Even our youngest learners can master graphic design basics with digital design activities like this Recreate a Gingerbread House challenge. Students will drag the provided clip art pieces into the work area and then resize and layer the pieces until it looks exactly like the model. I’ve provided 5 challenges that are increasingly more difficult and require more tech skills and perseverance.
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This resource includes:
Google Slides (or download as PowerPoint)
Background and Clip Art Graphics Included
5 Levels of Challenge
Optional Slide for students to design their own Gingerbread House
Have you been wanting to try 3D Printing with Tinkercad with your students but have no idea where to start? This starter kit has everything you need to teach your students how to use Tinkercad and provides 3 leveled prompts to practice their new skills. Great for beginners!
Students are going to love creating their own Digital Glyph Summer Scene and you’re going to love all of the technology skills work they are getting. This resource works on so many great technology skills. While students may be familiar with paper and pencil glyph activities, it takes it to a whole new level to do it digitally.
Digital interactive slides for 4th and 5th grade students with a October theme. Timely Tech is designed to help your students build tech skills while incorporating monthly themed digital activities.
When I teach my students with monthly themed activities that bring in the other subject areas, I find that they are more engaged and empowered to learn. There is intentionally lots of repetition from month to month with these Timely Tech activities because students are building both tech and academic skills.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the Online Research Skills topic of Ads in Search Results and Sponsored Content. The activities are housed in a Google Slides file and students enter their codes into a locked Google Form.
Students are going to love discovering what St Patrick’s Day themed design is hidden in the spreadsheet software mystery picture and you’ll love that they are practicing so many different skills. While students may be familiar with paper and pencil mystery pictures, it takes it to a whole new level to do it digitally. Students will really master the toolbar in Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel. The activity has them filling 100 cells in the table per design, making it a mastery activity.
This resource works on so many great technology skills. While students may be familiar with using snap cubes (or counting blocks or whatever you call them) to make designs, it brings the skill to a whole new level to do it digitally. 10 Superhero Theme designs in 4 different levels for differentiation between grade levels k-5.
Try digital animation with your students with a simple and engaging Easter Egg project! Students choose from background options and then add shapes and clip art graphics to make a scene. Then they duplicate the slide and make a small change over and over (about 50 times) to animate the scene. Once the stop motion animation is complete students publish it to the web and can optionally make it into a GIF using a website tool.
This resource works on so many great technology skills. While students may be familiar with using snap cubes (or counting blocks or whatever you call them) to make designs, it brings the skill to a whole new level to do it digitally. 10 Cinco de Mayo designs in 4 different levels for differentiation between grade levels k-5.
Do your students need to learn about basic computer troubleshooting and managing their digital files? This mini 3 lesson unit will teach your middle school students everything they need to be able to start the troubleshooting process when things go wrong.
273 I Can Statements for the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students. These are designed to match the Technology Themed Decor Classroom Set. Both portrait and landscape layouts are included as well as blank templates for you to make your own.
Introduce a lesson on Online Research Skills with this eBook that goes over Citing Sources. In this booklet students learn about citing sources and giving credit to authors of creative works. Share the PDF with students for a paperless experience or print the nonfiction text out as a booklet.
14 Digital Interactive resources that work on tech skills bundled together to save you money. Your students will need google accounts to use these activities. A shared google account works for the primary grades activities.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn Coding Vocabulary on the topic of Bugging and Debugging. The activities are housed in a Google Slides file and students enter their codes into a locked Google Form. If you’ve been wanting to try an escape room or digital breakout with your students, this is a great place to start.
Digital Click and Drag Mystery Pictures work on so many great technology skills. While students may be familiar with using 100s charts in their math lessons, it brings the skill to a whole new level to use them as mouse or trackpad practice. This set includes 5 December/Christmas themed designs in 2 different levels for differentiation between grade levels k-5.
Digital Mystery Pictures with a Winter Theme for Multiplication and Division Practice. Your students will love discovering what is hidden in the boxes after completing rigorous multi-digit multiplication and division problems.
Digital Click and Drag Mystery Pictures work on so many great technology skills. While students may be familiar with using 100s charts in their math lessons, it brings the skill to a whole new level to use them as mouse or trackpad practice. This set includes 5 November/Thanksgiving themed designs in 2 different levels for differentiation between grade levels k-5.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn Coding Vocabulary on the topic of Variables and Value.
This resource works on so many great technology skills. While students may be familiar with using snap cubes (or counting blocks or whatever you call them) to make designs, it brings the skill to a whole new level to do it digitally. 10 Easter designs in 4 different levels for differentiation between grade levels k-5.
Digital Spring Themed Coding Activities for your grades 2-5 students. These are fully digital and can be used through Google Slides or PowerPoint. Let your students learn about computer languages in a fun and engaging way. These activities are independent click and go lessons on binary, coding, and problem solving. Perfect for the ISTE standard Computational Thinking. They would even be great for your STEM time in class or your Maker Space during the Hour of Code!
Digital activities for 8 Technology Themed Picture Books that are perfect for grades 3-5. Each digital book companion has 12 total digital activities that will help students expand their understanding of this great read aloud storybook. I designed this for technology teachers so that you can read the same book to all 3 grade levels and then assign them different activities. You can read it again the next year with fresh activities for the next grade!
Timely Tech is designed to help your students build tech skills while incorporating monthly themed digital activities.
When I teach my students with monthly themed activities that bring in the other subject areas, I find that they are more engaged and empowered to learn.
Students are going to love designing their own Digital Cards for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and you’re going to love all of the technology skills work they are getting. Digital Glyphs work on so many great technology skills. While students may be familiar with paper and pencil glyph activities, it takes it to a whole new level to do it digitally.
Spiral Review software lessons that teach presentation, word processing, and spreadsheet software over 12 sessions. The skills build on each other throughout this unit so it is important to do the lessons in order. Weeks 13-24 include the topics of weather, classroom supplies, and technology careers to make for engaging software lessons.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn Coding Vocabulary on the topic of Events and Conditions.
Digital activities for the book How to Code a Rollercoaster that are perfect for grades 3-5. 12 total digital activities that will help students expand their understanding of this great read aloud storybook. I designed this for technology teachers or media specialists so that you can read the same book to all 3 grade levels and then assign them different activities. You can read it again the next year with fresh activities for the next grade!
Digital Click and Drag Mystery Pictures work on so many great technology skills. While students may be familiar with using 100s charts in their math lessons, it brings the skill to a whole new level to use them as mouse or trackpad practice. This set includes 5 February themed designs in 2 different levels for differentiation between grade levels k-5.
