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what to teach to a 5th grade girl

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AnimeKnight

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I offered to help my neighbor to teach her daughter some computer skills over the summer... and I was wondering if you guys could help me put a lesson together. I want to incorporate Internect Explorer, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Inspiration into my lessons. I was thinking since she like sports so much maybe have her do a report on sports.

i.e.
sports: basketball
I'd use Inspiration to have her brain storm how she'd like to do the report. I will then show her how to use IE to search for the history of the basketball then have her use MS word to type a little summary of the history along with a picture cut & paste from the internet explorer and citing her orgin. Then I'd have her use Excel to do some graph on points... maybe the 2003 Final. Then combine all the reports and put it on a PowerPoint presentation.

what you guys think?

What else should I teach to the girl? What features in Word should I show her.. other than Word Art, Copy & Paste, Spelling Check, and basic paragraph formatting?

Any other ideas on reports or how I can incorporate all the applications together?

thanks in advance 🙂

BTW this is a girl that is going to her 5th grade. The computer teacher from the school is going to teach the 5th graders all the applications I mentioned above.
 
Originally posted by: AnimeKnight

sports: basketball
I'd use Inspiration to have her brain storm how she'd like to do the report. I will then show her how to use IE to search for the history of the basketball then have her use MS word to type a little summary of the history along with a picture cut & paste from the internet explorer and citing her orgin. Then I'd have her use Excel to do some graph on points... maybe the 2003 Final. Then combine all the reports and put it on a PowerPoint presentation.
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Wow, if you teach her all that and she can do it, she'll be better at computers than 90% of the population over the age of 35. In fact she could probably get a job where I work seeing how 90% of our peopel could more than likely not get close to combining a report/PowerPoint like that.
 
I dunno. I'd start with assembling a computer/show her the parts that comprise one and what they do. Then I'd just move to typing lessons. There's not much to teach when it comes to Word, imo. Can she handle some complex stuff in Excel? Teach her solver? Put together a PPT presentation, that might be good. Teach her a little HTML and how to upload via FTP.

Edit: Even better, teach her proper PC maintenance. Examples: scandisk/disk de-frag, Ad-aware (tell her about spyware), ZoneAlarm, Antivirus programs, etc.

Edit: Teach her how to be as safe and secure as possible when online. Don't give out real e-mail addy for stuff; create a SPAM account, etc.
 
Originally posted by: AnimeKnight
BTW this is a girl that is going to her 5th grade. The computer teacher from the school is going to teach the 5th graders all the applications I mentioned above.
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So basically, you're going to waste a little kid's perfectly good summer by making her take classes, and then waste her time in class next year as she's bored stiff by material she already knows?

Also, WTF is Inspiration and why the hell would a 9 year old need to know it?
 
Originally posted by: Staley8
Originally posted by: AnimeKnight

sports: basketball
I'd use Inspiration to have her brain storm how she'd like to do the report. I will then show her how to use IE to search for the history of the basketball then have her use MS word to type a little summary of the history along with a picture cut & paste from the internet explorer and citing her orgin. Then I'd have her use Excel to do some graph on points... maybe the 2003 Final. Then combine all the reports and put it on a PowerPoint presentation.
Click to expand...

Wow, if you teach her all that and she can do it, she'll be better at computers than 90% of the population over the age of 35. In fact she could probably get a job where I work seeing how 90% of our peopel could more than likely not get close to combining a report/PowerPoint like that.
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Beleive it or not.. the 6th graders from that school already know how to do the things I mentioned (not expert at it) but still pretty good. I have seen some of their reports already and its hard to believe the reports are done by 6th graders.


 
Except for general familiarity with how to use a computer and the internet, and how a computer works, what else does a 5th grader have any use for ? Maybe MS Paint.

I would think 5th graders should learn how to write reports the old fashioned way, at the library and with a paper and pen.

Unless they want to ruin her childhood by making her a genius or something. :moon:
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: AnimeKnight
BTW this is a girl that is going to her 5th grade. The computer teacher from the school is going to teach the 5th graders all the applications I mentioned above.
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So basically, you're going to waste a little kid's perfectly good summer by making her take classes, and then waste her time in class next year as she's bored stiff by material she already knows?

Also, WTF is Inspiration and why the hell would a 9 year old need to know it?
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Uh.. her parents wants her to be ready for 5th grade. I am not ruining her summer.. I am only taking up 1 hr a week teaching her the application till august.. then her parents is going to take her on a cruise to Europe and stuff. They will be on vacation for about a month and a half. I don't think I will ruin their vacation.

maybe I should teach you how to use google 😉 Inspiration
 
A little HTML, Java, and maybe some C++. 😉

Do you think she can learn all the things you mentioned in a week? I think if they really wanted her to learn, you would do it at the end of the summer, so she could keep using the skills when school starts, rather than forgetting most of it over the summer.
 
I'd start her with fault-tolerant network programming. Have her design and implement a system which handles 10,000 simultaneous users which can share resources you must synchronize between numerous clustered servers. Maybe she can replicate some modern ATM systems?
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
google, if she knows how to google, all else will follow
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Seriously. If people could effectively use search engines, there woule be soo much less greif in the world!

And a lot less stupid hoax emails!

Edit: and on that note, teach her the power of

SNOPES
 
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