West Haven Public Schools
Unit Planning Organizer
Subject: Word Processing I
Grade: 9-12
Unit 12: Managing Files
Pacing: 3 days
Essential Question(s):
How can I file my documents like they are in a file cabinet?
Big Idea(s):
Keeping document in an orderly fashion is easy in Microsoft Word.
CT State Standards (includes West Haven’s “Priority” GLES’s in BOLD and “Supporting” Standards)
4. Compose, organize, and edit information using keyboard and technology.
Supporting Standards
The ISTE
National Educational Technology standards and Performance Indicators for Teachers
- Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
- Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
- Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources
- Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
- Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.
“Unwrapped” Concepts and Skills, and Bloom Levels (BL)
Concepts(Need to Know)
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Skills(Able to Do)
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BL
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- Locating Files with Word
- Using Windows Find, Search Recycle Bin
- File Manager
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Devising a way to organize files
Outlining your files for manageability
Executing pagination commands
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3
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Instructional Planning
- Instructor
will illustrate commands using a Smart board or Overhead. Instructor
will also supply individual instruction sheets and or Text pages
explaining commands.
- Students will complete a series of assignments selected by instructor to exhibit mastery of commands.
Suggested Resources/Materials:
- Computer Lab
- Microsoft Application Word 2007
- Smart board or Overhead instruction
- Step by step instructional sheets
- Series of documents including instructions for utilizing the Find and commands.
- Text:
Suggested Research-based Effective Instructional Strategies:
Whole Group Instruction
One-on-One instructional intervention
Vocabulary/Word Wall
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Enrichment/Extension
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Interdisciplinary Connections
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- Locating Files Use Windows 95 Find and Recycle Bin
- File Management
- Properties
- Wild card character
- Shortcut Menu
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Publishing Documentation for school.
Student’s personal documentation.
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Step by step instructional sheets.
One-on-One instruction.
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