Encourage students to create educational podcasts that combine entertainment with learning, incorporating subject-related themes.

Have your student write transcripts. They can serve as review notes or be used in your class as teaching materials.

One-Minute Presentations: Students talk for a minute about a lesson-related topic to improve communication skills.

Sentence Starters: Give students sentence beginnings about the subject to make them think critically.

Virtual Brainstorming: Use online boards for quick group thinking on a subject-related question or issue.

Role Play: Assign roles and act out a short scene related to the lesson.

Peer Discussions: Pair students for short talks about a subject-specific question and share ideas with the class.

Story Starters: Begin a short story about the topic, and let students add to it during the lesson.

Flash Debates: Organize fast debates on a specific topic to practice arguing.

Quick Polls: Use online polls to get instant feedback on subject-related questions, encouraging interaction.

Rapid Fire Questions: Ask a series of quick, thought-provoking questions about the lesson and have students answer quickly.

Sentence Summaries: After discussing a topic, have each student summarize the main idea in one sentence.

Fact vs. Opinion: Share a statement and have students decide if it's a fact or an opinion, then talk about their reasons.

Two-Minute Research: Give a quick research task about the lesson and have students share what they find in two minutes.

Concept Pictionary: Draw and guess subject-specific words or ideas in a fun way.

Collaborative Doodles: Use an online whiteboard to create pictures about a subject-related concept together.

Impromptu Interviews: Students pretend to be reporters and experts and interview each other briefly about a subject-related topic.

Intriguing Quotes: Share an inspiring quote related to the subject and have students discuss why it's relevant.

Pecha Kucha Presentations: Challenge students to create short, 20-slide presentations to explain their understanding of a topic.

Discussion Duels: Pair students with different views on a subject-related issue for a quick debate.

Meme Interpretation: Share a funny or relevant meme about the subject and have students explain its meaning.

Caption This!: Share a picture about the subject without a caption, and let students come up with creative captions to explain its relevance.

Choice Boards: Create a clickable board where students can choose their class activity, making them more motivated since they picked it themselves.

Mathematics: Math in the Real World

• Task students with researching and presenting real-world applications of mathematical concepts, such as the use of geometry in architecture or statistics in sports.

Science: Scientific Discoveries

• Have students choose a famous scientist and create a multimedia presentation or video that explains their contributions to the field of science.

Language Arts: Book Character Diaries

• Encourage students to write diary entries from the perspective of a character in a book they've read, providing insights into the character's thoughts and motivations.

History: Living History Interviews

• Instruct students to interview a family member or older individual about historical events they've lived through and create a documentary-style project.

Social Studies: Cultural Exchange

• Pair students from different countries or regions and have them create presentations on their cultures, emphasizing similarities and differences.

Art: Creative Portfolios

• Ask students to compile a digital portfolio showcasing their art projects throughout the year, explaining the inspiration behind each piece.

Physical Education: Fitness and Nutrition Plans

• Have students design personal fitness and nutrition plans, including exercise routines and dietary choices, and track their progress.

Music: Composing Original Songs

• Encourage students to compose and record original songs, exploring different musical styles and themes.

Geography: Environmental Impact Reports

• Assign students regions around the world and have them research and present on the environmental challenges and solutions in those areas.

Technology: Innovative Inventions

• Challenge students to design and present their own innovative technological inventions, complete with prototypes or concept models.

Civics: Community Action Projects

• Task students with identifying a local community issue, researching it, and proposing actionable solutions to address the problem.

Economics: Business Plans

• Have students create detailed business plans for a startup or a hypothetical business, including financial projections and marketing strategies.

Group Agreements:

• Have every group create an agreement that explains what's expected, who does what, and how to resolve conflicts. What happens if a student doesn't complete their task?

Defined Roles:

• Assign specific jobs in each group (like a leader, timekeeper, and recorder) to divide the work fairly.

Individual Work Choice:

• Let students decide whether they want to work alone or in a group for some projects.

Rewards and Motivation:

• Offer rewards for good teamwork, like extra points, recognition, or small prizes.

Show Teamwork:

• Set an example for working well together in class discussions or activities to demonstrate the benefits of collaboration.

Never Have I Ever (this is an English phrase that means I DIDN'T DO IT):

• Have each student take turns making a statement, such as "Never have I ever traveled abroad."

• Students who have done it raise their hands or use a reaction emoji.

• Encourage those who raised their hands to briefly share their experience.

Two Truths, One Lie:

• Instruct each student to prepare two true statements and one false statement about themselves.

• Have students take turns sharing these statements.

• After each presentation, let classmates guess which statement is a lie.

Blind Artists:

• One student gets a photo/finds a photo on Google and he needs to describe it to the other student.

• The other student does not see it and needs to draw only based on the description of the first student.

• When the students finish, they show the photo and the drawing to the camera so that they can see the result!

• Vote for the best one in the end!

Guess Who (Personalized):

• Create a set of questions, like "Favorite food" or "Dream travel destination" - it can be anything you want!

• Students answer these questions anonymously through a platform like Menti.

• Display the answers one by one, and classmates guess who provided each answer.

Guess the Star (Famous or Local):

• Provide clues or trivia questions about the selected celebrity or local figure.

• Students take turns guessing the identity based on the given information.

• Share interesting facts about the figure after revealing their identity.

Gif Challenge:

• Pose a question or statement to the class, such as "How do you feel on the first day of school?"

• In response, students find and share GIFs that best express their feelings or thoughts.

• Use https://giphy.com/ to safely search for GIFS.

Caption the Meme:

• Share a meme template with the class.

• Find meme templates here: https://imgflip.com/memetemplates

• Ask students to brainstorm creative and funny captions for the meme.

• Discuss the different captions and choose the most amusing one.

Touch Pinky Toe:

• For a quick and fun icebreaker, instruct students to virtually touch their pinky toe to the screen.

• Encourage laughter and engagement as everyone attempts this playful task.

Change 3 Things and Find the Difference:

• Students take a look at your background.

• Turn off your camera.

• Move 3 things in your background.

• The students need to guess which 3 things moved!

Virtual Background Chain Story:

• Ask a student to start a random, crazy story.

• As each student adds to the story, they change their virtual background to match the setting or scene they describe.

• If you don't have this option on your call app, give students a copyright-free image collection so they can search for an image. They can also use Google. https://pixabay.com/images/search/

• Have fun until you get to the last student.

Sketch Your Neighbor:

• Assign pairs of students to create portraits of each other -write the names in the chatbox privately.

• They must not know who is drawing them and they cannot pose.

• Students use a digital drawing tool (they can do it directly on Padlet) or paper to sketch their partner.

• Share and try to guess who is who!

Joint Doodling:

• Use a shared digital canvas, such as an online whiteboard - all of the students need to be able to draw at the same time.

• Students take turns adding elements or drawings to the canvas. They can also do it at the same time - the more chaos, the more laughter.

• Discuss the final collaborative artwork, highlighting the creativity of the group.

How To Pick a Student Randomly https://wheelofnames.com/

Collaboration tool - Padlet - https://padlet.com Around 20 options, can be used in all 7 stages of learning

Another collaboration tool like Padlet - https://miro.com/

10 different types of questions on a video - https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons It can very well be used for presenting content and in flipped learning (you send a video to watch at home and do the listening tasks before coming back to discuss in class)

Over 20 types of interactive content types + many free templates to use https://app.genial.ly/dashboard

Thousands and thousands free templates - https://www.canva.com/ Can create quizzes, worksheets, ppts, infographics and more

Quck formative test/check on Mentimeter https://www.mentimeter.com/

10 different types of questions on a video - https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons

Various types of games to practice - https://wordwall.net/

4 different types of practices, can be also printed out. https://quizlet.com/en-gb

https://quizizz.com/join Fun practice games

Over 20 types of interactive content types + many free templates to use https://app.genial.ly/dashboard You can use the fun quizzes and escape rooms for applying the learned content.

Collaboration tool - Padlet - https://padlet.com Around 20 options, can be used in all 7 stages of learning

Completely free - has almost 30 content types so you can easily make practice games. https://learningapps.org/

Practice/homework worksheets. After you finish with your worksheet in Canva, you can upload it here. https://www.liveworksheets.com/ It's great or in-class practice, sending before class, or even homework.

Lesson flow on TedEd is great, but it's only in English. https://ed.ted.com/ There are themes for each subjects, including links and ability to comment, if your students are interested, it might be fun to do something in your subject in English.

In general, for analyzing, i suggest non-digital activities that focus on communication and joint thinking.

Formative assessment https://www.mentimeter.com/

Can be used for assessment and you can collect results, as well as print your tests. https://wordwall.net/

An old website, but other colleagues in previous courses showed it and loved using it. When it comes to formative assessment, where we need to grade performance in a group work, we can create peer-assessment rubrics here easily. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php You can also make your own on Canva.

4 types of tests, you can collect results and they can also be printed out. https://quizlet.com/en-gb

Creating easy tests https://testmoz.com

Create a digital flip book. It's possible to record narration too. https://www.storyjumper.com/

Used for content creation https://info.flip.com/en-us.html

Over 20 types of interactive content types + many free templates to use https://app.genial.ly/dashboard Students can create their own presentations.

Collaboration tool - Padlet - https://padlet.com Around 20 options, can be used in all 7 stages of learning

Thousands and thousands free templates - https://www.canva.com/ Can create quizzes, worksheets, ppts, infographics and more

Completely free - has almost 30 content types so your students can create their quizzes as suggested by another teacher. https://learningapps.org/

Share a meme template with the class.

Find meme templates here: https://imgflip.com/memetemplates

Ask students to brainstorm creative and funny captions for the meme.

Discuss the different captions and choose the most amusing one.