Lesson

Five

Teacher Name: Grant Washburn

Date and time lesson will be taught: TBA

Lesson Title: Thank You Letter

Name of Secondary CTE Course: Computer Applications 1

Curriculum Framework Unit: Unit 4, Word Processing

Standard(s): 4.7 Identify the clipboard

4.7.1 View the clipboard when cutting or copying text or images


Objectives: The learners will be able to

1. Use the clipboard function of Microsoft Word to copy, cut, and paste text or
images in a document.

Content to be presented in lesson:

The functions of the system clipboard on Microsoft Word
Daily typing lessons to warm up their brains/hands

Introduction to the Lesson/Hook: Allotted Time: 5 minutes

(Students will sit at their assigned seats)
Good morning, class. Its finally Friday! Even on Fridays, please come in and
take your assigned seats and start on your daily warm-up lessons, Micro Type. Once
you all are warmed up, we will begin on the final lesson of unit 4, lesson 4.7.
Remember, we will have an assessment over Unit 4 on Monday. I dont like having
my students take a test on Monday, but that is just how the days fell for this unit.
However, if you have read the lessons and practiced your word processing skills,
you should not have a problem with the assessment. Today, we will learn how to use
the clipboard feature of Microsoft Word to edit or build a document.


Learning activities/procedures: Allotted Time: 35 minutes

LECTURE/STUDENT LED NOTES: 15 minutes

 Please open up a blank word document and save it to your personal folder
once you have applied the correct header. We will be using this document to learn
the content of todays lesson.

The main topic of todays lesson will be where to identify the clipboard as
well as how to utilize the clipboard functions. Can you tell me what features are
stored under the clipboard group on the home tab of the ribbon board? The four
features stored under the clipboard group are cut, copy, paste, and format painter.
The clipboard is a temporary storage place in the computers memory.

You all have learned about the different features stored within the clipboard
group. Just to review the four features, I will provide the definition and use for each
tool. Cutting text refers to removing selected text and placing it on the clipboard.
When the user copies text, he/she places the selected text onto the clipboard to be
pasted at a desired location in the future. Pasting the text refers to inserting the
selected text into the desired insertion point within the document. Finally, format
painter is a feature that copies format attributes such as colors, borders, and fill
effects from an object, text, or cell in order to apply the same formatting to another
object, text, or cell.

The clipboard can only hold one selection at a time, so each time you cut of
copy text, the newly cut or copied text replaces the text currently stored on the
clipboard. The clipboard is available to all programs on your computer, and it is
sometimes called the system clipboard. The first feature of the clipboard we will
review is cutting and pasting to move text. To move text from one location to
another using the clipboard, you need to use the cut command and then the paste
command. First, select the text you want to move. Then, on the home tab, in the
clipboard group, click the cut button. To paste the text stored on the clipboard to a
new place in the document, position the insertion point at the location where you
want the text to appear. The text currently stored on the clipboard is pasted into the
document. Can someone please give me a real world example of when you would
use this feature in a future education setting? The second feature of the clipboard is
copying and pasting text. To copy text in one location to another location, you need
to use the copy command. The selected text you have copied then can be pasted into
a different insertion point within the document using the same formatting. This
feature is very similar to cutting and pasting. What is the one major difference that
differentiates these two features of the clipboard? Can anybody guess or tell me, if
you know, how many different pasting options there are for pasting text or images?
When using the PASTE command, the paste options button appears below and to
the right of the pasted text. When this icon is clicked upon, a gallery of options
appears. The options include paste the text so its appearance matches the original
appearance (source formatting), so its appearance matches or merges with the text
in the location where it is being pasted (destination formatting), or so it is pasted as
text only, with no custom formatting (Keep text only). Finally, format painter is the
last feature of the clipboard. A user uses the format painter feature if they wish to
copy the format of certain text to other areas of text in the document. To change
more than one block of text, double click the format painter icon and drag over text.
This feature will stay active until you toggle the command off.

THANK YOU LETTER ASSIGNMENT: 20 minutes

Now that we have reviewed the four features of the clipboard, we are going
to implement these skills in creating a thank you letter for somebody that has
positively impacted your life. This person can either be a family member, teacher,
coach, and supportive friend. If you open up your email, I have sent you the thank
you letter template that you will be using. Also, there are directions on top of the
sheet that tell you what actions need to be done to successfully complete the
assignment (the thank you letter is already composed, but students will edit text
and images using features from the clipboard). When you come across a blank space
in the thank you letter, which is where you insert the name of whomever you are
writing the letter to. You last 20 minutes to complete this assignment. When
finished, save the document to your personal folder and email me the finished
product (wait 20 minutes for students to finish assignment. Constantly walk around
the classroom and observe the students progress and answer questions). Okay, find
a stopping point and email me your finished product. If you have not finished, you
will need to finish the assignment this weekend and email it to me before class
begins on Monday. Does everybody understand the procedures as what to do?

Lesson Closure/Review of content: Allotted time: 5 minutes

For the last closure we will complete during unit 4, we will hypothetically
create two quiz questions over the material you have learned today. The questions
should be over material that you deem important to remember and should be
regarded as content that needs to be mastered by a student. There is a possibility
that some of the questions you all create could end up on the post-assessment
Monday morning. Does anybody have questions regarding our closure for todays
lesson? If not, you have five minutes to finish and turn in your questions. Go!

Evaluation/Assessment of student learning: Allotted time: N/A

The first method of formative assessment will be during the lecture portion
of the lesson. The students should be taking notes over the material I am
reading off and demonstrating. I will walk around the room and glance at the
students notes to see what they deem important enough to write down.
Another method of formative assessment for this lesson will be the
completion of the thank you letter assignment. The student has been given
direct instructions as where to edit the document, how to edit the document,
as well as what features to edit the thank you letter.
Finally, the last method of formative assessment during this lesson will be
provided via the closure procedure. The students are assigned to create two
quiz questions regarding the material they learned in class. This assignment
 will also show me what the students believe to be most important from
lesson 4.7.

Accommodations for exceptional learners: Allotted time: N/A

I can make accommodations for the exceptional learners in this particular
class by modifying the thank you letter assignment that the students should have
completed. Instead of providing a template for these exceptional learners, I can give
them this assignment and have them create their own letter from scratch. This will
challenge the students creativity as well as their work ethic.
I can also modify the closure for those lower-achieving students or special
education students. Instead of having them create two quiz questions, I can have
them write down the one aspect of the lesson that they deemed to be the most
important going forward. This will provide me with the same information, as I
would receive from the quiz questions, but just in a different format.

References:

Pasewark, W. R. (2011). Microsoft Office 2010: Introductory. Boston, MA: Course
Technology/Cengage Learning.