Basic Computer Skills for Kids
Build confidence with computer parts, pointing, typing, files, documents and drawings through small offline projects. Use a pretend browser and search cards to understand the web, choose useful information and practise protecting privacy and asking for help.
Overview
Your learning journey
Build confidence with computer parts, pointing, typing, files, documents and drawings through small offline projects. Use a pretend browser and search cards to understand the web, choose useful information and practise protecting privacy and asking for help.
Who this is for
Children aged 7–11 learning with a grown-up or teacher; readers may have instructions read aloud.
What you will learn
- Explain how input, processing, output and storage work together.
- Use pointing, touch and keyboard controls to make and correct fictional work.
- Organise practice files into folders, save them and reopen the correct version.
- Create a readable short document and an original labelled drawing.
- Distinguish the internet, a browser, a website and a search engine.
- Plan a focused search on paper and respond safely to requests for private information.
Before you begin
- No previous computer experience is required; a helper can read and scribe.
- Use paper and pencils, or a grown-up-prepared device with existing offline text and drawing apps and a local practice folder.
- A helper checks that the practice location is local and not automatically shared or synchronised; if this cannot be confirmed, use the paper route.
01 · Meet your computer
Discover what computer parts do, choose deliberate pointing actions and type a short fictional message.
- Computer parts have different jobs
- Point, tap, drag and scroll on purpose
- Type a message and fix one letter
02 · Give your work a home
Learn the difference between apps, files and folders, then practise saving and finding fictional work.
- An app is a tool; a file is your work
- Save with a useful name and location
- Find, reopen and check your saved work
03 · Make something useful
Create a fictional club note, improve its layout and draw a labelled delivery robot using simple tools.
- Write a note, select a word and undo
- Make your document easy to read
- Draw and label a delivery robot
04 · Understand the web safely
Use offline models to understand web tools, practise focused searching and ask a trusted adult when something is unfamiliar.
- The internet, browser and website are different
- Choose search words and examine results
- Keep details private and ask for help
Sources and review notes
Official documentation was browsed on 23 October 2026. Sources support the specific concepts stated in used_for; all teaching, imaginary projects, search cards and feedback are original. Product documentation is used to verify concepts, not to require that product or its accounts. Interfaces vary, so the adult maps each action to an existing offline tool. Search exercises simulate searching and source checking; their invented results are not real websites or factual evidence.
- Draft for coordinator review; no WordPress or publication action is included.
- All 12 lessons use fictional offline exercises. No actual search, account, download, upload, message, private data entry or administration change is required.
- A teacher should check the chosen app's local saving, text selection and drawing controls before teaching. A paper simulation demonstrates understanding but does not establish independent device operation.
- Existing cover and shared native diagram/UI rendering are assumed. This JSON provides instructional diagram content; renderer appearance and accessibility have not been tested here.
- The web chapter teaches initial source judgement and help-seeking, not a guarantee that a search result or website is safe. A trusted adult remains responsible for any later real-world browsing.
Curriculum
Curriculum
- 4 Sections
- 12 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
- 01 · Meet your computer3 ItemsDiscover what computer parts do, choose deliberate pointing actions and type a short fictional message.
- 02 · Give your work a home3 ItemsLearn the difference between apps, files and folders, then practise saving and finding fictional work.
- 03 · Make something useful3 ItemsCreate a fictional club note, improve its layout and draw a labelled delivery robot using simple tools.
- 04 · Understand the web safely3 ItemsUse offline models to understand web tools, practise focused searching and ask a trusted adult when something is unfamiliar.
Instructor
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Course Features
- Lectures 12
- Quiz 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Certificate No
- Assessments Yes