Lesson 5

Activities using a keyboard

In this lesson you will learn to use:
Caps Lock, Backspace and Delete keys.
A m The four directional arrow keys, Page Up, Page Down keys.

Tejas: Moz, We want to prepare a

list of our friends. Which activity
can we use ?
Moz: Use the text editor activity.
This enables you to write and make
changes to the text.

Tejas and Jyoti double click on the text editor icon with the mouse.
Tejas: Similar to the paint activity, text editor has options to create
a new file, open files that are already created and save a files.

Cursor

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Moz: Yes. As you already know most of the activities have these
common options.

Tejas: Do we write text in the blank space?

Moz: Yes. Just like writing a new page in your notebooks.
Jyoti: The shape of the mouse pointer is different in the text editor.
Moz: Good observation. The mouse pointer in a text editor is also
called a cursor. It is a small blinking vertical line.

Jyoti: Moz, We can write text using the alphabet keys and number
keys on the keyboard. I want to type my friend‛s name. How can I
write capital letters?
Moz: First press on the Caps Lock key. Then type the alphabets.

Jyoti: A small light on the keyboard comes on when we press

Caps Lock key!
Tejas: Pressing the Caps Lock key again is giving lower case alphabets.
The light on the keyboard is now off!
Moz: Good. The light indicates if the
Caps Lock key is on or off.
Caps Lock

Caps Lock

Pressing on the Caps Lock key allows typing in capital letters.

1. Press the Caps Lock key once again to type lower case letters.
2. A small green light on the keyboard indicates the status
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(light on – Capital letters, light off – lower case letters).

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Tejas and Jyoti write the names of their friends one below the other.
Moz: Good, you have used the Enter key to go to the next line.
Jyoti typed Sweetha instead of Swetha and wants to delete the
extra 'e' in the name.
Jyoti: Moz, I want to move the cursor back.
How do I do this?
Moz: You can use the 4 directional arrow
keys on the keyboard to move the
cursor within the text.

Arrow keys

There are four arrow keys on a keyboard. These keys allow you to
move the cursor up, down, left and right.

1. Up and down arrow keys move the cursor up or down by one

line at a time.
2. Left and Right arrow keys move the cursor left or right

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by one letter at a time.

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Jyoti: I used the left arrow key to take the cursor to the letter 'e'
that I want to erase. How do I erase the letter?
Moz: Use the Backspace key.
Jyoti: Backspace key is erasing the letter before the cursor. How do
I erase a letter which is after the cursor?
Moz: Oh! Use the Delete key. Making changes to the text that you
have written is called editing the text.

Making changes to the text that you have written is called

editing the text.
CONCEPTS

Backspace

Backspace Key
This key erases the letter before the cursor. It is marked
Backspace. It is usually the last key in the row of numbers.
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 Delete
Delete Key
This key deletes the letter which is after the cursor.

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Tejas finished entering all the names and wants to give a title to the
list. So he uses the Up arrow key to move the cursor to the top of
the page.

Moz: Instead of using the Up arrow key several times, Use Page Up.
This will take the cursor up one page at a time. Use Page Down to
take the cursor down, page by page.
Page Page
Up Down

Page Up/ Page Down

These two keys are used to move the cursor up or down, one page

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at a time.

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The arrow keys and the Page Up and Page Down keys are called the
navigational keys. They help us to move around in the pages.

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 Moz: ( Looking at the list) Interesting names! Have
you saved the list in a file?
Tejas: I clicked on the Save button. The dialog box is
asking me to enter a name for the file.
Moz: Give a suitable name so that you can easily find your file
later.
Tejas names the file ‘t-friends’ and Jyoti names her file ‘j-friends’.

Jyoti: Can we do some paintings using the paint activity.

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Book II | Lesson 5
WORKSHEETS

1. Martha monkey wants to colour the

keyboard. Can you help her?

Red for number keys Blue for the alphabet keys

Green for Spacebar key Brown for Caps lock key
Pink for arrow keys Yellow for Backspace key
Orange for Page up and Page down keys Grey for Delete key

2. Match the following keys with their functions:

Page Up Allows you to type capital letters

Backspace Erases the letter after the cursor

Caps Lock Allows you to move up a page

Delete Erases the letter before the cursor

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WORKSHEETS

3. Can you guess which of the following I am? Pick from the
coloured keys in the picture below.

a) I allow you to write alphabets.

b) I allow you to move to the next line.

c) I allow you to move the cursor to the top of the page.

d) I allow you to delete the letter to the left of the cursor.

e) I allow you to move the cursor up, down, left and right.

f) I allow you to delete the letter to the right of the cursor.

g) I allow you to create blank space between two words.

h) You use me to type numbers.

i) If you press me you can type capital letters continuously.

j) I allow you to move the cursor to the end of the page.

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WORKSHEETS

4. Supandi does not know which keys are seen on a keyboard.

Help him by colouring the keys which are seen on the keyboard
in red and the others in black.

Enter

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WORKSHEETS

5. Match the following:

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Save the text written.

Create a New
n file to write
p e text.
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Sa Open an already
created file.

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1. Falling words: Type the words before they reach the ground. To play this game,
follow the following steps: Applications-->Games-->Educational Suite Gcompris-->
Computer peripherals --> Keyboard games.

2. Move the helicopter using the up, down, right and left arrows on the keyboard to
catch the clouds. Catch the numbers in increasing order. To play this game, follow
the following steps: Applications --> Games --> Educational suite GCompris
-->Mathematics-->Numeration

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3. Connect 4: Use the keyboard keys to arrange 4 balls in a row. To move the piece left
or right use arrow keys, To drop a piece use the down arrow or spacebar key. To play
this game, follow the following steps:
Applications-->Games-->Educational Suite GCompris--> Strategy games

Group Activity:
Divide the class into groups of five each. Each group has to write names of different
profession on the computer. Each student types one letter alternately. At the end of
the exercise, find out which group has the longest list.

Explore!
1. Some keys on the keyboard are seen at more than one
location. For example: Several keyboards have two Enter
keys. Look at the keyboards around you and find more
such keys.
2. Besides using the CapsLock Key for typing capital
letters, is there any other way to do this?
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 Teacher’s Book II
Corner Lesson 5

Begin the lesson by revising what the students already know about the keyboard.
Mention the different keys they learned in class I – alphabet and number keys, enter key,
space bar and backspace key. Engage them in the discussion on the what these keys are
used for.
Tell the students that in this lesson, they will learn the use of additional keys that will
allow them to do a variety of new things using the keyboard. Open text editor on the
computer (at this point, it is not important for students to know how to start this
application) and type their names one below the other. Press the Caps Lock key and type
a few names. Ask them to note if they are in capital or small letters. After this toggle Caps
Lock key and type a couple of names. Now ask them to note the difference. Students will
be surprised and eager to learn how this change occurs. Teach them about Caps Lock key
and inform them that a green light is on when this key is pressed. Tell the students that
this light might be located at different places on different keyboards. Ask th students to
look at different keyboard and note this.
While writing the students' names, make a deliberate mistake. Question them about how
to correct it. They have already learned about Backspace key. For the sake of revision,
repeat its function. Ask them to note that the backspace is shown differently in different
keyboards (If possible, get pictures of a variety of keyboards; where the name of the key
is written, and where only the back arrow is indicated). Introduce the function of Delete
key and tell the students that it allows them to delete a character following the cursor.
(Students can get confused between the function of these keys. Do not worry, they will be
more confident as they continue to use the keyboard extensively in the future.
Emphasize that both backspace and delete keys allow you to remove one letter at a time).
The list of students names in the class is likely to be long. Ask them how they can look at
the names in the list. Demonstrate use of the arrow keys. You can even ask the students
to do a physical exercise where you ask them to move their hands in the four directions
to reinforce the function of the four arrow keys.
Tell the students about the function of Page up and Page Down key and demonstrate
using the list of students names. End the class by summarizing the different keys they
learned in the lesson, followed by activities that allow them to practice use of these keys.

Further Reading:
(To learn the keys on a keyboard)
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3454
http://www.sesamestreet.org/home/?contentId=9495524&

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