Dakota State University
College of Education  

MICROSOFT WORD CHAPTER 2 LESSON PLAN

 

Name: _Jayne Peterson_________

Grade Level: __6-7th Grade_______

Date: __10/21/11__ 

Time: __10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.__

 

Reflection from prior lesson: Students are becoming familiar with Word and its features.

 

Lesson Goal(s) / Standards: NBEA IV Input Technologies: Use touch-keyboarding skills to enter and manipulate text.

 

Lesson Objectives: Students will be given a non-formatted restaurant menu.  They will choose a restaurant name for the title of their menu.  The menu will have beverages, deserts, and sandwiches listed.  They will be instructed to bold all of the headings, italicize the items under each heading, underline the prices, and center and bold the menu title with a 90% accuracy. 


Materials Needed: Computer with Microsoft Word 2003 or later with access to a printer and email/internet.

 

Contextual Factors/ Learner Characteristics: The classroom is made up of 10 boys and 12 girls.  The students are attentive when the material is interesting or when it relates to them.  There is one student named Jimmy that is very distracting to others.  When Jimmy is paying attention and listening, the whole class follows suit. 

 

A.  The Lesson 

 

1.       Introduction (about 5 minutes)  

·         I will get students attention by asking them their favorite restaurants menus and what catches their eye when they read the menus.

·         This relates to the students because we eat out and read the menus almost every time before we decide on what to eat.

·         We need to know how to make these menu choices look appealing.

·         We will learn how to format text and ultimately transform a plain document into an interesting and creative document.

 

 

2.       Content Delivery (about 15 minutes, use projector)  

·                     I will use the projection and have a word document open to follow along with.

·                     I will explain the different types of formatting and the benefits of each. 

·                     We will have discussions on the main formatting options.

·                     I will demonstrate how to apply bold, italicize, and underline to words as well as whole documents.

·                     Short cut keys will also be taught and practiced.

·                     I will go around to each student and watch him or her practice my oral instructions before the assignment is given. 

 

    

3.       Closure (30 minutes)

·                     The students will have until the end of the class period to work on this assignment. 

·                     I can come around to help, but the assignment will be due at the end of class.

·                     Explain to them that we will continually work on this menu, so be thinking of some ideas over the weekend that we can add to our menu in the following class periods. 

 

B. Assessments Used

                The students will download the menu document.  They will then format it so that the headings are bolded (beverages, sandwiches, deserts), the items must be italicized, and the prices must be underlined.  The menu title must be bolded, centered, and 26-size font.  The menu title must also be an original name that the students create themselves.  The finished document needs to be printed off with your name on it by the end of class on 10/21/11. This must all be done with 90% accuracy. 

 

C. Differentiated Instruction 

                I will have used visual instruction with the use of the projector.  I have also utilized verbal instruction by walking around the classroom and giving verbal instructions, and kinesthetic learning occurred throughout this lesson by the use of the keyboard.