Desks and Office Supplies

Desks have places to store office supplies. What kinds of office supplies are usually in or on a desk? What are some of the tools we use?

• Pens, pencils, and notebooks

• Kitchen utensils

• Gardening tools

• Automotive tools

Where would you put the office supplies you listed?

• In the storage room

• On the desk

• In the office supply closet

• At home

Abigail has recently started using a smartphone to manage her daily tasks more efficiently. She wonders, do you have a smartphone? If so, what apps or programs do you use on your phone to help you complete tasks?

Two ways to find programs on the computer are _____.

During a presentation, David noticed an application icon in the taskbar on James's laptop. What program do you think it was?

Charlotte is organizing her new computer's desktop. Which programs has she installed?

• Excel

• Word

• Firefox

Firefox (a program to search the internet) is located on the _____.

Where is Edge (a program to search the internet)?

• Desktop

• Taskbar

• Both

• Neither

Hannah is trying to find Word (a program to create documents) on her new computer. Can you help her by specifying if it is located on the desktop, taskbar, or both?

Where is Excel (a program to create spreadsheets of numbers)?

• On the desktop

• On the taskbar

• Both on the desktop and taskbar

• Neither on the desktop nor on the taskbar