MOUSETRACKS KIDS COMPUTER IDEA

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What parent doesn't want to get their money's worth out of that pricey new family computer system? Here are more than 70 ways: step-by-step activities that work with any graphics and word processing software, on any kind of computer. Popular themes like sports, tropical rainforests, outer space, and publishing make it easy for kids to explore a favorite interest, get a leg up on schoolwork, or just have fun. Thoroughly kid-tested at the author's after-school computer education center, this book fills the gap ...
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What parent doesn't want to get their money's worth out of that pricey new family computer system? Here are more than 70 ways: step-by-step activities that work with any graphics and word processing software, on any kind of computer. Popular themes like sports, tropical rainforests, outer space, and publishing make it easy for kids to explore a favorite interest, get a leg up on schoolwork, or just have fun. Thoroughly kid-tested at the author's after-school computer education center, this book fills the gap between homework and games.

Organized by popular themes like sports, tropical rainforests, outer space, and publishing, the more than 70 step-by-step activities work with any graphics and word processing software, on any kind of computer. Kids can explore a favorite interest, get a leg up on schoolwork, or just have fun. Full-color illustrations throughout. Size D. 104 pp.

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Children's Literature - Kristin Harris
Mouse Tracks, which includes over 70 projects to do on the computer, is designed to help kids, from ages 5 to 10, meet the goals of learning to use the computer as a tool, and to have fun. The preface includes notes to parents, teachers and kids, a glossary, keyboard keys to know, and illustrations of what computer drawing tools look like. Simple color mixing and color matching games get the ball rolling. The projects become more complex with "a book about you," including making a birth certificate, and become more challenging with starting a design business (business card included) and culminate with publishing a newspaper. These very creative projects could be quite challenging for younger students, but great for supervised situations.
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PreS-Gr 5With more than 70 projects, this book is filled with creative activities and exercises geared toward helping young people build their computer skills. Children start with simple operations in making patterns and using colors and progress to projects for creating personalized stationery, original greeting cards, bookmarks, and wrapping paper. Young graphic designers can fashion original birth certificates, neighborhood maps, and family trees. Instructions for planning a party and making decorations, place mats and party favors are provided. Chapters focusing on space, dinosaurs, rain forests, and ancient Egypt are also included. While some of the activities are very basic and require limited computer skills, others will require considerable supervision and assistance from older students or adults because much of the text, including the glossary of computer terminology and the step-by-step instructions, are beyond the reading level of most primary-grade children. Prerequisites for the use of Mousetracks include a word processing program, a basic drawing program, a color monitor, and a color printer. A kids' CD-ROM encyclopedia or access to an online reference service is also recommended. The computer-generated illustrations are attractive, colorful, and add considerably to the visual appeal of the book design. With the appropriate equipment and guidance, young computer lovers should have much fun following these inventive suggestions.Jerry D. Flack, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781883672485
  • Publisher: Random House Children's Books
  • Publication date: 4/28/1997
  • Pages: 104
  • Product dimensions: 8.82 (w) x 11.06 (h) x 0.39 (d)

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