Sub plans

Put this at the top of the plans you print out:

2nd-5th grades start with 15 minutes of keyboarding every week. When students first come in, have them open their Chromebooks and go to typing.com. Start a timer for 15 minutes. They pick up where they left off last time. Walk around and enforce home row position. Students should have their hands positioned like what is shown on their screen. Remind them that they are getting these keystrokes into their muscle memory. Go for accuracy, not speed. 

Activities students can do independently on their Chromebooks

If you do not have Google Classroom set up for your classes, have the classroom teacher post these links for you. Students bring their Chromebooks to class, click on the links in Google Classroom and do one of these activities. Some have lesson plans you can print out. Visit ahead of time to see.

This one might be your best bet:

2-5 https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland Digital Citizenship

Tech activities:

K-1 Code Monkey Jr https://www.codemonkey.com/hour-of-code/codemonkey-jr/ (Have them click [start playing]) 

K-5 Kodable https://hourofcode.com/kodable-pre  (Have them click [Play])

K-2 Bot Logic https://botlogic.us/play 

K-4 Peep: Nature Walk https://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/peep-nature-walk   (Have them click [Play Now])

K-5 Robots and Puppies https://www.kodable.com/hour-of-code/robots-and-puppies (Have them click [Play])

1-2 Play lab https://studio.code.org/projects/playlab_k1/new 

1-2 Beaver Achiever https://hourofcode.com/codemonkeybeaver (Have them click [start playing])

1-3 Rapid Router https://www.codeforlife.education/rapidrouter/1/ 

1-2 https://pbskids.org/games/engineering/ Games to solve engineering problems.

2-5 Bot is Sus!? https://my.blocksmithxr.com/blog/bot_is_sus (Have them scroll down a bit and click Start.)

2-5 Blocks Jumper https://app.codemonkey.com/courses/blocks-hour-of-code#1

2-3 Hello World https://code.org/helloworld 

2-4 Grinch Hour of Code (introduction video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_orSpkN_A0 )   Grinch Hour of Code 

3-5 MakeCode Arcade https://arcade.makecode.com/# 

4-5 Minecraft adventurer: https://studio.code.org/s/mc/reset 

4-5 Build your own Star Wars game: https://studio.code.org/s/starwarsblocks/lessons/1/levels/1

4-5 Mario’s Secret Adventure https://code.hatchxr.com/ 

4-5 Poem Art https://studio.code.org/s/poem-art-2021/reset

4-5 Outbreak https://studio.code.org/s/outbreak/lessons/1/levels/1 

Plus lots more links at https://hourofcode.com/us/learn Use filters on left to narrow down to 

Classroom technology-> Android 

And

Activity Type -> Self-led tutorial

If you prefer that students not be on Chromebooks when you have a sub, prepare plans from the Unplugged Lessons page. You can email links the sub will need to the sub email address of your school. For example: nessub1@gccschools.com If you do not know the sub password for your school to be able to include it in the lesson plans, please email kkarnes@gccschools.com and Kim will reply with the sub password.