Computer Science Lesson Plan
Class: 4 - Lesson: 6 Text Document (Text Selection and Properties)

Purpose: To learn about OpenOffice text documents, to improve typing, to apply styling to text such as bold, italic and underline, and to select text.

No. of Classes

One or two classes (teacher's decision).

Material Required

OpenOffice.

Curriculum Content
  • 5.3) Selection Method
  • 5.4) Font style and text appearance
  • 5.6) Editing Operations
    •
    Prior Knowledge

    Students should know:

  • How to type text.
  • How to create a folder.
  • How to open and save a file.

    • Exercise

    Exercise 1


    1. Explain selection methods such as double click, triple click, Ctrl + A, Shift + arrow keys, and left click + dragging in text documents.

    Exercise 2


    1. Explain font style (font name, font size, bold, italic, underline, shadow, undo, redo, bullets and numbering) in a text document.

    Solutions


  • Link to view the solution video for Exercises 1 and 2.
  • Link to view the output file.

    • Teacher Instructions
    1. Ensure that each student types the given paragraph.
    2. A material file is available; teachers may use it, or use the textbook for typing.
    3. Teachers should explain that there are many ways to do this exercise.
    4. Use the terms bold, italic, underline, font type, shortcut keys, etc. while teaching, so that students become familiar with them.