Summary

• Description:

  Download editable Grade 10 ICT Term 3 Lesson Plans 2026 - KLB Excelling in Microsoft Word format. A PDF version is also available upon your request. Fully aligned with the Kenya Senior School Competency-Based Curriculum, this resource references the approved coursebook Excelling ICT Learner's Book Grade 10 (pages 144–233).

  This downloadable document contains 16 comprehensive double-lesson plans spanning 8 instructional weeks, structured systematically across two essential digital technology strands and their substrands:

  • Productivity Tools – Desktop Publishing (DTP):
    • Meaning, importance, and categories of DTP tools (Open-source such as Scribus vs Proprietary such as MS Publisher and Adobe InDesign)
    • Opening Publisher, selecting templates, creating publications, navigating multi-page documents, and file management (saving, retrieving, scratch area)
    • Inserting and formatting graphic objects: geometric shapes, external pictures, cropping, text wrapping, and stylized WordArt headers
    • Advanced formatting: typography, kerning, tracking, drop caps, multi-column layouts, page setups, and Master Pages for running headers/footers
    • Publication distribution: printing setups, exporting to PDF, email distribution, and executing Mail Merge from external data sources
    • Culminating DTP practical project: designing a 3-fold community awareness brochure
  • Internet and Web Technologies:
    • The Internet: foundational terminologies (Internet, WWW, Web Browser, Webpage, URL, Hyperlink), history from ARPANET to modern networks, and core services (VoIP, FTP, Email, Web)
    • Internet connectivity: hardware (routers, modems, NICs), software, transmission media, and step-by-step mobile hotspot configuration and tethering
    • Search engine mechanics and query refinement: exact match quotes, minus sign exclusion, site filters, filetype parameters (filetype:pdf), and Boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT)
    • Digital Communication: synchronous vs asynchronous communication tools (Zoom, WhatsApp, Google Docs, Dropbox, Gmail)
    • Email management: standard email address structures, secure account creation (Gmail), password hygiene, composing with CC/BCC/attachments, and setting up folders, filters, and digital signatures
    • Project management tools: creating plans, task buckets, timelines, and progress tracking using Microsoft Planner
    • Cloud storage and real-time collaboration: folder permissions (Viewer, Commenter, Editor) in Google Drive and concurrent editing in Google Docs
    • Streaming media platforms (YouTube, Spotify) and the audio podcast production cycle (scripting, recording, editing, publishing)
    • Role and impact of digital technology across healthcare, education, governance, business, and online discussion netiquette

  The lesson plans guide learners through practical, hands-on learning outcomes:

  • Design professional publications using master pages, typography hierarchies, and graphic layout tools.
  • Execute mail merge operations to batch-produce customized event invitations and certificates.
  • Configure secure wireless mobile hotspots and authenticate digital devices safely.
  • Conduct advanced online academic research using Boolean operators and search parameter filters.
  • Manage professional email workflows with custom folders, automated filters, and electronic signatures.
  • Coordinate team projects using digital task boards (Microsoft Planner) and collaborate in real time on cloud documents.
  • Script, record, edit, and publish educational audio podcasts on digital safety.

  Every lesson plan is anchored by central Key Inquiry Questions such as "Why is desktop publishing important in creating professional publications?", "How can search results be refined to get more accurate information?", and "How can project management tools enhance collaboration and teamwork?".

  Core competencies (digital literacy, critical thinking, communication and collaboration, self-efficacy, creativity) and values (responsibility, integrity, respect, orderliness, excellence) are integrated throughout. Lessons follow a 4-stage instructional design featuring practical computer lab tasks, rubrics, extended activities, and Teacher Self-Evaluation spaces.

• File Size:

  67.70 KB
• Length:

  29 pages
• Category:

  Lesson Plans
• Level:

  Grade 10
• Subject:

  Information And Communication Technology (Ict)
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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