Independent First Week Activities
Getting to Know Your Students
These activities are designed for teachers or students to complete individually. They focus on getting to know what's important to each person and allowing students to showcase their strengths. Build in time for students to share their creations, or consider having a collaborative file where each student has their own workspace.
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Meet the Teacher
These templates are specifically geared towards teachers to introduce themselves to their class. Of course, any of the activities in the student section can also be used.
Looking for a way to introduce an entire team of teachers? Use this template and personalize with pictures, avatars or bitmojis.
Meet the Students
Many of these activities are designed for students to complete independently. Build in time for students to share their creations, or consider having a collaborative file where each student has their own workspace.
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Using Adobe Express, students create a graphic about themselves and then animate it with audio!
Students visualize and share their creative identify using Adobe Express in this creative challenge.
All About Me
Students design a digital poster incorporating pictures, video, text and more to tell about themselves.
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Using WeVideo, students make a digital journal or vlog in which they share their experiences, hobbies, or passions.
Students introduce themselves to their classmates by using 3 video clips with a sentences in this lesson from WeVideo.
Students express themselves through their favorite books and photography.
Students represent themselves with a symbol, and then add other objects to show their interests, hobbies, and other important information about themselves.
Students express their likes by choosing three websites or searches they like to visit or do while on a computer.
Students design an ice cream sundae to tell important facts about themselves.
Summer Postcard
Students design a postcard and compose a short message to a friend telling about their summer.
Summer Snapshots
Students choose two memorable moments from their summer, insert a picture of them, and describe the bent including why it is such a lasting memory.
Students use Adobe Express to create a poster explaining what matters most to them.
Students use Adobe Express to tell the story of one of their memories.
By composing a 30 word poem, students share interesting facts about themselves with their classmates.
Students create a slide with one word or phrase, and one image in three minutes to make a claim or observation.
Students combine a selfie with adjectives to create a powerful image about themselves.
Students complete a banner showcasing 5 photos of their choice that tell something about them.
Use the photo booth template to have students capture their image and add props that tell you about their interests and passions.
Students use emojis to illustrate how they feel about a variety of back to school topics.
With a partner or small group, students create a 1-2 minute Q&A style video where they interview someone in the class.
Students create a video that tells people what they are all about using Adobe Express.