POINT FORTIN WEST SECONDARY SCHOOL

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

LESSON PLAN
TEACHERS NAME: Carla Lewis

SUBJECT: Information Technology

DATE:

CLASS:

TIME:

16th November 2015

Period 1 & 6

Syllabus:

Form 4 Group 1

LENGTH OF PERIOD:

2 x 35 mins

CSEC Information Technology

Unit Title:

Word Processing

Lesson 8:

Mail merge

RESOURCES
Teacher Resources

Student resources

Laptop
Projector
Screen cast video presentation

Computer

PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE - Students should:

Know how to write a letter

Formatting and editing in MS Word

OBJECTIVES
Cognitive

Psychomotor

At the end of the lesson Form 4

students will:

Affective

At the end of the lesson Form 4 students

will:
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1. Produce a mail merge on a letter

to the parents of ten students
when requested (manipulation)

1. Actively participate in activities

(Responding to phenomena)

ASSESSMENT STRATEGY with Objective

Psychomotor

Assessment Strategy

1. Produce a mail merge Activity: Perform a mail merge

on a letter to the
parents of ten students
when requested
(manipulation)

Affective

1. Actively participates in
activities (Responding
to phenomena)

Assessment Strategy

1. Observation using
a checklist

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. Its the same letter but she has to address it to
each business. She asks them for an efficient way to do this because she doesnt have time to type in all those
addresses
2 mins
Description of Teaching/Learning Activities:

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Teacher Activities

Student Expected Activities

The teacher elicits suggestions from

the class (Discussion)

Students will make suggestions based

on the case study given.

Teacher will show the screen cast

video on mail merge. (Engaging)

Student will look at the video on mail

merge.

Teacher will ask students to open MS

Word and identify the Mailings Tab.
Teacher will question students about
the procedure that they saw

Teacher will direct students to a copy

of the video on their desktops which
the student can view for further
reinforcement. (Demonstrating)

ASSESSMENT
Teacher will ask students to perform
a mail merge on a letter to the
parents of ten students requesting
that they attend a parent teacher
conference.
Teacher will monitor and assist
students during the exercise

Students will point to the correct tab.

Students will answer questions and
follow along the procedure being
discussed

Intelligence
being
developed
VL

Est. time to
complete

8 mins

VS

8 mins

VL/VS

10 mins

VS

5 mins

BK

35 mins

Students will review the video on their

own

Students will type their letter, their

address list and follow the procedure
demonstrated to produce their mail
merge.

END OF LESSON ACTIVITIES

Closure to lesson: 2 mins

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T.S. (Transition Statement):

In todays class, we learned about the mail merge feature.

B.S. (Bridging Statement):

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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