Computer Science Lesson Plan
Class: 6th to 8th, Lesson 2.1 : Text document

Purpose: Student know some of the features of text documents clearly.

No. of Classes

(Depending upon the class strength - 2 classes for 20 student with 5 computers).

Material Required

Open office (Text document).

Curriculum Content
  • 3.1) Encoding
  • 3.2) Text document
  • 3.2.1) Table
    • Prior knowledge

    Student should know about Text documents clearly.

    Exercise

    Exercise:1


    Create the following story.(Click the following link to get the exercise story and pictures.

    Solutions



    Teacher's Instruction
    1. Teacher should teach text document completely.
    2. Teacher should make the students use the given story (Story for Exercise-1.odt file). Students only need to insert the picture in between the text by using the wrap text option.
    3. Teachers should clarify the difference between text document table creation and spread sheet.
    4. Formulas can be used in text documents also though to a lesser extent compared to Spreadsheet.
    5. Students can create a table by specifying the numbers of rows and columns.
    6. Teachers should ensure that all the work is done by the student. (like Highlighting, shadowing the text etc.).
    7. Teachers can allow students to complete the exercise in a group.