WEEK #4 PARENT’S GUIDE

In this lesson/module the student will be assisted by their parents in doing the activity/ies and
answering the questions.

It is highly encouraged to answer the student's query and to help understand and comprehend
instructions given rather than giving/feeding the answers.

LEARNER’S GUIDE
To get the most from this module, the learner needs to do the following:

1. Begin by reading and understanding the Learning Outcome/s. These tell you what you should know
and be able to do at the end of this Module.

2. Find out what you already know by taking the Pretest then check your answer against the Answer
Key. If you get 99 to 100% of the items correctly, you may proceed to the next lesson. This means that
you need not go through the lesson because you already know what it is about. If you failed to get 99 to
100% correctly, go through the lesson again and review especially those items that you failed to get.

3. Do the required Learning Activities. They begin with one or more information sheets / lessons.

4. Demonstrate what you learned by doing what the Activity directs you to do.

5. You must be able to apply what you have learned in another activity or in real life situation.

Note: If you have questions, ask your teacher for assistance.

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USING THE SHAPE TOOL
MODULE 5

You can use the shapes to create drawings, buttons, and other graphic objects in Flash.
After you draw a shape, you can fill it with a color or pattern.

I.Draw oval shapes

- The Oval tool can create all kinds of oval or
circular shapes. You can overlap the shapes
to create more shapes.

1.Click the Oval tool the cursor changes to

- Click no color icon to draw shape

without a fill.

- Choose a color in the Fill Color and Stroke

Color options in the Property Inspector in the
Colors panel to change the stroke and fill of
the color shape.

2. Click and drag to draw a shape on the stage.

Hold down the Shift key as you draw the
shape to draw a perfect circle.

3. Release the mouse button. The shape is

complete.

II. Draw Rectangle Shapes

- The Rectangle Tool can create all kinds of
square or rectangular shapes. These, too,
can be overlapped to make some more
shapes.
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1. Click the Rectangle Tool, if the Rectangle tool
is not visible, Click and hold the arrow of the
Rectangle / Polystar Tool and select the
Rectangle tool from the pop-up menu. The
cursor changes to

 Click no color icon to draw shape

without a fill.

 Choose a color in the Fill Color and

Stroke color options in the Property
inspector or in the Color spanel to
change the stroke and fill color of
the shape.

2. Click and drag to draw the shape on the stage.

Hold down the Shift key as you draw the shape to
draw a perfect square.

3. Release the mouse button. The shape is

complete.

III. Draw Polygon Shapes

- The Polystar Tool can draw polygon or stars.
You can choose the number of sides of the
polygon or then number of points on the star,
from 3 to 32. You can also choose the depth of
the star points.

1. Click and hold the arrow on the Rectangle

tool and select the Polystar tool from the
pop-up menu. The cursor changes to
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2. Select a stroke and fill attributes in the

Property Inspector.

3. Click the options button in the property

inspector to open the Tools Settings
dialog box.

-In the dialog box, do the following:

- For Style, select what shape to draw,
either Polygon or star.
- For Number of Sides, enter a number
between 3 and 32, these only affect
polygons.
- For Star Point Size, enter a number
between 0 and 1 to specify the depth
of the star points. A number close to
0 creates deeper points.
These only affect Star shapes.

4. Click ok button to accept the

settings.

5. Click and Drag the shape on the

stage.

6. Release the mouse button. The

shape is complete.

Note:
Rotate shapes by moving the
mouse before releasing it.
 LESSON ACTIVITY

Follow the steps stated:

1. Create a Flash document.

2. Draw an image as shown below.

3. Add colors to the shapes.

 YELLOW RED BLUE
4. Save your file as ShapeTile.fla

GREEN GREEN

BLUE
BLUE

RED RED

YELLOW YELLOW

BLUE BLUE

GREEN GREEN

YELLOW RED BLACK

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NAME:

Do the following
1. Create a new Flash document.

2. Draw the following shapes as shown below.

3. Save your file as FlashDraw.fla