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Course Title: Information Processing
Grade Level: 9-12
Required: No Elective: Yes
Prerequisites: Keyboarding
TextBook(s) Used For This Course:
Title: Author(s): Publisher: Edition: Date:
Word Perfect Shirley Montgomery Norris Public Schools 1989
(Text material to be revised during the 1995-96 school year)
Description of Course:
Information processing is one-semester course that features the use of the
popular Word Perfect and Microsoft Works software programs. Students will apply
their skills by producing printed copy of various correspondence, reports and
other projects. They will demonstrate their ability to access and use data base
material.
Categorical Objectives:
1. Students will produce hard copy by entering, editing, formatting, managing,
and printing information.
2. Students will access information from both teacher-designed and
student-designed data bases into which students have keyed information.
3. Students will integrate the word processing, data base, and spreadsheet
functions of the program.
Writing Activities:
1. Integrated within the course are a few projects (letters and reports) that
the students must compose by themselves.
2. As the entire class relates to information that is communicated within a
business or personal office, the writing activities also include learning the
appropriate format for business communications of many kinds.
Multicultural Education Activities:
1. Within the essays and newsletters that the students must type for this class
are a couple articles related to multicultural education.
