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Back to school is a special time of year. Sure, it means the end of summer break, but it's also a time for new beginnings. It's a time to get back into the regular cadence of the school schedule.

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As teachers across the U.S. prepare for online and blended learning, more and more schools are relying on Google Classroom and Google Meet to deliver online lessons and assignments.

In this post, I will share how to integrate Google Classroom with Google Meet.

Kudos to Google for stepping up to the plate during the 2020 school closures and giving us many free features and updates to help teachers, students, and parents.

It's definitely not a perfect marriage, but we have come a long way in a short time.

Here's what you need to know:

What is Google Classroom?

Google Classroom is a free application designed to help students and teachers communicate, collaborate, manage assignments, go paperless, and stay organized.

What is Google Meet? (formerly Google Hangouts)

Google Meet is a free video-conferencing application that allows teachers to create virtual classrooms, host meetings, and share their screens and presentations.

If you are a Google for Education school, combining these two remote learning tools makes a lot of sense. Although they can both be used entirely independently of each other, integrating these two tools streamlines communication and saves teachers time.

Here's how they work together.

Generate a Google Meet Link From Google Classroom

As a teacher in Google Classroom, you can create a link to a Google Meet that can be used over and over again.

You can create this link in multiple places, but the easiest way is from your Class Stream header.

To create the Google Meet link from Google Classroom,

1. Go to the Google Classroom Class, where you want to create a meeting.

2. From the Stream header, click on the "Generate Meet link."

3. In the pop-up, click the "Generate Meet link" button to create the link.

4. Click "Save."

The link is ready. You can click "copy" to copy the link. You will also see the link in the header from now on.

You can also generate this link in your Class settings, or from the icon at the top of the Classwork page.

Share the Google Meet Link with Students

Teachers have two main options for sharing this link with students.

OPTION 1: Copy and paste the link in a Google Classroom assignment, announcement, or anywhere else you like to share links.

OPTION 2: Click the toggle to make the link visible to students, then click "Save." This makes the link visible for students in their Google Classroom header. You can toggle this on and off as needed.

Student View of the Google Meet Link in Google Classroom

If you choose to make this link visible to students, students will see it in their Google Classroom header and on the Classwork page. All they have to do is click it to open the Google Meet.

About the Google Meet Link

When you create the Google Meet from Google Classroom, it is what Google calls a nicknamed link.

Nicknamed links cannot be rejoined AFTER the host has left the meeting, according to Google.

However, in my own testing, I discovered that the link could be opened BEFORE the teacher/host starts the Meet. This can definitely cause issues for teachers and schools when students are in unsupervised video meetings.

Right now, my advice is to keep the Meet link hidden from students until you need it.

Reset the Google Meet Link

Since this link can be reused, I recommend that you reset the Google Meet link each time you want to meet with students. It is an extra step, but it only takes a few seconds.

To reset the Meet link,

Note: Through September 30, 2020, educators and IT administrators preparing for potential school closures can access Google Meet's premium video conferencing features such as larger meetings (up to 250 participants per call), live streaming, and meeting recording. Learn more

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1. Go to Class Settings

2. Scroll down to "General"

3. Click the dropdown next to the Meet link

4. Select "Reset"

5. A new Meet link is created that you can copy or make visible.

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Many of the tips below come from the Google Support Center, which has many additional resources to help teachers with Google Meet.

If your school allows anyone to create video meetings, the first person to join a video meeting becomes the meeting owner. To fix this, check with your G Suite administrator to ensure that students can't create video meetings.

Anonymous users, or users not signed in to a Google Account, will not be able to join meetings organized by G Suite for Education users. However, users can still dial in using a phone. To allow anonymous users to join meetings in their domain, the admin of the G Suite for Education domain can contact G Suite support and request an exception.

If internet speed is slow, turning off your camera can improve video meeting quality. If audio quality is poor, you can use a phone for audio. Learn more

If you're using a mobile device, install the Google Meet app.

Charge your device before the meeting. On some fanless devices, such as tablets and laptops, charging during the meeting can reduce video quality.

During any video meeting, only the meeting creator can approve external requests to join.

When using Meet, participants can turn off their camera to show their profile photo instead. This can improve video meeting quality if internet speed is slow.

If audio quality is poor, use a phone for audio instead.

For large classes, use a live stream instead of having students join an interactive video class meeting. To engage students while live streaming, you can use Google Slides Q&A. Or, you can pre-record a lesson to share later.

To help students who are deaf or hard of hearing, turn on live captions in Meet. To capture student responses for a recorded class, use Google Slides Q&A.

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In every classroom, there are students who always have their hand raised to participate, and those who are hesitant to engage. Whether they're introverted, tend to think awhile before they contribute, or are just having a bad day, it can be hard to bring kids into discussions who are reluctant to add their voices.

The challenges of getting students to participate have intensified during remote learning, we've heard from many teachers. Digital platforms can create added communication barriers by making it hard to know when to talk, for example, or how to read subtle but important elements of discourse like a person's body language and facial expressions. Additionally, online discussions are often hindered by variability in students' access to technology and by privacy concerns, and consequently many teachers have had to rely on students' submitting work over isolated channels like email, which can leave back-and-forth between peers (and between students and the teacher) by the wayside.

Getting kids to contribute in virtual classrooms takes some work, it turns out. "We keep calling this generation digital natives as if they are simply whizzes at everything computerized. They aren't," wrote Tim O'Brien on Facebook. "They need personal support, scaffolding, and reassurance that technology does not provide. It is simply a tool, not a teacher."

To find out how to improve student discussions and participation in online learning, we culled through hundreds of comments on social media and followed up with more than 20 educators to see how they tackled the challenge last spring. Teachers offered a range of smart strategies, both synchronous and asynchronous, to integrate the values and the voices of all kids-even the quietest or those with disrupted schedules-into their classes this fall.

Synchronous Strategies

For synchronous learning, some teachers said they translated traditional discussion strategies from the classroom to live video chats, while others found that digital tools helped boost classroom participation.

1. Spider web discussion: During remote learning this spring, students in Shai Klima's high school class led their own discussions over Google Meet. Before the live class, students answered questions independently, and then shared their responses at the start of the meeting as a jumping-off point for a broader class discussion.

While students conversed on video, Klima listened and drew lines on a sheet of paper tracking the flow of the conversation, resulting in a spider web. At the end of the discussion, Klima shared the drawing over video, and then asked students to reflect on the experience and what they learned about who talked, who listened, and who built on the ideas of others.

"It has been successful as a means to get kids to credit their peers with helping them come up with new ideas, which helps build rapport," said Klima, who let students struggling with bandwidth call in to the meetings.

2. Using chat to check for understanding: After giving lessons last spring, Paul France had his third-grade students use the Google Chat feature to ask and answer questions or type in emojis, like a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, to show whether they understood a concept. To create structure around the responses, he guided his students in creating norms around using the chat feature-they decided as a group to use only one emoji at a time, for example. France said the practice helped him check for student understanding and pushed students to engage more with the content.

Kindergarten teacher Ruth Calkins, meanwhile, used Zoom chat when holding live lessons with her kindergarten students. She said they enjoyed typing "T" or "F" for true and false questions while answering math problems in the chat box, and some even attempted to write sentences in response to her questions. Typing responses also provided a lot of keyboard practice for her young students.

3. Flip your classroom to stimulate deeper discussion: Forrest Hinton, a high school math teacher, says he found that a blend of asynchronous and synchronous instruction worked well to stimulate student discussion during remote learning.

First, he taught new content asynchronously through recorded videos and online activities. At the start of his live class, students briefly summarized the concepts they had learned together and then divided into breakout rooms to solve related problems in small groups. Flipping his classroom allowed Hinton to spend less class time in direct instruction-and listening to students at the start of class and in small groups helped him identify, and then address, where his students were struggling. "This has allowed me to clarify concepts in a more targeted way and better assist students," said Hinton.

4. Adapting think-pair-share to Zoom: Ryan Tahmaseb, director of library services, says he found that giving more project-based learning activities to his elementary and middle school students-and allowing them more autonomy over assignments-naturally encouraged richer discussions in virtual learning. "If we give students as much freedom as possible to experiment, research, and pursue interests within our content area, then they inevitably have a lot more to say," said Tahmaseb.

When it came to class discussions, Tahmaseb adapted think-pair-share to Zoom. Students were given a prompt, broken into groups, and then placed into breakout rooms to discuss and record their answers on a shared Google doc, which allowed students to share their thinking in writing or read aloud. Since Tahmaseb wasn't in each breakout room to listen to the conversations, the Google doc kept students accountable. Once they returned to the whole class, volunteers from each group shared their answers with everyone.

5. A new twist on show-and-tell: To get students comfortable with online participation, Brittany Collins, the teaching and learning coordinator at Write the World, a global online writing community for middle and high school students, converted the familiar show-and-tell activity into "think, write, share."

In one activity, Collins asked middle and high school students to find a photo, painting, or drawing that represented intergenerational connection and independently respond by writing to the following questions from the Making Thinking Visible Framework before discussing them over video as a class: What are we looking at? What makes you say that? What do you notice (see, feel, know)? What more can we uncover? What do you wonder? "It helps to break the ice in a virtual learning setting where unplanned participation can prove challenging for some students," said Collins.

Asynchronous Strategies

Although some teachers-and students-said that synchronous discussions were more engaging because they resembled a traditional classroom, many educators found that asynchronous discussions were more equitable because they opened up participation to students with low bandwidth, who had schedule limitations, or who were uncomfortable engaging with the full class.

6. Online forums create back-and-forth dialogue: Angelina Murphy, a high school English teacher, said she used Google Classroom's question feature to get her class to respond to readings and discussion prompts during remote learning this past spring. When each student commented, Murphy replied with clarifying questions to create a back-and-forth dialogue and also asked every student to respond to at least two of their peers' comments to create a broader base of discussion.

Fifth-grade teacher Raquel Linares said she used Nearpod Collaborate (Apple, Android), a virtual collaboration board, to get students to share images or write a response to show what they had learned about an article they read. To inspire connection and reflection among classmates, Linares also used Flipgrid (Apple, Android), so that students could hear their peers' voices even though they were remote.

7. Seeing and critiquing peer work through virtual gallery walks: Virtual "gallery walks" give students an opportunity to view their classmates' projects while learning from each other, according to Joe Marangell, a high school social studies teacher. After his students presented their own projects through five-minute screencasts, they were then required to give feedback to at least two other students on theirs.

Using Google Sheets, students provided feedback to their peers by answering the following prompts: What's something new I learned about this topic?; What's something that surprised me about this topic?; What's something I liked about this presentation? The online format gave every student the opportunity to see their peers' work and their assessment on theirs for deeper reflection, Marangell said.

8. Moving station brainstorming online: When carousel or station brainstorming activities are conducted in traditional classroom environments, small groups of students rotate around the room to different stations to answer prompts-and view and add to each groups' responses.

To translate this online, Marangell divided his students into groups online and created shared Google docs-or a series of Google slides-for the prompts/questions. Each group left their thoughts under the questions by the assigned date and then followed up by commenting on the other groups' responses the next day. "The strategy still allows them to maintain a sense of classroom community [in a virtual setting]," said Marangell.

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Are you looking for digital reading activities to kick off your school year? It can be challenging to plan reading lessons when you're still getting to know your students getting to know what they know. You don't want to bombard your students with too many skill-based reading activities before you've reviewed or taught the skills. This set of free digital reading activities designed for use at the beginning of the year is a great way to supplement your reading instruction, get to you know your students as readers, and review a few reading genres.

About the Free Digital Reading Activities

This set of free reading digital activities includes six different texts; three fiction and three nonfiction.

The fiction texts include a mystery, a twisted fairytale, and a realistic fiction story. The nonfiction topics are emojis, snakes, and pyramids.

Each text includes comprehension questions that require the students to show their understanding of the text. The questions are:

multiple choice questions

fill-in-the-blank questions

true or false statements

The questions and activities included are strictly comprehension-based rather than skill-based. This makes it ideal for the beginning of the year, before your reading skill instruction has started.

Digital Reading Passages

Each genre has a short text presented on one slide. The text passages are the perfect length for your students to read without being too much at once.

The texts are written at lower levels than is expected for 4th and 5th graders since this is the beginning of the school year. The levels are around a 3rd grade reading level.

The variety of genres included makes this a great way to review a few genres at the beginning of the year and get your students excited about what types of books they enjoy reading and are looking forward to reading this school year.

Multiple Choice Reading Comprehension Questions

Each passage has its own set of multiple-choice questions. Your students will read the questions and the choices and then use a drag and drop element to show their answers. This makes it more engaging and interactive for your students instead of simply typing their answers in a text box.

Fill-in-the-Blank Sentences

The second type of question is fill-in-the-blank. Your students will type a missing word or phrase into each text box based on what they read in the text.

Agree or Disagree Activities

Lastly, your students will read sentences that could be true or false. Each one requires your students to show whether they agree or disagree with the statement they read. If they disagree, there is a text box for your students to rewrite the sentence to make it true.

To make the activities more engaging, the drag and drop moveable pieces are related to the passage topic or theme. For example, in a story about missing donuts, your students will drag a moveable donut to a box to show they agree with each statement. If they disagree, the donut box will stay empty and they will need to rewrite the statement in the text box to make it factual.

Using the Digital Reading Activities
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The best thing about these activities is that they are versatile depending on your needs. You can adapt them whether you want your students to work on them as a class, independently, in partners, or even in your small reading groups. They are easily projected on an interactive whiteboard for whole-class reading and discussion, or may be assigned independently through your virtual classroom interface.

What if I don't need digital versions?

Looking for a printable version of this set? There are printable versions of each text and set of questions included in this download, too. When you click on the link below, you will receive both sets.
Click here or on the image below to download the digital reading activities from my TPT store for free.
How do I get these free digital reading activities?

Want more digital reading activities?

If you want more digital reading activities to help with online or digital reading instruction, I recommend this resource.

Each set includes BOTH printable and digital versions for digital reading instruction, face-to-face instruction, or hybrid reading instruction. Just like the free set of activities shown on this post, the digital activities are designed for use with Google Slides and digitally optimized for student engagement and optimal use.

Reading Skills Include:

Theme

Inferences

Point of View

Perspective

Fiction Summarizing

Figurative Language

Context Clues

Main Idea

Text Structure

Paired Text Structure

Multiple Accounts

Various Nonfiction Skills

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Free Digital Reading Activities - Teaching with Jennifer Findley

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This blog post shares favorite NO PREP digital reading activities for elementary students that can be used in Google Classroom for distance learning.
In this time of school closures and distance learning you have transformed the way you teach, virtually overnight. You moved all your instruction online and created google classrooms. You figured out how to correspond solely through apps, email and video chats, and yet you still continue to grow your relationships with your students!

I know it hasn't been easy. I know it has taken a tremendous amount of time, and creative thought and energy to figure out how to provide quality instruction and engaging activities that students can complete at home without you by their side. To help make things a tad easier for you, I have created digital versions of some of my most popular reading, writing, and math activities!

These digital activities are most appropriate for students in grades K-2. They are motivating for students, provide proper support through natural differentiation, and are ZERO PREP for you!

Today I am excited to share details about the DIGITAL VERSIONS of two of my favorite reading activities, the Sequence of Events Reading Passages, and this Sentence Building Center!

The ability to sequence events is an important skill in reading. Knowing the order of events helps students deepen their comprehension and the ability to correctly identify the beginning, middle, and end allows readers to retell in a manageable way.

For this activity students read a passage, sequence the events of the story, and answer comprehension questions describing the events in the reading passage.

Below is an example of a printable Read and Sequence Passage.

The exciting news is that the resource now includes 24 digital slides formatted for students to use in Google Slides! This allows students to practice the important skill of sequencing from home on their tablet or computer in a meaningful and engaging way!
Check out this video to get a better idea of what the activity looks like in Google Slides...
Before assigning the sequencing passages, I'd suggest you clearly model how to complete the activity. The structure remains the same for each passage, so students will know just what they need to do! They can independently work through the slides at whatever pace you assign them. And with 24 different passages to choose from, this is a single resource that students can work with for quite a long time!

Finally, if you have already purchased the printable Sequence of Events Reading Passages this digital update is FREE for you! Simply redownload the resource to get the digital files!

If you don't already own this resource, feel free to download this Read and Sequence Passages FREE sample!

In this activity students build a sentence, write it and edit it using the checklist. They can then practice building fluency by reading it to themselves! With two versions of each sentence, this is simple to differentiate!

The Sentence Building Bundle now includes 120 DIGITAL Google Slides! You'll get 60 different sentences (with two versions of each), as well as editing & fluency checklists to promote independent success at home!
Take a look at this video to get a better idea of what the activity looks like on Google Slides...
And just like the Reading Passages, the Sentence Building Center activity requires ZERO prep work from you! The structure remains the same, so all you have to do is clearly model how to build, edit and read the sentences.

Once students successfully created one sentence, they'll be able to independently work through the remaining slides at whatever pace you assign them. The bundle includes sentences for all four seasons so it's one resource that could last you all year long!

Remember, if you've already purchased the printable Sentence Building Center resource, simply redownload the product to get the FREE digital files!

These resources are meaningful and engaging activities that don't require much extra work from you- a winning combo for these times! With all you have on your plate right now, I hope it can lighten your load just a bit!!

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The materials here are designed to be used with video conferencing platforms for distance education and with interactive whiteboards in the classroom. The activities can also be used if you are creating video lessons for asynchronous lessons.

To use the materials, first watch the overview video for an orientation to our approach to virtual teaching. Then, click on the links below to download lesson templates, peruse our tips for creating engaging lessons, and finally, explore the instructional activities. toplan lessons appropriate for your students.

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Windows always has been a great environment for multitasking, with the ability to run several applications at once and to switch between them with relative ease.

In Windows 10, Microsoft tightened up the snapping mechanism and expanded its functionality. Today, the latest version of Windows 10 offers a number of ways to split your screen into multiple windows and get real work done, with better support for higher-resolution displays and multiple monitors. Even Windows 11 does the same, but with added productivity-first features like Snap Layouts.

Split screen in Windows 10 versus Windows 11

Before we begin, we do want to mention that we'll be talking about split screen multitasking across Windows 10 and Windows 11. Both operating systems will let you use what is known as Snap Assist.

As we explain later, Snap Assist is a Windows feature that suggests ways for you to group your open apps together when you use a specific keyboard shortcut.

Anything you snap through Snap Assist won't "save." If you exit one app, you'll need to manually trigger that split screen again. The same also applies if you opt to open another app or minimize the Taskbar.

However, in Windows 11, Microsoft improved on that. It expanded on Snap Assist with a new feature known as Snap Layouts. You can still use Snap Assist keyboard shortcuts in Windows 11, but compared to Windows 10, Snap Layouts in Windows 11 gives you expanded ways of using split screen.

It has ways of grouping and saving your open apps so that if you minimize your apps to the taskbar, Windows will remember them as a Snap Group, and you won't lose your place. There's also a visual suggestion (with up to six ways) for how you can split screen via Snap Layouts with a pop-up when you hover over the maximize button - which you don't get in Windows 10.

All that aside, let us dive in deeper.

Using Snap Assist in Windows 10

One of Windows 10's most important contributions to split-screen multitasking is Snap Assist, which makes it easier to select an open application window when you are choosing which applications to arrange on your screen. Here's how to use it:

Step 1: Choose the window you want to snap to one half of the screen, then drag it to the edge.

Step 2: If you have other windows or applications open when you snap your chosen window, you'll also see a number of options that can fill the second half. Click on one, and it will automatically snap into place opposite the first window. If you don't and the selection grid disappears, drag your second window to the edge of the empty space.

Step 3: To resize the two windows, hover the cursor over the dividing line until it becomes two arrows. Click and hold on the divider to adjust the two windows accordingly. However, there's a limit to how narrow a window can be.

Note: Is Snap Assist refusing to work or acting strangely? Check your startup programs, the apps that automatically launch when you log into Windows. Sometimes these can interfere with Snap Assist, and disabling them will fix the problem. Our guide on managing startup programs is a great place to start.

Use the keyboard shortcut in Windows 10 & 11

Want a faster way to do this on your keyboard? There is a shortcut to split windows that is really useful. In an active window, press and hold the Windows key and then press either the Left or Right arrow key. This should automatically snap the active window to the left or right. Select another window to fill the second empty space.

If you want to expand a window to the full screen again, just press the Windows key and the Up arrow key together. If you accidentally make a quarter window instead of a half window, you can use the Windows and Up or Down arrow keys to expand it as well.

Snapping more than two windows in Windows 10

If you have a large or high-resolution display, you can take advantage of all of that extra screen real estate by snapping up to four windows on a single screen using Corner Snap.

Step 1: Drag and drop your first window into any corner. To use the keyboard shortcut, press and hold the Windows key followed by the Left or Right Arrow key to snap the active window to the left or right. Next, press and hold the Windows key followed by the Up or Down Arrow key to move the snapped window into the top or bottom corner.

Step 2: With the first active window in a corner, drag and drop your second window into any other available corner. You are not required to pick a specific corner.

Step 3: Repeat Step 2 to fill in the other two corners as needed. Note that a 2020 update to Windows 10 updated this four-window design and made all the snapped windows act as a single window. This may not sound important, but it's really handy when you have to do something else, like open an additional app or file while working with your snapped windows - they will now stay together, waiting for you to get back.

Turning off Snap Assist and adjusting settings in WIndows 10

Snap Assist is easy to disable if it becomes troublesome. Here's how:

Step 1: Open the Settings app. It's the gear icon on the Start Menu

Step 3: Select Multitasking listed on the left

Step 4: Click the Toggle displayed under Snap Windows to toggle this feature off. If you'd rather disable specific Snap Assist features rather than toggling it completely off, there are three settings you can disable instead. Just ignore Step 4 and uncheck the boxes next to each setting as needed:

How to split your screen in Windows 11

Snap Layouts in Windows 11 are a new feature that helps increase productivity and split your screen in the new Microsoft operating system. It's a lot like Snap Assist in Windows 10 but offers up to six different ways to tile a window. Snap Layouts are tailored to the current screen size and orientation, including support for three side-by-side windows on large landscape screens and top/bottom, stacked windows on portrait screens.

Step 1: Hit the Windows Key and Z on your keyboard, and you'll see a box pop up at the top right-hand side of the open window. You also can hover over the maximize button to see the various ways to use split-screen.

Step 2: Choose one of the ways to split-screen your window. There will be a total of six you can choose from. Windows will open the task switcher and suggest another one of your open windows to pick. Once you choose an open window, it will snap in place.

Step 3: If you're having trouble getting Snap Layouts to work, just hit the Windows Key and Left or Windows Key and Right on your keyboard. Or, follow our steps above for Windows 10. It's the same across the two operating systems.

Customize grids with a third-party app in Windows 10

We'll be the first to point out that the native Windows 10 option is impressive; however, there are a variety of third-party apps that give you a bit more. With these apps, you can enjoy more definitive, grid-like changes to your windows so you can obtain all the tools you love so much (in the perfect size) and place them wherever you desire. Our recommendation is AquaSnap.

AquaSnap lets its users develop and change as many split windows as necessary with a neat snap function that operates similarly to Windows 10. It's slightly more flexible, however, and consists of a few cool, extra tools such as snapping small windows together and other sweet gimmicks.

You can download and start using the Personal version of AquaSnap for free. With it, you'll have access to basic features like docking, snapping, stretching, various keyboard shortcuts, and a whole lot more. If you're ready to step it up, you can opt for the Professional edition, which comes in two different versions: Standard and Site. You can pay $18 for the Standard version and $600 for the Site version. These special editions allow you to acquire licenses, add convenient mouse shortcuts, benefit from multimonitor support, and relish three other premium features.

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Templates can guide teachers as they design great lessons or activities. They are also powerful tools to use with students, helping them organize their thoughts and ideas.
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Teachers, we know how hard it can be to plan remote activities that are engaging and educational. Luckily, there are plenty of Internet resources available at your fingertips-with options for both synchronous and asynchronous learning-based classrooms.

We've organized this list into two sections to help you better find what you need. The first section includes 25 educational tools that can help you plan online activities for your classroom. The second section features 25 team-building and social-emotional group activities your students can complete from home.

25 Online Educational Activities for Classrooms

1. Take a virtual tour of the San Diego Zoo, Easter Island, or even Mars with your class.

2. For a fun virtual science activity, use the games and quizzes at National Geographic Kids to teach your students about animals.

3. Share a Wonders with Charlie video to explore fascinating topics like ancient history, genetics, and music in a way that's accessible for children.

4. Read a news article from TIME for Kids as a class, then hold a discussion on your students' impressions and opinions.

5. Try this free Math Mystery activity, which can be a fun virtual way to practice elementary-level skills.

6. For a virtual art activity, pick an Art for Kids Hub tutorial and follow along to help your students create their own masterpieces.

7. Play a round of Classroom Jeopardy using a topic you're studying in class with this free template.

8. Use Google Arts and Culture to explore a variety of interactive art activities as a class, including music makers and artsy jigsaw puzzles.

9. Share an article or game from Highlights Kids to learn about scientific topics in a fun and age-appropriate way.

10. If you teach your elementary students music, consider putting on a production of a Zoom play for young students.

11. The free coding games on Tynker can make for fascinating virtual STEM activities.

12. Play a game of virtual pictionary to practice both writing and drawing skills.

13. For educational videos you can watch with your class, try Crash Course Kids -a free resource with plenty of history lessons and games co-founded by bestselling author John Green.

14. Learning for Justice has plenty of online articles, videos, and other resources for teaching social studies in an inclusive and informed way.

15. Try the Almanac for Kids resources to teach students about biology and the weather.

16. To explore tons of different places around the world with a panoramic view, try 360Cities for a fascinating online geography activity.

17. Use this "Tinkering at Home" activity from the Exploratorium as a guide for helping your students make inventive projects remotely.

18. For a daily dose of inspiration, watch a motivational video together at TED Talks for Kids.

19. If you're looking for a virtual classroom read aloud, Audible Stories has plenty of free audiobooks for preschool through high school-aged students.

20. PBS Kids has plenty of online math games that can be great for practicing important skills with your students.

21. Explore Ask Dr. Universe with your students, a resource where children can ask STEM researchers at Washington State University educational questions.

22. For an imaginative way to practice vocabulary and grammar, fill in a few online Mad Libs.

23. For older elementary students interested in art, try Kids Think Design -an interactive website about how to see the world like a designer.

24. Use the resources found on NASA Kids' Club to teach your students about astronomy in a way that's easily accessible from home.

25. For inspiration on digital citizenship activities, use Common Sense Media's educator resources.

25 Virtual Classroom Icebreakers and Social-Emotional Learning Activities

26. For a mindfulness activity you can do virtually, try this kid-friendly meditation as a class.

27. Use this growth mindset activity guide to practice a positive psychological skill with your students.

28. Hold a virtual show and tell as an opportunity for your students to share something that means a lot to them.

29. Hold a quarantine dance party! Turn on your Zoom cameras, play some upbeat music, and dance your hearts out.

30. This D-icebreakers activity is perfect for sharing along with a virtual dice tool (Google has one that you can access just by searching "virtual dice").

31. Use this list of check-in questions to make sure your students feel supported and well while they're away from the classroom.

32. For an activity that encourages teamwork skills, set up one of these free digital escape rooms.

33. Play a Zoom-modified game of Guess Who using your classrooms' favorite fictional characters-or book characters you have learned about this year.

34. Split your students into groups and share these discussion prompts to help them get to know their classmates, even if they have not met in person.

35. Set up a remote scavenger hunt and hold a competition to see which student can complete their list first.

36. For virtual fitness activities that can help your students get their wiggles out, follow a GoNoodle video together.

37. Hold a virtual spirit week -because you can still have school pride while you are apart.

38. To teach students healthy eating and fitness skills, these motivation minute videos can be a helpful resource.

39. Try this one word chat activity (#3 on this list) to help your learners communicate and discuss how they're feeling.

40. Try virtual bingo for an online activity that can help your students feel refreshed after a productive class lesson.

41. Play Virtual I Spy together and see how many objects you can spot.

42. Try one of these online twists to classic "minute to win it" games to get your students moving and having fun.

43. To help older elementary students get to know each other, help them make their own Vision Boards to share with the class through their cameras.

44. Watch one of these movies that inspire empathy according to Common Sense Media and take time for a discussion afterward.

45. Edutopia suggests splitting your students into pairs and having them "interview" each other for a one-on-one bonding activity. The discussion prompts in #34 of this list can be a great addition to this activity.

46. Coloring can be a great mindfulness activity. For a virtual twist, use this online color by numbers resource with your students.

47. Play Two Truths and a Wish (#6 in this list), a game where students share two things that are true and one thing they wish to become true and their peers guess the wish.

48. Use one of these virtual brain breaks to help your students de-stress throughout the day.

49. Try this What Kind of Animal? game, which lets students share something about themselves while learning about another classmate.

50. These virtual name games help your students remember their peers' names, which can be tough when in-person class isn't an option.

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