Lowell Junior High School Tech Classes
The 7th Grade curriculum includes keyboarding, CyberSmart lessons, Word and PowerPoint, as well as videos and hands-on projects about microprocessors from Intel.
This Quarter the 8th Graders learned to use Excel to create spreadsheets, charts and graphs and chose from a number of topics to survey people. There was a contest to see which set of partners got the most respondents to their survey. THE WINNERS, with 380 were the two girls shown here who chose as their prize giant chocolate bars!
The 7th Grade Tech class learned about the kind of detail and specificity needed to program a computer by writing the directions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They soon learned that "put the jelly on the bread" was not going to work. We followed the first set of directions exactly and that is what happened!
The 7th Grade curriculum includes keyboarding, CyberSmart lessons, Word and PowerPoint, as well as videos and hands-on projects about microprocessors from Intel.
This Quarter the 8th Graders learned to use Excel to create spreadsheets, charts and graphs and chose from a number of topics to survey people. There was a contest to see which set of partners got the most respondents to their survey. THE WINNERS, with 380 were the two girls shown here who chose as their prize giant chocolate bars!
