St. Albert the Great
Computer Class
Mrs. Graber
5th grade
Check this page weekly to ensure that you have everything ready for your next computer class. This will help you get the most out of the coursework and also to be prepared to get your work done in class on time.
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Welcome to 5th Grade
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November 12, 2024 (week 10)
Reference Skills Worksheet (3 weeks)
Students will view several examples of how to use the Bibme.org site. Instructor will walk the students through finding the information needed for a citation, how to use this in the Bibme.org site, how to save the citation once it is formatted by the site, and finally how to format it in word so it is a hanging indent. Students will then use this information and practice their skills by downloading a worksheet found under related files below. They will copy and paste their answers into the worksheet and print out a copy for grading.
Once you have clicked on the Bibme.org, select ‘I only want to create citation’. Next, select ‘MLA’ from the top choices. You must select ‘website’ from the next set of choices at the top (it defaults to journal). Paste your web address (URL) into the box where it says ‘find a website by url or keyword’. Click on 'select' when the result appears. Review what the bibme tool could not find and click on ‘final step’. You will now have to go to the website you are siting and fill in any available missing information. Click on ‘create’ once you have filled in all the available information. You will copy and paste this citation into your worksheet. Follow along on the worksheet to create a hanging indent for your citation.
December 13, 2024 (week 13)
Endangered Animal Video Selection
Students will start class by typing for 10 minutes. They will go to to typingweb page and log in to their accounts with the account information they have been supplied.
Students will go to the Google United Streaming site. They will sign in using their google email and password. In the search term area at the top right (magnifying glass icon), type your search term, click on return, select video in the top tool bar and video segment in the left navigation bar.
Download Video:
Students will search for a 1 minute video that pertains to their endangered animal (all about their animal, eating habits, the biome it lives in, why it is endangered, what is being done to help endangered animals). Once they've found their video they will need to download it. To download a video, click on the '...' icon on the right. Once you click on it a window will open giving you the download option.
Select the high quality, Save file and OK. The video will save as an mp4 file onto the desktop. You need to move it into your 5th grade folder and the Endangered Animal folder..
Copy MLA citation:
Once the video has been downloaded, don't forget to go back to United Streaming to copy the citation for the video. Scroll down under the Details about and you will see the citations tab. Click on the arrow to open this up. Copy the MLA citation into your research worksheet.
January 7, 2025 (Week 14)
Editing Video in iMovie
Open iMovie from your dock. Click on 'import media'. You will select desktop, your downloaded endangered animal video and click on 'import selection. Next to the search bar, click on the gear looking icon to 'adjust thumbnail appearance'. Scroll it to the right to change your zoom to about 5 seconds.
Use the spacebar to start and stop your video to view it. You will have to place brackets around the segment you will select for the part you will be inserting into your project. To place opening brackets, use the letter 'I'. For closing brackets, you will use the letter 'O'. Your final video should be about 1 minute long. You will click on 'mark' in the tool bar and select 'favorite'. You will see a green line appear above the part you have selected.
Once you have selected the part of the video you would like, drag it into your timeline (bottom).
To download edited video, select 'file' in the iMovie tool bar, click on 'share', select 'file', click on next, Name your movie clip and select 'desktop', and 'save'. There will be a circle icon in the top right of the iMovie app 'show activity' that will show you the progress of your download.
Once your movie has finished downloading, please put it into your endangered animal folder in you user volume.
January 15, 2025 (week 15)
Endangered Animal PowerPoint, Research (3 weeks)
2 weeks research, 1 week corrections and setting up PPT
Students will start class by typing for 10 minutes. They will go to to typingweb page and log in to their accounts with the account information they have been supplied.
Start Research on eating habits and behaviors & reproduction (2 weeks)
Student will view a sample PowerPoint. They will review the requirements of their project.
Students will be researching their animals eating habits and behaviors along with reproduction during computer class. Students should try to use the Animal Diversity Website first to research the required data. They will record their gathered information onto a sheet they will download from under related files found at the bottom of this page. If they do not find the required information on this page, they may choose from the additional websites found under classroom links, Grade 5, endangered animals. They may also Google for the required information under teacher supervision.
Students will use Bibme.org to create their citation. The citation will be copied onto their research worksheet.
Instructions for bibme.org: Select 'I only want to create citations', 'MLA', and finally 'website'. Copy your web address from the page you are citing into the search window on bibme.org. Click on 'Search website', click on 'select' when the website pops up, click on 'Final Step', fill in any missing information, select 'Create Citation', and finally copy your citation from the yellow box.
February 11, 2025 (week 18)
Endangered Animal PowerPoint Presentation
(4 weeks + 1 week corrections) needed 1 more week to create
Student will start the creation of their Endangered Animal PowerPoint. They will be given a checklist they will use to cross off the requirements of the presentation as they fulfill them. They will be shown how to create a PowerPoint, how to select a theme, how to select the correct slide layout, and how to insert their video. Students should be able to finish at least 2 slides and start work on their 3rd.
To create references for their final slide, Students will use Bibme.org and copy it into their slide. To make the reference a hanging indent, students will need to delete the bullet at the start of the line.
To Create citation for your bibliography page for the websites used for Miss. Caroniti's research:
Log in:
Password: Google + library number
click on the grid icon on the right top of your page:
Select docs and find your citations.
Enter your information into bibme.org to create your citation.
Directions on how to use bibme:
Select 'I only want to create citations', 'MLA', and finally 'website'. Copy your web address from the page you are citing into the search window on bibme.org. Click on 'Search website', click on 'select' when the website pops up, click on 'Final Step', fill in any missing information, select 'Create Citation', and finally copy your citation from the yellow box.
March 31, 2025 (week 23)
Endangered Animal PowerPoint Presentations Corrections
Corrections will be made to the Endangered Animal PowerPoint presentations. The final copy will be handed in to the Turn-in Folder. Presentations will be the week of May 1st.
April 8, 2025 (week 24)
Coding with Scratch (continued)
Go to the Scratch website: https://scratch.mit.edu/
Click on Log in at top right.
User name: first letter of your first name, your entire last name and your graduation year: example: agraber2025
password: mustang, library number
Completed 1st quarter:
Getting Started (together)
Animate a Name
Make Music
Make it Fly
Create a Pong Game
Make a Chase Game
4th Quarter:
Animate and Adventure Game
Animate a Character
Create Animations That Talk
Code A Cartoon
Create a Story
Video Sensing (Final Class)
On consecutive login’s, just select create and tips to continue on your tutorials. When you are done with the tutorials, you may select ‘create’ to work on your own project.
Updated November 6, 2024
