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Visual Virtual Classroom
To help ground students and remind them of being in the classroom, visually replicate your classroom and set it as your video background when teaching remotely or embed into your virtual lessons.
Brain Break: Would You Rather? Energizer Game 1
This video has students answer a “would-you-rather” question and do a quick physical activity that accompanies their answer.
GoNoodle
These movement and mindfulness videos and games can be used for a variety of brain breaks.
Cosmic Kids Yoga
These yoga and guided meditation videos for kids share fun and challenging physical activities appropriate for students.
Brain Breaks for Movement
Embedding short breaks for movement into daily lessons can help to boost focus, reduce stress, and encourage physical activity.
"Take a Break” Slide Template with Timers
This slide deck template has suggested activities for break times and includes three- and five-minute timers.
Break Timers
During timed breaks, provide students with suggestions for different activities they can engage in during the break.
Using Jamboard to Brainstorm, Share, and Support Ideas
One way to use Jamboard effectively is to enable users to brainstorm, share, and support ideas as seen on this screenshot. In order to do this, you should first have participants populate various sticky notes (you can even color code by participant...
Using Jamboard to Bucket Ideas
One way to use Jamboard to take collaborative conversations deeper after brainstorming ideas is to take those ideas and bucket them based on topic, commonalities, themes, or other relevant categories. The act of “bucketing” can be done virtually by...
Using Jamboard to Build Action Steps
Jamboard is a great place to align on next steps, based on what ideas were uncovered during a brainstorming session. As seen in this example, after brainstorming and noting favored ideas, the participants are then able to bucket based on an...
Personalized, Teacher-Led Professional Development Days
To support teachers in the shift to remote and hybrid teaching, Colorado Springs School District 11 launched a series of teacher-led professional development sessions to support the internalization of remote and hybrid teaching practices.