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ABCya

Ab Cya: Cup Stack Keyboarding

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Play this cup stacking game and practice your keyboarding and typing skills.
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Microsoft

Microsoft: Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

For Students 9th - 10th
This reference from Microsoft lists the keyboard shortcuts you can use in Windows.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Keyboarding Zoo

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Apple: Mac Os X Keyboard Shortcuts

For Students 9th - 10th
Mac OS X is the popular operating system that has been sold with Apple Macintosh computers since 2002. This site provides an extensive list of keyboard shortcuts that perform special operating system tasks.
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Yale University

Yale Collection of Musical Instruments: Keyboard Instruments

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about keyboard instruments from the collection of Yale University in this image gallery with descriptions of each piece, including pianos, harpsichords, and organs.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Keyboarding Zoo 2

For Students K - 1st Standards
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.
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Big Brown Bear Software: Keyboard Game

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
In this keyboarding game, letters are highlighted and the student tries to see how many they can key correctly in the time shown.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Keyboarding Home Row Posture

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches students correct methods for keyboarding, including appropriate home row posture.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Color the Keyboard

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The students can take turns coloring the keyboard. This aids their understanding that certain fingers should strike certain keys in touch typing. These exercises are a good introduction to keyboarding...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Keyboarding Looking Glass

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a great way to teach students the placement of the keys on the keyboard.
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Music Theory

Music theory.net: Keyboard Trainer

For Students 9th - 10th
A fantastic resource for music teachers and students learning to play the piano. This online quiz can be customized to test students on specific keys. Students can click "Toggle helpers," to check answers along the way.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Owl Planes Typing

For Students K - 1st Standards
Owl Planes Typing is an educational multi-player racing game that allows students from anywhere in the world to race one another while practicing typing and keyboard skills!
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Typing Rocket

For Students 2nd - 5th
Typing Rocket is a fun keyboarding game for kids of all ages! Players have 60 seconds to type the letters on the rockets. The score is calculated by hits minus misses. Keyboarding practice has never been so fun!
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Keyboarding Challenge: Learn the Keyboard

For Students 1st - 5th
Learn basic keyboarding with this interactive keyboard. The focus is on identifying letter positions on the keyboard. Responses are checked immediately.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Ghost Typing

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource is an educational activity for children of all ages to practice keyboarding.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Ghost Typing Junior

For Students K - 1st
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...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Typing Rocket Junior

For Students K - 1st
Typing Rocket Junior is a fun keyboarding game for early elementary students! Kids have 3 minutes to type the letters on the rockets. The score is calculated by hits minus misses. Keyboarding practice has never been so fun!
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Saudi Aramco World: Keyboard Calligraphy

For Students 9th - 10th
In a recent exhibition on Ottoman culture held in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk was an unimpressive-looking little 18th-century book, a printed version of a manuscript produced 150 years earlier. Usually a manuscript is more rare than a...
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BBC

Bbc: My Web My Way: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The tutorial explains how learners can alter their computer, browser, keyboard, and mouse settings to make the web more accessible.
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Ki Dware: Kid's Typing Skills

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize: Dance Mat Typing

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
The BBC helps you learn how to type or just improve on the typing skills you already have in this introduction to touch typing. There are 12 levels to master, then you can test your speed. Teaches correct finger placement.
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Other

Typing Club: Learn Touch Typing

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Use this free, online typing program to improve typing speed and fluency. Does not require an account. A school portal is available for teachers to customize lesson plans.
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Computer Hope

Computer Hope: Apple Computer Shortcut Keys

For Students 9th - 10th
Shortcut keys help provide an easier and usually quicker method of navigating and using computer software programs. Here is a listing of Apple Mac OS keyboard shortcuts.
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