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Computer Basics Interactive Digital Activity Slides

$4.00

Boost your students’ foundational tech skills with these engaging and interactive 14 Computer Basics Digital Activity Slides! Perfect for elementary classrooms, this resource covers desktop navigation, file management, internet browsing, and more—aligned with ISTE Standards for students.
 
What’s Included:
  • 14 interactive digital activity slides designed for Google Slides or PowerPoint
  • Activities on key computer basics:
  • Identifying desktop icons
  • Organizing and naming files
  • Internet navigation
  • Proper shutdown procedures
  • Pre-made templates for teachers to facilitate the lesson with ease
  • Homework extension ideas for continued practice at home

Computer Basics Interactive Digital Activity Slides

$4.00

Boost your students’ foundational tech skills with these engaging and interactive 14 Computer Basics Digital Activity Slides! Perfect for elementary classrooms, this resource covers desktop navigation, file management, internet browsing, and more—aligned with ISTE Standards for students.
 
What’s Included:
  • 14 interactive digital activity slides designed for Google Slides or PowerPoint
  • Activities on key computer basics:
  • Identifying desktop icons
  • Organizing and naming files
  • Internet navigation
  • Proper shutdown procedures
  • Pre-made templates for teachers to facilitate the lesson with ease
  • Homework extension ideas for continued practice at home

Description

Boost your students’ foundational tech skills with these engaging and interactive 14 Computer Basics Digital Activity Slides! Perfect for elementary classrooms, this resource covers desktop navigation, file management, internet browsing, and more—aligned with ISTE Standards for students.
 
What’s Included:
  • 14 interactive digital activity slides designed for Google Slides or PowerPoint
  • Activities on key computer basics:
    • Identifying desktop icons
    • Organizing and naming files
    • Internet navigation
    • Proper shutdown procedures
  • Pre-made templates for teachers to facilitate the lesson with ease
  • Homework extension ideas for continued practice at home
 
Why Students Need to Learn and Practice Computer Basics:
By learning how to navigate a desktop, organize files, use the internet responsibly, and shut down a computer properly, students build a foundation for future digital learning and real-world technology use. This resource ensures that your students become comfortable and confident with these essential skills.
 
Aligned with 2016 ISTE Standards for Students:
This resource directly supports the following ISTE Standards:
  • Standard 1: Empowered Learner Students leverage technology to demonstrate learning and gain independence in navigating the digital world.
  • Standard 2: Digital Citizen Students exhibit an understanding of responsible digital tool use, developing habits for safe and effective online navigation.
  • Standard 6: Creative Communicator Students use digital tools to communicate ideas clearly and creatively, making connections between their learning and the real world.
 
Why Teachers Love This Resource:
Simplify the process of teaching essential computer basics with ready-to-use, interactive slides that engage students. The hands-on digital activities can be used independently or collaboratively, providing flexibility in the classroom. It’s perfect for introducing students to tech skills while aligning with national standards. Whether it’s for a technology class, computer lab session, or remote learning, these slides offer a straightforward and impactful way to teach crucial computer skills.
 
Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of basic computer skills by interacting with digital activities that involve identifying desktop icons, organizing files, naming files, navigating the internet, and properly shutting down a computer.
Materials Needed:
  • Computers with internet access
  • Google Slides or PowerPoint
  • Pre-made interactive digital activity templates
Lesson Procedure:
  1. Introduction Begin by introducing students to the key concepts they will learn: desktop icons, file organization, file naming, internet navigation, and shutting down a computer. Discuss why understanding these functions is vital in both academic and real-world contexts.
  2. Interactive Digital Activity Allow students to work either independently or in small groups as they engage with the digital activities on their screens.
  3. Review & Assessment After completing the activities, hold a class discussion to review key concepts, ensuring students grasp the material. Collect and assess their work to check for understanding.
  4. Closing Summarize the day’s learning, ensuring students understand how these basic skills are the building blocks for future tech use.
  5. Optional Homework Assign students the task of creating a folder on their home computer, organizing files, and sharing a screenshot in the next class.
Extensions: For students looking to challenge themselves further, assign additional projects such as creating their own interactive slides on advanced topics like cloud storage or more complex internet navigation.
This resource equips students with the critical skills they need in today’s digital landscape, while saving teachers time and ensuring standards-aligned instruction. Add this interactive, standards-based tool to your classroom today!

Product Terms:
Copyright © Brittany Washburn. Purchasing this file entitles you to ONE classroom use. You may use this with multiple classes but may not share with any other teachers. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. If multiple licenses are needed for use my more than one teacher or in more than one computer lab, additional licenses should be purchased. 
 
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