Activities for 6-8

Screen-Share Pictionary

Google Hangouts has a feature where guests can present their screen. Before they share their screen, email the drawer a word, have them go on autodraw.com and see if others can guess the word.

Item Race Challenge

Students will race to be the first person to find something of a certain category around their house or classroom (a metal object, a purple object, a spoon, something with an animal on it, etc.)

20 Questions

One student will think of a thing (an animal, an object, an idea, something in nature). Students get 20 yes or no questions before they have to try and guess what it is. After 3 guesses, the person can tell what it was if nobody has guessed. Encourage students to start broad and get more narrow.

Counting to 25

See if as a group, you can count to 25 without two people repeating a number/ speaking at the same time. Whenever two people go at the same time, start over. If this is easy, try going to 50! You can even try doing this in the chat box on Google Meet!

Duck Down

Have students who are home spend a couple minutes grabbing some accessories from around their house (hair clips, hats, cool shades, etc.) Have a student volunteer to begin. Their peers will be in charge of memorizing their look. When the teacher says, "duck down" the student will spend a few moments out of the camera's view changing one thing about their appearance (adding an accessory, taking one away, changing their hairstyle, etc.) When they come back into the view, their peers will guess what they changed.

Emoji Check in

Students will choose an emoji to share in the chat box about how they're feeling.

Something You Did Yesterday

Starting with the letter A have students share something they did yesterday starting with that letter. The second person has the letter B etc. Try to make it all the way to Z.

Create A Story-One Line At A Time

Teacher starts a story and each student adds a line. Example: “One strange day school was canceled because of a virus.”

Show and Tell

Old-fashioned, fun and quick. Student volunteers who are home that day can find something in the room and share it with the group.

Two Truths and Lie

Select a student to say three things about themselves. Two of the things they say must be true and one must be a lie. The other students try to figure out which is the lie. This works best if you have students put their answers in the chat bar instead of calling out on a Google Meet.

Epic or Fail?

Pull up a YouTube video from the Ellen DeGeneres game show "Epic or Fail". She has clips where she shows part of a challenge/event and then the audience votes whether this will be an epic event or a failed event. Students will share their own predictions in the chat or out loud.

Raise Your Hand

Let students know that you will make a series of statements. If the statement applies to them, they should raise their hand using the Google Meet hand raising feature. Ask students to look around and notice who else raises their hand during the questions. After allowing students a few moments to look around, cancel out the raised hands and try another statement.

Possible statements: I like thin crust pizza. I like baseball/softball. I like movies. I like math. I like reading. I like breakfast for dinner. I like interior design. and so on...