WordArt Resources
By Linda Lindroth

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WordArt Tutorials:
How to insert and modify WordArt Objects in Microsoft Word

Using WordArt

WordArt Lesson Plan – A is for Aardvark

WordArt Activities:

1. Create your own "moving WordArt". Create your WordArt and format the WordArt using "Tight" text-wrapping, and the WordArt will move anywhere on the page. It can be placed beside the correct definition or moved on top of a diagram placed as a watermark to label. I have even used WordArt for students to diagram a science process such as the Water Cycle or Life Cycle of a Frog, or to label a map.
2. Another way to use WordArt is to create an interactive research page. For younger students, I type in the content and ask them to research and move the WordArt from a Word Bank at the bottom of the page to the correct line on their word processing paper. For older students, I give them the Word Bank and they use the Internet to research the topic and type in their answers and then create the WordArt for their final report. The reproducible on Martin Luther King, Jr. is a guide for their research. Download the MS Word file – Martin Luther King, Jr. – to have your own "moving" WordArt.
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   WordArt Name Game – Students will love creating Name poems – whether it's their own name or the name of a famous person like Martin Luther King, Jr. if you show them how to put their portrait into the name.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Resources:
TeacherPlanet – Martin Luther King Theme Page
What a terrific, well-organized lists of lesson plans, worksheets and other resources on Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
This is an outstanding resource, with a wonderful biography and interactive timeline of his life. The timeline makes a perfect tool for a class discussion – just project the timeline for the entire class to see. The timeline resources include historical documents, photos, video and audio clips that will bring King to life for
students.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Theme
Extensive listing of resources including multimedia, songs, vocabulary, worksheets, interactives, lessons, webquests, hands-on activities, and writing paper. This resource has dozens of ready-to-use activities.

Martin Luther King
Here is a list of links to Martin Luther King and Black History Month resources. Many of these links are webquests or interactive projects.

Holiday: Martin Luther King Day
Learn about King and the civil rights movement. Take a virtual tour of his birth home.

There is even an illustrated story of his life in this rich list of resource links.

For a printable version click here. PDF 122KB

Linda K. Lindroth is Technology Editor and Web Coordinator for Teaching Pre K-8. She is also a Technology Resource Teacher in a K-5 computer lab in Lexington, KY.