Computer Science Lesson Plan
Class: 5, Lesson : 10 Text document

Purpose:Learn about Open office text document. Improve typing practice.

No. of. Classes

Two or three classes (Teacher's decision)

Material Required

Open office, News paper or text book, Picture.

Curriculum Content
  • 7.2) Typing text
  • 7.2.3) Insert Paragraph
  • 7.4) Font style and text appearance
  • 7.4.1) Font name
  • 7.4.2) Font size
  • 7.4.3) Bold
  • 7.4.4) Italic
  • 7.4.5) Underline
  • 7.8) Align
  • 7.8.1) Left
  • 7.8.2) Right
  • 7.8.3) Centered
  • 7.9).Insert picture
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    Prior knowledge

    Children should know the following before this exercise:

  • Type text
  • Font style(Bold, Italic, Underline, Font size, Font name and Align – Left, Right, Centered) Insert picture.
    • Exercise

    Exercise:1


    Create a document from scratch that looks like the given document - "Modal of the exercise.odt". Students should retype the text and insert the picture from the image file. They should not copy any of these from the above document which shows the final result.

    Solution



    Teacher Instruction
    1. Show the different types of news papers and text books and explain to the Students that these are all prepared using these kinds of text editors.
    2. Extract the file chess.rar to your desktop so that the required image file is available for the students on the desktop when doing the exercise.
    3. Even if it takes time, make the Students type the text.
    4. Allow the Students to watch the movie with the solution.
    5. However it would be best if they do it independently after seeing the video. i.e. Video should not be open when working on the document.
    6. Use the words “bold”, “italic”, “underline”. “font colour”, “font size”, “font type” etc. when teaching. They need to become familiar with these words.