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Shannon YoungShannon Young

Target age/ Level-

• 11 Yr olds, 5th grade.

Objectives.

– The objective of this lesson plan is to better the students typing skills and to help them apply it to writing.

– Technologies that will be used in this:•Computer•Computer game: Mavis Beacon

•Microsoft Word

The Learning activity:

• I will let them know that they will be using Mavis Beacon to sharpen or learn typing skills.

• They will have a cardboard stand that will be blocking there hands so they can’t look down to find the letters.

• This will better there skills, no child wants to lose a game so they will work hard to try and learn how to type so they can win.

• The motivator for this is Mavis Beacon itself.

• The levels allow the student to know how they are progressing as they get harder.

• Every student will be at a different level but will all work to achieve the highest level.

• They are working to better there skills for the activity we will be going to assess what they learned.

• The better they have made there skills the easier it will be to finish the activity.

Provide Information:

a) I will an explanation on how their hands should be placed on the key board and which fingers should be hitting which keys.

b) I will then guide them through the steps of making their own account so they continue where they left off.

c) I will then give them a tutorial on how to use Mavis Beacon. I will let them know that they can work at their own level and speed.

d) I would give them a tutorial on how

to use Microsoft Word. I would only

go over the basics.

Provide Practice:

• They will have five weeks, two days a week of being in the computer lab using Mavis Beacon.

• Randomly throughout the week I will assign a three to five sentence paragraph for homework.

• I will stop 10 minutes early and the students will be asked to type for the whole ten minutes and talk about anything they want.

Provide Knowledge of Results-

• From week to week I will pass back the ten minute free writes with comments.

• Levels reached on Mavis Beacon

• I will go around to each student and pull up the progress page that Mavis Beacon provides. – Review it with them

Review The Activity:

• Ask students to put their hands in the correct position and I would go around to each student to make sure it was right.

• I would remind them before starting Mavis Beacon that it is not a race and to work at their own pace

Methods of Assessment:

• Play a game called musical computers

• Every student will start in a word document and write there name at the top.

• I would tell them to start a new paragraph and write this, “I came home form school and there was a hippo in my pool”.

• Write a story with that line.

• After a 10 minutes, I would say switch and each student would initial the bottom of there paragraph and move to the computer to their right.

• They would then be given time to add on to the story any way they want. This cycle would go on for a certain amount of rotations given the time slot.

• Each student would return to their original computer.

• Each student is told to read through their piece and correct the spelling mistakes but are not allowed to change the story in any way.