Kindergarten Technology Lessons and Activities

Kindergarten technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or a kindergarten teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!
 
After years teaching in the computer lab, I learned to not be terrified of my kindergarten classes anymore. You probably think that is silly, but 25ish students all using a desktop computer and mouse with only me as the adult in the room had me sweating every time. 


I really struggled with coming up with lesson ideas, until I had a lightbulb moment about 5 and 6 year olds using computers. The conclusion I came to is that Kindergarten students need to become familiar with the computer while learning what they are working on in class. This means lots of mouse practice that incorporates learning letters and number sense. Problem solved!
So, I created these Kindergarten technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. They are ideal for a technology teacher or a kindergarten teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!

Would you like to try my K-5 Technology Curriculum for 30 days to see if it is a good fit for your students? Click here and use the code TRYK5TECH1 at checkout to get the first 30 days for just $1!

What you need in order to use these lesson plans:

  • – Laptops are ideal (PC or Chromebooks) because not all of the activities will load correctly from a tablet. I do not recommend buying this if you only have iPads. Instead check out this resource for Kindergarten.
  • – The file for the editable lesson plans and rationale pages is in Google Slides. You (the teacher) will need to open it from a google account or download it as PowerPoint.
  • – There are a handful of YouTube videos to supplement the lessons. If you don’t have access to YouTube you can accomplish the same objective by doing a demonstration yourself.

 

Each lesson or project includes:
-a rationale page
Kindergarten technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or a kindergarten teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!
 
-an editable lesson planning page

 
-a web page with linked prompts, directions, and activities
Kindergarten technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or a kindergarten teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!
 
Kindergarten technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time. Ideal for a technology teacher or a kindergarten teacher with mandatory lab time. All of the work is done for you!
Enough to last you the entire school year! 
 

Kindergarten Technology Lessons Scope and Sequence

These are the lesson titles you will find in this resource:

Rules and Procedures

  1. How to’s
  2. Parts of the Computer
  3. How to use the Internet

Mouse Practice

  1. Mouse Practice 1-11 (repeat to mastery. Includes academic content with learning games)
    • Can be used for mouse or trackpad
    • Hover, click, click and drag (drag and drop), double click, right click, scroll
  2. Mouse and Spacebar 1-2

Keyboard Practice

  1. Keyboard Introduction
  2. Keyboard Arrows 1-4
  3. Keyboarding 1-2
  4. Sequencing, 2 lessons

ELA Practice (reviews mouse/trackpad, keyboard, and website navigation)

  1. Spelling Words
  2. Sight Words
  3. Typing Sight Words

Math Practice (reviews mouse/trackpad, keyboard, and website navigation)

  1. Math Practice 1-6
    • Counting and cardinality
    • Counting to tell number of objects
    • Compare numbers
    • Operations and algebraic thinking
    • Base ten
    • Measurement

Internet Safety

  1. Internet Safety 1-5
    • Internet safety overview
    • Downloading
    • Screen time
    • Online friends
    • Unit overview

Watch these video demos:

  1. Sequencing
  2. Mouse practice 1
  3. Mouse practice 2
  4. Keyboarding
  5. Compare numbers
You can certainly go in any order you choose. The numbered lessons on the front page of the site make it easy to navigate to any lesson at any time.

There are 2 sample pages you can check out to see how it all works. 
1. Keyboard Arrows 2
2. Counting and Cardinality

Frequently Asked Questions:

Question: How does student access work?

Answer: With your purchase you get one class account that all students use to access the lesson pages. Think of this website like a textbook but digital. The username and password’s purpose is to give students access to the textbook. Then from there you (the teacher) still facilitate student progress by letting them know which lesson page to go to and you’ll still collect their finished assignments for assessment.

Question: What platform will the students be using? Are they done in google drive? Like an interactive notebook?

 Answer: All of the digital content is housed on my website. The lesson plans and rationale pages are for the teacher (and administrators, right?) as PowerPoint files, and the website is set up to just click and go for the students to complete the activities. Think of the PPT files like the teacher manual and the website like the student workbook (but digital). Visit it ahead of time at k5technologycurriculum.com to get an idea how it works. You can find several free pages on the Samples dropdown menu. If/when you purchase access, you will create a class username and password to access the grade level pages included for your purchase.

Question: Do these include Google Apps or MS Office?

Answer: Both! Starting in 1st grade there are lessons to teach excel/sheets, word/docs, and PPT/slides.

You can pick and choose which lessons to do with your students. If you have access to Google Apps but not to MS Office, just skip the MS Office lessons and vice versa.

Question: Can I attach the lessons to Google Classroom?

Answer: Some teacher will choose to use Google Classroom as a way to collect student assignments in order to grade them, but there isn’t a way to automatically assign one of my lessons in GC.

Question: Do I have to buy all of the grade levels or can I just buy the one(s) I need?

Answer: Individual grade levels can be purchased and if you decide you need more, it is easy to add additional grade levels at any time. Scroll down to see the purchase options.

Ready to subscribe to the kindergarten curriculum for this school year? Click here to check out.

This Kindergarten set of lessons is also part of a larger bundle of K-5 technology lessons. I made a Frequently Asked Questions blog post about it, which you might find very informative.


I also offer a free technology teacher email course. It is 5 parts and walks you though how I do my planning and collect data.

 

40+ Kindergarten technology lesson plans and activities for the entire school year that will make a great supplement to your technology curriculum. These lesson plans and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time.
 

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