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💻 3rd Grade · Computer Science1B-CS-02Unit 1: Digital citizenship

Keyboarding

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🎯 Objective: Students build touch-typing skills.

Lesson outline

  1. Home row.
  2. Practice.
  3. Track progress.
  4. Exit: words per minute.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

1B-CS-02

CSTA K–12 Computer Science Standards (grade band 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Protect personal information
  • Use strong passwords
  • Respect others online

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎹 Touch typing course🦫 Encyclopedia: Coding⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Digital citizenship”

  1. Passwords
  2. Digital footprint
  3. Keyboarding

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