Lesson Plan Title : Adjective Word Art

Age Range: Grade 6 through grade 8 (Middle School)

Overview and Purpose: Students practice using technology in this creative activity. Using Word Art they create a collage with words that describe fatherhood.

Objective: The student will be able to use Word Art on the computer to create an adjective collage that describes fatherhood.

Resources:

The student will be able to use Word Art on the computer to create an adjective collage that describes fatherhood.

Activities:

Talk with the students about what qualities make a good father. Have them choose some of them and make a collage using the Word Art feature in Microsoft Word. Encourage them to be creative and to try different shading, fonts, and backgrounds. Print the collages and have the students make frames for them. They could then give the collages to their fathers for Father's Day.

Wrap Up:

The students could also be challenged to write a story about a dad using all the words in their collage. The story can be real or made up, but should have proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.