Appendix I lesson plan

P2 University of Manchester Lesson Plan

Subject: ICT/Computing Class: Year 2
Lesson context
Childrens learning from
previous lesson S2b, S6b
Children
will
be Children have used word
introduced
to processing software before and
PowerPoint
software, understand
basic
Windows
with the end goal (3/4 functions.
week unit) of creating
an
All
About
Me
presentation.

Date:
Provision for inclusion (SEN, EAL, G&T, Beh,
GRT, LAC...) (S5d, S5b)
Omitted.

Objective: what do I want the pupils to learn and how I will know they have learnt it?
Lesson objective
Success criteria: To be successful pupils
Differentiation (who will do what?)
(To)
will
link each activity to the success
criteria on the left (S5a)
To
gain
an 1) Be able to open and start a new All children will complete the same
understanding
of
presentation
activities (lesson will be structured in
2) Use
the
basic
functions
of a step-by-step way i.e. model,
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
to
create
a children do themselves, model - so
background/apply
a
theme
To create a title slide
instructions should be clear and
using
appropriate 3) Add a title and sub-title
simple).
4) Use
the
basic
functions
of
backgrounds, fonts
PowerPoint to format the text font,
and colours
Seat LA group near to the front of the
size and colour
room to support/keep on task.
5) Save work and give it an
Have HA children help others nearby
appropriate title
when they have completed their own
tasks.
Subject knowledge: what do I need to know in order to teach this lesson?
Concepts I will explain: S3a
I will model:
PowerPoint - A piece of software that allows How to use PowerPoint/features see teaching sequence.
us to use words, pictures, animations and
sounds
to
create
interesting
and
informative presentations.
Audience We make presentations for an
audience, not just for ourselves, usually
(give examples e.g. teachers, in meetings).
Explain that we need to think about the
audience who will be looking at it when
we are designing our presentations.
Vocabulary I will use: S3a

Pedagogy: teaching strategies I will use (S2d): eg talk

partners, investigation, active learning, games,
collaboration, IT.
PowerPoint, presentation, software, screen, Active Learning/IT Children will learn through modelling
slide,
background,
theme,
design, before carrying out activities themselves independently,
audience, button, mouse, keyboard, type, using the computers and software.
text box, font, colour, style, size, save, file,
Partners Work in a pair to investigate features of
PowerPoint
Resources
Safety S1a
weblinks
ICT suite
Manage
transitions/minimise *N/A
- Computers
children moving around the
- PowerPoint
room.
Demonstrate how to
safely switch computers on/off.

*If searching online ensure

children
are
using
kidzsearch.com should
not need the internet during
this introductory lesson, so
make sure children are not
online
for
inappropriate
reasons.

Formative assessment and feedback (S6)

To challenge and extend the
pupils my questions are: S1b,
S6b
What techniques and
strategies am I using to assess
the learning? (S6b)
How and when we I give
oral/written feedback to the
pupil against the success
criteria so that they can
respond? (S6d, S2a)

What do you think we will need to do in the next lesson?

What skills do we need to apply?
What else could we add to make our presentation more interesting
and informative?
Discussion and answers given during teaching input and questioning.
Confidence and competence using software when working
independently.
Oral feedback given during whole class discussion, when taking
feedback from questions and when children are demonstrating skills to
the whole class.
Written feedback will be given by reviewing presentations from shared
drive and leaving comments for the children to read at the start of the
next lesson (allow time to read and edit title slide accordingly)

Teaching and learning sequence: How will I teach this lesson? What will I do? The guide to my
lesson (S6a, S4 and S7)
(Think about behaviour management, timings, transitions and assessment leading to feedback)
Behaviour/timing What the teacher is doing
What the pupils are doing
s/assessment
leading to
feedback
10 minutes
Tell children to login as soon as they come in. Children come in, find a
(5 minutes to Begin the lesson by explaining what PowerPoint computer, sit down and log on.
come in and get is, a piece of presentation software that allows us
everyone logged to use words, pictures, animations and sounds to
in)
create interesting and informative presentations.
Explain that the children will be creating a
presentation all about themselves.
Open up PowerPoint from Start menu.
Start > Office > PowerPoint 2010
If we want to open a programme where do we
look? Can anyone find the right folder/icon?
Start blank presentation. Point out:
Pane on left side that shows all the slides in
presentation

Children
locate
PowerPoint
using the Start menu and start
the programme.

10 minutes

10 minutes

10 minutes

Click to add title and click to add subtitle

boxes Text boxes you can type straight into
(do not type anything at the moment)

Choose a design (design tab)

Ask children if they know how to change what the
slides look like easily? i.e. Apply a design theme.
Ask children to work in pairs, see if they can work
out how to change the background on their first
slide.
Invite someone to the board to
demonstrate.
Explain that there are two ways of changing
the background of the slides. Model how to
find the design tab.
1: Click on the drop down menu to see more
themes
2: Click on background styles and choose an
option
Allow
children
to
choose
a
theme/background colour of their choice for
their presentation
Add a title and name
Ask children to navigate back to the Home tab;
remind them of the textboxes that we can type
straight into and explain that we need to add a
title and name. Why do we need to do this? As
its a presentation we need people to know what
its about and who its by think of our audience.
Model adding an All About Me title and my
name
Children add their own titles and names
(type only, do not format text yet)
Change the font, size and colour of text
Explain that to make our presentation more
interesting and exciting we can use different fonts
and colours.
Does anyone know what we need to do first
to change the text we have already typed?
Take
feedback,
invite
to
board
to
demonstrate.
Highlight, model how to click and drag the
mouse to highlight the title.
What do we do next? Take feedback.
Change the font using the drop-down list,
change the size using the adjacent drop
down number list, change the colour using
the underlined A button
Ask children to format their title and sub-title by
changing the font, size and colours. Remind them
that we are making this for an audience our
friends or teachers so it needs to be something
easy to read as well as interesting to look at.

Children talk to the person

sitting next to them about how
they think they change the
background. One person (from
whole class, not per pair)
comes
to
the
board
to
demonstrate.

Children
format
the
background to one of their
choice.

Children add their own titles

and names using the keyboard.

Children format their text using

the tools discussed.

Children format their text using

the tools discussed.


10 minutes.
(5 minutes to log
off
and
have
everyone
lined
up and ready to
go)

Does anyone know how to underline text, or

make it bold? Take feedback.
Model highlighting the text again, and using
the B I U buttons

Explain that next lesson we are going to add a

photo of ourselves and some writing. What skills
will we need for this? What will we need to do
before the lesson? Take photos and upload them
to the computer, skills: adding new slides, adding
text boxes, importing pictures

Children save their work in the

appropriate folder as modelled,
before logging computers off.

Save presentations and give them a file name

Explain that we need to save our work and give it
a name. Why? So we can carry on next time/so
we can find our work on the computers.
Model:
File > Save as > Year 2 > All About Me
Presentations
What would be a good file name? Take
feedback.
First name only (or first name and initial) and
All About Me (i.e. Abi T All About Me)
Ask children to close PowerPoint and log the
computers off, model doing this using the Start
menu and remind children they should not be
turning computers off using the buttons on the
tower.

Assessment : Identify the progress pupils have made in this lesson (S6)
Identify with a code any children who have exceeded or not achieved the success criteria for this
lesson. In the third column, indicate what you are going to do to meet each identified childs needs as a
result of assessments made.
Success criteria

Names

Cod
e

What will you do to meet the needs of the

children identified through this
assessment?

1) Be able to open and

start
a
new
presentation
2) Use
the
basic
functions
of
PowerPoint to create a
background/apply
a
theme
3) Add a title and subtitle
4) Use
the
basic
functions
of
PowerPoint to format
the text font, size and
colour
5) Save work and give it
an appropriate title
Evaluation and reflection
Evaluate the progress pupils made in this
lesson in relation to the success criteria (S6b)

What were the strengths and weaknesses of your

teaching? (4d, S8d)

List three actions you will now take to improve pupil progress through your teaching (4d, S8d)