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Formatting Fun

For Teachers K - 5th
Launch this instructional activity by saving the provided Formatting Fun template on your classroom or library computers. Young learners can then practice formatting basics for use in writing activities. Exercises include practice in...
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Developing Speed (Alpha, Numeric, and Keypad)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Hurry up! Pupils practice developing speed on a keyboard, participating in a series of drills to improve efficiency. After tracking their progress, they create an electronic guide about proper keyboarding techniques. 
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Mastering the Keyboard

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders view an animated program showing how the continents fit together millions of years ago. In groups, they compare and contrast the distribution of rocks and fossils based on how the continents fit together. After reading a...
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Story Starters: Keyboarding

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners use all the alphabetic keys to create stories using their own imaginations and story prompts. They practice proofreading skills.
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Star Wars: Building a Galaxy with Code

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Welcome to the code side. The interactive lesson introduces coding in a game format with familiar characters. Young computer experts learn to develop code to control the interaction of the characters in the game. The activity ends with...
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My First PowerPoint Presentation

For Teachers K - 5th
Student practice locating letters on the computer keyboard while correctly typing, reading and recording a sentence. They work in groups while creating a PowerPoint presentation by having each student insert a sentence.
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Halloween Tales

For Teachers 3rd
At the beginning of this Halloween instructional activity, learners generate a list of spooky characters and words that they will use when creating their original stories. Teams of 3-4 members create the stories together. The...
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Keyboarding Technique

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use correct keyboarding technique to improve speed and accuracy. They respond to verbal comments, such as "Be sure you are keeping your fingers on home row." They choose one technique component to work on and fill it in on...
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Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students study and learn to use keyboard shortcuts. In this computer usage instructional activity, students learn to keyboard shortcuts to use in Windows programs. Students practice using the shortcuts and may come up with their own as...
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A Fun Alternate Way to Teach Children Keyboarding1

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use mnemonics rather than mindless repetition to help them remember keyboard locations. They examine the left side home row, backspace key, and space bar using large, teacher-made keyboard.
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Building Canons on Pachelbel's Canon in D

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students demonstrate the structure of a canon by composing melodies and variations over Pachelbel's Theme from the Canon in D. Requires a networked keyboard lab and computers.
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Teaching Intonation in a SoundTree Lab with Auralia

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students demonstrate intonation and their ability to discriminate between sharp and flat by responding to exercises within Auralia, and by creating their own examples for the class using the Tuning Function on the synthesizer. Requires a...
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Singing The Blues with Garage Band

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students demonstrate writing lyrics for a twelve-bar blues pattern by writing two verses of a blues song and then recording themselves singing over a stock blues pattern using Apple's Garage Band. Requires a networked keyboard lab.
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The ABC'S of Anything

For Teachers K - 8th
Students practice using reference and other materials to identify and define related to a selected topic. They practice keyboarding skills while preparing definitions and senteces. Students participate in the use of FIRN to send and...
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Keyboarding - Word Processing Skills Relay

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students play relay game to practice word processing skills.
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Introducing Colon and Forward Slash: Keyboarding

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students key in the "http://" needed for using the web.
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Keyboarding - Composing with Themes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read a short list of words and type it. Based on the list, students identify and type the theme the words represent. They underline the theme and add bullets to the list.
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Introduction to the Computer

For Teachers K
Students visit the computer lab to learn the parts of the computer and type their names and their lunch numbers.
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Video Reporters - "Get Ready to Use Your Computer"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use technology to produce a student-produced video that shows other students how to adjust keyboard, monitor, chair, and posture for safe and healthy usage of computer. It also demonstrates how to ask for help appropriately in...
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A Fun Alternative Way to Teach Children Keyboarding

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students in the lower grades use words to remember the keyboard positions and fingering. In this keyboarding lesson, students work in a circle around a floor keyboard to learn word cues for the positions of the keys. Teacher calls out...
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Technology: Computer Basics

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students access a variety of resources on the Internet related to basic computer operations and parts. They examine the parts of a computer and the history of computers, view timelines, play games, and read tips on Internet safety.
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Keyboarding - Decoding the Keys

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students work in pairs to decipher encoded messages. They read off descriptions of each letter's location on the keyboard and type them into a document to form a message.
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Do Spiders Live on the World Wide Web?

For Teachers K
Explore the parts of a computer and discover that words have multiple meanings. Your class will verbally identify the parts of a computer including the mouse, screen, window, net, and keyboard. They will also complete a KWL chart,...
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Computer: Keyboarding for Kids

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discover keyboard positions by playing a game on a body-sized keyboard placed on the floor. They learn the key positions by associating them with words easy to remember such as "animals in the snow dig for food," for the ASDF keys.

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