Keyboard and Typing Skills
To successfully complete online assessments, student will need to be able to perform many technology tasks. on this page students will find websites that will help them with some of these skills as well as typing skills.
Testing Skills Practice: This website has technology task practice for some of the skills listed above. There are practice sites for Grades Kindergarten to 12th Grade. (Revisited 04-29-23)
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HELPFUL VIDEOS
QWERTY Keyboard
To learn more about the Chromebook and the MAC/PC keyboards, visit my Alphabet Fun page on my site and scroll down to the bottom of page.
Mouse Practice
These websites introduce and allow practice for using the mouse or touch pad.
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Tiny Pop Art Pad - You can scribble, draw, paint and SPLAT stickers onto your Artpad.
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Mrs T.'s Mouse Practice - Lots of fun activities to help with using a mouse or touchpad, from beginner to advanced users!
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Symbaloo - Games and activities to promote mouse skills in young children.
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Owlie Boo - a website with educational computer games for toddlers and young children. Our fun, stimulating games help the youngest kids learn how to use a computer
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Keyboarding Skills
These websites instruct the students who how to use the keyboard properly for typing. Click on the picture to go to the site. (Links updated 9-17-23) You can sign up for Jungle Junior and Typing Club to monitor your progress.
Jungle Junior is a kid friendly typing lesson plan with more than 200 interactive lessons, games and videos.**
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Typetastic - Turn typing into adventure, keyboard is your game board! Touch- screen compatible game. Designed for kids age 5-10.
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Kidztype - A free online typing game! KidsType.com makes it easy for kids to learn typing.
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Typing Club - Students can learn the basics of typing. You can sign up to keep track of your progress.**.
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Control Tasks - This webpage has several drag & drop and point & click activities. Most of the activities require some reading.
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This is the ultimate challenge. Your keyboard breaks! Can you put the keys back in the right place?
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This activity introduces and defines computer related equipment and then tests students on their knowledge. |
Keyboarding Practice and Games
These websites provide fun practice for mouse skills and keyboarding skills. Some activities are repeated on more than one of the sites below. Click on the picture to visit the site.
Learning Games - Learning typing is the focus of these keyboarding games. Learning keyboarding skills is vital for today’s learners and tomorrow’s earners. These free typing games are a great way to build typing skills. Keyboarding games teach important skills through a variety of online typing lessons and typing games..... oh yeah, they're fun! (12 activities)
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Click on this picture to see the whole website and other subject areas.
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ABCya - This website has keyboarding and typing skills for each of the grade levels below. Click on the link for your grade level. When you get to the site, click on the SKILLS tab.
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Click here.
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Math Playground is an educational site that will surely give your brain a workout! Math Playground is a popular learning site filled with mathgames, logic puzzles, step-by-step instructional videos, math practice, and a variety of problem solving activities. Click on the picture (to the left) to go to the site.
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Click on Mobile Site if you are using iPads or tablets. These activities are the only ones in Math Playground available on mobile devices.
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Graphing - The links below will help students create different types of graphs. Your students can also make graphs in Excel (See this video on my Flip Video page.) (updated 9-17-23)
Graphing Fun
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Can you do this? Here is a new challenge.
1. Go to Fuzz Bugs. 2. Graph the information in Excel. (Use a pie graph or a bar graph.) 3. Answer the Fuzz Bugs questions. |