POINT FORTIN WEST SECONDARY SCHOOL

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

LESSON PLAN
TEACHERS NAME: Carla Lewis

SUBJECT: Information Technology

DATE: Monday 5th October 2015

CLASS:

TIME:

LENGTH OF PERIOD:

Period 6

Syllabus:

12:45 1:20

Form 4 Group 1

35 mins

CSEC Information Technology

Unit Title:

Data communications and networks

Lesson 4:

Types of networks

RESOURCES
Teacher Resources

Student resources

Computer

Styrofoam blocks

Projector

Floral Wire

Videos

PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE - Students should:

Know what a computer network is.

OBJECTIVES
Cognitive

Psychomotor

Affective

At the end of the lesson Form four

students will:
1. Differentiate between the three
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types of networks (Analysing)

ASSESSMENT STRATEGY with Objective
Cognitive

1. Differentiate between
the five types of
networks (Analyzing)

Assessment Strategy

Activity: Build models to show

the differences between LAN,
MAN and WAN

Set Induction

Teacher and students look at the video presentation on types of networks

3 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S871pLQfB6k
3 mins
Description of Teaching/Learning Activities:

Teacher Activities

Student Expected Activities

Teacher and students will engage in

discussions about the different sizes of
networks and will come up with a definition
of each of the three sizes.

Students answer questions and assist in defining

the three sizes of networks

Teacher will play another video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Jj6EHgSsx_U

Students will watch the video and then discuss the

terms learned: intranet, extranet and Internet.
Students will assist in writing a definition for each
term

Intelligence
being developed

Est. time to
complete

VL

10 mins

VS/VL

5 mins

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ASSESSMENT
The teacher will divide the class into
four groups. Each group will receive
several oases blocks and floral wire.
Students will be asked to create the
following:
1. LAN within their group
2. Two groups must join together to
build a MAN
3. All four groups must join together
to build a WAN

Students will complete the task

presenting their models after each of
the three stages

BK/VS

10 mins

END OF LESSON ACTIVITIES

Closure to lesson: 2 mins
T.S. (Transition Statement):

In todays class, we learnt different types of networks.

B.S. (Bridging Statement):

In our next class, we will look at different transmission media.

Multiple Intelligences
VS: Visual Spatial
VL: Verbal Linguistic
Inter: Interpersonal Intra: Intrapersonal BK: Body/ Kinesthetic
LM: Logic/Mathematical
M: Musical
N: Naturalistic
E: Existential

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