Activities
typing.com provides students with opportunities to practice their typing skills. It provides visual examples of where hands should be and which fingers should be hitting which keys. It provides lessons, tests, and games. The tests provide you with WPM results so you can brag about how fast you type.
Using Google Slides, Canva, or another presentation program, make a presentation about you.
Ideas:
Favorite Color
Favorite Foods
Least Favorite Foods
Create a Valentines, Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Birthday, or Get Well Soon card for someone (or any other special card you can think of).
Use Google Slides, Canva, Google Doc, or any other tools you can to make the car awesome.
Complete the special Candy Crush Escape Room.
3 puzzles
StarStuffEdu provides a unique coding experience for students where the entry-level is really low and the fun is very high. Use arrow keys to move your character around. Use the terminal to code 1-or-more robots with set commands that help you escape the room.
Splatter-Balls is a physics simulating plinko-like game. You're dropping a ball (yellow smiley face) and trying to knock the hearts.
Students practice timing and strategy to get all the hearts nocked down, using as few balls as possible.
Sandspiel is a neat environment where you're dropping certain elements/items into the room and exploring how they interact with each other. Some elements don't interact at all, while others have major interactions. Ice freezes Water, seeds sprout in sand, lava burns wood (and almost everything else). Water grows more plants. Mites eat plants.
Google QuickDraw challenges students to draw an image that the computer can recognize. It uses AI to learn what commonalities certain objects have, and then like a game of Charades or Pictionary it starts guessing until it gets it correct or your 20 seconds is up.
This helps students get a glimpse into how AI works. When 6 images have been done, their results are shown and clicking on one of the images allows you to see other images of the same item and you can start to see how AI makes connections between your image and the dozens (or hundreds/thousands) of images that others have drawn.