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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
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

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
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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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
Students 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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Computer (Keyboarding)

For Teachers K - 2nd
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 - Fractured Fractions

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use keyboarding skills to find the "fractional part" of a word.
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Keyboarding - Decoding the Keys

For Teachers 6th - 12th
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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Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary

From Ben’s Pen to Our Lives

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What would Ben do? Jumping off from the pseudonymous letters Ben Franklin fooled his older brother into publishing when he was still a teenager, young literary lovers dive into acting, writing, and addressing a local issue with wit and...
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Making Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young writers identify and generate words using the strategies of phonics on the Making Words computer program. Words are typed instead of having to use tiles or paper. Extension activities such as playing the memory game, drawing...
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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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Keyboard centers with Music You Can Read

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play the letters provided in the format "Keyboard/Xylophone/Tone Bells" with the intention of using the "Music Only" format as skills progress. They study fingerings and chords when appropriate to skills.
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Falling Food Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine personal health by defining the five food groups. In this food pyramid lesson, students discuss the importance of each food group and write them on the board. Students utilize the Internet to participate in a food...
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Techno PC: Computer Lessons for Elementary Students

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners explore computer science by participating in mini activities. In this graphic design lesson, identify the different components on a personal computer and define their purpose. Students utilize Microsoft Paint to create a digital...
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Lesson Plan #2 (Cooperative Group Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students define responsibility, list steps of choice making, and solve problems. They create decision making scenarios in cooperative group settings.
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Formatting Fun

For Teachers K - 5th
Launch this lesson 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 highlighting text,...
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Shutterfly

Photo Story Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th Standards
After reading Loree Leedy's There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me, kids create and illustrate their own poems that convey the meaning of an idiom. The poems are then transferred into Shutterfly's Photo...
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Telling Time Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Judy Clocks are a great invention. Here, learners review telling time to hour and half hour on Judy clocks, begin telling time to quarter hour, use clock stamps to practice, and play computer games using Trudy's Time and Place House...
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Shutterfly Photo Story Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th Standards
A reading of Peggy Parish's Amelia Bedelia launches a study of idioms. Groups then select several idioms, write the meaning of the expressions, draw or select images, and use GIMP or Photoshop to create an idiom book. 
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Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students study and learn to use keyboard shortcuts. In this computer usage lesson, students learn to keyboard shortcuts to use in Windows programs. Students practice using the shortcuts and may come up with their own as an extension.
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Know Your Computer Hardware #103

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students discover the different terms and parts of a computer's body.  In this computer basics lesson, students become familiar with the parts of the computer, starting in kindergarten and increasing their knowledge through school. ...

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