Date

November 3, 2014

Time

12:20

SST

Mouza Alhebsi

B.Ed. Teaching Practice Lesson Plan

Student
Halima Abdulla
teacher
School
Quba
Class

Grade 8

Lesson
Ms excel basics of excel
No of
28
unit/page
students
Context of the lesson
This lesson is the first lesson in ms excel. It is about the basics of the program.

Teaching goal
The overall aim of the lesson is to teach the basic tools of the program and let them understand the basic tools.
Learning objectives
By the end of the lesson. Students will be able to:
Start to use excel program.
Identify the basic tools.
Recognize basic chart terminology.
Assumptions about prior learning
They know that excel is one of the Microsoft programs but they havent use it before.
Anticipated problems and possible solutions
Some students will find difficulties to identify the basic tools so, I need to make sure that everyone is paying
attention when I am explaining the lesson.
Students might make some noises so, I will use the bell to get their attention.
Students might be sleepy so, I need to make them active by using small games.
Personal focus for this lesson
Be more animated, monitor children more closely, sounds level.
Target language
Quick access tools, ribbon, cells, column, rows, active
cells, worksheet, schedule, tabs

Teacher language
Now I want you to back to your desks to
complete the worksheet.
What we call this tool?
What does the taps include?

Main tasks or activities

Warming up
Ball game
Worksheet
Homework
Consider these grouping strategies:
Individual work
Group work
Whole class

Resources and teaching aids

realia, WB, PowerPoint, papers

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Consider where the children are working:

In front of the classroom
At their desk

Lesson Procedure
Time/
stage
1.
Engagement
5 mins

2.
Building
knowledge
10 mins

Teacher activity
(T will )
Warming up: Introducing the lesson.
T will give each group a puzzle to solve it. In this puzzle they have to order the
given picture which is a picture of beehive and behind the picture there is a
tittle of the lesson. (I will link the lesson with the beehive because of the cells
in excel program).
Each group will have a chain of letters. These letters linked together to make
one word which is reward. The letters will be covered and when the group will
answer or participate their leader will reveal the first character. The group
who will reveal most of the letters will have a gift at the end of the lesson.
Background: explaining the lesson
T will ask students if they studied this lesson before or have they used it or if
they have a background about it.
Identifying the characteristics of the program and for what we can use it.
T will start to explain the basic tools in the program and how they use it and
define the important terminology.
T will ask the learners to repeat the main terminologies.

Student activity
(eg. In groups ss will )
Students will be working
together as group to solve the
puzzle.

Students will be focusing to

teachers explanation and
participating with her.

3.
Transformation
10 mins

Ball game:
After explaining the main tools of excel T will use a ball to choose students
randomly to answer the questions that related to the tools to test them.
T will complete the last part of the lesson.

Students will be answering

and telling the names of each
tools that we will cover.

4.
Presentation
10 mins

Worksheet:
T will ask students to back to their desks and open the program (excel).T will
give students a worksheet to write the names of the tools that they studied by
their own and through using their computers.
T will walk around the learners to mark their answers.

Students will back to their seat

and open excel program to
start answering their
worksheet.

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Tutor Comment

5.
Reflection
5 mins

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Homework:
Students who will finish will have to do their homework.
Teacher will reward the best group.

If the students finished early

they will do the homework and
the winner group will get their
gifts.

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