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http://www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm From the Editors of Instructor/Electronic Learning in Your Classroom

Dear Technology Leader:

You know better than anyone the power a well-crafted, classroom-tested, technolgy- infused lesson plan can have in a teacher’s hands -- particularly if it addresses a criti- cal core subject like language arts or social studies. This third Microsoft Productivity in the Classroom workbook is designed to bring that power to every teacher in your school using Windows 95 or Power Macintosh .

The eight lesson plans in this workbook were designed for use with the ever-popular Microsoft® Office 97 Professional Edition (Microsoft® Word 97, Microsoft® Excel 97, Microsoft® PowerPoint® 97 and Microsoft® Access 97) for Windows 95 and the new Microsoft® Office 98 Macintosh Edition (Microsoft® Word 98, Microsoft® Excel 98, Microsoft® PowerPoint® 98). Many of the lessons also integrate other Windows 95 products such as the all-new Microsoft® Publisher 98, Microsoft® FrontPage 98, and Microsoft® Encarta® 98 Virtual Globe. In addition, you’ll find several lessons that integrate cross-platform resources like Microsoft® Encarta® 98 Encyclopedia Deluxe, Microsoft® Bookshelf 98, and Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4.0. All lessons include step-by-step instructions for using software effectively while weaving it into the curriculum.

Developed by the editors of Instructor and Electronic Learning in Your Classroom in partnership with Microsoft, this workbook is meant to be used as a resource for staff development and as a working idea bank for classroom teachers. We hope that it helps light up your language arts and social studies curriculum while sparking a wave of technology-based lesson planning at your school.

Sincerely,

Mickey Revenaugh for Instructor/Electronic Learning in Your Classroom P. S. More free teacher resources for Microsoft products are available online at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm

Acknowledgements

Microsoft would like to thank all of the educators who provided classroom-tested lesson plans for this book. Permission is granted to reproduce all or part of this document for staff development and educational purposes. © 1998 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Companies, names, and/or data used in screens and sample output are fictitious, unless otherwise noted. Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Encarta, Microsoft FrontPage, Windows, and the Windows logo are either registered trade- marks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Macintosh and Power Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computers, Inc., registered in the U.S. and/or other countries. Program Manager, Microsoft K-12 Staff Development: Susan Spezza Product Manager, Education, Microsoft Desktop Applications Division: Katie Jordan Scholastic: Project Editor, Mickey Revenaugh; Windows 95 Desktop Publishing, Rob Tyler; Illustrations, Drew Hires Table of Contents classroomproductivity in the

LESSONS AT A GLANCE ...... 2 A matrix of lessons, subjects, and software connections

HOT BOOKS! ...... 4 Kids rate their favorite reads, and tell the world

LET’S GO! TRAVEL SERVICE ...... 6 Planning an international adventure -- on a budget

ECO-VERSE ...... 9 Exploring the world’s biomes with a poet’s eye

FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN ...... 13 Profiling famous faces and places from Ancient Rome

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER ...... 16 A Chaucer-inspired feast of learning

GET OUT THE VOTE ...... 19 Who doesn’t vote, why, and how to change their minds TEENAGERS AROUND THE WORLD ...... 22 Creating a cool new magazine for global youth

ISOLATION OR INTERVENTION? ...... 26 A close look at America on the brink of World War II

MORE RESOURCES ...... 29 Free new materials from Microsoft classroomproductivity in the Lessons at-a-Glance

LESSON GRADE LEVELS TIME ALLOTTED

HOT BOOKS! Intermediate Two to three class periods

LET’S GO! TRAVEL SERVICE Intermediate Three to four class periods

ECO-VERSE Intermediate/Middle School Two to three class periods

FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN... Middle School Three to four class periods

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER Middle School/High School Four to five class periods

GET OUT THE VOTE! Middle School/High School Four class periods, plus field work

TEENAGERS AROUND THE WORLD High School Six to eight class periods

ISOLATION OR INTERVENTION? High School Six to eight class periods

2 Productivity in the Classroom More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/curric/activity/ Curriculum Connection Icon Key

Language ArtsSocial Studies Geography Math

SOFTWARE NEEDED PAGE CURRICULUM CONNECTION

Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Deluxe Microsoft Word 97/98 Microsoft Access 97 4

Microsoft Encarta 98 Virtual Globe Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Microsoft Word 97/98 6 Microsoft Excel 97/98 Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Deluxe Microsoft Encarta 98 Virtual Globe Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 9 Microsoft Word 97/98

Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Deluxe Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 13 Microsoft Word 97/98

Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Deluxe Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Microsoft Publisher 98 16 Microsoft Word 97/98

Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Deluxe Microsoft Excel 97/98 19 Microsoft Word 97/98

Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Deluxe Microsoft Encarta 98 Virtual Globe Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 22 Microsoft Publisher 98 Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Deluxe Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Microsoft Publisher 98 26 Microsoft Word 97/98 Microsoft PowerPoint 97/98

More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/curric/activity/ Productivity in the Classroom 3 REQUIRED SOFTWARE INTERMEDIATE ◆ MICROSOFT® ENCARTA® 98 ENCYCLOPEDIA DELUXE ◆ MICROSOFT® WORD 97/98 ◆ MICROSOFT® ACCESS 97 HOT BOOKS!

Teacher Guide

SUMMARY Schools are hotbeds of popu- lar young opinion about what to wear, which music to listen to, and what TV shows to watch. In this activity, students extend their fascination with "what's hot" to the books they read by conducting a poll to determine which books are most popular with different groups within their school.

OBJECTIVES ◆ To encourage excitement about books and reading ◆ To introduce students to Use Microsoft Word 97/98 to create a Favorite Books Survey the mechanics of opinion template that students can fill in on the computer or on paper. polling ◆ To allow kids to share HOW TO BEGIN tion would be most useful to information about favorite other kids (not to mention 1. Launch Encarta books teachers and librarians!)? Encyclopedia, click on 3. Launch Word, open a new PREREQUISITE SKILLS Encyclopedia Articles in the Template, and use students’ opening screen, and use the ◆ Basic understanding of suggested questions to create Pinpointer to find “public opin- Microsoft Word 97/98 and a survey form (see sample Microsoft Encarta 98 ion.” Read through it with your above). On the View menu, Encyclopedia Deluxe class. What factors shape pub- choose Toolbars, then choose ◆ Introduction to Microsoft lic opinion? How is public Forms. Use this toolbar to add Access 97 (or alternative data- opinion measured? fields to your survey form. base program) 2. Ask students how they Save your template as Book ◆ Experience talking about might approach “favorite Survey. and “reviewing” books books” as a public opinion 4. Have students follow the topic. What questions should Student Activity steps to TIME ALLOTTED be asked of kids about their administer the survey and cre- ◆ 2-3 class periods favorite books? What informa- ate a favorite books database.

4 Productivity in the Classroom More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm HOT BOOKS! Student Activity

Put your DESCRIPTION Favorite Book Survey kids in your class and survey all over your school to find results out which books they like online by best. Then create a web site using the Web Page and a database to guide stu- Wizard in dents toward books that other Microsoft kids recommend. Word 97/98 and your school’s STEP A network. Survey Yourselves SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word STEP C STEP D 97/98 Create a Web Page Make a Database WHAT TO DO: SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word SOFTWARE: Microsoft 1. One at a time, open the sur- 97/98 Access 97, Microsoft Word vey template you created with 97/98 your teacher and answer the WHAT TO DO: WHAT TO DO: questions. Save your complet- 1. In Word, click on File, ed survey under your name. select New, and click on the 1. Start Access, click the File 2. Print out all your completed Web Pages tab. menu, and click New. Choose the Databases tab, then click surveys, or review them on- 2. Choose Web Page Wizard, on Book Collection. Save this screen. Which books stand out click Simple Layout, then database as Kids’ Favorite as “winners”? What are some click Next. Choose a Style, Books. (If you don’t have popular reasons for choosing then choose Finish. these books? Tally these and Access, you can design a data- other answers on the board. 3. Grab your viewers’ atten- base using .) tion by adding scrolling text. 2. The Access Database Wizard STEP B Choose Scrolling Text on the will help you catalog all the Insert menu. Type in the favorite books named by kids Expand the Survey desired text (perhaps quotes in your school. After you click from kids about the winning Finish, you can simplify the SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word books), the click OK. database by clicking on 97/98 4. If you have a scanner, you Enter/View Books, then choos- WHAT TO DO: might want to scan covers of ing View from the menu bar, 1. Decide how best to admin- the winning books. Save them selecting Design View, then ister the survey to the rest of in a file on your hard drive. In deleting unnecessary items. the school. You could put it on your Word web page design, 3. Open Word, copy needed the school network or go to the Insert menu, choose data from surveys, and paste intranet, provide it on a floppy Picture, click on From File, and into Access records. Fill in disk to each class, or print it add the scans to your page. remaining fields, and Save. out to complete on paper. 5. To preview your web site, 4. Load the database on the 2. When the surveys are choose Web Page Preview on computer in your classroom or completed, divide up the the File menu. If you don’t have library, and invite students to work of tallying the results. a web browser, skip this step. add more favorite books to it.

More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm Productivity in the Classroom 5 REQUIRED SOFTWARE INTERMEDIATE ◆ MICROSOFT® ENCARTA® 98 VIRTUAL GLOBE ◆ MICROSOFT® INTERNET EXPLORER 4.0 ◆ MICROSOFT® WORD 97/98 ◆ MICROSOFT® EXCEL 97/98 OPTIONAL SOFTWARE LET’S GO! ◆ MICROSOFT® POWERPOINT® 97/98 TRAVEL SERVICE Teacher Guide

SUMMARY In this unit, students use selected Internet sites together with productivity tools to plan a trip to the country of their choice.

OBJECTIVES

◆ To learn and communicate about a foreign country of interest ◆ To develop the life skill of travel planning ◆ To build key computer skills, Launch your class’s journey with Microsoft Encarta 98 Virtual Globe. including use of the Internet their virtual journeys. 2. Tell your students that they PREREQUISITE SKILLS Parameters might include: are a travel agency charged with the responsibility of plan- ◆ Basic Web navigation with ◆ Duration: How long will the ning exciting journeys around Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 trip last? the world for their busy ◆ Budget: How much can trav- ◆ Familiarity with Microsoft clients. In addition to finding elers spend? Encarta 98 Virtual Globe out all about countries that ◆ Transportation: Will you travelers might want to visit, ◆ Introduction to and Microsoft require that they use more students will need to plan a Excel 97/98 than one mode? complete sample itinerary and ◆ TIME ALLOTTED Points of interest: Must trav- budget. elers see at least one museum 3. Provide students with the 3-4 class periods while they're visiting the coun- parameters you've selected, try? Is a stop at the capital hand out photocopies of the HOW TO BEGIN required? Student Activity pages that fol- 1. Before introducing the pro- ◆ Maps: Will you require any low, and set students loose to ject to students, decide what kind of map as part of the choose a country and make parameters you want to set for travel itinerary? their travel plans.

6 Productivity in the Classroom More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm LET’S GO! TRAVEL SERVICE Student Activity DESCRIPTION

In this project, you'll become a virtual travel agent, planning all the details of an exciting international trip. Your teacher will tell you how long the trip should last and how much money the travelers can spend; you choose the destination and work out the specifics. STEP A Document Your

Destination Launch your plan by site-seeing with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0. SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word 97/98, Microsoft Encarta 98 information about your coun- how to make your traveler's Virtual Globe, Microsoft try. Once you’re connected to time and money stretch to fit Internet Explorer 4.0 Encarta Virtual Globe Online, the trip. Here's how. you can also easily link to any WHAT TO DO: 1. Open an Excel worksheet, of the Travel Starter Sites list- 1. Choose a destination and and name it “Travel Budget.” ed on the next page. Add any explore it using Encarta Virtual information you want to save 2. In cell A1, type a descrip- Globe. Read the articles on to your Word document. tive title for your worksheet, your country to learn more such as "Budget for Two about its history, geography, 4. When you’re done collect- Weeks in Brazil." climate, language, capital and ing information about your other major cities, prime country, you’ll need to orga- 3. In cell A3, type “Total attractions, and transportation. nize it. Arrange your facts, fig- Budget.” Enter your budget Feel free to choose an unusual ures and photos under head- figure in cell D3. destination, someplace off the ings that reflect the material 4. In cells A5 to D5, type the beaten path. Just keep your you’ve gathered, such as following column labels: Date, time and budget limits in mind. Country Overview, Map, Geography, Climate, Item, Cost (US$), and Balance. 2. Open a new Word document Population and Special where you can keep notes 5. In cell D6, enter the formula Attractions. about your destination. Use =D3-C6, to subtract your first the Copy command in the item from the total budget. Encarta Virtual Globe Tools STEP B 6. In cell D7, enter the formu- menu to copy information la =D6-C7, to account for the (text, maps, photos, photo Setting Your next item. credits and captions) to your Word document. Travel Budget 7. Copy the formula in D7 down to the next 10 cells in 3. Next, follow the Web Links SOFTWARE: Microsoft Excel column D. in your Encarta Virtual Globe 97/98 article to check out the online WHAT TO DO: Now figure out 8. Save your worksheet.

More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm Productivity in the Classroom 7 LET’S GO! TRAVEL SERVICE

TRAVEL STARTER SITES

COUNTRY INFO U.S. Dept. of State, Consular Affairs, http://travel.state.gov Virtual Tourist Pre-Home Page, http://www.vtourist.com World Health Organization WWW Home Page, http://www.who.ch U.S. Dept. of State, Travel Warnings, http://www.stolaf.edu/ network/travel-advisories.html United States Information Use Microsoft Excel 97/98 to detail your travel budget and itinerary. Service, http://www.usia.gov/ regional/posts/posts.htm STEP C STEP D The Embassy Page, http://www.embpage.org Getting There, A Package Deal Nerd World/Travel Category Tree, http://www.nerdworld.com/ Getting Around SOFTWARE: Microsoft trees/ctr188.htm PowerPoint 97/98 SOFTWARE: Microsoft Nerd World/Travel-Europe, http:// Internet Explorer 4.0, WHAT TO DO: Let’s create an www.nerdworld.com/nw865.htm Microsoft Excel 97/98 interactive multimedia presen- Lonely Planet Online, tation promoting your trip. http://www.lonelyplanet.com.au WHAT TO DO: Now you’ll fill in the logistical details: travel 1. Open PowerPoint and TRAVEL LOGISTICS to and from your destination import your notes, images, country, travel within the and Excel spreadsheet to cre- How Far Is It? http://www.indo.com/distance country, lodging, meals, and ate a splashy slide show other necessities. about your trip. Railroad Timetables on the Internet, http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/ 1. In your Travel Budget 2. Choose Set Up Show from users/bowdidge/railroad/ worksheet, click cell A6 and the Slide Show menu. In the rail-gopher.htm type a starting date for your Set Up Show dialog box, Foreign Languages for Travelers, trip. (Since this is a virtual choose “Browsed at a kiosk” http://www.travlang.com/ trip, any date will do.) as the show type. languages 2. Enter the airline name and 3. Add Action Buttons to Expedia Global Travel Service price into cells B6 and C6 http://www.microsoft.com./expedia your slides to let viewers respectively. move forward and backward Subway Navigator, through the show, and return http://metro.jussieu.fr:10001/bin/ 3. In cells A7 to C17, enter cities/english additional data for the rest of to the beginning from any slide. Insert custom Action Travel Health Online, the trip. Include all expenses, http://www.tripprep.com/index.html such as hotel, local travel, Buttons in the first screen to food, shopping, and enter- let viewers jump directly to Travelocity Home Page, http://www.travelocity.com tainment, based on the infor- various sections of the show. mation you can find on the Yahoo! Business and Economy: 4. Now you can save your Companies/Travel:Airlines, web. Keep a close eye on interactive slide show as http://www.yahoo.com/ your overall timeframe and HTML and put it on your Business_and_Economy/ budget as you plan. school’s intranet, or the Companies/Travel/Airlines 4. Save and print your work. Internet, for all to appreciate!

8 Productivity in the Classroom More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm REQUIRED SOFTWARE INTERMEDIATE/ ◆ MICROSOFT® ENCARTA® 98 MIDDLE SCHOOL ENCYCLOPEDIA DELUXE ◆ MICROSOFT® ENCARTA® 98 VIRTUAL GLOBE ◆ MICROSOFT® INTERNET EXPLORER 4.0 ECO-VERSE ◆ MICROSOFT® WORD 97/98 Teacher Guide SUMMARY

In this activity, your students will explore the Earth's biomes and ecosystems, and make poetry from the unique sights, sounds, and words they find.

OBJECTIVES ◆ To learn about the ecosys- tems/biomes of Earth ◆ To master concepts and vocabulary associated with Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia provides a global perspective. these eco-regions ◆ To write poetry integrating Pinpointer to find Ecology. the unique environment, such new words and ideas There you will find two differ- as deciduous, elevation, fauna, ent ways of thinking about the fen, flora, glacier, mangrove, PREREQUISITE SKILLS Earth's diverse regions. montane, temperate, and terrain. ◆ Ability to navigate Microsoft ◆ One is the concept of bio- 3. Tell students that they will Encarta 98 Encyclopedia and mes: natural regions charac- each select one biome or Microsoft Encarta 98 Virtual terized by dominant plants. ecosystem to explore thor- Globe animals, and climate. Forest, oughly using Encarta grassland, and desert are typi- Encyclopedia and/or Internet ◆ Familiarity with different cal biomes. Explorer. They'll communicate poetic forms ◆ The other concept is ecosys- what they find by writing a ◆ Introduction to formatting tem, a more specific sub-cate- poem and illustrating it with and designing documents gory that focuses on the inter- graphics they find or create. using Microsoft Word 97/98 relationships among all the 4. If needed, review with stu- TIME ALLOTTED forms of life in a particular dents how to copy photos biome. Ecosystems include from Encarta Encyclopedia and 2-3 class periods rain forest, desert, tundra, the Internet to paste into a savanna, wetland, shrub land, Word document and how to HOW TO BEGIN forest, chaparral, estuary, properly credit them. 1. Introduce the lesson by marshland, and peatland. 5. Give each student a set of launching Encarta 2. Using Encarta Encyclopedia, the Student Activity pages, Encyclopedia, clicking on briefly explore one ecosystem. including the Language Lab Media Features, and viewing Ask students to make note of worksheet that they will use the Biodiversity Collage. Then plant and animal names as well to gather words and ideas for go to the Find menu and use as colorful words that describe their eco-poetry.

More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm Productivity in the Classroom 9 ECO-VERSE Student Activity 3. Record your ecosystem sites that focus on your ecosys- DESCRIPTION choice on your Language Lab tem. Begin with the links you sheet. can find in any Encarta For this project, you'll explore Encyclopedia article by clicking one of the world's unique nat- the More Information button, ural environments, a fascinat- STEP B then branch out using Internet ingly interconnected system Explorer. When you find a good of living things perfectly suit- Ecosystem site, add it to your Favorites ed for its climate. Instead of Expedition list, and note words and images writing the usual report about on your Language Lab sheet. what you find, however, you SOFTWARE: Microsoft will craft an illustrated poem Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, using the language and Microsoft Encarta 98 Virtual STEP C imagery of the ecosystem. Globe, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Eco-Poets at Work STEP A WHAT TO DO: SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word 1. Go back to Encarta 97/98, Microsoft Encarta 98 Discovering Your Encyclopedia and to Encarta Encyclopedia, Microsoft Virtual Globe to zero in on Encarta 98 Virtual Globe, Ecosystem Microsoft Internet Explorer your particular ecosystem. As 4.0 SOFTWARE: Microsoft you carefully read through arti- Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, cles, use your Language Lab WHAT TO DO: Microsoft Encarta 98 Virtual sheet to note interesting words Globe, Microsoft Internet 1. When your research is com- you encounter. Animal and Explorer 4.0 plete, it's time to turn your plant names count, as do local findings into one or more WHAT TO DO: names for geographic features. poems that will give readers a 1. Return to the Ecology arti- Also keep track of images you vivid sense of what your par- cle in Encarta Encyclopedia and find especially interesting, that ticular ecosystem is all about. quickly explore at least three of convey at a glance what life is 2. Close your eyes and imagine the biomes or ecosystems list- like in your ecosystem. yourself in your ecosystem.

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10 Productivity in the Classroom More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm ECO-VERSE you reached out your hand, what would you touch and how would it feel? What kinds of tastes might you find here? DEATH VALLEY 3. Go back to your Language Floor swept by white fire, Lab sheet and note the words you absolutely must use in Tracks of man and mule erased. your ecosystem poetry Sun watches, and waits. (because no report on your -- Felice Geist ecosystem would be complete without them), as well as those you'd simply like to include. 4. Open a Word document and begin drafting your poem, keep- ing the following in mind: ◆ Poetry can rhyme, but it doesn't have to. Trying too hard to rhyme can force a poet photo by Jim Stroup from SierraWeb to use words that don't really fit the meaning of the poem. might work for your ecosystem: ◆ Poetry has the power to a tree, a meandering stream, a STEP D communicate complex ideas mountain peak? instantly by creating pictures in ◆ Sharing Your the reader's mind. Short or If you get stuck, ask your Poetry long, your poem should get the teacher or librarian for some point across efficiently. examples of published nature SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word poetry to read for inspiration. 97/98 ◆ Poetry is about rhythm: the beat or pattern the words make 5. When you have a draft poem WHAT TO DO: when read aloud. Some poems you've happy with, check your 1. When your poem is com- have a fast, staccato rhythm, Language Lab sheet for notes plete, print it out (in color, if while others are slow, lan- about photos and illustrations possible) and post it on the guorous. What rhythm best fits you particularly liked. Go back bulletin board. your ecosystem? If your ecosys- to Encarta Encyclopedia or the 2. Encourage your classmates tem had a “beat,” what would it Web to copy the art you want, to stage a poetry reading, in be? being sure to include proper which you'll each read your credit information. Insert the ◆ Sometimes poems are writ- ecosystem poem aloud exactly art in your Word document. ten in the "voice" of the sub- as you'd wish readers to hear jects they're about. You might 6. Format the text in your Word it. For an extra flourish, con- consider writing yours from the document. Then turn on the sider sound effects or props. Drawing toolbar and bring your point of view of a plant or ani- 3. Take your poetry to the poem to life with WordArt mal in your ecosystem, or the Internet by choosing Save as headings, 3-D shapes, color, and ecosystem itself ("I am a salt HTML in the Word File menu. shading. Don't forget to include marsh…"). Add backgrounds, scrolling the poet's name (yours!). ◆ Poems can be written in spe- text, even sounds. You and cial shapes to fit their subjects. 7. Fine-tune your poem in Word your classmates might want to For example, diamond-shaped using the Reviewing toolbar, compile your web poems or diamante poetry is popular which lets you keep track of the together as an online antholo- in poetry classes. What shape changes you make. gy of ecosystem verse.

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Language Lab

Use this sheet to gather words and ideas associated with your ecosystem. At the bot- tom of the sheet is a space to make a list of photos or graphics that you might use to illustrate your poem. Ecosystem/Biome: ______Location: ______Flora Names Fauna Names Other Eco-Terms

Description Source Copied?

12 Productivity in the Classroom More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm REQUIRED SOFTWARE MIDDLE SCHOOL ◆ MICROSOFT® ENCARTA® 98 ENCYCLOPEDIA DELUXE ◆ MICROSOFT® INTERNET EXPLORER 4.0 ◆ MICROSOFT® WORD 97/98 OPTIONAL SOFTWARE FRIENDS, ROMANS, ◆ ® MICROSOFT COUNTRYMEN... FRONTPAGE® 98 Teacher Guide

SUMMARY

This lesson gives students an opportunity to study facets of the Ancient Roman Empire while completing a research assignment that combines world history, language arts, and art history.

OBJECTIVES ◆ To show students how to research a historical topic using electronic resources such as Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia and the Internet ◆ Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Deluxe provides a rich introduc- To reinforce students’ tion to the architecture, art, and culture of ancient Rome. research and study skills ◆ To build students' commu- HOW TO BEGIN ton in the top right corner. Point out the Web Links fea- nications skills 1. Tell students that they are ture here and scrolling above going to research a person or PREREQUISITE SKILLS that students can use in com- architectural structure from bination with the Starter Web ◆ Basic comfort level with the Roman Empire. Introduce sites in the Student Activity. Microsoft Word 97/98, includ- the topic by launching Encarta 2. Create a folder -- manila or ing formatting a document Encyclopedia, going to electronic -- for students to pool and inserting pictures Encyclopedia Articles, and preliminary research notes. then typing “Roman Empire” ◆ Understanding of informa- into the Pinpointer. You will 3. Remind students that their tion-gathering, note-taking see an extensive outline of final project must include a techniques using Encarta articles and topics (including map and an illustration. Encyclopedia and Microsoft architecture, emperors, and 4. When students' work is Internet Explorer 4.0 history) that students can go complete, have them present back to. Choose one article, TIME ALLOTTED it to the class. Encourage them and draw students’ attention to look for common themes 3-4 class periods to the “More Information” but- and findings.

More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm Productivity in the Classroom 13 FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN... Student Activity a closer look at one Roman your teacher about how you DESCRIPTION leader or architectural site you might refocus or combine find especially interesting. efforts. Also check for web sites In this activity, you’ll research 2. In Encarta Encyclopedia, and Encarta Encyclopedia arti- an important person or place launch the Research Organizer cles your peers have found that from Ancient Rome. You'll com- and begin an outline on your might also be useful for you. municate what you find in a chosen subject. Create a work- report that includes a map and ing title and at least one note- STEP B an illustration, then publish card summarizing the topic. your report on paper or online. Check out any web links Encarta Shape Your Encyclopedia suggests, and note Research STEP A the titles and URLs of the sites. 3. Export your initial Research SOFTWARE: Microsoft Find Your Focus Organizer notes as an RTF Encarta 98 Encyclopedia (Rich Text Format) file. Launch Deluxe with Research SOFTWARE: Microsoft Organizer, Microsoft Word Word, open your Research Encarta 98 Encyclopedia 97/98, Microsoft Internet Organizer notes. and add any Deluxe with Research Explorer 4.0 formatting necessary to turn Organizer, Microsoft Word your notes into a one-page WHAT TO DO: 97/98, Microsoft Internet research brief. Then print it Explorer 4.0 1. Now you're ready to dive out and place it in alphabetical into your research. Go back to WHAT TO DO: order in the folder your Encarta Encyclopedia and 1. With your class, you've teacher set up for this project. reopen your Research begun exploring the Roman 4. When everyone’s one-page Organizer project file. Create Empire through the Encarta brief is in the folder, look one card for each of the follow- Encyclopedia electronic ency- through to make sure that no ing questions; you’ll need to clopedia. Now, go back to one else has chosen the same answer all of them in the course Encarta Encyclopedia and take topic as you; if so, consult with of your research, and each may

STARTER WEB SITES

The Art of Ancient Rome - Detroit Institute of Arts http://www.dia.org/galleries/ancient/ rome/rome.html Roman Art and Architecture - University of Colorado http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/ roman.html Exploring Ancient World Cultures - University of Evansville http://eawc.evansville.edu Dead Romans http://www.iei.net/~tryan/ deadroma.htm The Roman Empire is alive and well on the .

14 Productivity in the Classroom More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN... ultimately require more than one card to complete. ◆ What made your subject sig- nificant to the Roman Empire? ◆ What are the key dates and events involving your subject? ◆ What evidence of your sub- ject remains today? 2. Now, use Encarta Encyclopedia and Internet Explorer to begin answering the questions. Research Organizer makes it easy to keep track of sources and citations. The Research Organizer in Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Deluxe makes note-taking and outlining a breeze. 3. Remember these important elements of good note-taking: include copyright information. 4. Place your imported map STEP C and illustrations where they ◆ Rephrase all facts in your add the most impact to the own words. After you copy and words. Add your own draw- paste a piece of information Craft Your Report ings by clicking on the View onto a Research Organizer note- menu, choosing Toolbar, then SOFTWARE: Microsoft card, use space on the same choosing Drawing. Encarta Research Organizer, card to reword the fact. This Microsoft Word 97/98, 5. When your draft report is will assure that you truly under- Microsoft Internet Explorer done, select Spelling and stand the material and will also 4.0 Grammar on the Tools menu. make the writing much easier. WHAT TO DO: STEP D ◆ Always seek multiple 1. When your research is com- sources. Try not to rely on any plete, look over your Research one source, including Encarta Organizer and rearrange cards Publish Your Work Encyclopedia, too heavily. as needed. Save and name your SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word ◆ Periodically look through all Research Organizer project file, 97/98, Microsoft FrontPage 98 your notecards on a particular then choose Export from the WHAT TO DO: File menu. subject and figure out where 1. Print your report and add a the “holes” are. This will assure 2. Go to Word and open your cover page with a title, illustra- balance in your report. project file from your “My tion, your name, and one-sen- Documents” folder. Choose tence summary. Staple along 4. Also search for visual mater- Select All from the Edit menu the side to create a booklet. ial -- maps, illustrations, pre- to highlight all the text, then 2. To create an web version, sent day photos -- to include in choose AutoFormat from the choose Save as HTML on the your Research Organizer card Format menu. File menu. You might add a stack. Images on the web may 3. Rewrite the material as pos- background picture, scrolling be saved by moving the point- sible in your own words, and text, even sounds. If you use er over the picture, clicking the be certain to properly reformat FrontPage to manage your right mouse button, then (in quotes, with footnotes) any school’s web site, you can drag choosing Save As from the pieces of data best quoted your HTML file to FrontPage to shortcut menu. Be sure to directly from the source. post it on the school intranet

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SUMMARY HOW TO BEGIN 1300s/early 1400s as dinner guests. Together, create a "to This activity asks students to 1. Launch Encarta Encyclopedia, do" list covering the details of click on Media Features, and work in groups to imagine and a dinner party planning, such choose Timeline. Click on Find simulate a dinner party involv- as invitations, food, conversa- an Event, choose Date, and ing an author, a fictional char- tion, attire, and etiquette. acter, and a significant histori- scroll to AD 1300. This will put 3. Reproduce and hand out the cal figure as dinner guests. The you into the Timeline during the Student Activity page that fol- activity uses Geoffrey century surrounding Chaucer's lows to provide a step-by-step Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as Canterbury Tales. Discuss the politics, people, art, culture and guide for student work. a model. issues of the time. 4. Help students stage the cul- OBJECTIVES 2. Explain to students that they minating event (Step D of the will be working in groups of Student Activity): a costumed ◆ To develop students' under- three to simulate a dinner simulation of their dinner par- standing of a given author, his party involving Chaucer, one of ties performed for the class. or her characters, and the rel- the pilgrims from The You'll need to provide a table, evant historical period Canterbury Tales, and a signifi- chairs, and some assistance ◆ To build students' dialogue- cant historical figure of the late with costumes and props. writing skills ◆ To exercise creativity in stu- dents' written work

PREREQUISITE SKILLS

◆ Basic research skills ◆ Understanding of Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, Microsoft Publisher 98, and Microsoft Word 97/98

TIME ALLOTTED Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia and Microsoft Bookshelf 98 offer 4-5 class periods your students a wealth of information on Chaucer and his time.

16 Productivity in the Classroom More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER Student Activity DESCRIPTION Dish up a 14th century dinner party to learn about the life and times of Geoffrey Chaucer. Using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as a model, you and your classmates will assume the roles of Chaucer, his charac- ters, and contemporary histori- cal figures. You’ll need to do some research and use your imagination to select attire, a menu, dinner conversation and etiquette suited to the times.

STEP A Who could refuse a dinner invitation from Chaucer himself? Compiling Your ter you want to include in your right pane, choose the layout Guest List dinner party. you like, then click Finish. 3. Tailor your invitation to the SOFTWARE: Microsoft 2. Use Encarta Encyclopedia, Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Bookshelf, and Internet Explorer occasion. Use language appro- Deluxe, Microsoft Bookshelf to research the late 1300s and priate to the times. Include the 98, Microsoft Internet early 1400s and choose an his- dinner menu - what would be Explorer 4.0 torical figure to invite. suitable fare? Customize with graphics and perhaps an WHAT TO DO: 3. Decide who will play unusual border. (See sample Chaucer, who will be the 1. Within your group, decide above.) which Canterbury Tales charac- Canterbury Tales character, and who will play the histori- 4. Print out your completed WEB SITES TO CHECK OUT cal figure at your dinner party. invitation and turn it in to your teacher. Some Important Events in the Fourteenth Century STEP B STEP C http://www.siue.edu/CHAUCER/1 Creating Your 4thcent.html Scripting Using illustrations from a fifteenth- Invitation century manuscript, this site chroni- Small Talk SOFTWARE: Microsoft cles significant events from 1338 to Publisher 98 SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word 1399. 97/98 Geoffrey Chaucer WHAT TO DO: Decide who is hosting the party, then create WHAT TO DO: Using your http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~hanly/ the invitation. Here’s how: research from Step A and your chaucer/chaucer.html knowledge of The Canterbury http://www.luminarium.org/medlit 1. Launch Publisher. Click the Tales, work as a group to /chaucer.htm Publications by Wizard tab, script five minutes of table Hundreds of links to Chaucer's life, then click Invitation Cards. talk. Use a two-column table in works and pilgrims! 2. Click Theme Party. In the Word to simplify formatting.

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Separate characters’ parts by row: Enter names in the left cell; spoken lines and stage directions in the right cell (see sample, below). The dialogue should reflect the hot topics of the period. Highlight any diffi- culties in conversation due to differences in social class, edu- cation, or gender. Let your teacher review your script, then revise it based on the feedback you receive. STEP D Let's Party! SOFTWARE: None

WHAT TO DO: It's dinnertime! Chaucerian table talk might include the Peasants’ Revolt (depicted Using the table and chairs above), a popular protest against high taxes and government your teacher has set up, act corruption that was crushed by King Richard in London in 1381. out your dinner scene for the class. Dress in costume, use Dinner,” here are two more with a given theme, such as the appropriate dialect, and technology-enhanced litera- politics, art, literature, social use props as you see fit. ture and history activities class, medicine, or science. you’re sure to love. Announce the conference and 1. Expand the Chaucer activity its agenda with a poster creat- STEP E Publisher. into a whole-class project. Each ed using Each char- student should choose a differ- acter should come in costume Now Try These... and give a short PowerPoint ent character; because there presentation on the theme. SOFTWARE: Microsoft will only be one Chaucer, you Encarta 98 Encyclopedia might have a lottery for that 2. Use the dinner party model - Deluxe, Microsoft Internet role. Everyone else can be a including invitations, agenda, Explorer 4.0, Microsoft Power Canterbury Tales character or the works - to bring together Point 97/98, Microsoft an historical figure, selected historical figures from different Publisher 98 from those you find in Encarta time periods. Your challenge WHAT TO DO: If you enjoyed Encyclopedia or on the Web. will be finding common ground “Guess Who’s Coming to Invite all to attend a conference for dinner party conversation.

Create a table in Microsoft Word 97/98 to draft dinner party conversation for Chaucer and his guests.

18 Productivity in the Classroom More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm REQUIRED SOFTWARE MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL ◆ MICROSOFT® ENCARTA® 98 ENCYCLOPEDIA DELUXE ◆ MICROSOFT® EXCEL 97/98 ◆ MICROSOFT® WORD 97/98 OPTIONAL SOFTWARE GET OUT ◆ MICROSOFT® PUBLISHER 98 ◆ MICROSOFT® POWERPOINT® 97/98 THE VOTE! ◆ MICROSOFT® FRONTPAGE® 98 Teacher Guide

SUMMARY such as Microsoft Publisher 98, Microsoft PowerPoint 97/98, and In this activity students will Microsoft FrontPage 98 investigate why people vote - and why they don't. Your class TIME ALLOTTED will conduct a survey, make 4 class periods, plus field work hypotheses about voter moti- HOW TO BEGIN vation, and develop materials to promote voting among 1. Start with a discussion young people. about the relationship of democracy and voting. How OBJECTIVES important is it for individual ◆ To identify the importance citizens to vote? What are of voting within a democracy some reasons people might have for not voting? As back- ◆ To conduct and analyze a ground, assign students to read survey of current and prospec- and report on relevant articles Use a Word template for the survey. tive voters in your community from Encarta Encyclopedia, Toolbar to develop a very sim- ◆ To develop materials to such as Government, ple survey (see sample above) increase voter turnout Aristocracy, Democracy, that students can administer Monarchy, National Socialism, PREREQUISITE SKILLS among family members, older Republic, and Elections. friends, and school personnel ◆ Background in American his- 2. Pose the following questions of voting age. The survey tory and government (Note: to students, and record their should be completed anony- This unit makes an excellent guesses on the board: mously, to encourage frank follow-up to class work on answers. ◆ Are men or women more colonial America or on forms likely to vote? 4. Tell students that their task, of government.) once the surveys are tallied and ◆ Which age group has the ◆ analyzed, is to develop print Basic understanding of sur- highest participation? The low- and multimedia ads, posters, vey data-gathering and analysis est? techniques letters to the editor, and other ◆ What are the most common material to encourage voting ◆ Familiarity with Microsoft reasons for voting? For not vot- among those who don't. Encarta 98, Microsoft Word ing? 5. When students' work is 97/98 and Microsoft Excel 97/98 3. Open Word, click the View complete, have a "Get Out the ◆ Introduction to menu, click Toolbars, and Vote" fair in your classroom to publishing/presentation tools, choose Forms. Use the Forms showcase their results.

More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm Productivity in the Classroom 19 GET OUT THE VOTE! Student Activity DESCRIPTION Between 1952 and 1992, voter turnout in presidential elec- tions dropped from 61.6% to approximately 54%. Find out what keeps people from vot- ing-and how they can be con- vinced to participate. STEP A Fact Finding

SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word 97/98

WHAT TO DO: Use Microsoft Excel 97/98 to tally and analyze your survey results. To make your worksheet easier to read and more fun to look at, go to 1. Using the survey form your the Format menu, choose AutoFormat, and pick a style. class developed together, sur- vey at least five family mem- row and give each possible bers, friends, and others who multiple-choice answer a sepa- STEP C were of voting age in 1996 (the rate column. Below each ques- Look for Patterns most recent Presidential elec- tion row, insert a Tally row. In tion). You can print out the sur- this row, format each cell in SOFTWARE: Microsoft Excel vey forms or have subjects the answer columns as =Sum() 97/98 complete the survey on a com- to add up the tallies. WHAT TO DO: puter. Encourage all to answer 2. Divide into teams to tally 1. After all the survey data has this anonymous survey frankly. the answers from the different been entered, analyze it. Who 2. Collect the surveys and add age groups you surveyed. Each is more likely to vote: Men or them to your class pool. team should enter its tallies in women? Younger people or the appropriate cells. In the older people? What’s the most STEP B sample above, the team han- common reason for not voting? dling Ages 25-30 had a total of 2. Use the Excel Chart Wizard Count Your Voters 10 responses, so they entered to graph your data. For exam- SOFTWARE: Microsoft Excel 10 in cell C4. Five of their sur- ple, to chart voting behavior by 97/98 vey subjects voted in every gender, highlight cells B5:C6. Go WHAT TO DO: election, so the team entered 5 to the Insert menu and choose in the formula for cell B8, 1. As a class, launch Excel, Chart. Click the chart type you along with numbers from the open a new worksheet, and set want, and click Finish. Then other teams. it up to mirror your survey click on the white area of the (see sample, above). Enter 3. Each team should Save chart, choose Chart Options, each question as a separate after entering its data. and add a legend and a title.

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STEP D Target a Strategy SOFTWARE: Microsoft Excel 97/98, Microsoft PowerPoint 97/98 WHAT TO DO: 1. Reconvene your Step B team, and discuss voting pat- terns in the age group you’ve been studying. Develop a strat- egy for getting your non-voters to the polls. Would a series of ads be persuasive? Are there logistical barriers, such as the hours the polls are open, that Use Microsoft PowerPoint 97/98 to present your strategy to the class. keep your group from voting? charts to add to your 2. Start PowerPoint, click PowerPoint presentation. STEP E AutoContent Wizard, then click Highlight the Excel cells or OK. Click Next, then click chart and Copy. In PowerPoint, Get Out the Vote! “Recommending a Strategy,” then click Finish. Replace the switch to Slide View and Paste SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word sample text. on the appropriate slide. 97/98, Microsoft PowerPoint 97/98, Microsoft Publisher 98, 4. Present your hypothesis 3. Go the your class Excel Microsoft FrontPage 98 worksheet to select data or and strategy to the class. WHAT TO DO: Choose a way to implement your strategy: 1. Launch Word and choose LetterWizard from the Tools menu to write to the Board of Elections recommending a change in voting rules. 2. Use PowerPoint to create a presentation or ad campaign aimed at non-voters. 3. Use Publisher or Word to craft posters encouraging citi- zens to vote. 4. Use FrontPage, Word, or Publisher to develop a web site to direct voters to information about issues and candidates. 5. Share your work at a class An informative web site could help win over reluctant voters. “Get Out the Vote” fair.

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SUMMARY

In this activity, your students will become journalists putting together a magazine about and for teenagers around the world. Although the differ- ences between members of It’s easy to design great-looking graphics in Microsoft Publisher 98. your class and teenagers else- where will be obvious, encour- TIME ALLOTTED ject. (If you’re using a age your students to look for Macintosh, you can create the ◆ 6-8 class periods things they have in common magazine using the Newsletter with teenagers abroad. HOW TO BEGIN Wizard that comes with Word 98.) Start with the built-in OBJECTIVES 1. Thanks to television and Demos by launching Publisher, movies, young people in other going to the Help menu, and ◆ To research the daily lives countries know more about our choosing Index. Under of teenagers around the world way of life than we know about Keyword, type Demos. In the theirs. Tell your students that ◆ To identify differences and right pane, choose “Working they will help to correct this similarities among teenagers with Publisher 98” to get a imbalance in knowledge by cre- around the world quick overview. ating the premier issue of a new ◆ To create a magazine about magazine about teens around 5. Show students how to use teen life around the globe the world, WorldZine. the Newsletter Wizard to pre- 2. Set aside one wall of your design their magazine articles, PREREQUISITE SKILLS classroom -- with a bulletin how to import Word files, and ◆ Grasp of electronic research board and world map -- as the how to Move and Resize maga- tools such as Microsoft Encarta WorldZine operations center. zine elements. Show how to use the Help menu to call on Office 98 Encyclopedia, Microsoft 3. With your students, brain- Encarta 98 Virtual Globe, and storm a list of questions about Assistant, which lets users ask Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 life for teens in other coun- for help in their own words. tries. Record these questions 6. Hand out the Student ◆ Writing and editing skills and post them on the Activity pages for students to with Microsoft Word 97/98 WorldZine wall. follow. When WorldZine is com- ◆ Introduction to desktop and 4. Spend some time walking plete, discuss the similarities online publishing using through Publisher, the key and differences students found Microsoft Publisher 98 piece of software for this pro- among teens around the world.

22 Productivity in the Classroom More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm TEENAGERS AROUND THE WORLD Student Activity DESCRIPTION

Ever wonder what your life would be like right now if you lived someplace other than the United States? Here's your chance to find out what teenagers like you do, think, wear, listen to, and care about in other countries. Then you and your classmates will turn what you discover into a cool new magazine about and for teens around the world. STEP A Designers can use the Newsletter Wizard in Microsoft Publisher 98. Setting Up Shop research, tracking down and the File menu, and click New. SOFTWARE: Microsoft Publisher 98, Microsoft double-checking information The Catalog of options will be Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, using software like Encarta displayed. and Virtual Globe as well as Microsoft Encarta 98 Virtual 2. Click the Publications by Globe, Microsoft Internet the Internet. Wizard tab, then click Explorer 4.0, Microsoft Word ◆ Writer/editors should love 97/98 Newsletters. working with words and be WHAT TO DO: 3. In the right pane, double- Magazines skilled at using Word. don't just happen - they are click a newsletter design you assembled step by step by a 2. Within your teams, brush like, such as Voyager. Step whole team of people. Here's up on the software skills you'll though the Wizard making how to get yours going. need most. choices about color palette, 1. Divide your class into number of columns, and so on. three teams: the design team, STEP B Click Finish to complete the the fact-finding team, and the Creating a Look Wizard. writing/editing team. 4. Save your design as a tem- ◆ Designers should be inter- SOFTWARE: Microsoft plate. Go to the File menu, click Publisher 98 ested in art, layout, and mak- Save As, choose Template, and ing things look great. They WHAT TO DO: The designer type in Worldzine Template for will need to be whizzes at team will develop WorldZine’s the name of the publication. working with the Publisher layout while fact-finders and Later, you’ll be adding pages to Wizards, arranging objects on writer/editors skip to Step C. this template to provide a two- a page, and inserting clip art, 1. You’ll be creating the page spread for each road even scanned photos. design of WorldZine as a tem- crew’s article about teens in a ◆ Fact-finders should enjoy plate. Launch Publisher, go to particular country.

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STEP C Gathering Your Material SOFTWARE: Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia, Microsoft Encarta 98 Virtual Globe, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, Microsoft Word 97/98 WHAT TO DO: Fact-finders and writer/editors pair up as “road crews” to create the WorldZine articles, while designers focus on the maga- zine’s look. 1. Using such resources as Your road crew should use a common Microsoft Word 97/98 file to Encarta Encyclopedia and keep notes and art you collect during the research phase. Later, you Encarta Virtual Globe, choose can use this file to write and illustrate your article. one country to focus on. On the WorldZine wall, attach a look for information about you’ll have available for your sticky note with your road teen life in the country you particular stories on your two- crew's name to the country have chosen. Pay special page spread. (Publisher you've selected. attention to Sidebar articles includes a word count at the 2. Open a new Word docu- and multimedia clips. Also beginning of each article text look for photographs to copy ment to use as a shared work- area in the layout template.) space for keeping research into your Word file. Also consult with the designers notes, quotes, images. Then: ◆ Both Encarta Virtual Globe about how many photographs ◆ In Encarta Virtual Globe, go and Encarta Encyclopedia offer you’ll need for your articles. to the Find menu and type in related Web Links you can fol- the name of your country. low to research your country 2. Go back to your Word docu- Choose a Map Style, then go on the Internet. Using Internet ment and begin drafting your to Options and choose Copy. Explorer, be sure to save the article using the notes you’ve Paste the map into your Word best sites as Favorites so you gathered. Go to the Tools menu document. Then go to Facts can return to them easily. and click Word Count to check and Figures and zero in on your article length. Cut or add population statistics that STEP D to match the word count estab- reveal something about life for lished with your designer. teens, such as level of educa- Drafting the Piece tion, literacy rates, and ages 3. When the draft is complete, of population. In addition, SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word the fact-finder should carefully look for photographs under 97/98 proofread and fact-check it. Go Sights and Sounds that you WHAT TO DO: Now it’s time to the Toosl menu and choose might want to copy for your to write your story. Spelling and Grammar; also fol- own article. 1. Consult with the design low citations back to the origi- ◆ In Encarta Encyclopedia, team about how many words nal sources to confirm facts.

24 Productivity in the Classroom More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm TEENAGERS AROUND THE WORLD

STEP E Bringing It All Together SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word 97/98, Microsoft Publisher 98 WHAT TO DO: Now it's time for the designers, writer/edi- tors and fact-finders to pull the articles together. 1. The design team should add pages to the WorldZine tem- plate to accommodate the number of road crews who have developed articles. On the Publisher Insert menu, click Page, then click More Options. Microsoft Publisher 98 can turn your magazine into a web site Type in the number of new pages you want (two per road 5. While the road crews are crew), click the option “Dupli- fine-tuning their pages, the STEP F cate all objects on page,” and design team should tackle the type 4 (to duplicate page 4 of cover. Go to page 1 and Insert, WorldZine Online your original design). Click OK. Move, and Delete elements as SOFTWARE: Microsoft 2. One designer should work needed. For example, you will Publisher, Microsoft Internet with each road crew to help want to Delete story text Explorer (optional) insert its Word articles into its boxes. Insert a Picture that two-page spread. Writer/edi- symbolizes what’s inside the WHAT TO DO: Now it’s time tors will trim articles to fit and magazine, and use the Resize to create WorldZine, the Web add headlines. tool to enlarge it to fill most of site! Here’s how. 3. Designers and road crews the page. For the magazine 1. With WorldZine open, click should work together to add name, go to the Insert menu Show Wizard. photographs and other art by and choose Design Object; going to the Insert menu and choose Mastheads, and double 2. Under Newsletter Wizard, clicking Picture. You can use click on the design you like. click Convert to Web Site. clip art from the Publisher disc, Replace “Newsletter Title” with 3. Click Create, then choose or select photos that the road WorldZine. “Use the Web Site Wizard to crew has gathered from 6. Encarta Encyclopedia, Encarta Save and print out the automatically create a web Virtual Globe, and other entire WorldZine file and post design with .” the pages, in order, on the sources. Be sure to include 4. Choose File/Web Site proper credits. WorldZine wall. Make any last- Preview to check out your minute art or editorial fixes. 4. Fact-checkers should scruti- web site within a web brows- 7. Using a fresh printout of the nize their spreads to catch any er, such as Internet Explorer. spelling errors and other entire magazine, photocopy glitches. Go to the Tools menu and bind enough copies for 5. Post your WorldZine site to and select Spelling to do an each classmate plus a small your school intranet or to the overall spell-check. store of "public" copies. Internet.

More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm Productivity in the Classroom 25 REQUIRED SOFTWARE HIGH SCHOOL ◆ MICROSOFT® ENCARTA® 98 ENCYCLOPEDIA ◆ MICROSOFT® INTERNET EXPLORER 4.0 ◆ MICROSOFT® PUBLISHER 98 ◆ MICROSOFT® WORD 97/98 ISOLATION ◆ MICROSOFT® POWERPOINT® 97/98 OR INTERVENTION? Teacher Guide

SUMMARY

This activity asks students to work in groups to carefully research the attitudes and politics of pre-World War II America. Students will become isolationists or inter- ventionists and present their points of view during a simu- lated city council meeting.

OBJECTIVES

◆ To build students' skills in persuasive writing and research ◆ To exercise creativity Propaganda posters helped rally Americans behind the war effort. ◆ To develop understanding of pre-World War II America HOW TO BEGIN before World War II and ask them what they think it would PREREQUISITE SKILLS 1. Ask the students their opin- have been like to live in that ions about war. Are there good time period. ◆ Basic research skills reasons to go to war? Ask them 3. ◆ Grasp of 20th-century to predict what the United Explain to the students that chronology States would be like if we had they will imagine themselves as ordinary American citizens ◆ Understanding of Microsoft not experienced the Civil War, PowerPoint 97/98, Microsoft World War I and World War II. in 1940. They will research the issues surrounding and leading Word 97/98, Microsoft Encarta 2. Once students are sharing 98 Encyclopedia Deluxe, and their beliefs on war, start up to World War II, think about Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 focusing the discussion on them, and then decide to be World War II. Using the time- either an isolationist (against TIME ALLOTTED line in the media features of getting involved with the war) Approximately 6-8 class Encarta Encyclopedia, explore or an interventionist (in favor periods with your students the events of going to war).

26 Productivity in the Classroom More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm ISOLATION OR INTERVENTION? Student Activity DESCRIPTION Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor galvanized our nation in 1941, Americans were deeply divided over the ques- tion of entering World War II. Many were in favor of inter- vention, while others were just as vehemently opposed. In this activity, you will explore these conflicting perspectives in his- torical context by assuming the role of an American citizen Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia sheds light on pre-war events. in 1940. Based on qualities and circumstances of the character ◆ What was the Great you create for yourself, you STEP A Depression, and how long did will prepare a persuasive pre- it last? What would it have sentation in support of either The Way We Were been like to be a young teen the isolationist position or the during this time? interventionist point of view. SOFTWARE: Microsoft ◆ What was Franklin D. Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Roosevelt's presidential cam- Deluxe, Microsoft Internet WEB SITES TO CHECK OUT paign platform? If you were Explorer 4.0, Microsoft Word voting for the first time, what The History Place - World 97/98 might have been the issues you War II in Europe WHAT TO DO: cared about most? http://www.historyplace.com/wor ◆ ldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm 1. Open a new Word file and What was the United States' save it as "(Your Name)'s 1940 relationship with European Spanning 1918 to 1946, this thor- countries during this time peri- ough timeline features photos and Journal." od? What might have been articles about different events. 2. Use Encarta Encyclopedia your personal view? Powers of Persuasion and Internet Explorer to http://www.nara.gov/exhall/pow- research what life was like in 3. Based on everything you've ers/powers.html America during the first researched and written above, Visit this site to see the propagan- decades of the 20th century. how might you react to news of da posters that helped rally Focus your research on the fol- a war developing in Europe that Americans behind the war effort. lowing questions, and write could involve the U.S.? Has all you've thought and felt in the WWII Historical Archive answers in your Word file past decades made you more http://www.msstate.edu/Archive/ based on how the events might likely to be an interventionist History/USA/WWII/ww2.html have affected you personally: (ready for the country go to History, memoirs, letters, diaries, ◆ What is the connection sights and sounds from the war war) or an isolationist (against between World War I and the years. A very rewarding site - if you getting involved in war because don't mind a few broken links Roaring 20's? If you were a there are more urgent matters among lots of live ones. child during this period, what to deal with at home)? Write a would you remember most? few sentences in your journal

More tips can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/k12/resource/lessons.htm Productivity in the Classroom 27 ISOLATION OR INTERVENTION?

1. Divide into two groups rep- resenting opposing view- points, and combine your indi- vidual essays into a single Word document. 2. On the File menu, choose Send to Microsoft PowerPoint to move your document directly into PowerPoint. 3. In the PowerPoint Outline View, distill your text to essen- tial bullet points. 4. Make your presentation to the group your teacher has arranged to act as a city coun- Nazi atrocities leading up to the war fueled interventionist attitudes. cil, who will vote on the mat- ter after hearing both sides. addressingSTEP thisB question. STEP C Personal Profile STEP E Take a Stand SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word Animate Your SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word 97/98 97/98, Microsoft Publisher 98 Opinion WHAT TO DO: Based your SOFTWARE: Microsoft WHAT TO DO: Once you’ve work so far, develop a charac- PowerPoint 97/98 decided for or against U.S. ter to portray in the next step. involvement in WWII, write a WHAT TO DO: Convert your persuasive essay on your views. 1. Establish your character’s name, age (at least 18), sex, slide show to an interactive 1. Open a new Word docu- work history, marital/family multimedia presentation ment, and develop at least status, and education. Note about World War II that view- three reasons why you chose these in your Word journal. ers can run themselves. your side of the issue. On the 1. File menu, choose Versions to 2. What special circumstances Record your narration with save different versions of your shape your outlook? Consider each slide, and add Action essay as you work so you and how having a spouse, a mili- Buttons to let viewers move your teacher can review your tary background, or an 18-year- from slide to slide. Be sure to progress. old son might affect your opin- save your work. ion. Note these in your journal. 2. Turn in your work in elec- 2. In your PowerPoint presen- tronic form so your teacher or STEP D tation, go to the File menu, your peers can use Word’s and choose Save as HTML. Reviewing toolbar to comment The Council Meets 3. Step through the Wizard on your document. To turn the toolbar on, click the View SOFTWARE: Microsoft Word and choose to save your pre- menu, choose Toolbars, and 97/98, Microsoft PowerPoint sentation as a .gif or .jpg file. then choose Reviewing. 97/98 4. View the PowerPoint anima- 3. Use Publisher’s Sign Wizard WHAT TO DO: Isolationists tion within your web browser. to create a propaganda poster and interventionists now Then post it to your school’s for your side of the story. address the city council. intranet or web site.

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