Grade+1+Keyboarding



In this unit, we will become familiarized with the keyboard. We will learn where all of the letters are located as well as the numbers. During the course of this unit, we will be practicing finding them quickly to help us to become better typers. We will also learn about some of the special keys on the keyboard and what they do to help us with our typing. During each class, we will focus on a different topic... letters, numbers, capitalization, and punctuations... all to help us answer the essential questions for this unit... //** What are the special keys on a keyboard and what jobs do they do? **// While we are learning so much about the keyboard during this unit, we will also be learning about the software program we will be using to type our work. Pixie! Not only can we add text to Pixie, but we can also add our own drawings and clip art. At the end of the typing lesson for each day, we will spend some time learning about these drawing and illustrating tools. So by the end of this unit, we will be ready to create a cumulative project combining typing, illustrating, and social studies content. We will be creating a slide showcasing our family!

Technology Terms Assessment

Unit Project: To help prepare us for our final project we will need to think about what we already know about families and we can also think about what we learned in social studies class as well. Everyone's family is different. Each family member has it's own important role. But we are not the only ones to have families. Other animals have families too! Let's learn about these different families and then we can discuss and compare these families to our own. We will then use all of this information to help us generate an idea for our special slide to showcase our families.

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