Trackpad Practice

These interactive activities provide targeted practice for students to develop their trackpad skills. Each activity is a Google Slides presentation, and students will work on their own copy of the slide deck. The activities are grouped into two grade-band categories, and provide age-appropriate skill practice and academic content.

At the bottom of the page you will find information about related lessons also available on this site.

Trackpad Practice (K-2)

These activities support the development of basic trackpad skills, and align with K-2 math and ELA academic content, including sight words, spelling, and basic graphs.

Activity 1 - Follow the arrow, matching, below/under placement

Activity 2 - Shape matching, make a picture

Activity 3 - Spelling sight words, name spelling

Activity 4 - Math graphs, comparisons, counting

Activity 5 - Follow the arrow, letter matching, graphs

Trackpad Practice (3-5)

These activities cover more advanced trackpad skills, including text selection, and right click. Academic content includes literary terms, place value, science vocabulary, and text-based questions.

Activity 6 - Parts of speech, literary terms, text structures

Activity 7 - Place value, expanded notation, math patterns

Activity 8 - Place value, visual models, comparisons, patterns

Activity 9 - Geography/science vocabulary, multiple choice

Activity 10 - Literary terms, text based questions

Digital Skills Academy Connection

For all grade level lessons, Topic 3 is Keyboard and Trackpad Skills. Depending on the grade level of your students and their needs, you may want to look there for more lessons and activities to support their use and familiarity of the trackpad. Below those topics pages are linked for each grade level.

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