worksheets - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Teacher’s
Corner
Level IV
Lesson 6
The purpose of this lesson is to ensure that children learn organization skills. Students
already know about files and folders. You can revise these concepts and explain the
importance of using folders. Emphasize the importance of selecting appropriate file
names.
Explain that files can be organised in different ways. Example: You are storing details of
your family members in different files. You can have one folder that has all the photos,
another folder that has voice recordings or text on each family member. The other way
of organising these files is to have different folders for each family member. All the files
related to this member – photos, voice recording and text are put in this folder. There is no
single correct way of organizing, irrespective of which method you use to organise, there
needs to be some order that has to be followed. This is for your convenience as you will be
able to find the files easily later.
Play a memory game with the students. Bring in a variety of things, jumble them up and
spread it on the table. For example, you can get chalk, duster, books, key, lock, bangle,
bottle, tiffin, apple, banana, orange, etc. Now remove the cover for a minute and ask the
students to look at these items. Cover it again and ask students to recall all the items they
had seen. Take a count of how many items were correctly recalled and note it on the board.
Now, segregate these items according to their category, e.g. put all fruits on one desk.
Repeat the game. Take a count of how many items were correctly recalled and note it on
the board. This is likely to be higher than the first case. Explain that when the items are
organised, it is more convenient to locate them.
Explain the function of sub-folders. You can use the analogy that every page is a file, the
notebook are sub-folders and the school bag the main (root/ parent) folder. For example, if
you want to refer Lesson 3 from EVS, you will open the bag, pick up the EVS book and go
to page of lesson 3. Ask questions such as: If they did not have notebook and only stacks
of paper all piled together, how will they find the lesson 3 of EVS? Just as notebooks keep
related pages together, the sub-folders keep related files together. Similarly, just as all
the notebooks are put in your school bag, similarly all related sub-folders are kept in the
main folder. Ask questions to encourage discussion and thinking amongst students. For
example, what happens if your notebook goes in your friend’s bag? Why do you need
separate notebooks for different subjects?
Illustrate how sub-folders are created. To do this, create a folder called Bag. Create subfolders
with names Mathematics and English. Now create files that has names of lessons
from Mathematics and English. Select a file with the name of a English lesson, drag and
drop it in the sub-folder named English. Similarly place all the files in their respective
sub-folders.
Summarise the lesson and emphasize the importance of organising.
Further Reading:
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