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Lesson : Learning Objective: Students will practice keyboarding skills by observing proper keyboard techniques, including

use of the home row keys to improve their speed and accuracy.

Learning Outcomes:

Students will use correct keyboarding technique. This includes the following:

Eyes on copy or screen, not on keys.

Fingers curved and oriented to home row.

Correct fingers used for keystrokes.

Key with smooth rhythm and quiet hands.

Forearms parallel to slant of keyboard; wrists low but not resting on any surface.

Proper sitting posture: body centred with feet providing balance and elbows naturally

at sides.

List the keywords here.

Label the fingers correctly using the words from this selection

Ring Pointer Right Thumb Middle Left Pinky

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Label the Finger placement to their Home Row Keys

Keyboarding basics – From the tutorial add the correct instruction to the boxes below the

hand positions.

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Practice… Practice… Practice

Now spend some time practicing your keyboarding. Tick the website that

you use.

Remember no looking at the keyboard!!!

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Keyboarding Techniques Posture

Find the Problems: Take a look at the picture below. Circle all the things that you

think are not good keyboarding techniques when using the computer.

Give 4 reasons in your own words why all of the things you circled above aren’t good

keyboarding techniques:

________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________

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Labelling: Label the 2 Diagrams below: “Good Posture” and “Bad Posture”

___________________________________ __________________________________ List 3 Reasons this is __________ Posture List 3 Reasons this is __________ Posture

1. ___________________________________ 1. ___________________________________

______________________________________ ______________________________________

2. ___________________________________ 2. ___________________________________

______________________________________ ______________________________________

3. ___________________________________ 3. ___________________________________

______________________________________ ______________________________________

Finish statements from the selection below

Flat Keyboard Straight Comfortable

Sit up straight , rear to the back of the seat

Face keyboard with body cantered

Sit at a comfortable distance from the keyboard

Feet flat on the floor, slightly apart

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What do you already know about the following?

I have learnt a lot about

this topic and understand most of it

I have learnt some things

about this topic but don’t understand everything

I have not learnt

anything about this topic

At the start of the lesson At the end of the lesson

What is a Qwerty

Keyboard What is a Qwerty

Keyboard

What are the Home Row Keys

What are the Home Row Keys

Correct finger

placement on the keyboard

Correct finger

placement on the keyboard

How to sit at the

computer How to sit at the

computer

1. Did you achieve the objectives for this lesson? Merit Awarded YES / NO

Yes / No / A little / Most of it

2. If no or a little what are the areas that you did not understand?

3. Write down 1 thing you have learnt in this lesson (e.g. from Keywords or coursework or

homework or quiz or tests)

1.

4. Look at the objectives for the next lesson and write down what you need to do to progress...

5. One target to help me improve would be…(e.g. what the student can do better…consider

attendance, effort, homework completed on time, asking for help etc.) 1.

Signed by Student: Signed by Teacher: Main Topic

Sub-topic Level 3 3a always 3b most of the time 3c sometimes

Level 4 4a always 4b most of the time 4c sometimes

Level 5 5a always 5b most of the time 5c sometimes

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Computer

basics

Keyboard (Check Criteria)

I can do 1 & 2 of the criteria but not all the time

I can do three of the criteria all the time

I can do all 4 requirements all of the time