The table below outlines how specific computer hardware and software skills progress as students progress through the school.
At the end of each school year, students will be able to...
| Year |
Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing |
| Kindergarten |
- Illustrate an idea using appropriate software
- Change colors, paintbrushes, stamps or other picture insertion tools
- Erase parts of a graphic image and delete incorrectly typed words
- Create and extend patterns using stamps and other simple picture tools
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| Grade 1 |
- Manipulate shapes on a screen to create new patterns
- Compose a caption to explain an image
- Choose and use simple tools such as the paintbrushes, polygon tool and line tool
- Perform basic formatting
- Insert graphics into Word
- Make effective use of the window or screen space to communicate
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| Grade 2 |
- Use patterns and line fill features
- With guidance, select from know software to perform a familiar task (use a paint/draw program to create an illustration)
- Perform more formatting (body, text, bold, etc)
- Manipulate elements in a publication to improve communication
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| Grade 3 |
- Insert graphics from application, CDs, clip art collections, or the Internet
- Perform basic formatting by combining text and graphics
- Resize graphics to fit an appropriate space
- Combine texts and graphics
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| Grade 4 |
- Place, crop, and resize images in a document
- Create a one-page newsletter or brochure
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| Grade 5 |
- Use transformation tools such as rotate, scale, and distort
- Use a range of basic drawing and paint tools
- Insert graphics from scanners and digital cameras
- Save graphics in the appropriate format (gif, jpg, tif, etc.)
- Maintain consistency of style for the key elements of a document
- Create a two page newsletter or brochure
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| Grade 6 |
- Create and manipulate graphics (cut, crop, paste, scale, rotate, flip, filter, sharpen)
- Insert graphics into various applications and combine them with text
- Prepare documents suitable for submission, maintaining proper style for the audience
- Create columns on a page
- Use template files to create a class newsletter/report with multiple pages that incorporates student writing and graphics
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| Grade 7 |
- Create template files to create a class newsletter/report with multiple pages that incorporates student writing and graphics
- Create balanced layouts for pages and screens (use representational icons within a navigation bar or menu, use a footer to place an address and page number)
- Use basic mechanical drawing software.
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| Grade 8 |
- Adjust the lighting and colors of an image
- Combine appropriate software applications to produce a product
- Use a range of techniques to facilitate composition, revision and editing, including bullets, tables and margins
- Balance text, graphics and borders, and align and place objects using rulers
- Apply filters to an image
- Create detailed drawing plans for building projects.
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| Grade 9 |
- Enhance images or graphic objects with the appropriate tools
- Use distort, perspective, rotate, shear and flip tools.
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| Grade 10 |
- Enhance images or graphic objects with filters or other advanced features
- Use and apply all appropriate selection and editing tools for graphic images.
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| Grade 11 |
- Create 3D images using drawing software with teacher assistance
- Maintain and produce an on-line graphics portfolio
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| Grade 12 |
- Create 3D images using drawing software.
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