Keyboarding Games & Activities

3 Thanksgiving Typing Activities

3 Thanksgiving Typing Activities

The KeyMaster Keyboarding Team has compiled three Thanksgiving typing activities for your keyboarding classrooms.  Each activity should take one class period or less.  You could choose to spread these activities out over a few days or allow your students to complete whichever activity interests them most.

Show me the money! Funding Options for your Classroom Purchase

Show me the money!  Funding Options for your Classroom Purchase

Seeking Funding for Classroom Purchases Too often teachers get excited when they learn about a new teaching tool but hesitate to ask for funding ...

Team Storytelling

Team Storytelling

Purpose:  This is a great activity to use with older students who have learned all of the keys on the keyboard.  It will help students reinforce...

Best Practices for Keyboarding Instruction

Best Practices for Keyboarding Instruction

As keyboarding teachers, we all know the benefits of touch typing and want to pass on these benefits to our young learners.  An individual who...

6 Early Learner Typing Games for Elementary Students

6 Early Learner Typing Games for Elementary Students

Designed for Elementary aged learners, ABCya.com has some great typing games and activities for early learners just getting to know the keyboard. ...

Composing at the Keyboard

Composing at the Keyboard

Purpose:  To help students compose original documents that require critical thinking skills and reinforce touch type practice and proper keyboardi...

Touch Typing and the 21st Century

Touch Typing and the 21st Century

Keyboarding Skills are Valued in the Workplace The ability to touch type with speed and accuracy is a critical skill in today's computer-based so...

Blackout

Blackout

  PURPOSE:  Students will test their key-by-touch mastery by gradually eliminating keys on the keyboard that they have learned.  Students will id...

Song Lyrics Keyboarding Game

Song Lyrics Keyboarding Game

  Objective:  To provide students with a break from the monotony of keyboarding textbook drills. Procedure:  Sometimes it can be monotonous for s...

Fun, Quick Keyboarding Activities

Fun, Quick Keyboarding Activities

  Sometimes a fun, quick activity can help shake-up and add energy to the keyboarding classroom.  These are just a few ideas you might want to try...

Hide and Seek Typing Game

Hide and Seek Typing Game

PURPOSE:  Test student’s knowledge of the alpha and numeric key placement and identify keys that need additional review. PROCEDURE:  As a class, a...

History of the QWERTY Keyboard

History of the QWERTY Keyboard

Have you ever wondered how it all began in the world of keyboarding?  Check out this short video about the history of QWERTY keyboards. This link ...