Lesson: 2 Typing & Selection, Alignment - Left, Right, Center

Purpose:Students learn how to create a document and align text within documents.

No. of. Classes

Two class - One hour.

Materials Required

Desktop computer or Laptop & Open office.

Curriculum Content 6.2)Typing text,
6.3)Selection Method,
6.8)Align..
Prior knowledge

Students should know basics of computers, file, folders and what is a document.
Basic English familiarity and sentence structure (capitalization and punctuation) would help. Students should know how to create and edit a Text document file.

Exercises

Exercise:1


1. Explain about typing text like a word, sentence and paragraph and navigation and usage of back space, enter, sapce bar, capslock and shift keys in text documents.

Exercise:2


2. Explain about selection methods such as Double click, Triple click, Ctrl + A, Shift + Arrow keys, and Mouse left click + dragging in text documents.

Exercise:3


3. How do you align Left, Right, Center, Justified in text documents? Create a leave letter.

  • Link to view the model Letter (Exercise).

    • Exercise:4

    4. How do you use the object wrapping in text documents?

  • Link to view the object wrapping. Model file and Exercise file.

    • Solutions


  • Link to view the Solution Video for Exercise-1 (Solution).
  • Link to view the Solution Video for Exercise-2 (Solution).
  • Link to view the Solution Video for Exercise-3 (Solution).
  • Link to view the Solution Video for Exercise-4 (Solution).

    • Teacher's Instruction
    1. Explain the solution in detail to the Students.
    2. Use the specified words like word, sentence and paragraph, navigation, usage of back space, enter, space bar, caps lock and shift keys in the class.
    3. Students need to become familiar with those words.
    4. Students need not be made to memorize all the different selection methods etc. Just become familiar with them.
    5. When we use single click, double click and triple click, show how the actions are different. Discuss with your children.
    6. Explain in detail the solution to the students.
    7. Use the specified words such as Alignment, Left, Right, Center, Justified, Wrapping and Picture insert.
    8. They need to be familiar with those words.
    9. If the children quickly manage to do this, you can also show setting different tab stops in the ruler.
    10. Ask the students to think why you would use alignment or tab stops over tabs and over indenting with spaces. What will happen if you type something more in the beginning or correct a spelling mistake?.