Lesson: 1 - Recap of Windows UI and Text Document

Purpose : To recall usage of open office text documents, mail, task manager, Storage/RAM, Windows UI, etc.

Materials Required

Desktop or Laptop computer and open office.

Curriculum Content 1.1) Wi-fi, 1.2) Hotspot 1.3.1) Browsers 2.1) Downloading, 2.2) Uploading 2.3) eMail, 3.1) Windows UI 2.4) Sent box and other folders 2.5) Bookmarks 3.2) DL Activities - Text Document

Prior knowledge

Students should have already learnt RAM/storage, Windows UI, text document and emails. This is a recall lesson.

Exercises

Exercise:1


  1. Create a leave letter in a text document, take a photo or download any image and add it to your letter. Save the file as a pdf in D drive and copy the document in a pendrive or move the document from D to any other drive.

    2. Click here to view the model leave letter.

    Exercise:2 - Optional


  2. Send an email to your friend to come and join summer camp. Attach a video of a summer camp with the email. The video size should not be greater than 10MB

    3. Click here to view model email content for Ex 2.

    Exercise:3 - Optional


  3. Write the name and Email ID of the person whom you have mailed last.
  4. Bookmark two websites and Write the URL of these websites that you have bookmarked.

    5. Exercise:4


  5. Open some applications in your laptop and find which application uses maximum and minimum memory at that time.
  6. Find out the storage capacity of your computer.

Solutions


  • Click here to see the solution video for Ex 1.
  • Click here to see the video on how to send a mail and how to compress the video size and attach the video in mail(Ex - 2).
  • Click here to view the solution video for exercise 3 and 4.

    • Teacher's Instruction
    1. Teachers should encourage the students to recollect all the technical names. Eg: Disk, drive, task manager, sent items, bookmarks, URL, page borders, font colour, background colour, etc.
    2. This is a long lesson. The students may not be able to complete all the 5 exercises. Make them complete as many exercises as possible. If no students have completed all 5 or if some students have not completed even 3 exercises, you can repeat the lesson for one more class.
    3. Ask students to think about how the computer does its job. Then explain how apps are loaded from storage to memory and then the CPU executes instruction by instruction the various steps in the app. While doing that read and write from another area in the memory.
    4. At the beginning of this lesson, do a thorough recap of all the things they learnt last year related to Windows UI.