Knowing finger types each key on a keyboard is important knowledge to know when learning how to type. This is a blank keyboard fingering chart that can be used in a variety of ways to help students review and assess their knowledge of which fingers type each key.

Knowing where the keys are located on a keyboard is important knowledge to know when learning how to type. This is a blank keyboard that can be used in a variety of ways to help students review and assess their knowledge of where the keys are located on a keyboard.

Keyboarding Alphabet Dancing is a great "unplugged" review of keyboarding skills to help break the monotany of continuoulsy learning and practicing keystrokes. Disclaimer: There is no actual dancing required!

As explained in the video a set of the Alphabet Dancing Cards (each has a various letter key blackened on an all-blank keyboard) are needed for each group of students (3-4/group). From there, I usually like to give the students some time (7-10 minutes) to organize and create a strategy. The gist of the activity is that the instructor will give a clue, and then students need to use the cards to "write" the word that fulfills the clue.

This is a differentiated grading scale that could be used to grade keyboarding timed tests. It allows students to be graded based on where they currently are with their skills. It also promotes students to have a growth mindset and they get rewarded with "leveling up" as they get better at typing.

This is a supplementary game that is great for reinforcing which fingers correctly type each letter key.

This is a sequence of supplementary keyboarding lessons based on using just a single hand. Often times when you teach keyboarding a student will come to class one day with a splint on their fingers, wrist brace, or arm cast, etc. This lesson sequence is for those students . These are workouts that involve just keys from a single hand. The student can still practice typing, the correct way, using their hand that isn't injured.

***These are not lessons to teach a person how to type the entire keyboard with a single hand. For instance if someone only has one hand and needed to type all the keys with one hand. This resource is intended for short-term use to fill in when a student in your class all of a sudden has a brace, splint, or cast on a hand and you want to have them keep practicing the correct way. Now they can at least practice one of their hands the correct way.

Students work as if they are electrical engineers to program a keyboard to play different audible tones depending on where a sensor is pressed. They construct the keyboard from a soft potentiometer, an Arduino capable board, and a small speaker. The soft potentiometer “keyboard” responds to the pressure of touch on its eight “keys” (C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C) and feeds an input signal to the Arduino-capable board. Each group programs a board to take the input and send an output signal to the speaker to produce a tone that is dependent on the input signal—that is, which “key” is pressed. After the keyboard is working, students play "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and (if time allows) modify the code so that different keys or a different number of notes can be played.