POINT FORTIN WEST SECONDARY SCHOOL

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

LESSON PLAN

TEACHER’S NAME: Carla Lewis SUBJECT: Information Technology

DATE: 16th November 2015 CLASS: Form 4 Group 1

TIME: Period 1 & 6 LENGTH OF PERIOD: 2 x 35 mins

Syllabus: CSEC Information Technology

Unit Title: Word Processing

Lesson 8: Mail merge

RESOURCES

Teacher Resources Student resources

 Laptop  Computer
 Projector
 Screen cast video presentation
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE - Students should:
 Know how to write a letter
 Formatting and editing in MS Word
OBJECTIVES

Cognitive Psychomotor Affective

At the end of the lesson Form 4 students will: At the end of the lesson Form 4 students will:
1. Actively participate in activities

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 1. Produce a mail merge on a letter to the (Responding to phenomena)
parents of ten students when requested
(manipulation)

ASSESSMENT STRATEGY with Objective

Psychomotor Assessment Strategy Affective Assessment Strategy

1. Produce a mail merge on a Activity: Perform a mail merge 1. Actively participates in 1. Observation using a
letter to the parents of ten activities (Responding to checklist
students when requested phenomena)
(manipulation)
Set Induction

Case study: A tired teacher (ME -holding a sheet of paper in her hands) tells her students that in order to raise funds she has to send this
letter to fifty businesses in the southern area. It’s the same letter but she has to address it to each business. She asks them for an efficient
way to do this because she doesn’t have time to type in all those addresses 2 mins
Description of Teaching/Learning Activities:

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 Teacher Activities Student Expected Activities Intelligence Est. time to
being complete
developed
 The teacher elicits suggestions from the  Students will make suggestions based on the VL 8 mins
class (Discussion) case study given.

 Teacher will show the screen cast video on  Student will look at the video on mail merge. VS 8 mins
mail merge. (Engaging)

 Teacher will ask students to open MS Word  Students will point to the correct tab. VL/VS 10 mins
and identify the Mailings Tab. Students will answer questions and follow
Teacher will question students about the along the procedure being discussed
procedure that they saw

 Teacher will direct students to a copy of the  Students will review the video on their own VS 5 mins
video on their desktops which the student
can view for further reinforcement.
(Demonstrating)

ASSESSMENT
 Teacher will ask students to perform a mail  Students will type their letter, their address list BK 35 mins
merge on a letter to the parents of ten and follow the procedure demonstrated to
students requesting that they attend a produce their mail merge.
parent teacher conference.
Teacher will monitor and assist students
during the exercise

END OF LESSON ACTIVITIES

Closure to lesson: 2 mins

T.S. (Transition Statement):
“In today’s class, we learned about the mail merge feature.”
B.S. (Bridging Statement):

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“In our next class, we will learn import documents.”
Multiple Intelligences
VS: Visual Spatial VL: Verbal Linguistic Inter: Interpersonal Intra: Intrapersonal BK: Body/ Kinesthetic
LM: Logic/Mathematical M: Musical N: Naturalistic E: Existential

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