COMPILED BY C GORDON
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.
3
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”
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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
 Sit u p straight
 Face keyboard
 Sit at a comfortable
 Feet flat
Straight
Comfortable
, rear to the back of the seat
with body can tered
distan ce from the keyboard
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
At the start of the lesson
I have learnt some things
I have not learnt
about this topic but don’t
anything about this
understand everything
topic
At the end of the lesson
What is a Qwerty
Keyboard
What are the Home
Row Keys
Correct finger
placement on the
keyboard
How to sit at the
computer
What is a Qwerty
Keyboard
What are the Home
Row Keys
Correct finger
placement on the
keyboard
How to sit at the
computer
1. Did you achieve the objectives for this lesson?
Yes
/
No /
A little
Merit Awarded YES / NO
/ 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.
4a always
4b most of the time
4c sometimes
5a always
5b most of the time
5c sometimes
Computer
basics
I can do three of the
criteria all the time
I can do all 4 requirements all
of the time
3b most of the time
3c sometimes
Keyboard
(Check Criteria)
I can do 1 & 2 of the
criteria but not all the
time
Signed by Teacher:
Level 5
Section
Level 4
Level
Signed by Student:
Main
Sub-topic Level 3
3a always
Topic
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