The goal of this activity is to provide resources for helping students build appropriate keyboarding skills and position through practice, modeling, and goal setting and monitoring processes.

It is very important that students learn early on to respect the device they are working on as well as be safe when they are using it. The teacher and students will have a classroom discussion on responsibility on how to take care of the device, keep it safe and themselves while using it.

Learn about Ben Franklin and how important he was to the development of the United States. Not only was he an important historical figure in the development of the United States Constitution, but he was also a great scientist and inventor.

Due to a lack of content (in many textbooks) regarding the role women and minorities played during the Revolutionary War, students will be asked to compile resources using various resources including Michigan’s Open Book Project and various other online resources regarding a specific unit of study.

Biblionasium is a digital sharing platform, also known as the ¨Goodreads for Kids¨. It provides a safe social network where students can review, recommend, and rate books.

Students will write birthday wishes on a Jamboard to students. They will use the sticky note to write down a birthday wish for that student. Then, the teacher can print it out for the birthday student and email it to them personally.

Bitsbox is a learning system that teaches real coding. No coding experience necessary!! This highly engaging site may be used to quickly teach students how to create an app using a modified javascript computer language in an Hour of Code style format.

Students will learn how to use blogging to make online connections with other learners while demonstrating their learning in the core content areas. Students will have an authentic audience for their writing.

Bloxels is an innovative video game development platform that allows you to create your own video games. It’s a free app that helps you and your students create games. It’s also plastic board that fits a collection of plastic pegs of multiple colors.

Book Creator is a simple and free online app that even very young students may use to make interactive multimedia-rich eBooks.

Students learn about how crayons are made as they read, listen, write, & create.

The BrainVenture begins with the driving questions about crayons in the future. Will there Be Crayons? Who knows? The BrainVenture take students on an adventure through the history crayons, the making of crayons, and the changes that computers with drawing and coloring capabilities have brought to the world of crayons.

Students will listen to a podcast using Brains On! and create a graphic organizer sharing information about the podcast.

Dotstorming is a free online bulletin board similar to Padlet or Pinterest. It is used for brainstorming and voting on any topic.

In this activity, students will solve a base 10 math problem and explain their thinking using SeeSaw.

Disney’s Color and Play App allows students to color their favorite Disney characters and animate them or make them

Switch Zoo is a free interactive website that allows students to create their own animals, habitats and biomes. It provides games for students to get involved with their created animal and zoo. There are several different activities that students can interact with.

Building a blendspace is a great way for students to demonstrate their understanding of learned concepts in any content area.

It is so important that students learn about bullying at an early age. They need to learn what bullying is and how to respond to it. For children under eight, there is an app called the Allen Adventure for both iOs and Androids. The students will watch the video, play the game and complete the activities.

Students will work to collaboratively build a “slideshow” of CVVC words in Nearpod.