Saving a Document

Saving a Document

On the system drive

Do Now: (5 Mins)

 Allow children time to take a "Mouse Control" exercise.

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Starter Activity (3Mins)

• Allow children time to talk about why they need to keep/save their personal items.
  

• List out some of the points mentioned on the white board. 

Differentiated Learning and Teaching Objectives:

• To open Microsoft Paint independently.

• To save work to their device. 

• To save and retrieve documents.

Keywords:

Save, Microsoft Paint, Button, File, Icon, and Retrieve.

Resources:

Computer systems with Microsoft Paint, Internet connection, IWB and Coding site.

Lesson Activity:

Introduce the lesson objectives using “I can” statements.
Ask children to launch Microsoft Paint application independently.
NOTE: 

 Assistant teacher if any can assist some children to do this.
Allow children to draw simple shapes on Microsoft Paint using the pencil tool.
Teacher demonstrates how to save file on the system drive.
Allow children time to practice this on their own.
Encourage them to always save files in a name they can easily remember.  

Activities for More Able Students:

• Launch Microsoft Paint.                               
  

• Draw simple shapes using the pencil and fill tools.
  

• Save file onto the system drive.                                                                                                             EXTENSION:

• Ask children to close the application and launch it again.

• Retrieve the saved file and edit it.

• Save it again using "save".

Activities for Less Able Students: 

• Launch Microsoft Paint      
  

•  Draw a shape using the pencil tool. · 

•  Save file onto the system drive.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  EXTENSION:
  

• Children close the application.       
  

• Relaunch Microsoft Paint independently.

• Draw two shapes and save onto your system drive.

Plenary:

• Ask children randomly to talk about what they have learnt today.
  

• Children randomly talk about the differences between the “Save” and “Save As” buttons.

Multiple Choice

Question 1: Microsoft Paint is a ____________________

• Singing Software

• Typing software

• Painting software

Multiple Choice

Question 2: To save a file on Microsoft Paint, click on the _______.

• Home menu

• File menu

• View menu

Multiple Choice

Question 3: Save is found under the

• View menu

• Home menu

• File menu

Multiple Choice

Question 4: Which of the following is the colour palette on Microsoft Paint?

Multiple Choice

Question 5: To draw on Microsoft Paint, we use