Full Blog Post and Activity Descriptions Coming Soon!
Until then, Check out these Distance Learning Activities for the First week of Schoool:
- Digital: All About Me: (Perfect & Age Appropriate for Upper Grades 4th – 12th)
Students will share 8 Facts about themselves, insert a picture, animated GIF or even a virtual avatar of themselves. Notice the Boarding pass, here students can share about a dream trip or a favorite trip they have gone on. Students can even insert a QR code that brings their classmates to a website that tells about their vacation spot. The ticket stub is a fun way for students to share about a favorite or dream concert, show, rodeo, event…etc!
This Get to Know you goes BEYOND the basic… What’s your favorite food? What’s your favorite color? and really allows YOU and your older students to get to know one another.
This Digital Product Includes:
- Instructions & Tips for using this product in a Distance Learning Setting
- Instructions & Tips for using this product in your classroom
- A Collaborative Google Slide etiquette & Page that students must initial before starting activity
- A student instruction page with tutorials on how to complete the activity
- A completed example
- A student Template
- I’ve created and numbered 36 student templates for you if you choose to use this as a collaborative slide. If you need more simply make a copy of the slides!
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2. Digital: Me in A Bag Activity:
Students will insert 3 items “into” their bags and give a brief video explanation or typed explanation behind the significance of each one! This template is so cool because it looks like the items are actually IN the bag. Depending on how you set up the assignment students cans can cover their clues or video and their classmates will interact with the slides and guess who the bag belongs to by guessing through the comments before revealing who created the bag. You can also have students share their bags during a Zoom Call! Share as small groups in a breakout room, or have 2-3 students share their paper bag slides each morning as a morning meeting!
I LOVE how this one turned out!
This Digital Product Includes:
- Instructions & Tips for using this product in a Distance Learning Setting
- Instructions & Tips for using this product in your classroom
- A Collaborative Google Slide etiquette & Page that students must initial before starting activity
- A student instruction page with tutorials on how to complete the activity
- A completed example
- 4 different student Templates to pick from
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3. Digital: My Life in Pictures
Students will insert 8 pictures plus a profile image and type a brief explanation or think of a relevant hashtag! These templates are so cool because not only are they SO SIMPLE to edit, but they are also BEAUTIFUL and age-appropriate. I’ve included over 10 styles and themes to pick from. Each one fit to a different type of personality. These technically all could be printed, however, I have also included an ink-friendly PRINTABLE version.
You can assign this as a collaborative slide and have students interact and comment with each others. Have students present their pages with a brief explanation in the classroom or over a Zoom Call or Google Meet. Students can even share as a small group in a breakout room during a zoom call, or have 2-3 students share slides each morning as a morning meeting! No matter what type of classroom setting you are teaching in, this activity integrates seamlessly.
This Digital Product Includes:
- Instructions & Tips for using this product in a Distance Learning Setting
- Instructions & Tips for using this product in your classroom
- A Collaborative Google Slide etiquette & Page that students must initial before starting activity
- A student instruction page with tutorials on how to complete the activity
- 2 completed examples
- 10 Different Digital Theme Templates for you or students to pick from
- 1 Printer Friendly (Still editable through Google) Version
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4. Digital: One Word Classroom Collaborative Quilt and Bulletin Board:
This one… like all the others… turned out really COOL. Put on your seatbelt as I try and find the words to accurately describe how cool this little digital activity is! The One Word Collaborative quilt begins with students selecting a One Word Resolution or Goal they would like to focus on for the new term, of the coming school year. Students can select from a list of words, or use a fun Digital word search to decide! Students then complete a word work page to better understand the meaning of their word, and brainstorm scenarios and steps to bringing their word to life.
Once their word has been selected students will pick from 1 of the 4 EASY to use templates to create a digital illustration of their word. Students can also complete the Figurative language page where they explain why they selected the pictures that symbolize their word.
This illustrated “piece” will then become their part of a COLLABORATIVE Class Poster or Quilt as I like to refer to it! The coolest part about this Digital Quilt is that it can be printed off along with the kit I’ve included to create an ACTUAL Bulletin Board for your classroom, OR you can save the Digital Quilt along with my editable templates to create a DIGITAL bulletin board (using the student’s work) that you can insert into your VIRTUAL Classrooms!
The templates I’ve created allow students to simply use a place holder for the image meaning they won’t need to worry about croppings or sizing their pictures to fit the slide! SO EASY AND FUN! This product was created in Google Slides and can easily be edited or assigned in Google Classroom or other digital learning platforms.
This Digital Product Includes:
Instructions & Tips for using this product in a Distance Learning Setting- Instructions & Tips for using this product in your classroom
- A Collaborative Google Slide etiquette & Page that students must initial before starting activity
- A student instruction page with tutorials on how to complete the activity
- Completed examples
- 4 Different Digital Quilt Piece Templates for you or students to pick from
- Word List & Digital Word Search for Deciding on the One Word Goal
- 2 Printable Quilt Piece Templates
- 24 Editable & Printable Bulletin Board Kit Slides
- 2 Digital Bulletin Board Templates
- 5 Different Class Size Quilt Options
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4. Digital: Who’s in My Corner (A Virtual Spin on the Popular 4 Corners Back to School Game)
This one is a lot of fun. I think my favorite part about this activity is that the students are able to create the questions they ask their classmates instead of using a pre-created list. It’s also taken a step further because students can then interact with their classmate’s slides and questions, making this such a fun way to form connections & build classroom community. This activity is perfect for your traditional of virtual classroom!
If using as a traditional Four Corners Get to Know you Game, Students will create a slide with a question of their choice (I’ve included examples to help students brainstorm). You can then project the slides in your classroom and students will move to the corners of the room to show their response.
If using as a strictly digital product, students will create a game piece and an “In My Corner” Slide. Students will use their game piece to show their response to each question by where they place it on the slide! Such a fun way to interact and connect digitally.
You can assign this as a collaborative slide and have students interact and comment with each other. Have students present their slide with a brief explanation of their question and a brief defense of their response. This can be done in the classroom or over a Zoom Call or Google Meet. Students can even meet as a small group in a breakout room during a zoom call with their other classmates that answered the same as they did! No matter what type of classroom setting you are teaching in, this activity integrates seamlessly.
Instead of having students answer and interact with the slides all in one sitting, it’s also a fun idea to use one a day to start your day! Perfect little Morning Meeting Extension.
This Digital Product Includes:
- Instructions & Tips for using this product in a Distance Learning Setting
- Instructions & Tips for using this product in your classroom
- A Collaborative Google Slide etiquette & Page that students must initial before starting activity
- A student instruction page with tutorials on how to complete the activity
- 2 completed examples
- 2 versions for Student Game Pieces
- Class slides up to 36 students (Let me know if you need more added)
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Activity to Get to Know Everyone & Make Connections
- Paper Bag
- Pick a Side
- Decorating Writer’s Notebook (Explanation and Checklist)
- Make a Connection (Talk until a connection is formed, add more people to the group)
- Google Slide All About Me
***REFLECTION PAGE, while they listen, draw a picture, make a connection, rate their participation, respect…etc
Activity that Creates Belonging:
Masterpiece activity big scrib could make an additional collaborative tile poster
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Activity that Requires Interaction with Classmates
Coming Soon:
Classmate Scavenger
lego interview writing a biography
designing an avatar for a classmate
- http://www.wimpyourself.com/
- https://app.pixton.com/#/
- http://www.peanutizeme.com/
- https://powerpuffyourself.com/#/en
- http://www.hexatar.com/free-vector-avatar.html
- https://avatarmaker.com/
- Lego Life App
Product: Student Interview, can be done over Zoom…etc
Activity that Requires Collaboration & Communication
Stem Activity: Balloon Rockets, Roller Coaster, Spaghetti Tower Marshmallows
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Activity to Review & Reinforce Procedures & Expectations
Coming Soon:
- Match Up
- Find Someone Who
- Quizziz
- Kahoot
- Boom Cards
- Students Create Quick Review Game
- Escape Room
Activity to Get to Know You the Teacher
Quiz to introduce Test Procedures
- Google Slide Self Correcting for Distance Learning
- Editable Template, with Matching Slide Answers
Activity to Encourage Community
- Free Puzzle Piece Activity & Classroom Community Poem
- Service Activity
- Opposites Attract Activity (Salt and Pepper, Peanut Butter & Jelly)
- Desert Island Survival
- Students have to pick 5 items from the room to take with them if they were lost on a desert island and explain why they would take the item at the end everyone votes for their top 5 survival items.
Activity that Introduces Grit
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Activity to Encourages Team Work
- No hand Cup Stacking
- Back to Back Drawing
- Jigsaw Puzzle Race
- Marble Tubes
Group Work Evaluation & Reflection Sheet
Activity to Encourage Betterment, and school community and belonging, Helpful Not Helpless
Students come up with service project, or idea to help or lift others in the school. Think nervous first graders, administration, janitorial staff, leaving a place better than how you found it, uplifting chalk quotes, nice notes,
Brainstorm Sheet Coming Soon
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