General Notes
Teacher’s Notes
• An evaluation section is found at the end of each topic to note progress of pupils.
• All computer activities have been designed to be used with Windows 7 and Office 2007.
Chapter 1: COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS
Page 6: Teacher may use other examples to explain the concept of input-output.
Page 8-9: The pictures in the green boxes on the left shows the advantages of using computers. Pictures in red boxes on the right are to be used for comparison.
Chapter 2: COMPUTER OPERATIONS
In this chapter, examples have been given for:
1. Renaming a folder
2. Deleting a file
3. Restoring a file
Teacher should inform pupils that:
• a file can be renamed using same instructions as Renaming a folder
• folders can be deleted and restored using same instructions as for deleting and restoring a file
• when a folder is deleted, its content, if any are also deleted.
Page 17: the folder created has been named Grade 3 and all documents
(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Paint etc … ) will be saved in this folder.
Teacher may use other names such as Grade 3 Red or other names
depending on number of streams at school and also the number of
computers available. Same applies for file names.
Chapter 3: WORD PROCESSING
Page 27: Teacher should elaborate on using meaningful file names.
Page 32: Teacher should ensure that the clip art used in the activity is available on the computer before starting the lesson.
Page 35: Teacher may carry out the example on the computer so that pupils understand better. Pupils may be given other small activities to consolidate the ‘Saving a file’ and ‘Inserting clip art’ sections
Chapter 4: SPREADSHEET
Page 66: The mouse may also be used to select (highlight) cells depending on ability of pupils.
Page 74: Teacher may carry out a simple activity to demonstrate the different alignments.
Chapter 5: PRESENTATION
Page 86: Pictures must be pre-loaded in the Grade 3 folder on the desktop before starting the activity.
Chapter 6: INTERNET
Pages 97, 99 and 102: Teacher is free to use other web sites for explanation purposes.
Chapter 7: MULTIMEDIA
Page 114: Picture must be pre-loaded in the Grade 3 folder on the desktop before starting the activity.
Pupils may be given other small activities to consolidate use of MS Paint.