Mouse Skills
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Check out the sites below to practice mouse maneuvers and click and drag.
- http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/mouse/page1.html
- http://www.mouseprogram.com/
- http://www.pbclibrary.org/mousing/games.htm
- http://www.internet4classrooms.com/prek.htm
- http://www.judyphelps.net/onlinestudent-learnmouse.htm
- http://www.judyphelps.net/onlinestudent-dragmouse.htm
http://www.customsolutions.us/mouse/index.htm
This is a great website. It provides good information on basic mousing skills.
You can change the items to click on as well as the size.http://www.kidsfreeware.com/index.html
This site has some great download! Some I recommend are Larry's Animals, Hop Pop Town, Kewl Kids Train. Jungle Mouse gives you a trail so that you can watch where the mouse is going/has been.http://www.starfall.com/
This is a wonderful site. There are some great online books. You can click on the words and the computer says them as well as moves through the books by clicking on arrows.http://www.cartooncritters.com/dressuplinks.htm
This site has a variety. Some require clicking a dragging. Dress up Mixy is only clicking. Otherwise a lot of these may be higher level.http://www.isoverse.com/colorbook/KCBselect.html
This is a coloring page. You click on a picture. Then click on the colors and click on the areas of the picture you want that color.http://www.coloringpage.org/
There are some nice coloring pages on this site as well. Maybe easier and more interactive than the one above.http://www.dinosaurdesign.com/index.htm
This site has some strange activities similar to Mr. Potato Head. You just have to click on items to choose what you want to put on the face.http://www.mightybook.com/
You can use some of the features of this site without purchasing a membership. (Some schools are members to this site so you might want to ask your school librarian.)http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/
More online books that use mousing.http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/teletubbies/funandgames/index.shtml
If your student likes teletubbies this is the place! There are a variety of simple mousing activities. Tubby Custard Bubbles is a nice one if you have a student working on moving and manipulating the mouse and then clicking.
This is a great little page with mousing practice. There are online practice activities or downloadable activities.
http://www.pbclibrary.org/mousing/mousercise.htm
This is similar to the program above. Very simple mousing practice with few distractions.
http://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/mousepractice/
This has a variety of links on it for activities for elementary students.
Young children who are just beginning to master the hand-to-eye coordination necessary to use a mouse might enjoy this rubadub site.
http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/rubadub.html
Practice clicking with Mix and Match on-line games with Billy Bear.
http://www.billybear4kids.com/games/mix/match.htm
Mouse Practice has lots of activities to use with kids when they are learning how to use a mouse. They cover, click, drag, hold down, scroll... all in fun and interactive ways. Some great graphics.
http://www.beenleigss.eq.edu.au/requested_sites/mousepractice/index.html
Reflex is a game that will improve your speed and accuracy when working with a computer mouse. (This must be downloaded.) Provides a game that is available to download.
http://www.intelore.com/reflex_game.php
Burlington County Library provides an introduction to pointing and clicking.
Shambles provides a list of various Internet sites with links for providing skills in using a mouse. Also- links for specifically designed for left-handers!
http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/mouse/
This is a simple and fun game to practice basic mouse skills. You do not have to be able to click at the initial stage.
http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/bby.html?game=66
These are simple games to help practice drag and drop with a mouse.
http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/ict/mouseskills/
Simple online activities to practice a variety of mousing techniques.
http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/mouse/page1.html
-good for older students to teach dragging, etc.
Click on the creative tab at
Moms and Kids Playground http://www.funbrain.com/brain/SweepsBrain/sweepsbrain.html Variable levels. Just bookmark the activities you like.