Computer – Sixth Level

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Course Description — Students will understand basic computer and internet usage and obtain word processing skills as well as practice in-depth with the following: level one, typing; level two, Paint, Publisher; level three, PowerPoint; level four, Scratch (computer programming); level five, blogs; level six, HTML; level seven, graphic design including photo manipulation; level eight, spreadsheets; high school computer courses are listed on the high school page. (Equivalent free software can be used for any of the listed programs.)


Week 1

Welcome to your first day of school! I wanted to give you one important reminder before you begin. Many of your lessons below have an internet link for you to click on. When you go to the different internet pages for your lessons, please DO NOT click on anything else on that page except what the directions tell you to. DO NOT click on any advertisements or games. DO NOT click on anything that takes you to a different website. Just stay focused on your lesson and then close that window and you should be right back here for the next lesson. Okay?

  1. If you didn’t get here through My EP Assignments, I suggest you go there and create an account.
  2. Internet Safety Reminders: Do not download anything onto your computer without permission. Do not click on any advertising on a website even if it looks like a game to play. You can also turn off advertising, so you don’t see bad images. Don’t give out your name, address, phone number, email address, photo, etc., online without permission.
  3. Use kid-friendly search engines that your parents choose for you. Search as specific as you can, so the thing you are looking for will come up and not other stuff you shouldn’t be looking at. Here is one place you can go to search the internet. You can also turn on Google safe search.
  4. If you don’t have a junk email account, talk to your parents about starting one at a site like yahoo.com or live.com. Give that email address to all the companies you don’t need to hear from and save your real email address for those you do need and want to hear from. Even though you are giving out your “junk” email address, still click to check or un-check all boxes to let companies know you do not want emails from them.
  5. Name three things you shouldn’t do while on the internet. Name two ways to protect yourself while searching.
  6. This is the end of your work for this course for today. You are allowed to move at your own pace (this is homeschooling), but it’s intended you complete one lesson each week.


Week 2

  1. Internet Safety Reminders, yes, again: Do not download anything onto your computer without permission. Do not click on any advertising on a website even if it looks like a game to play. Don’t give out your name, address, phone number, email address, photo, etc. online without permission. Use kid-friendly search engines that your parents choose for you. Search as specific as you can, so the thing you are looking for will come up and not other stuff you shouldn’t be looking at.
  2. If something should pop up, just look for an X to close it down. It is often hidden. Look in the top right corner. Sometimes you have to click on “No Thanks.” It’s usually written in smaller letters and in a font that makes it harder to see. They don’t want you to close it and refuse their offer. But you can outsmart them. Don’t let them make you feel forced to accept whatever they are pushing.


Week 3

  1. Create a new document in your word processing program. Save it into a folder with your name on it. Change the margins on all sides and set it to be double spaced. Insert an image and a text box. Change the color of the inside of the text box. Write in it. Then change the font style, color and size. Save!


Week 4

  1. Find the templates on your word processing program. Create a certificate. Choose a template. Change it around. You can add and delete elements. Make a certificate for someone in your family to congratulate him or her on something. If you need help, search for it. Having to figure it out for yourself and seek the info you need is a good way to learn. You’ll get it! Don’t stop until you have a certificate.


Week 5

  1. Create a flyer. Find a template. Change the elements. Create a flyer to advertise something–you decide.


Week 6

  1. Create a calendar. Find a template. Fill it in and change as you like.


Week 7

  1. Create a letter. Find a template. Write in it. Why not write to your favorite food company and ask for coupons 🙂


Week 8

HTML
  1. HTML is a programming language. You are going to be learning some about writing in this language. This is the language of websites.
  2. Today, go through this introduction page.


Week 9

  1. Learn about HTML editors.
  2. You don’t have to use an editor. You should just work in the area the give you. You can see the results right on your screen. But, if you want to give it a try. You can get your code onto your computer browser by following their steps.
  3. When you use their “Try It Yourself,” click on RUN to see the result of your code.


Week 10

  1. Try this page going through the headings and paragraphs. Use all the headings from 1 to 6 in your code. Make sure to open <> and close </> your tags just like in the examples.
    • On the Try It Yourself page, type in each numbered heading code along with some words. Here is one example.
    • <h6>Words go here and then close.</h6>
  2. Stop at links. We’ll do that in the next lesson.
  3. When you use their “Try It Yourself,” click on RUN to see the result of your code.


Week 11

  1. Today, add links to your code. Scroll down to find links. First, read what I wrote below. then go to the link.
  2. The href is the “hyper reference”, the link.
    • href = “link goes here”
  3. Make sure to use an = and ” “. You are saying the reference equals this exact thing within the quotes.
  4. The <a> </a> shows where the link goes. The words in between will show up as the words you will click on.
  5. Don’t worry about the rest of the stuff there.
  6. You can use allinonehomeschool.com for a link.
  7. When you use their “Try It Yourself,” click on RUN to see the result of your code.


Week 12

  1. Today, add an image. The src is the source of your image. I have a link for you below. That’s the link to an image already online. It will come out all squished if you paste in this link. Look for where it says “height” and “width” and play with those numbers.
  2. You can use this image.


Week 13

  1. Go through this lesson and create a full page from scratch. Delete what’s there and add the HTML and BODY tags, as well as whatever you want to write in the middle.
  2. Add a break </br>. What does it do?


Week 14

  1. Some of this is review, but it’s giving you vocabulary. Go through the page on attributes.
  2. Don’t worry about absolute and relative url. You are using absolute urls right now.


Week 15

  1. Play with styles.


Week 16

  1. I say that coding is just solving problems. Keep solving problems, and you’ll end up with useful code.
  2. Watch this video on problem solving.


Week 17

  1. Work with formatting your text. You don’t have to try them all.
  2. Can you make words italics? bold?


Week 18

  1. Try more with images. This time use an <alt> tag.
  2. If the picture doesn’t load or if a visually impaired person is viewing the page, the alt tag will let them know what the picture is.


Week 19

  1. Today add a video. Here’s one. Go to the video and click on “share” and then “embed.” Copy and paste this code into your HTML editor. What happens?
  2. Read the code carefully. What do you notice? Did you notice something like w=450? That means the width of the player is 450. h=320 would mean the height of the player is 320. You can change those numbers. Try it.


Week 20

  1. You are going to move onto another short HTML course.
  2. For your last day in this course, play with colors.


Week 21

  1. You are going to go through one more short online HTML course. It will cover much of the same things.
  2. Chapter 1: What is HTML?
  3. Chapter 2: Basic concepts
  4. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 22

  1. Chapter 3: Primary tags
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 23

  1. Chapter 4: Creating your first Web page
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 24

  1. Chapter 5: Basic text formatting
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 25

  1. Chapter 6: Lists
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 26

  1. Review #1
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 27

  1. Chapter 7: Attributes: Adding interest to your page
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 28

  1. Chapter 8: Advanced Text Formatting
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 29

  1. Review #2
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 30

  1. Chapter 9: Links down the street to around… 
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 31

  1. Chapter 10: Graphics
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 32

  1. Chapter 11: Building pages with tables
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX

Week 33

  1. Chapter 12 More on tables
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 34

  1. Here is a list of HTML code words.
  2. Try out some. Can you put text centered on the page?
  3. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 35

  1. Here’s something to try. You are going to make a link that jumps to further down the page. This is what I used so that when you click on what year you are studying, you go right to the day you are on, instead of having to scroll.
  2. Experiment: Try everything. SANDBOX


Week 36

  1. If you want to learn more, here’s a course to help you build your own webpage and more.
  2. CodeAcademy is another place to learn.
  3. And here’s a place for later, when you are ready for more. This lets you code and see your work. It’s called a “playground.” CodePen has weekly challenges. Both places lets you see the code of others that you can copy and play with to see how it works.

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