Year 2 Lesson plans – Semester 1

Some students start Year 2 without ever having used a computer before. So at the beginning of the Year, it is worth assuming that the students will need to know everything and being prepared for this. I have tried to put these lessons in the order I would teach them…

1. Planning required: Create ICT Rules for your classroom. Also plan where you want students to sit. I usually have boy and then girl etc. I put them in an order and keep track of it – so I know who sits where. This means that if I have two chatty students sitting next to each other, I quickly know who they are and split them up etc.
   •  Main objective: So students know the ICT Rules, how to behave in class and where to sit etc. To know the Main parts of a computer. Start learning the QWERTY Keyboard, Mouse, Logging in, Logging out, Shutdown, Internet and Windows
   • The lesson: Get students to tell you why rules are needed. Make sure all students know the words: mouse, keyboard and monitor/screen etc. Gives students usernames and passwords. Teach them Mouse skills – Left and right buttons + Scroll wheel. Teach the students how to recognize if a computer and monitor is on or not. Show them the “Shutdown” button on the base unit. Show students how to switch on a computer and a monitor. Show the students how to login and log-off. Show students the Internet icon on the desktop. Show them how to open the Internet. Show students how to type: www.abcya.com (and look for “How to make a pizza”) Students then make a pizza online.
     
2. Planning required: Get enough paper for every student. Set usernames and passwords before the lesson starts. Make sure you have a record of them somewhere just in case a student forgets. Create a document showing a monitor and base unit. Make sure the pictures show the red lights are switched on.
   • Main objectives: Understanding how to Log in and log out. Desktop familiarity
   • The lesson: Teach Windows skills – the Search box, close, quit, resize, tabs, icons on the bottom screen and how to open menus Get students opening, closing and finding applications. Get students to label the pictures and highlight the on/off switches. Learning to open and close a document
     Learning Save and Save as. Creating an “All About me” presentation, a Gingerbread House and a year 2 game at www.abcya.com
3. Planning required: Create a huge poster showing a large keyboard. Put it the wall of your classroom. Also create a document which is effectively an A4 sized picture of the keyboard. and print off enough copies for each student. Make sure you have some typing software on the computers e.g. Rapid typing
   • Main objective: Familiarity with the Keyboard and Mouse
   • The lesson: Show students the letters on a typical keyboard and get them to say where they are. Give them the handout and get students to colour the letters such as Ctrl, shift etc. Get students to log onto computers. Show them how to open the typing software and then, get students to practice typing skills. Windows skills (Finding things in the Windows search box). Learning to create a folder within “my documents”. Getting used to the QUERTY keyboard. Opening and closing the internet. Using the address box. Typing game at www.abcya.com and mouse skills using http://mousepractice.altervista.org/ 
4. Planning required: Go to Typing.com and create accounts for every student in your class. Keep a record of the usernames and passwords
   • Main objective: Increased familiarity with the Internet and with the Keyboard
   • The lesson: Show students the home button, forward and address bar. Get students to visit the typing.com website, login and get them to practice their typing skills
5. Planning required: Go to Schoology.com and create classes and accounts for every student in each class. Keep a record of the usernames and passwords
   • Main objective: Increased familiarity with the Internet and with the Keyboard
   • The lesson: Show students how to use favourites, back and Google search engine to find “Schoology”. Give students log-in and class details and then get them to create profiles in schoology and find a GIF file to use for their profile picture. If there is time left, get students to visit the typing.com website, login and get them to practice their typing skills again.
6. Planning required: n/a
   • Main objective: Increased familiarity with “My Documents”. Creating a Folder and Saving a file
   • The lesson: Show students how to use the search box to find “My documents”. Show them how to create a folder called “My ICT work”. Show them how to open Microsoft Word, create a short text and then use “Save as” to save their document as “First document” to the “My ICT work” folder they created. Show students how they know a file has been saved or not. Then get students to change the document and simply “Save” it this time. Ask students to find the file they created. If there is time left, get students to visit the typing.com website, login and get them to practise their typing skills again.
7. Planning required: Create an assignment folder on Schoology
   • Main objective: Learning basic Formatting, saving and uploading
   • The lesson: Show students how to create shapes and format them etc. Get students to create shapes, format them, save the file into the correct folder and then upload the file to Schoology.
8. Planning required: Create an assignment folder on Schoology
   • Main objective: Learning basic Word-processing, menus, saving and uploading
   • The lesson: Show students how to enter text in Microsoft Word. Practicing skills like delete, copy, paste, cut, save as, save (using right-click menu’s), lower-case and upper-case letters, bullet lists, shift and caps lock.
9. Planning required: Create an assignment folder on Schoology
   • Main objective: Learning more basic Word-processing, shortcuts, saving and uploading
   • The lesson: Show students how to enter another text in Microsoft Word. Practicing skills like delete, copy, paste, cut, save as, save (using shortcuts: Control key and letter), lower-case and upper-case letters, bullet lists, shift and caps lock.
10. Planning required: Think of any information which helps you as a teacher e.g. passwords and information you can use when writing reports e.g. interests and strengths.
    • Main objective: To increase students Independence and Microsoft Powerpoint
    • The lesson: Review how to Copy, Paste, Save etc using shortcuts, right-click menu and main toolbar menus. Show students how to open Microsoft Powerpoint and create a basic slideshow. The slideshow will contain their own students usernames & passwords (for the computer, typing.com and schoology.com), passwords, their chosen English name and details about themselves e.g. hobbies etc. get students to save their work as “About me” and save it into their “My ICT work” folder. Go around the class to make sure every student has saved their work to the right place. If there is time left, get students to visit the typing.com website, login and get them to practice their typing skills again.
11. Planning required: Create an assignment on Schoology
    • Main objective: How to Open a file. Increased familiarity with Schoology and Microsoft Powerpoint
    • The lesson: Show students how to open their “About me” slideshow. Then show them how to add transitions and how to format it etc. Get the students to improve their work, add any other important details needed and then get them to save it. I get students to list their usernames, passwords and log-in details for Schoology, Typing.com and school computers. (Other websites log-in details can be added later e.g. Tynker.com and code.org) Show students how to upload documents to the Schoology assignment folder. Get them to upload their work to Schoology. If there is time left, get students to visit the typing.com website, login and get them to practice their typing skills again.
12. Planning required: Create a picture containing pangrams (Pangrams are sentences containing every letter in the alphabet. Pictures can not be typed!) Upload it to your Schoology folder. Create a pangram assignment on Schoology.
    • Main objective: To Download a document from Schoology and increase students Typing skills and become familiar with Pangrams
    • The lesson: Show students how to find the document you created and then uploaded to Schoology. Show them how to download it and save it. Students then create a Word document and type what they see in your pangram document. They will then upload their document to your Schoology pangram assignment
13. Planning required: Create a Microsoft Word document which contains a table of images and words associated with the images. The images do not match the text. The students must use cut and paste to correct the table. Create a “Match the animals” assignment.
    • Main objective: To learn how to Cut, Copy and Paste and Editing a document “Match the animals”
    • The lesson: Show students the “Match the animals” document on Schoology. Show them how to download, save it and edit it. Get the students to do likewise. Then teach the students how to copy items and get students to do likewise. They will submit their completed work to the assignment folder.
14. Planning required: Create a Word document with incorrect image sizes and incorrect rotation
    • Main objective: Students will learn to resize, rotate and use spellchecker to correct spelling
    • The lesson: Students will word-process a document which has images rotated and resized incorrectly and edit incorrect sentences.
15. The remaining lessons in semester one focus on delete, backspace, underline, bold, using shift to create capitals and characters, highlight, double-click to highlight words, triple-click to highlight a phrase/sentence, moving/dragging items etc.
16. The end of semester exam usually involves typing and then correcting a document