Mouse and Keyboard Skills - Key Stage 1
Objectives/vocabulary
Mouse and keyboard skills; move, mouse, left/right click, drag and drop.
Touch typing; home row
Objectives/vocabulary
Mouse and keyboard skills; move, mouse, left/right click, drag and drop.
Touch typing; home row
Pupils can develop their mouse skills in this activity using drag and drop to dress Lecky with the appropriate clothes for the weather outside.
To develop more accurate use of the mouse, pupils can try these dot-to-dot activities.
The City Creator website (below) is a nice way to use mainy mouse skills. Pupils can choose from 3 different cities; medievil, future and snow. A background can be chose and various buildings, people, vehicles and roads can be dragged onto the screen. Objects can be deleted by dragging them into the dumper in the bottom right hand corner.
Pupils across both Key Stage 1 and 2 can learn touch typing with BBC Dancemat, beginning with the home row in the first level and moving onto letters above and below it.
An upper and lower case coloured keyboard such as this one can really support keyboard letter recognition.
