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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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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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Computer (Keyboarding)

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice typing the letters on the left side of the home row of keys. They complete time tests and examine their results. They discover words from those letters as well.
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Keyboarding Scattergories

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars participate in a keyboarding game in order to increase their accuracy and speed. Using a PowerPoint presentation, they work together in groups to review the placements of the letters on the keyboard. They complete each...
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Learning the Piano Keyboard

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students find the notes on the piano keyboard. In this piano lesson, students find the groups of two black keys and three black keys. They find the different notes and complete a worksheet to practice. 
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What I Did On My Summer Vacation

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students improvise then compose and notate melodies with appropriate accompaniments that are inspired by events that transpired during their summer vacations. Requires a networked keyboard lab.
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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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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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When The Saints Go Marching In: A Lesson for Middle School Keyboard Lab Students

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After listening to a variety of interpretations of "When the Saints Go Marching In," partners compose and then perform their own renditions of this classic before joining a full-class jam session.
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Keyboarding - Learning Letters E and I

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars practice typing, focusing on the letters E and I.
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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 - Word Processing Skills Relay

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students play relay game to practice word processing skills.
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Keyboarding - Correct the Story

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students read a story that has several blank words and letters. They proofread, edit and type the story filling in the blanks with logical answers.
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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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Keyboarding - Complete the Paragraphs

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read a paragraph that is missing vowels and contains other errors as well. They proofread, fill in vowels, type, edit and print the corrected paragraph.
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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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Keyboarding - Fractured Fractions

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use keyboarding skills to find the "fractional part" of a word.
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Computer (Keyboarding)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a floor game to learn the keys on the keyboard. They use their feet to hit the correct letter on the floor.
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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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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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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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Let Your Fingers Do The Walking

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students build an awareness of using correct finger positions for typing in this lesson plan. They also review the home row of the keyboard. Internet resource links are included to reinforce home row typing skills. Students also...
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Musical Phrase Completion

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students get to encounter simple musical notations, basic keyboarding and improvisation. Students exercise on creative thinking skills. Students create their own musical notes.

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