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Computer System: Application software

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Term: 2nd Term

Week: 6

Class: Senior Secondary School 1

Age: 15 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 2 periods each

Date:       

Subject:      Computer Studies and ICT

Topic:-       Computer System: Application software

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to

  1. Define Application software
  2. Discuss the application packages for specialized areas

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES: Identification, explanation, questions and answers, demonstration, videos from source

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: Videos, loud speaker, pictures, Data Processing for senior Secondary Education by Hiit Plc, WAPB Computer Studies for Senior Secondary I by Adekunle et al, On-line Materials.

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES

PERIOD 1-2

PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

STUDENT’S ACTIVITY

STEP 1

INTRODUCTION

The teacher reviews the previous lesson on application software

Students pay attention

STEP 2

EXPLANATION

He discusses the application packages for specialized areas

 

Students pay attention and participates

STEP 3

DEMONSTRATION

He discusses further more application packages for specialized areas

Students pay attention and participate

STEP 4

NOTE TAKING

The teacher writes a summarized note on the board

The students copy the note in their books

 

NOTE

APPLICATION PACKAGES FOR SPECIALIZED

Application packages can be classified into:

  1. Application Specific,
  2. General purpose application packages.

 

Application Specific

These application packages are programs designed to carry out a specialized task.

General purpose

General purpose application packages are designed to provide users with general set of facilities to handle a wide variety of problems.

PACKAGES FOR SPECIALIZED AREAS

Packages for specialized areas are based on the categories of application packages. These are: 

Payroll programs e.g GUSTO, Paychex, SurePayroll, Paylocity etc

Education Management Software e.g Moodle, Google classroom, Lanschool, Edmodo etc

Accounting Software e.g Xero, Quickbooks, Netsuite, wave accounting, sage group etc

Statistical Software e.g Stata, JMP, SPSS, MATLAB, Minitab, JSP etc

Web design software e.g Bootstrap, WordPress, Adobe XD, Figma, Wix, Sketch etc

 

EVALUATION:    1. Define the different categories of application softwares

  1. Discuss some application packages for specialized                    areas

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the students positively