accuracy with continued practice
  • Create flyers/brochures, including text and graphics
  • Create a 7 to 10 slide PowerPoint presentation entitled “My Perfect Car”
  • Select, align and change the appearance of text and change the color scheme of slides
  • Draw graphic objects and use auto-shapes to enhance slideshow presentations
  • Add transitions, sounds and timing to slides
  • Animate text and objects and present slide show

CORE MATERIALS UTILIZED:

Century 21 Computer Applications and Keyboarding, 2006

The Candidate, Word Processing Simulation, South-Western, 2004

Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Excel, Mavis Beacon Typing Program

Newspaper ads and articles, Teacher developed handouts

PREREQUISITE:    None

ASSESSMENT:      
Classroom projects and teacher developed assessments



Contact Information:
Greenburgh Eleven UFSD
I Echo Hill Drive
​Building # 36
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522



Phone Number:
(914)-693-8500
Fax Number:
(914)-693-4029
Day Student Admissions:
(914) 693-8500 Ext.384

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 501
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522

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