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Archdale-Trinity Middle School
Lesson Plan
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Date: 01-30-2015
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Teacher:
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Witkowski
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Lesson/Unit Topic:
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Qwerty Keyboard
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Standards:
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1.2 Introduce Alphabetic keys
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“I Can…” Statement
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Criteria for Success-Formative/Summative Assessments
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I can learn how to properly type.
Typing Test next Tuesday, Feb. 3rd
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Students use the new typing method.
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Literacy/Vocabulary Strategies (Word Wall)
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Qwerty keyboard, technique, alphabetic keys, touch method of typing, posture, pinky (little finger), ring finger, middle finger, index finger, thumb, wrist, the copy
Alphabetic keys are keys with letters on them.
This is an example of a Japanese cell phone.
It is NOT a QWERTY keyboard. Why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_input_methods
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Bell-Ringer/Connecting Strategy
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Bellringer:
On page 5 type lines 1 and 2.
use your INDEX fingers for the F and J keys
use your THUMB for the space bar.
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Lesson-Instructional Strategies & Procedures for Teacher and Students
(Detailed Plans Including Best Practices, Researched Based Strategies)
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Guided Practice
Miss W will review:
@ How to sign in to Achieve 3000
@ Go to your mail box and look for Witkowski OR type in the the title
Letters In, Numbers Out in the search box.
@ You need to complete the first 5 activities.
Independent Exercise:
1. Students will quietly complete the Achieve 3000 activities for the article:
Letters In, Numbers Out
2. @ You need to complete the first 5 activities.
3. On the back of your team work paper OR ON ANY PAPER,
draw the cell phone ad you described in the Achieve thought question.
Rubric for Cell phone ad:
50 points Creativity (picture is neatly drawn and colored)
50 points Accuracy (the QWERTY keyboard is correct)
Put YOUR NAME ON IT AND PUT in your folder when finished.
We will discuss on Monday.
4. Work on your extra credit vocabulary word search.
Make sure your name is on it. Put in your crate, Miss W will collect on Monday.
5. If you were absent complete all 4 pages of Qwerty keyboard packet.
Put in your crate, Miss W will collect on Monday.
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Higher Order Thinking Questions
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How can typing faster help you in college and on your job?
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Student Technology/Differentiation
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Students will read an Achieve 3000 article on the Qwerty keyboard.
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Closure Strategy
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Exit Activity:Students will practice touch typing the home row keys
with a game called HomeKeys Kennys.
Remember- Do NOT look at the keys while playing.
Try your best to click on the keys from memory.
MUST GET TO LEVEL 3 FOR COOLMATH
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