6th Computer Enrichment
Sample of topics covered during 9 weeks
I.  Keyboarding improvement
2.  Elements of Word - Outlines, Creative writing, Drawing toolbar, Edit, View, Insert various media
3. History of computers - time line of major events in technology 
3. Elements of Excel - math symbols and order of operations, creating Excel applications, buying and selling stocks, budgets, $ earned for odd jobs
4.  Power Point - Inventors, how things work
5.  Internet Use - research, OPAC browser, Urls
6.  Introduction to Access - creating a database of fun info about classmates 
6th Computer Vocabulary
General Terms Definition
1st Quiz on math problems 
Math Symbols ( ),^,/,*,-,+
2nd Quiz is on the following
4 functions storge/processing/input/output - RAM, C drive, CD/CPU/keyboard, mouse/monitor
windows computer's operating system
outline summry of main topics in a document or other form of communication
moving cursor in outline tab to indent , shift and tab to unindent
taskbar contains start button and open documents
Keyboarding rules one speace btween words,2 space btween sentiences, no sp before punct,1 sp after punct within sen., tab ato indent
abacus first mechanical calculator invented by Chinese in 2600 BC
Office group of application programs used to organize, compute, and store date (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access)
CPU the brain of the computer - does the processing
Parts inside the computer
3rd Quiz is on the following
Spreadsheet (ss) Columns and rows of data that do calculations
Excel the application software that creates an uses spreadsheets
3 types of data in xls numbers, labels, formulas
cell location of 1 piece of data in ss or intersection of a column letter and row number
"=c6/d6" Give an example of a legitimate formual (correct syntax)
examples of Spreadsheet uses grade avg., accounts payable and accounts receiveable, budgets, taxes, sales projections, scientific calc.
binary code/binary number system the coding that computers understand, consists of 0s and 1s, know as a bit (binary digit)
byte 8 bits, size requirement for 1 character on one's keyboard
kilobyte (K) 1024 bytes
megabyte (MB) 1 million bytes
Gigabyte (GB) 1 billion bytes
Hi level programming language Comp. programming languages more like english to provide instructions to comp. to tell it what to do.
Examples of prog. Language Fortran, Pascal, C++

Record of Keyboarding for grade - Neatness: 2, Parent Sign.: 2, Complete: 4, Improvement: 2
Power Point and Brochure graded

Participation Grade
Grade determined by avg of following:
2 Class projects graded
Participation Grade
Keyboarding Record - Neatness: 2, Complete: 4, Parent Sign.: 2, Improvement: 2