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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
Se
ctio
n
Le
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l
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