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Lesson 4 - Mouse Control - Clicking

1. The document provides instructions for a lesson teaching early childhood students basic mouse skills like moving and clicking. 2. Students will use a paint software and stamp tool to create digital art by moving the mouse around the screen and clicking to add stamped images. 3. The teacher will model how to login and logout of the software, and encourage exploring and experimenting with the mouse and stamp tool to make pictures.

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Lesson 4 - Mouse Control - Clicking

1. The document provides instructions for a lesson teaching early childhood students basic mouse skills like moving and clicking. 2. Students will use a paint software and stamp tool to create digital art by moving the mouse around the screen and clicking to add stamped images. 3. The teacher will model how to login and logout of the software, and encourage exploring and experimenting with the mouse and stamp tool to make pictures.

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Computing > EYFS (40-60 months) > Computing systems and

networks 1: Using a computer > Lesson 4: Mouse control –


clicking

Learning Objectives Before the lesson


Have ready
 To learn what a mouse is and to develop basic  A computer for each child
mouse skills such as moving and clicking  A paint software (such as Microsoft Paint)
 To use a simple online paint tool to create digital  Each child’s Activity: Login card from ‘Kapow
art Primary, EYFS, Using a computer, Lesson 2:
Logging in and out’

Activity

1. Hand out each child’s Activity: Login cards and ask them to log in to the computer.
2. Recap how to use and move the mouse with the children.
3. Talk again about how to position your hand properly and which finger to use to left-click.
4. Open the paint application (whatever software you use in your setting) for all the children and show them how to use the
stamp tool. (The stamp tool is used to create stamped images on the screen, by left-clicking with the mouse).
5. The rest of the session can be spent allowing the children time to experiment with creating their own digital art using the
stamp tool. Encourage children to move their mouse around the screen and click in different places to create their pictures.
6. Children may also like to add marks to their pictures, using the skills they learned in the previous session.
7. Model how to close down the software (click on the cross in the top right corner).
8. Teacher to logout.

Teacher notes

If you feel that logging in is taking the majority of the session, log in for each child before the session starts so that you
can focus on the objectives for this lesson.
If this is the case, you may want to consider dedicating more time to simply practising logging in and using the keyboard.
Don’t forget to save and/or print work if you would like some evidence.

Key vocabulary

 Computer
 Monitor
 Keyboard
 Mouse
 Log in
 Log out

 Left click
 Right click
 Arrow
 Cursor
 Paint
 Stamp

Prompts for learning

Observations Next steps

Can the children: To continue to develop basic mouse skills such as moving
 Recall how to move and use the mouse? and clicking.
 Left- click and then release in order to create a To use the mouse to click and drag.
stamp on screen? Note any specific next steps for individual children.

©2021 Kapow Primary.


Computing > EYFS (40-60 months) > Computing systems and
networks 1: Using a computer > Lesson 4: Mouse control –
clicking

 Navigate around the screen with some accuracy?


 Use their basic mouse skills to make stamp art on
the screen using the paint application?

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