Other
Brookfield High School: Lesnansky's Control Center: Keyboarding Skills
In this activity, students take a typing test to see how fast they can type. Includes videos of typing contests and links to keyboarding resources.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Keyboarding Zoo
Keyboarding Zoo is a fun and educational activity to help early elementary age students learn the keyboard. Children are encouraged to use their index or pointer fingers to match letters on the screen to their keyboards.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Keyboarding Zoo 2
The keyboarding zoo is back! This fun and educational activity will focus on uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as typing words and making short sentences using the period key and spacebar.
Other
Ki Dware: Kid's Typing Skills
Learn how to keyboard with this free typing program that can be downloaded to your computer. This is an introductory program that covers key locations and finger placement with activities including: keyboard drills, character drills, and...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Ghost Typing
This resource is an educational activity for children of all ages to practice keyboarding.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Ghost Typing Junior
Ghost Typing Junior is an educational activity for children of all ages to practice keyboarding. Players must keyboard the letters that are on the ghosts before they get too close! If the ghosts get too close the game is over! Ghost...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Doreen Cronin's early childhood book, CLICK, CLACK, MOO: Cows That Type, is provided on these pages. Seven (or more) character roles are needed in this activity.
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)
Cnice: Ejercicios De Ortografia
Practice spelling Spanish words -- particularly letters with tricky sounds (v,b; y,ll; etc.). Click the corresponding letter on the keyboard to launch an activity -- then try to correctly spell 15-20 words. You can check your answers...
Other
El Buho Boo: El Buho Boo
This site has many activities to introduce young children how to move the mouse and press different keys on the keyboard.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Talk to Me Alphabet
Talk to Me Alphabet is a fun activity for young children learning letter names and sounds. Use either the keys on your keyboard or tap on a letter to hear the letters name or letter sound! You can also switch the letter layout between...
![Tvo Kids: Games: Animal Who? [Learn the Alphabet] Interactive](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/71372-e82d7ab36f7f1af5708a01c71c8a0d7a.jpg?1661496102 "Tvo Kids: Games: Animal Who? [Learn the Alphabet] Interactive")
TVOntario
Tvo Kids: Games: Animal Who? [Learn the Alphabet]
A simple activity that connects letters of the alphabet to simple words, specifically names of animals. Typing any letter on the keyboard reveals an illustration of a common animal, its name, and the sound that animal makes.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.6: Use Technology to Produce and Publish Writing
Links to 21 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.6: With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing a well as to interact and collaborate with...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Constructing Major Scales
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipcharts explains the major music scales and guides students through activities finding and labeling notes on a keyboard. Student assessment items are included.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Subject Pronouns
Students will identify subject pronouns using a graphic organizer in this SMART whiteboard activity. Students will then use the keyboard to choose the appropriate subject pronoun.
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Musical Instruments
An interactive and printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Musical Instruments.
Other
Listen and Write
[Free Registration/Login Required] Listen-and-write.com is free listening practice website. Students type passages that are read aloud and then checks for error.