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Key Vocabulary Words!
Third graders use home row keyboarding techniques to type appropriate vocabulary words. This well thought out lesson presents many effective ways to teach keyboarding skills to your students.
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Keyboarding Technique
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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The Fibonacci Keyboard- Jazz and Math
Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationships of the Fibonacci Sequence. They apply the Fibonacci Sequence and find its relationship to a piano keyboard. They explore various relationships between music and the Fibonacci...
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Keyboarding - Scattergories for Typing
Young scholars engage in a game aimed at increasing keyboarding skills.
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A Fun Alternate Way to Teach Children Keyboarding1
Learners 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
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)
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
Learners 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
Pupils 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
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
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
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
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
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
Students practice typing, focusing on the letters E and I.
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Introducing Colon and Forward Slash: Keyboarding
Students key in the "http://" needed for using the web.
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Keyboarding - Word Processing Skills Relay
Students play relay game to practice word processing skills.
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Keyboarding - Correct the Story
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
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
Learners 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
Learners in the lower grades use words to remember the keyboard positions and fingering. In this keyboarding activity, 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
Sixth graders use keyboarding skills to find the "fractional part" of a word.
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Computer (Keyboarding)
Young scholars 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
Young scholars 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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