Areas of Learning: Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Communication, Language and Literacy,
Context: Children had visited the Canterbury Environmental Education Centre. The class had used a digital camera to record their day.
Learning Intentions:To use a keyboard to enter text in to the computer. (KUW)
To write captions for photographs. (CLL)
Child Speak Targets: I am learning to /can use a keyboard to type text.
Key Vocabulary: digital camera, keyboard, keys, text, type, shift, space bar, backspace

You will need: Photographs taken on a school visit inserted into a PowerPoint or similar mulitimedia program. A large picture of a keyboard, or an old keyboard that can be held up for demonstration purposes.
Introduce the presentation/book of photographs you have created and ask children to identify what is missing. Discuss how you could add some writing/text into the book. Show children the picture of a pretend keyboard and make links to the real keyboard.

Look at the first photograph in the book and ask children to discuss in talking pairs a short sentence that describes what they can see. Choose one sentence and ask the class to help you count the words in the sentence.

If possible, ask a teaching assistant to hold up the pretend keyboard. Ask children in turn to suggest and then show you on this keyboard what you will need to type on the real keyboard. Encourage children just to tap the keys on the pretend keyboard. As they type, enter the same text onto the real keyboard.

Discuss the different keys that you will need; shift for capitals, space bar for adding a finger space, back space for removing unwanted letters. (It works well if you label these important keys with coloured stickers.) Read the sentence you have created with the class.

Arrange a small group of children around one computer. Show the next page in the book. Discuss a suitable sentence and ask children to take it in turns to type the next letter or word in the sentence.

It works well if you rotate the activities in the group. One child types on the pretend keyboard, one on the real keyboard, others can read what appears on the screen.

Thinking Questions: How is our book different from a real book? How did we add text to our book?
How did we change lower case letters into capitals?
What key did we use to add a space between words?
How do we turn the pages in the computer book?