Design a custom curriculum menu using Microsoft Office Publisher
Updated: March 2, 2007
How-to article
Do you and your students spend a lot of time clicking past the standard menu to access the documents and tools you use every day in your curriculum? Do you want to make your computer's menu more engaging to students?
Use the Menu Wizard in Microsoft Office Publisher to design an engaging menu specifically related to your curriculum. You can select from a variety of fun and easy-to-use layouts and styles. You can also add descriptive text that identifies your curriculum areas, as well as pictures.
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Lesson information
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Instructional level | | • | Intermediate user | | • | Advanced user |
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School level | | • | Elementary school (Grade 3 and up) | | • | Middle school (11–15 years) | | • | High school (14–18 years) |
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Curriculum areas | | • | Language arts | | • | Mathematics | | • | Social studies | | • | Science | | • | World languages |
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Software required | Microsoft Office Publisher 2000 |
Samples uses of custom menus for your curriculum
Language arts
| • | Menu using adjectives to describe foods, such as "thick and fudgy brownies" |
| • | Menu using names of characters in a book, such as "Scarlett O'Hara Scone” |
Mathematics
| • | Theme menu using numbers to describe the offerings, such as "seven-layer cake" |
| • | Menu featuring geometric shapes, such as "triangular cheese cake” |
Social studies
| • | Menu focusing on a region of the United States |
| • | Menu depicting food from another country, including "gnocchi" or "falafel” |
Science
| • | Seafood menu that includes items, such as "sea scallops" or "mahi-mahi" |
| • | Solar system menu with items based on parts of the solar system, such as "Neptune Nachos" or "Meteorite Marble Cake” |
World languages
| • | Menu written in a foreign language, such as Spanish or French |
Other
| • | Dessert menu |
| • | Healthful foods menu, including foods low in fat or high in protein |
Objective
Design a custom menu for your curriculum needs using the Menu Wizard in Microsoft Office Publisher 2000. Here's how:
Design a custom menu
1. | Plan and research the items that will be in your menu. |
2. | Start Publisher. |
3. | From the Wizards list, click Menus. |
4. | Select one of the menus in the window in the right pane, and then click Start Wizard. |
5. | Follow the steps in the wizard. When you're finished, click Hide Wizard. |
6. | Enter your own text in the menu, making sure to add text to all pages. The page numbers are located at the bottom of the window. |
7. | Add your own pictures to enhance the menu. |
8. | Delete any text areas or pictures that you don't need by right-clicking the object and then selecting Delete Object. |
9. | Move and resize any text area or picture to make the menu appealing to the eye. Format the text so your menu is not only attractive, but also easy to read. |
10. | Save your menu, and then print it. |
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