Musical Computers
Subject: Educational
Computer Fun
Age Level: 6-13
years
Performance
Standards Information
Conventions, Grammar, and Usage
of the English Language E4a,
E4b
Activity Goals
- Review typing skills, and correcting skills
Skills children will learn from the activity
- Children have a chance to practice typing skills, while using their imaginations to create a story, and going over their correcting skills.
- A radio
- A story beginner. (A starter line, ex: Yesterday I saw a boy and he was……………..)
- Children need to know basic typing skills
- Basic correcting
skills
- Prepare music.
1 full length song (Age appropriate)
- Make sure your
starter line is on each computer.
- Have children
sit in front of a computer (one child each computer)
- Explain the rules
- Begin playing
music (as the music plays the children are to continue
the story)
- When the music
stops it is time to change computers (move to the
computer to your left.)
- When the music
begins again each child should continue the story
in front of him /her.
- Continue until
each child is back to his original spot.
- Once back at their
original spots they have 5 minutes to correct their
stories, and print out.
- You could have the children read the stories aloud to share the endings with the group.
- This activity works best with one child per computer. Not appropriate for large groups.