35+ Middle School Technology Projects for intermediate to advanced skill level. These projects and activities will save you so much time coming up with what to do during your computer lab time.
Students can keep their technology vocabulary terms in mind by completing word searches. This packet would be perfect as bell ringers, sub plans, and for early finishers. Have days without access to devices? These are still Tech lessons but on paper!
Students are going to love creating their own digital avatar characters 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.
They will be asked to work across slides in either Google Slides or PowerPoint, copy and paste between slides, resize pieces, layer pieces, group pieces, and save their finished work as an image file. All while completing an engaging get-to-know-you activity.
Engage your upper elementary and middle school students with Cut and Paste Keyboard Puzzles! It is deceptively tricky for students to cut the puzzle pieces and then find their places to create a completed keyboard.
Binary Code, Hexadecimal, and Morse Code Encoded Messages with silly phrases as well as technology facts. This packet would be perfect as bell ringers and for early finishers. Have days without access to devices? These are still Tech lessons but on paper!
Research Skills are critical for today’s students. This complete 7 lesson unit will teach your upper elementary or middle school students everything they need to be successful online researchers. Updated 9/17/17 with an answer key.
14 templates in 6 different colors plus a 21 minute instructional video. Everything you need to make your own digital breakouts for any topic and any grade level. I’ve even included a list of my favorite digital tools for making breakout puzzles.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the internet safety topic of privacy and security. This is a great activity to introduce students to the escape the classroom challenges, and it is fully digital! I’m calling it a digital breakout because students enter the final codes into a locked Google Form.
Engaging project for students in which they act as Candy Store owners and have to work with the candy bars sold data to find out which candy bars make the store the most money.
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.
93Â 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.
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.
Typing paragraphs makes great keyboarding practice for upper elementary and middle school students. This is a set of 15 slides, each containing a digital citizenship themed paragraph for students to type. Any device that can access Google Slides or PowerPoint can be used to complete these digital interactive activities.Â
Introduce a lesson on Digital Citizenship with this eBook that goes over social media. In this booklet students learn about what social media is, the minimum age requirement, and about privacy settings. Share the PDF with students for a paperless experience or print the nonfiction text out as a booklet.