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