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QG1 Google Docs: Formatting Tools Step 1

4. Suite Tools

PART 1 FORMATTING GOOGLE DOCS

In this activity,you willuse the spelling and grammar check features, format the title, change the size and typeface of the font, use bold, italics, and underline, change the color of the text, use highlights, and use the alignment tools to center or right-align text

1. Play the video "Nothing Gold Can Stay" (1:20) where Robert Frost reads his poem. 

Nothing Gold Can Stay - Robert Frost

Robert Frost Video on YouTube reading "Nothing Gold Can Stay" (1:20), Direct link.

2. Follow the step-by-step instructions in the Part 1 document provided, and/or play and pause the video below (9:20) as you do the steps.

 4.QG1. Formatting Google Docs Part 1 document

Direct link to the Getting Started Part 1 Video (9:20)

Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay Poem (with a spelling error added in the first line) to learn how to do a spelling check in a Google document.

Nthing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
By Robert Frost

Reflection Questions: (discuss as a class or with a partner)

  • Brainstorm a list of reasons explaining why you might want to format something. 
  • What are the benefits of formatted text? 
  • Who derives these benefits?

THIS IS AN AI-CHATBOT in action.

Check with your teacher about using it.

Warning NOTE: Chatbot information created with Artificial Intelligence is sometimes not accurate because the information used to program the AI Chatbot might not come from reliable and accurate sources. Note that after a few prompts it may require a log-in, if so, your conversation will be lost and you will need to restart.

Robert Frost Chatbot from Mizou.com

1. Work with a partner or small group. Try asking the Robert Frost AI Chatbot about his life, poems, references to leaves, or something else.

2. Always verify an AI chatbot's responses by checking at least two other reliable sources. 

3. Discuss with your class what you discovered.

Additional Resources

Additional Fonts Activity

  • Preview and explore over 1,700 free fonts from Google Fonts. "These fonts can be used by you  to add style, personality, and creativity to your Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, Sites, and more. You can easily add any of these fonts to your Google tools by clicking the font menu, choosing More fonts, and then typing in the font name.” Eric Curts



 4.QG1 VOCABULARY

4.QG1 STEP 2 

4.QG1 Student Checklist

 

Teacher Guide

4.QG1 Teacher Guide

 

MITECS   Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and

ISTE Standards for Students

1. Empowered Learner
c. Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
d. Understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies, are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies

6. Creative Communicator
a. choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication

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