Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Primary 6

Week 7

Subject: Computer

Topic: Word perfect, word star and Corel word perfect

Reference: Computer studies for primary schools book 6

Previous knowledge: Pupils are familiar with word processing.

Objective: At the end of the lesson pupils should be able to:

1. Talk about word processing environments.
2. Know Corel word perfect.
3. Know word star and word perfect.

Content

Word perfect is a proprietary word processing application, now owned by Corel. Bruce Bastian, Dr Alan Ashton, joined forces to design a word processing system for 1979. They kept the rights to the word perfect software they designed for Orem and decided to market it through their own company.

Word star is a word processor application published by micro-pro international, originally written for the CPLIM operating system but later ported to DOS, which enjoyed a dominant market share during the early to mid-1980s. It was a text-based word processing program which made files relatively small. By contrast, most word processors today are code-based and save their document in much larger files.

Corel word perfect is a word processing software that resulted from the buy over of word perfect by Corel company.

Since its acquisition by Corel, it has officially known as Corel word perfect.

Presentation:

Step I: Teacher revises previous lesson with pupils

Step II: Teacher introduces and explain new topic to pupils

Step III: Pupils are allowed to ask questions

Step IV: Teacher writes note on the boards for pupils

Evaluation:

1. Explain the term “Word processing”?
2. When was Microsoft word first released?
3. Who designed word perfect?

Conclusion: Teacher moves round for inspection, marking and correction of notes where necessary.