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Things you can do that don't involve the internet...
Things you can do that don't involve the internet...
Some suggestions for fun, meaningful, and generally tech-free learning opportunities:
Interview a family member.
Measure the area and perimeter of each room in your home.
Graph the types of birds that frequent your yard or windows.
Be completely silent for 60 minutes, then write about the experience.
Write and mail a [real] letter to your teacher or principal or classroom pen-pal. Address the envelope yourself.
Build a "fable fort" out of blankets and chairs. Camp in it all day while you create stories to tell your family over dinner.
Learn morse code and use it to communicate with your siblings through walls and floors.
Alphabetize the spices in your kitchen.
Look into the night sky and stargaze.
Call a grandparent or older relative. Ask them to teach you the words to a song from their childhood days.
Using household materials, build a working rain gauge, barometer, and wind vane.
Determine and chart the times that different liquids require to turn solid in the freezer.
Design and build puppets that perform a show about multiplication.
Construct a family tree.
Learn ten new big words.
Draw a map of your home.
Sit silently for 15 minutes while you write down every sound you hear. When you are done, classify the sounds (high/low pitch, high/low volume, manmade v. naturally occurring, etc.).
Create a Venn Diagram that compares and contrasts two people in your family, your neighbourhood, or your place of worship.
Learn, practice, and perform a magic trick.
Learn, practice, and tell three new jokes.
Use household materials to make and play stringed, percussion, and wind instruments.
Learn to shine a pair of shoes.
Collect objects from nature (do not harm anything). Sort them by size, colour, and texture.
Put your favourite book, toy, and keepsake on a small table in sunlight. Draw or paint a full colour still life.
If you have stairs, walk up and count them. Walk down and count by twos. Walk up and count by threes. Continue through tens.
Classify twenty everyday objects by shape, size, colour, height, mass, and material.
Measure the length of your bed using five different nonstandard units.
Do you have a friend that speaks a language you do not? Ask them to teach you five common words or phrases.
Create and use a secret code.
Using one type of paper (constant), build three different paper airplanes (independent variable) and test to see how far they fly (dependent variable).
Set a clock for three hours and seven minutes ahead. Whenever someone needs to know the time, help them figure it out by subtracting.
Write down every adjective you say for one full day.
Learn three new jokes. Tell them to someone.
Design a map of every province ever visited by people in your family.
Find ten rocks smaller than a dime.
Using paper, tape, and string, design, build and test a device that warns you when someone opens the kitchen cabinet.
Imagine, create, and fly a full-size flag that tells the world about you.
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