A Clue for keyboarding: Lesson Plan for a Computer Teacher

A Clue for keyboarding: Lesson Plan for a Computer Teacher

Students will be able to locate the keys on the keyboard without looking at the keyboard, bulletin boards, and charts.
Lesson Purpose:
Students will be able to locate and identify the keys on the keyboard through memory.
Lesson Objectives:
Students will be able to locate keys on the keyboard through memory.
Students will be able to locate keys on the keyboard without looking at the keyboard, bulletin boards, and charts.
Students will use the “Clue” activity as a reinforcement to their keying activities.
Lesson Activity:
The “Clue” Keyboarding activity is used as a reinforcement activity while students are not close to a keyboard.
Teacher has taken index cards and on one side the teacher has written the letter, number, and symbols that the students use during keyboarding. The other side has a clue about that letter, number, and symbol.
Example for the letter “A”: I am located in the homerow and you use your left pinky finger to key my letter.
I divide the class into two teams and have them sit on the floor away from all keyboards. Typing charts, bulletin boards, and any other typing material have been covered so that students cannot see any letters, numbers, and symbols.
Once students are seated in their groups, I usually take a seat in the middle of the groups.
Game Rules: Teacher will read a clue to a student and the student must answer the clue. If the student does not know the answer, to the question moves over to the other team. I usually incorporate rewards into the game. The clue is worth one point if answered correctly, if the clue is answered incorrectly or moves to the opposite team, then it is worth 2 points.
Talking is at a very minimal low during this game.
Students may only help each other if the question was answered incorrectly or not at all.
There are many ways of adjusting this activity to fit into the needs of your lesson plan.
Each team will take turns answering clues and I set a time limit for their answer (if you do not have a time limit, the students will take their time I answering.
Results:
I have used this activity a few times in my class and I have had wonderful results. This creates an opportunity for the students to test their knowledge on the keyboard without having a chance to look and the temptation to look at the keyboard. Students are excited and amazed whenever they get the clues correct. This adds a new excitement to keyboarding and also creates a teamwork atmosphere.
I hope that you find this activity useful as I have.

LESSON PLAN in EPP VI

LESSON PLAN in EPP VI

Integration: Disaster Risk Reduction

I Objectives: 1. Arrange properly the different parts of the house

2. Identify the parts and structures of the house that

need to be repaired

3. Explain why each part / structure of the house needs

to be properly arranged and repaired

II Subject Matter:

A. Topic: Proper Arrangement of the House

B. Concept: It is necessary to properly arrange the parts of the house and to evaluate and strengthen its structure. In doing these things you have to consider beauty, appropriateness, comfort, economical cost and safety. Furthermore, properly arranging the house and strengthening its structure will help reduce the risk or damage that may be caused by fire, earthquake, typhoon, theft and other accidents in the house.

C. Skills: identifying, arranging, explaining, drawing, evaluating, inferring

D. Reference: PELC

EPP 6 Resource Book

Disaster Risk Reduction Resource Manual

E. Materials: charts, pictures

III Educational Strategies:

A. Preparatory Activities:

1. Review: Write P for part of the house and S for structure of the

house.

_____ 1. bedroom

_____ 2. wall

_____ 3. window

_____ 4. living room

_____ 5. door

_____ 6. post

_____ 7. kitchen

_____ 8. floor

_____ 9. ceiling

_____ 10. dining room

_____ 11. roof

_____ 12. toilet and bathroom

_____ 13. stairs

_____ 14. carport

_____ 15. study room

2. Motivation:

Teacher shows two pictures. Picture 1 shows an arranged

living room while Picture 2 a disarranged one.

Let pupils described each picture.

Ask: Which picture of a living room you want your own

Living room to be, picture 1 or 2? Why?

B. Activity Proper: (Group Activity)

Draw and arrange the things in your house. Explain why you

make such arrangement.

Group I : Bedroom

Group II : Living Room

Group III : Dining Room

Group IV : Kitchen

Group V : Toilet and Bathroom

C. Post Activities:

1. Group Presentation / Reporting

2. Discussion: Let pupils discuss the proper ways of arranging

the house and the necessity of repairing and

strengthening its weak structure.

3. Abstraction:

a. What are the things you have to consider in arranging the

house?

b. Why do you need to arrange properly your house?

c. Why do you need to repair the damaged parts/structures

of the house ?

d. Why is it important to consider safety in your house

arrangement ?

e. What are some hazards that may occur if your house is not

arranged properly or if its structure is weak ?

4. Application:

a. In relation to our lesson, how will you be able to prevent

the damage caused by fire, earthquake, typhoon and theft ?

b. If you see part or structure of your house that needs repair,

what should you do ? Why ?

c. If you are to make a plan of a new arrangement of your

house will you do it ?

IV Evaluation:

Evaluate the statements. Write true if the statement is correct and

false if not.

_______ 1. It is important to consider safety in arranging the house.

_______ 2. Ignoring the slippery things inside your bathroom is important.

_______ 3. A weak structure of the house does not need to be firmed up.

_______ 4. Proper repair and arrangement of the house may reduce

disaster risk.

_______ 5. Leaving things on the stairs is ideal.

V Assignment:

Draw your ideal house. Explain why you consider it ideal.

LESSON PLAN in EPP VI

Integration: Disaster Risk Reduction

I Objective : Apply knowledge, skills and right attitude in

gardening to improve one’s way of living and

protect the environment.

II Subject Matter:

A. Topic : Gardening / Planting

B. Concept : Gardening is a pleasure and productive recreation

and way of life. Applying one’s knowledge, skills

and right attitude in gardening will aid in improving

one’s life and the environment as well. It ensures a

clean and healthy environment.

C. Skills : identifying, comparing, describing, inferring,

dramatizing, gardening

D. References: PELC

EPP 6 Resource Book

Disaster Risk Reduction Resource Manual

E. Materials : pictures, chart

III Educational Strategies:

A. Preparatory Activities:

1. Singing “Bahay Kubo” or “My Nipa Hut”

What are the plants mentioned in the song ?

2. Teacher shows two pictures. Picture A shows a clean place

surrounded with plants and picture B shows a place with less

trees and more building structures and vehicles compare the

two pictures. Which picture shows a healthy environment ?

Is planting important in improving one’s environment ?

B. Activity Proper:

1. Read about proper ways of gardening / planting on pp. 86-90,

EPP Resource Book.

2. Discussion on proper ways of planting

How is planting important to the family, community,

and the environment ?

3. Role Playing

Group 1 will dramatize a scenario showing people

who are concerned for the environment such as planting trees,

that when calamities come such as flood and typhoon they

still survive without much damage on their properties.

Group II will dramatize a scenario showing people

who have no concern for the environment such as illegal

loggers, that when calamities come they will suffer much

including loss of homes and livelihood.

What is the implication of the play ? What do you

learn from this play ?

C. Post Activities:

1. What are the proper ways of planting ?

2. What is the importance of planting ?

3. What would be the effect if trees in the forest are cut and forest

becomes bare ?

4. How can you help protect the environment ?

5. How can you help improve one’s way of living ?

IV Evaluation :

Underline the letter of the best answer.

1. Planting is a very good habit. This has to be practiced because

A. it is very tiresome

B. it gives happiness

C. it is a boring work

2. Planting is an important part of one’s life.

A. It provides abundant food products and fresh air.

B. It increases the cost of materials.

C. It improves civilization

3. If people learn to plant

A. nobody will buy vegetables and fruits

B. we will have fresh air

C. they will learn to earn a living

4. What is the important effect of planting to a family ?

A. happiness

B. improvement of one’s living

C. good health

5. If people continue to practice cutting more trees (deforestation)

A. flood and landslide will be prevented

B. global warming, flood and landslide will likely to occur

C. calamities will not happen again

V Assignment:

Make a list of plants that can be planted in different seasons.

LESSON PLAN in EPP VI

Integration: Disaster Risk Reduction

I Objective : Discuss the importance of preserving food

II Subject Matter :

A. Topic : Food Preservation

B. Concept : Preserving food prevents its spoilage. Through

food preservation the family will have enough food

for a long period of time, can save and can serve

different recipes with different tastes. With proper

knowledge on food preservation, it can help us earn a

living. Likewise, it can help us survive in case of

calamities like flood, typhoon, drought and the like.

C. Skills : preserving food, discussing, identifying, inferring

D. Reference : PELC

EPP 6 Resource Book

Disaster Risk Reduction Resource Manual

E. Materials : picture

III Educational Strategies :

A. Preparatory Activities:

Show a picture of a mother drying fish.

What does mother do ?

Why do you think she is drying fish ?

B. Activity Proper :

1. Identify food products that can be preserved.

2. Identify preserved foods to be stored / kept when different

calamities occur such as:

drought -

flood -

typhoon -

3. Enumerate the importance of food preservation through a

concept web.

C. Post Activities

1. What are the importance of the food preservation ?

2. There’s a warning that a typhoon is coming.

How would you prepare yourself so that you will be

able to survive when typhoon comes ?

IV Evaluation : Explain why food preservation is important. (5 points)

V Assignment : Preserve a kind of food that can be consumed in casPublish Poste

of a calamity.

Garden Tools - Answer to Scavenger Hunt

Garden Tools

1. Spade - A sturdy digging tool having a thick handle and a heavy, flat blade that can be pressed into the ground with the foot.

2. Hoe - A tool with a flat blade attached approximately at a right angle to a long handle, used for weeding, cultivating, and gardening.

3. Trowel - a curved, scoop like blade, used in gardening for taking up plants, turning up earth, etc.

4. Watering can - a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.

5. Weeder - a device, as a tool or machine, for removing weeds.

6. Rake - an agricultural implement with teeth or tines for gathering cut grass, hay, or the like or for smoothing the surface of the ground.

7. Fork - An implement with two or more prongs used for raising, carrying, piercing, or digging.

8. Shovel - A tool with a handle and a broad scoop or blade for digging and moving material, such as dirt or snow.

9. Wheelbarrow - a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels

10. Pruner - a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees