Students are going to love building their own Digital Characters 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.
In this Build a Character activity, students 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.
This Build a Character set is a beginner digital glyph activity. It is designed for primary grades students.
Digital interactive slides for grades K-1 students with a January 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.
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.
Do your students need to learn about Internet Safety? This complete 6 lesson unit will teach your middle school students everything they need to be able to make better choices about using the internet safely.
Knowing how to use Google Drive is becoming a requirement for many high school students. This complete 5 lesson unit will teach your upper elementary or middle school students everything they need to be successful Google Drive users.
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.
Students are going to love discovering what Christmas themed design is hidden in the hundreds chart mystery picture and you’ll love that they are practicing so many different skills. While students may be familiar with paper and pencil hundreds charts, it takes it to a whole new level to do it digitally. Students will really master the toolbar in whatever program you use. The activity has them filling 100 cells in a table per design, making it a mastery activity.
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.
Learn the keyboard keys while practicing sight words with this typing program. 342 common sight words are included, as well as a video of directions for how to use your own lists. There are 14 Google Slides files which split the words into groups of 25. These are perfect for any students grades PreK-3rd or older students who are still working on the Dolch sight words list. There are 3 practice slides for each word. I consider this a mastery activity, meaning that there are no wrong answers because students keep working until they are correct.
Digital activities for the book The Berenstain Bears’ Computer Trouble that are perfect for grades K-2. 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. This is a mini unit of 16 digital activities with a winter sports theme. *Not endorsed by the Winter Olympics*
Introduce a lesson on how to read web pages with this eBook that goes over what a web page is and the parts of a web page. 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.
Sorting Matrix Digital Activities to teach If/Then/Else coding language (Conditionals). Everything you need to teach students about conditionals and let them practice using the terminology. This resource includes 12 digital slides with moveable pieces that works in Google Slides or PowerPoint. This set has fine motor building materials including building blocks, play dough, pattern blocks, and counters – without the mess!
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 images!
28 Essential Questions- one for each sub-standard of the International Society for Technology Education Standards for Students. Ideal for helping to inspire technology-infused project based learning in your classroom. As of 7/16/16 these have been fully updated for the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students.
PowerPoint Skills for Beginners Version 2. Do your students need help with adding slides, changing their layouts, working with text boxes, adding pictures, and changing the slide designs? This resource will expose them to these features in PowerPoint and give them an opportunity to practice each skill in a fun and creative way.
Students can practice both academic and technology skills together with the right activities. These Halloween theme digital phonics activities work in Google Slides or as an interactive PowerPoint on any type of device that has these programs. There are 24 Halloween themed activity slides to help them practice click and drag and basic typing skills. Students will also navigate between slides in the software program.
Teach students how to follow and decompose algorithms with these Build a Sandwich digital activities. 2 types of digital activities ask students to follow an algorithm to put a Sandwich together and then look at a pre-built Sandwich 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.
Test Taking Vocabulary is such an important thing to review with students before the test. Use these digital question stems on your interactive whiteboard as a daily writing warm up, or as an individual project on laptops or tablets to help your students learn what is expected from each of these critical words.
Words included:Â Describe, Identify, Explain, Infer, Develop, Evaluate, Compare and Contrast, Justify, Outline, Summarize, Predict, Interpret, Evidence, Analyze, Define, Illustrate.
Introduce a lesson on computers parts with this eBook that goes over the parts inside 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.
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 images!
Try digital animation with your students with a simple and engaging Summer theme 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.
Test Taking Vocabulary is such an important thing to review with students before the test. Use these task cards at your writing station or for homework to help your students learn what is expected from each of these critical words.
Words included:Â Describe, Identify, Explain, Infer, Develop, Evaluate, Compare and Contrast, Justify, Outline, Summarize, Predict, Interpret, Evidence, Analyze, Define, Illustrate.
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.
Digital activities for the book If you Give a Mouse an iPhone that are perfect for grades K-2. 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!
Digital interactive slides for 2nd and 3rd grade students with a February 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.
Learn the keyboard keys while practicing primary words with this color coded typing program. 64 common words are included, as well as a formatted template so you can use your own lists. The typing activity works in PowerPoint or Google Slides. These are perfect for any students grades PreK-3rd or older students who are still working on learning the keyboard.
Teach students how to follow and decompose algorithms with these Code Builder digital activities. 2 types of digital activities ask students to follow an algorithm to put a design together and then look at a pre-built design 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.
Digital interactive slides for 2nd and 3rd 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.
Students can practice both academic and technology skills together with the right activities. This BUNDLE includes 14 Kindergarten ELA topics. The technology skills practiced will be mouse control (mostly click and drag) and learning the letters on the keyboard. See the ELA topics listed below.
This set is being designed with technology teachers and media specialists in mind, but any kindergarten teacher with access to devices would also find these resources to be very useful. Particularly if you include technology as a station rotation in your classroom.
Introduce a lesson on using a computer mouse or trackpad with this eBook that goes over how a mouse and trackpad work. Starting with the ball-style mouse, then learning about the optical mouse, then on to trackpads and other types of inputs.
