Using Email Address (Primary 5)

COMPUTER STUDIES (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY) 

BASIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

THIRD TERM 

WEEK 11 

PRIMARY 5 

THEME – BASIC CONCEPTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 

PREVIOUS LESSON – Internet Browsers – Explorer, Mozilla, Goggle Chrome, Create Email (Primary 5)

TOPIC: USING EMAIL ADDRESS 

1. Sending Email

2. Receiving Email

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, the pupils should have attained the following objectives (cognitive, affective and psychomotor) and should be able to:

1. access the internet.

2. send and receive e-mail.

3. chat on the internet

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of:

Internet connected computer lab or cyber cafe.

METHOD OF TEACHING – Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.

Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons. 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Scheme of Work

9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum

Course Book

All Relevant Material

Online Information

Relevant link – Third Term Scheme of Work and Plan Lesson Note Computer Studies (Information Technology) Primary 4, Primary 5 and Primary 6 Links

 

CONTENT OF THE LESSON 

LESSON ONE – INTRODUCTION

Email stands for electronic mail.

Email is an electronic means of exchange message electronic devices – computer or phone.

Email address is a unique identity for an email account.

SENDING AND RECEIVING E-MAIL

SENDING EMAIL

• Log in to your Gmail account so that you are on the dashboard (main page) of your mail account.

• Click Compose.

• A new blank email window will open up. In the ‘To’ box, type in the email address of the recipient.

• Type your message in the main body field of your email.

• When you’re happy with your email, click the blue Send button at the bottom of the compose window.

• The email you’ve sent will now be stored in the ‘Sent Mail’ folder on your Gmail dashboard.

LESSON TWO – RECEIVING EMAIL

Allows pupils to send messages to one another, guide them to read messages received.

CHATTING ON THE INTERNET 

Using their Gmail or Yahoo mail to send and receive messages.

Teacher’s Activities – Guides and allows the pupils to send and receive messages. 

LESSON THREE – WEEKLY ASSESSMENT 

As stated in performance objectives or lesson evaluation. 

PRESENTATION

To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps:

1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson. Based on this, he/she asks the pupils some questions;

2. Guides pupils to:

• send and receive mails,

• chat on the internet,

Pupil’s Activities – Visit a cyber cafe and do the following:

• send and receive mails,

• chat on the internet.

CONCLUSION

• To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.

• Next Lesson – Third Term Examination (All Subjects)

LESSON EVALUATION 

Pupils to:

1. access the internet.

2. send and receive e-mail.

3. chat on the internet