Common Core Lesson Plan
Computer Skills & Applications I
Karen D. Moorefield
Unit
Objective
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Essential Questions
What are the alpha keys on the
keyboard?
What are the “Homerow Keys”
Vocabulary
Literacy/Numeracy Strategies
Projects/Assessments
Create a pneumonic for the keyboard rows of letters
in Alice.
1.01 Keyboarding Skills
Learn and Execute the touch method in
operating the Alphabetic Keys
Lesson Plan
Monday: Intro to Alice/Teacher Powerpoint
Students will learn the Parts of Alice What is
the World? What are the objects? What are
Methods? What are events? What are
Properties? What are Functions? What are
parameters? What are variables? Explain what
a Pneumonic is.
Tuesday: Hand out earbuds/headphones and
handouts given describing how each Method
operates. Students create first world with
teacher lead. Lesson – World includes
Background, Objects, Methods (commands),
and (sigh)…yes sound.
(25 minutes for students to discover the
different methods and ask questions as
teacher circulates to help students)
Wednesday: Students complete and preview
each others worlds and class critique.
Thursday: Independent Practice: Students
work on teacher’s pneumonic (demonstrate via
teacher’s pneumonic)
Friday: Students set up pneumonic world
using rows 1, 2, 3 in keyboard
Closure/Review: End Week of Intro to Alice,
Classroom viewing of Pneumonic Alice World.
Survey: Interest Level in using Alice as a
learning tool.
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Imbedded Reading
Imbedded Literacy
Students will write a pneumonic (Using 1st, 2nd &d
3rd Row Keys) using Alice (Software) in conjunction
with a Rubric and Teacher instruction.
Imbedded Math
Common Core Alignment
Reading
•Standard 3 - Follow a multistep procedure
when carrying out experiments, taking
measurements, or performing technical tasks.
•Standard 4 - Determine the meaning of
symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific
words and phrases as they are used in specific
scientific or technical context.
•Standard 7 - Integrate quantitative or
technical information expressed in words in a
text with a version of that information
expressed visually (ex: in a flowchart,
diagram, model, graph, or table).
•Standard 9 – Compare and contrast the
information gained from experiments,
simulations, video, or multimedia sources with
that gained from reading a text on the same
topic. • Standard 10 – Read and comprehend
complex literary and informational texts
independent
Writing
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Standard 6 - Use technology, including
the Internet, to produce and publish writing
and to interact and collaborate with others.ly
and proficiently.
Resources
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Keyboard Pneumonics in Alice
Rubric
Element
Achieved
20 20 20 20 20 Total
Points
Understand the
purpose of a
Method used in
Alice
Understand
Objects used in
Alice
Understand
Events Used in
Alice
Understands
what a
pneumonic is
Completed the
Assignment in
Alice
Would You like
To use Alice in
your lessons?
(No points)