Microsoft Paint environment

Week: Seven

Topic: Microsoft Paint environment

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to;

1. Identify icons in the toolbox

2. Identify the colours on the colour palette.

Reference material: Learn Africa Basic Agricultural Science UBE edition for primary school pupils 6

Content:

Microsoft Paint Environment

The toolbox contains the thirteen tools that are used in performing the many drawing activities of CorelDRAW. They are:

1 Pick tool: This is used in picking up other tools from the toolbox.

2 Shape tool: This is used to change the shapes of objects.

3 Zoom tool: This is used to enlarge or reduce an object or what a page looks like.

4 Freehand tool: This is used in drawing freehand lines and curves.

5 Rectangle tool: This is used in drawing rectangles.

6 Ellipse tool: This is used in drawing oval shapes and circles.

7 Polygon tool: This is used in drawing many-sided polygons.

8 Text tool: This adds text to drawings.

9 Interactive fill tool: This fills objects with colours.

10 Interactive transparency tool: This adds trans￾parency to objects.

11 Interactive drop shadow tool: This adds shadows to objects.

12 Outline tool: This adds or removes an outline from objects.

13 Fill tool: This fills objects with different things.

Evaluation:-

1. List the 13 icons in the toolbox

2. State the uses of each