Learning keyboarding can be super boring and tedious for students. This set of formatting activities aims to bring engagement and a sense of purpose to the practice of typing. By the time students finish all 11 U.S. Holidays they will have practiced each of the keyboard rows four times. Students will also (hopefully) have a sense of pride over the final outcome and an understanding of the learning objective.
Students are going to love creating their own Digital Glyph Winter Snowman 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.
Stop Motion Animation goes Digital with this Halloween Digital Animation Project! Students choose from background options and then add shapes, text, 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.
As requested, here is a set of keyboarding activities that help students practice the shift key. This set of 6 Designs require students to use the whole keyboard including the shift key characters. The goal of text formatting activities is to bring engagement and a sense of purpose to the practice of typing. Students will also (hopefully) have a sense of pride over the final outcome and an understanding of the learning objective.
On each printable worksheet there are 3 keyboards for a total of 60 fill in the keyboards activities. There are 3 different keyboard layouts (PC, Chromebook, and Mac) so that students are exposed to different keyboard types. Great for exit ticket, sub activity, early finisher option, low-tech day, and the list goes on!
Guided Projects that Teach several skills in Google Sheets are the ideal way to build technology literacy for our youngest students. This set of 5 projects show students functions, formulas, formatting, graphing, calculations, and so much more so that by the time they get through the final project they could do it independently.
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This winter will be so fun with the Snow Globe digital glyph and digital animation projects in one bundle! You can use both projects with the same students or have students do the digital glyph the first year and then the digital animation the next year. Ideal for computer lab teachers or upper elementary classroom teachers.
Introduce a lesson on computers parts with this eBook that goes over the inputs and outputs of a computer. Great for a warm up activity in the computer lab or classroom. Share the PDF with students for a paperless experience or print the nonfiction text out as a booklet.
Teach students how to follow and decompose algorithms with these Build a Monster digital activities. 2 types of digital activities ask students to follow an algorithm to put a Monster together and then look at a pre-built Monster and type their own algorithm for it.
Students are going to love creating their own Digital Glyph Valentine’s Day 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.
Teach students how to follow and decompose algorithms with these Build a Pizza digital activities. 2 types of digital activities ask students to follow an algorithm to put a Pizza together and then look at a pre-built Pizza and type their own algorithm for it.
Use these activities as a lesson on understanding what an algorithm is, how to write one, follow one, and decompose one. I even included printable posters and vocabulary cards.
Learning keyboarding can be super boring and tedious for students. This set of 4 Summer Themed text formatting activities aims to bring engagement and a sense of purpose to the practice of typing. Students will also (hopefully) have a sense of pride over the final outcome and an understanding of the learning objective.
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STEM goes digital with these fun and engaging design challenges. 10 websites and 90 challenges perfect for grades 2 and up. The virtual manipulatives work on any device and in any browser so this activity is perfect for distance learning and in the classroom.
Introduce a lesson on how email works with this eBook that goes over what email is, how it compares to traditional main, and how we send and receive email messages. Includes brief email etiquette. Great for a warm up activity in the computer lab or classroom. Share the PDF with students for a paperless experience or print the nonfiction text out as a booklet.
Introduce a lesson on keyboarding with this eBook that goes over how a keyboard works and how we use them, including an introduction to Home Row keys and learning to type. Great for a warm up activity in the computer lab or classroom. Share the PDF with students for a paperless experience or print the nonfiction text out as a booklet.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the Online Research Skills topic of Avoiding Plagiarism. The activities are housed in a Google Slides file and students enter their codes into a locked Google Form.
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Do you need your students to master Google Slides, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Classroom so that they can complete assignments efficiently? This bundle has everything your upper elementary students need to become pros at Google Apps.
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 Construction Theme designs in 4 different levels for differentiation between grade levels k-5.
If you’re looking for an engaging end of year activity for your upper elementary students, try this End of Year Memory Book Digital Activity! 18 Digital activity slides for Google Slides or PowerPoint that students fill in with their answers.
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 Valentine’s Day designs in 4 different levels for differentiation between grade levels k-5.
Teachers looking to integrate technology skills and content areas with love this review of PowerPoint/Google Slides skills for students with the topic of Christmas Around the World. While this is a simple research project, the real goal of this activity is for students to put their notes into a Presentation template (using either Google Slides or PowerPoint) and make it look professional.
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This complete unit has 10 reading passages, vocab cards, a multiple choice assessment, and 40 digital activity slides for internet safety and digital citizenship topics. It is ideal for computer lab teachers to use during tech class as you can choose which topics to complete with each grade level.
Coding meets vocabulary instruction with VoCode! Integrate those robots you have (or turn students into robots) to complete these coding challenges. 3 Options for the activities mean that you can use this with ANY movable Bots and ANY grade level of students. Be sure to check out the preview!
This set includes Parts Inside a Computer. Check out page 5 of the preview to see which ones are included.
3 Halloween themed Keyboard shortcuts “games” that can be completed on any device. There are 12 keyboard shortcuts included and these 12 are repeated throughout the 3 games. This gives students an opportunity to master them. There is a 1 page poster included for you to use to introduce the keyboard shortcuts if your students are new to them.
Teach students how to follow and decompose algorithms with these Build a Burger digital activities. 2 types of digital activities ask students to follow an algorithm to put a Burger together and then look at a pre-built Burger and type their own algorithm for it.
Use these activities as a lesson on understanding what an algorithm is, how to write one, follow one, and decompose one. I even included printable posters and vocabulary cards.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the Online Research Skills topic of Evaluating a Web Page. The activities are housed in a Google Slides file and students enter their codes into a locked Google Form.
Students put together a digital computer in 4 click and drag activities. They learn how to put icons on a desktop, where the hardware components go inside of a computer, they label the browser icons, and they put a keyboard together. There are differentiated options to meet the needs of your students.
This activity is provided in PowerPoint. You can upload it into your Google Drive and it will open with Slides.
Students are going to love discovering what Thanksgiving themed design is hidden in the spreadsheet software mystery pictures 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.
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15 Word Processing modules for the Intermediate skills. Most appropriate for students in grades 3-5 or students who have had an introduction to Word Processing. For each skill, there are 2 templates. 1 will open in MS Word, and 1 will open in Google Docs. To use the Google Docs version, your students will need to have Google accounts. The tasks for the assignment are the same whether students are using Word or Docs.
These projects were made out of a desire to guide students to eventually work independently in software programs. They are design to build technology literacy through repetition and engaging project prompts.
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This holiday season will be so fun with the Ugly Sweater digital glyph and digital animation projects in one bundle! You can use both projects with the same students or have students do the digital glyph the first year and then the digital animation the next year. Ideal for computer lab teachers or upper elementary classroom teachers.
The clip art pieces can be used for many December events and holidays like Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Solstice, and New Year. You can add more customized options for your students if needed.
Introduce a lesson on computers with this eBook that goes over the history of computers from ancient computing devices to the first punch card systems all the way to modern computers with internet connections. Great for a warm up activity in the computer lab or classroom. Share the PDF with students for a paperless experience or print the nonfiction text out as a booklet.