Certificate of Recognition
Lesson Plan
Grading Rubric
Create a certificate of recognition for employee of the month. Be sure to include a line to that will later hold the recipient's name, date, type of award being given, company logo, and your name and/or company as the one presenting the award. Do not include a recipient's name at this time. In a later activity you will be ask to use this certificate for employee of the month for your company. Click on the link below to see an example of a certificate of recognition for employee of the month that uses both ClipArt and AutoShapes:
Before creating the certificate, two terms need to be addressed. The first term is input device, which inputs data into the computer. The main input device you will be using is the keyboard, which inputs text by keying in the letters that appear on the screen. Another input device you will use is the mouse. When you have completed your certificate, you will print it out on the network printer, which is an output device.
Including WordArt Text:
- Click the Insert WordArt button
on
the Drawing toolbar. - At the WordArt Gallery, choose an the format of your choosing.
- At the Edit WordArt Text dialog box, key the words you want to appear as the title of your certificate.
- Click OK to close the dialog box.
Creating AutoShapes:
- Make sure the Drawing Toolbar is displayed.
- Click the AutoShapes button on the Drawing toolbar, point to the different options in the drop down list, and then click one of the shapes.
- Position the crosshairs in the document screen, hold down the left mouse button, hold down the Shift key and then drag the crosshairs to create the shape, and then release the mouse button.
- The shape displays, and when copied and then pasted on the page, a small yellow box inside. This box is referred to as an adjustment handle. Position the mouse pointer on the adjustment handle, hold down the left mouse button, drag about halfway into the shape, and then release the mouse button. (This causes the points of the shape to drag into the star.)
- Experiment with a few other star and/or banner buttons until you get the shape you want.
- To add fill color, with the AutoShape drawn on the page, click the drop-down triangle on the Fill Button on the Drawing Toolbar (the one displays the paint can icon), then choose the color you want your shape to be.
- To copy a previously selected AutoShape, select the shape, while holding down the Ctrl key, drag the shape to where you want it to appear, and then release the Ctrl key and the mouse button.
Align and distribute shapes, follow the following steps:
- Click the Select Object button
on the Drawing toolbar. - Draw a border around the shapes you wish to align. To place a border, you must hold down the left mouse button while dragging over the shapes. When selecting your shapes, you might also select text. The text will not be affect the alignment of the shapes.
- Click the Draw button
on the Drawing toolbar, point to Align or Distribute, and then click Align
Bottom, then Align Top. - Select the shapes on the left side of certificate.
- Click the Draw button on the Drawing toolbar, point to Align or Distribute, and then click Distribute Horizontally.
- Select the shapes on the right side of certificate.
- Click the Draw button on the Drawing toolbar, point to Align or Distribute, and then click Distribute Horizontally.
Flipping and Rotating an Object:
- Draw and AutoShape on your page.
- With the shape still selected, click the Draw button on the Drawing toolbar.
- At the pop-up menu that displays, point to Rotate or Flip.
- Experiment with the options listed under this menu.
Use the landscape orientation by completing the following steps:
- Click File and then Page Setup.
- At the Page Setup dialog box, click the Margin tab.
- Click Landscape in the Orientation section in the Page Setup dialog box.
- Click OK or press Enter.
Include a decorative art page border by completing the following steps:
- Display the Borders and Shading dialog box. (Format on the Menu Toolbar>Borders and Shading).
- At the Borders and Shading dialog box, click the Page Border tab.
- Click the Box button in the Setting section.
- Click the down-pointing triangle at the right side of the Art text box.
- At the drop-down list that displays, scroll down the list and choose a border that would accent your page.
- Click OK or close the dialog box.
Add a decorative font:
- Click the down-pointing triangle at the right side of the Size text box on the standard toolbar and pick a font other than the default font of Times New Roman.
- Size the font by clicking the down-pointing triangle at the right side of the Size text box. This causes a drop-down list of size options to display. Scroll through the list of sizes until the desired size is visible and then click the size.
Inserting a line:
- Click the line button (beside the AutoShapes drop down list) and then drag out your line on the page while holding down the left mouse button.
- To change the width of the line (make sure you have the line selected),
click the line style button
on the drawing toolbar. At the drop-down list, choose the line thickness
you want. - To change the color of the line (make sure you have the line selected),
click the line color button
on the drawing toolbar. At the drop-down list, choose the color you want. - To include a decorative arrow style to your line (make sure you have
the line selected), click the arrow style button
on the drawing toolbar. At the drop-down list, choose the arrow style
you want to appear on the end of your line.
Include all of the following:
- Title Using WordArt
- Decorative Fonts
- Art Page Border
- AutoShapes-align both vertically and horizontally
- ClipArt
- Proofread and spell check
- Save your document with the name Certificate.
- Have you teacher check it over, then print it out for your portfolio. This will be your template that you will use later to fill in the name for two of your employees. Make sure you have your teacher fill in your grade for this project on you Grading Rubric.
