Mr. Boulanger, Computer Teacher» Resources for computers teachers: free Computer lesson plans from a Middle School Grade 7 class

Earth day comics

Mr. Boulanger — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:46:16 +0000

I received some excellent submission from our earth day assignment using the online comic creation tool Pixton but none as glorious and humorous as Camille’s:

[lesson plan = 1 class period]

2009 Calendars

Mr. Boulanger — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:47:46 +0000

Are you planning something for 2009? Are you afraid to miss someone’s birthday this year? Here are the calendars you need to help you get organized. These have been created with Publisher 2007 and turned into webpages by the ISC 7th graders. They include birthdays and also mark all the vacations for 2009.

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7B

Buy me a PC

Mr. Boulanger — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:37:14 +0000

7th grader Collin did a fantastic job trying to convince his parents to buy him a new computer in this writing assignment. The following is a screenshot of his persuasive blog entry:

[project length = 1 period]

Name tags

Mr. Boulanger — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:21:13 +0000

Today you can admire the artistic works of Soraya, Morgan, and Camille from grade 7 and Annick, Claire, and Isabel from Grade 8. This name tag assignment completed using PowerPoint 2007 also includes psychological results from the Big 5 personality test.

[lesson plan = 1 period]

Desktop tower defense strategy

Mr. Boulanger — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:59:46 +0000

In this assignment, students exploit their addiction to the game Desktop Tower Defense v1.5 and create a strategy to get high scores. This is achieved in Microsoft Excel and demonstrates the capabilities of the students to use the program to create maps and grids with keys. Our top strategists are Katinka and Michelle:

[Project length = 2 class periods]

Statistics of a plastic bag

Mr. Boulanger — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:37:33 +0000

In this introductory assignment to Microsoft Excel, students learn the formatting fundamentals of cells while exploring the frightening statistics of our plastic generation. The best works come from Igal and Elsa:

[Project length = 2 class periods]

Easter video

Mr. Boulanger — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:47:10 +0000

This work was created by a 7th grader with Microsoft Photostory. This non-graded assignment concluded our Photostory unit.

For this assignment, students were free to create any video of their choice related to Easter (or similar celebrations).
[Project length: 1 class period]

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