15+ 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.
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.
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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 12 months 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.
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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.
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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.
Stop Motion Animation goes Digital with this Snow Globe Digital Animation Project! Students add the provided graphics to make the snow globe scene. Then they duplicate the slide and make a small change over and over (about 20 times) to animate the scene. This snow globe project is a bit different than the other digital animation projects because students will be adding 3 layers to each slide (the main design, a layer of snow, and then a special opaque layer to finish it up. 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.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the internet safety topic of Digital Footprint. The activities are housed in a Google Slides file and students enter their codes into a locked Google Form.
Digital Christmas 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!
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Bring hands on learning into your computer science and technology education with Coding Quests board games.
This board game practices BINARY CODE language while students move their pirate characters through a path filled with obstacles. Can they get their treasure safely back to the port?
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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.
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Bring hands on learning into your computer science and technology education with Coding Quests board games.
This board game practices Directional Coding language while students move their pirate characters through a path filled with obstacles. Can they collect their treasures safely?
4 levels of play and 3 additional ways to play, which includes using with coding robots if you have them. Plus extras if you want to take the challenge up a notch.
Learning keyboarding can be super boring and tedious for students. This set of 4 Fall 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.
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.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the internet safety topic of Fake News. The activities are housed in a Google Slides file and students enter their codes into a locked Google Form.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the internet safety topic of Passwords. The activities are housed in a Google Slides file and students enter their codes into a locked Google Form.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the internet safety topic of Online Friends. The activities are housed in a Google Slides file and students enter their codes into a locked Google Form.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the internet safety topic of screentime. 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.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the internet safety topic of Cyberbullying. The activities are housed in a Google Slides file and students enter their codes into a locked Google Form.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the internet safety topic of Private and Personal Info. The activities are housed in a Google Slides file and students enter their codes into a locked Google Form.
30 Technology Vocabulary Puzzles in both printable and digital format. Either print, prep, and have students complete on paper or use the PowerPoint or Google Slides file to have students complete them digitally. Either way they are great practice.
Stop Motion Animation goes Digital with this Ugly Sweater 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.
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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.
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.
Do your students know the keyboard letters and numbers but need practice with the special keys? Do they have to take online assessments where they will be asked to key in numbers and symbols? Then this practice set is just what you’ve been looking for. 2 levels of special keys practice plus BONUS practice for online assessment skills such as click and drag, short answer text, and drop down menus.
Digital Winter 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!
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the internet safety topic of Permission to Post. The activities are housed in a Google Slides file and students enter their codes into a locked Google Form.
Teach students how to create and decompose Algorithms with these print and digital activities. 2 types of printable activities ask students to color pictures following an algorithm. 2 types of digital activities ask students to order the steps of an algorithm, identify the bug or an extra step, and then write their own 5 step algorithms for a given topic.
Use these activities as a crash course to understanding what an algorithm is, how to write one, follow one, and decompose one. I even included a simple assessment. See the table of contents for what is included.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn the internet safety topic of Group Chats. The activities are housed in a Google Slides file and students enter their codes into a locked Google Form.
Using technology and problem solving skills, students decipher codes and complete activities to learn about computer keyboards. 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.
$5.00Original price was: $5.00.$4.00Current price is: $4.00.
Bring hands on learning into your computer science and technology education with Coding Quests board games.
This board game practices If/Then/Else language while students move their pirate characters through a path filled with obstacles. Can they get their treasure safely back to the port?