SAMPLE OF A LESSON NOTE
Subject: Computer Studies/ Information Technology
Class: JSS 2
Duration: 40 minutes
Date: 25th March 2018
Age: 12 years and above
Topic: Electronic Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel)
Specific objectives: At end the lesson, the students should be able to do the following:
1. Explain what electronic spreadsheet (Microsoft excel) is.
2. Discuss the general features of spreadsheets.
3. How to use formular in Microsoft excel.
4. Discuss functions and recalculation in the Microsoft excel environment.
5. Draw the Microsoft excel environment.
Instructional Materials: Chalk, board, lap top and a chart showing Microsoft excel
environment.
Instructional Techniques: Observation explanatory discussion, demonstration, question and
answers.
Entry behaviour: The students have learnt about internet in the previous lesson.
Set induction or test entry behaviour: Introduction of the topic to the students starting from
the known to unknown.
Content Students Instructional
No Teacher Activities
Development Activities Method
The teacher explain the meaning of
spreadsheet thus electronic
The students listen
spreadsheet are simply computer
Meaning of as the teacher
software that allows users to create
1 electronic explain the Explanatory
tables and financial schedules and
spreadsheet meaning of
reports by entering data and formular
electronic
into cells formed by the intersection of
rows and columns on a display screen.
The teacher discusses the general
features of electronics spreadsheet:
thus (1) columns rows and labels: A
The students
The generate column is made up of a series of boxes
watch the teacher Demonstration
2 features of arranged vertically in a workbook. A row
as he demonstrate teacher guided
spreadsheets consist of a series of boxes arranged
using a lap top.
horizontally in a workbook. (2) cell, cell
address, values: a cells is formed at the
intersection of each column row cell
1
address is the references name or
identifier for a particular cell.
The teacher explain how to use
The students
formulas in Microsoft excel: thus
watch the teacher
How to use formulas are instructions for
as he Demonstration
3 formular in calculations eg in Ms excel, the formular
demonstrates and teacher guide
Microsoft = Sum (A2: A20)” means “Sum (Add) all
they participate in
the numbers in the cells A2 through
the discussion
A20.
The teacher discusses the function and
recalculation in Microsoft excel: thus
functions are in built formular to
perform common calculations. For
The students
instance a function can be used to
Discuss participate in the
compute the average of a range of
functions and discussion and Discussion
4. numbers or to count the occurrence of
recalculation in watch the teacher teachers guided
any specific entry on the worksheet or
Ms. excel. write example on
workbook. With this recalculation
the board.
feature the waste of man-hour trying to
re-compute an entire worksheet due to
change in one value became a thing of
past.
The student watch
Draws the The teacher draws the Microsoft excel
and observe the
Microsoft excel environment on the chalk board, using Observation
5. teacher drawing
on the chalk the chart showing Microsoft excel teacher guided.
Ms. excel
board. environment.
environment
The student
contributes to the
The teacher summaries the lesson by Discussion
Summary discussion as the
revising the lesson from the beginning. teacher guided
teacher
summaries
Teacher evaluates the students based
The student listen
on the lesson thus what is spreadsheet? Questioning and
Evaluation and answer the
What are the features of Ms excel? = answering
question
Sum (A2: A10)” means what?
The teacher copies the assignment on
Assignment the chalk board draw a Microsoft excel
environment
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