Lesson 2: Survey Sheet (Word
Processing)
Estimated Time:
1-2 class periods (55 minutes each)
Objective:
Students will use
Microsoft Word to create a survey sheet.
Materials:
Computers (one per student)
List of Survey Subjects (sample)
Software Program: Microsoft Word
Survey Sheet on blackboard (sample)
Paper
Pencils
3½" floppy
disks
Printer
Procedure:
1. Students will choose a survey
subject and report it to the teacher. No two students (in the same
class) can
have the same
subject.
2. Following the example on the board, students
will copy and complete the survey sheet on a sheet of paper.
3.
After having their completed survey sheets checked by the teacher,
students will open Microsoft Word.
4. Students must follow the
teacher’s oral instructions:
a. Click
Times New Roman for the font and 12 for the font
size.
b. Click the Columns button and
choose 2 Columns.
c. Click the Center
button and the Underline button.
d. Type
your survey title.
e. Press Enter
two times. Take off the Center button and the Underline
button.
f. Type Name. Hold Shift
and the hyphen key until the line is as long as it can be
without going
to the next line.
g. Press Enter two
times. Press Tab one time.
h.
Click Format and Bullets and Numbering. Click the Bulleted tab and
click
the
square bullet character. Click OK.
i. Type Boy. Press Enter. Type Girl. Press Enter
twice.
j. Type the question. Press
Enter twice.
k. Press Tab one
time. Type first choice. Press
Enter.
l. Type second
choice. Press Enter.
m. Type third
choice. Press Enter.
n. Type
fourth choice. Press Enter.
o.
Type fifth choice. Press Enter twice.
5. Students must
repeat steps 4c-4o five times. When finished, students will have a
total of six survey sheets
(three in each column). They must put their name, grade, and
homeroom at the bottom of the first column.
(sample)
Tip: Do not
allow students to use copy and paste. They must become familiar with
using the different
functions of the word processing programs.
6. Students will again
follow the teacher’s oral instructions:
a. Click View, Toolbars, Drawing to display the drawing tools (if
they are not
already
visible).
b. Click the Rectangle
tool. Draw a rectangle around the first survey
sheet.
c. Click Draw, Order, Send Behind
Text.
d. Click Edit and
Copy.
e. Click Edit and Paste.
Using the arrow keys on the keyboard, position the
rectangle over
the survey sheet in the second column. Make sure the lines of
the rectangles
are touching.
f. Repeat step 6e until there is
a rectangle around each survey sheet. (sample)
7. Students will Spell Check and Save
their work.
8. The teacher will Print five copies of the
completed page, for a total of thirty survey sheets.
9. Students
will have fifteen boys and fifteen girls to complete the survey
sheets.
Students must make sure each boy and
girl write their first and last name, check their sex, and choose
only
one of the five
choices.
Evaluation:
The teacher will grade the survey
sheet. Points will be deducted for misspelled words, improper
spacing, and missing information.
Lesson
3: Tally Sheet (Word
Processing)
Estimated Time:
1 class period (55 minutes)
Objective:
Students will use
Microsoft Word to create a tally sheet.
Materials:
Computers (one per student)
Software
Program: Microsoft Word
3½" floppy disks
Printer
|