HUMOUR
YEAR
5
Year 5 at Beenleigh
State School are currenly involved in a unit of work revolving around the
theme of 'humour'. Here is the 'computer' component of that unit.
ITEM 1
Comparing search engines
http://www.beenleigss.eq.edu.au/favlinks/links.html
- SEARCH ENGINES
Focus
computer skills:
-
comparing
search engines
-
working
in alternate applications
-
word
processing
Use
all eleven search engines at this site to do a search on “humour +kids”.
Evaluate the results from each site. Rate each search engine for its usefulness
in finding sites about humour. Use a word processing program to write your
evaluation.
ITEM
2
Collecting
thematic clip art
Focus
computer skills
-
transferring
graphics from the Internet to local disk for future use
Think
of words you associate with ‘humour’. Use these as keywords in your search
for clipart. Download clipart for future use to your local hard drive.
ITEM
3
Make your
own droodle
Investigate
– what is a droodle? Design your own droodles. Make 9 fit on to an A4 page.
Swap your page of droodles with a friend who has to guess what they are.
ITEM
4
Collection
of Jokes from Yahooligans
Focus
computer skills:
-
creating
a table in Microsoft Word
-
copy
-
paste
Using
Microsoft Word, create a table with two columns. The first column is headed
‘Question’. The second columns is headed ‘Answer’. Use this site to copy
and paste your favourite jokes into the cells of the table.
ITEM
5
Super
Hero Generator
Focus
computer skills:
-
using
the spell checker for word processing
Use
this site to generate characteristics of superheroes. In ClarisWorks, write
an introduction for a super hero series (Hi, I’m …….. and I’d like to introduce
you to my fellow crime fighters. My name is ………). Use the spell checker
to check the spelling in your document.
ITEM
6
Jokes
to email to a friend
Focus
computer skills:
-
email
-
sending
attachments
-
copying
-
pasting
-
working
in concurrent applications
Collect
suitable jokes and collate these in a word processing program. Send an
email to a friend making these jokes an attachment.
ITEM
7
Comedian
biography
Focus
computer skills:
-
searching
in browsers
-
working
in more than one application
-
alternating
between applications
-
copy
-
paste
-
formatting.
Choose
your favourite comedian. Use ClarisWorks to take notes from the web site.
Write your own biography of this person.
