Keyboarding+Applications

Here are my resources for my Keyboarding Applications 1 & 2 classes. These classes are open to 9 to 12 graders. =Memos & Emails= This activity has students write memo to a friend, a teacher, and a email explaining what they have learned.

=Letters= This activity has the students write a personal business letter to a friend about a movie they would like to see. The students also write a business letter to the teacher about a news article that they found.

In this activity, students write modified business letters to their favorite teacher and then a celebrity or professional athlete.

=Tables= This activity has the students go to Crayola's website to make a table that contains information about "America's Top 10 Favorite Colors," they create a table that contains information about 5 of their favorite websites, and then they take a poll of the class and display the results in a table.

In this activity, the students are taking a trip to the National Genelogical Society Annual Convention. They need to visit various websites to create an itineraries, agenda, and other tables.

=Unbound & Bound Reports= This activity has students apply what they have learned about formating an unbound report by writing and typing one about an inventor of their choice.

=MLA Reports= Students research a historical figure and then write a report about this person in correct MLA report format.

=Mail Merge= Students work for an animal shelter and have to preform a mail merge to send out letters looking of donations. The students also plan a senior trip and have to use a mail merge to send out the necessary information.

=Destop Publishing= To review desktop publishing skills, students create an advertisement/flyer and a personal newsletter.

=Spreadsheets= This activity requires that each student has a bag of Skittles or M & Ms. The students use these items to create various spreadsheets and charts/graphs.