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QG1 Google Docs: Formatting Tools Step 1

4. Suite Tools

PART 1 FORMATTING GOOGLE DOCS

In this activity, you will use 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.

Step 1. Play the video "Nothing Gold Can Stay" where Robert Frost reads his poem. 

Nothing Gold Can Stay - Robert Frost

Direct link (1:20 min.)

Step 2. Copy or download the 4.QG1. Formatting Google Docs Part 1 document. Follow the step-by-step instructions in the Part 1 document, and/or play and pause the video below as you do the steps. 

Direct link (9:20 min)

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: Chatbot information created with Artificial Intelligence is sometimes inaccurate 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

Step 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.

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

Step 3. Discuss with your class what you discovered.

 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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