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Primary 4
Digital Art, Design & Document Production

Digital art, document design, and offline research skills.

Age 9–10 years 3 Terms 8 Weeks per Term Software Tux Paint & LibreOffice Writer
Term-by-Term Curriculum

Every Week,
Something Built.

Designed for offline delivery on shared lab computers — no theory-only sessions, every week ends with something the student made, built, typed, or designed. Select a term to see its full breakdown.

1

Tux Paint Interface

Canvas layout, tool selectors, color palette, undo.

2

Lines, Brushes & Shapes

Building architectural shapes like houses and trees.

3

Color Theory & Fill Limits

Border enclosures and Fill Bucket logic.

4

Visual Stamps & Alignment

Scaling, flipping, and placing stamp objects.

5

Magic Tools & Filters

Applying Grass, Brick, Rainbow, and blur effects.

6

Typography in Art

Selecting fonts, sizing titles, placing labels over art.

7

Poster Layout Principles

Margins, balance, white space, visual contrast.

8

Term 1 Project

Design a printable A4 'Classroom Rules' poster.

End of Term 1 Project

Digital Art & Graphic Design Foundations

Design a printable A4 'Classroom Rules' poster.

9

LibreOffice Writer Intro

Document navigation, ruler settings, typing.

10

Advanced Text Formatting

Line spacing, paragraph indent, font hierarchies.

11

Inserting & Formatting Tables

Creating class timetables using tables.

12

Table Styling

Cell shading, border colors, text alignment inside cells.

13

Image Embedding

Inserting illustrations and adjusting image dimensions.

14

Image Text Wrapping

Square, Tight, and Behind Text wrapping modes.

15

Page Layout & Borders

Margins, orientation, and decorative borders.

16

Term 2 Project

Produce a 2-page 'Animal Fact Sheet' with tables and media.

End of Term 2 Project

Intermediate Word Processing

Produce a 2-page 'Animal Fact Sheet' with tables and media.

17

Offline Research Skills

Navigating Kiwix encyclopedias and reading indexes.

18

Information Extraction

Taking bulleted notes from offline articles.

19

Header & Footer Design

Adding page numbers, titles, and dates to headers.

20

Multi-Column Layouts

Formatting document text into 2-column newspaper layout.

21

Document Proofing

Spellcheck usage, synonym lookup, grammar editing.

22

Print Setup & Exporting

Exporting to PDF format and print configuration.

23

Cyber Awareness

File safety, keeping passwords private, hardware care.

24

Term 3 Project

Research 'Nigerian Geography' and build a 2-page PDF newsletter.

End of Term 3 Project

Publishing & Offline Research

Research 'Nigerian Geography' and build a 2-page PDF newsletter.