POINT FORTIN WEST SECONDARY SCHOOL

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

LESSON PLAN

TEACHERS NAME: Carla Lewis

SUBJECT: Information Technology

DATE: Monday 5th October 2015

CLASS:

TIME:

LENGTH OF PERIOD:

Period 1 & 6

Syllabus:

Form 4 Group 1

70mins

CSEC Information Technology

Unit Title:

Data communications and networks

Lesson 2:

Devices in a network

RESOURCES
Teacher Resources

Student resources

4 sheets of Bristol board

Markers

Pictures of various computers devices and

Glue

peripherals

Video, laptop, projector

Literature on devices

PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE - Students should:

Know various types of computers, input and output devices.

What is a computer network
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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. Have participated in all class
and group activities

1. Design the layout of a network

for a specific scenario

ASSESSMENT STRATEGY with Objective

Cognitive

1. Design layout of a
network for a given
location

Assessment Strategy

Affective

Assessment Strategy

Activity: Groups will be given

1. Have participated in all
Observation
four clients for which they must
class and group activities
design a network set up,
choosing appropriate devices
that meet the clients needs.

Set Induction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWTJKcg7Pj8
5 mins
Description of Teaching/Learning Activities:
Teacher Activities

Student Expected Activities

Intelligence
being
developed
VL

Est. time to
complete

10 mins
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Teacher asks students to state some

of the things they learnt from the
video

Teacher will distribute a case study

to every group

Students will walk around the room and

gather information from the resources
provided about the uses of each device
on a network

Students will work in their groups and

using their knowledge of network
devices to produce a design of a
network for the following: Home, bank,
work office, school computer lab.
Students will order devices from the
store to take back to their group to
complete the design. Students must
produce a cost for the network they are
setting up for their client.

Students will recall information from the

video

18 mins

Inter/BK/VS

20 mins

VL/Inter

15 mins

Students will present their designs to

the class and explain why they chose
the devices they had selected for their
case study.

END OF LESSON ACTIVITIES

Closure to lesson: 2 mins
T.S. (Transition Statement):

In todays class, we learnt about the devices found in a network.

B.S. (Bridging Statement):

In our next class, we will look at data communication.

Multiple Intelligences

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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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