Engaging Remote Learning Activities for Students

Remote Learning Choice Boards Below are some fun options to do at home with a choice board for each day. Choose the activities that look the most engaging to you and have a great time. If you have Seesaw, you can share your finished product with your teacher and classmates to connect. Show off your creativity, innovative thinking, and most importantly have FUN learning!

Choice Board Seesaw Activities 1 Choice Board #1 2 Choice Board 2 3 Choice Board #3 For those who use the outstanding app Seesaw to capture student learning and thinking, I have created Seesaw Activities with each choice board so you can easily assign to your students if you wish. Just click the link for each activity. 4 Choice Board #4 5 Choice Board #5 6 Choice Board #6 7 Choice Board #7 For each choice board, you can assign to your students as is or customize the activity to fit your needs better. You can also record your voice giving the directions. In this uncertain time, it might be very reassuring for students to hear from you directly. 8 Choice Board #8 9 Choice Board #9 10 Choice Board #10 When students work is submitted, you can review and approve their post and set your account up (in the wrench menu) to receive comments and likes.

Remote Learning Choice Board #1 Create a song or a rap that tells about your life. The song or rap must make sense, have rhythm and give details including family, hobbies, interests, pets, etc. Interview a family member to see what you can learn new about them. Make a list of the 10 new things you learned during your interview. Design a poster that has a drawing of a main character from a book/movie. On the poster, include the negative and positive character traits. Write and mail a [real] letter to your teacher, principal, buddy, or class penpal. Address the envelope yourself. Using one type of paper (constant), build three different paper airplanes (independent variable) and test to see how far they fly (dependent variable). Use household materials to make and play stringed, percussion, and/or wind instruments. Alphabetize the spices in your kitchen. Now organize them smallest to largest. Put them back in an efficient way. Learn morse code and use it to communicate with someone else through walls and floors. Design and build puppets (or toys in your room) that perform a show about a math concept: shapes, money, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division etc. Call a grandparent or older relative. Ask them to teach you the words to a song from their childhood days. Determine and chart the times that different liquids require to turn solid in the freezer. Learn, practice, and perform a magic trick. Draw a map of your home. Be sure to label with as much detail as you can. Learn, practice, and tell three new jokes. Share these with friends and family members. Check our website daily for additional remote learning supports: bit.ly/BSDremotelearning

Remote Learning Choice Board #2 Read to your pet or your stuffed animal. Have someone snap a photo, post it on Seesaw! Imagine, create, and fly a flag that tells the world about you. Using items at home, design, build, and test a device that warns you when someone opens the kitchen cabinet. Write and perform a song to a tune you know well rewriting the lyrics to tell the importance of washing your hands. Build a "fable fort" out of blankets and chairs. Camp in it all day while you create stories to tell your family over dinner. Measure the area and perimeter of a room or more in your home. Rank them in order of greatest to least. Write a letter or email to someone you are thankful for in our community right now and send it to them to make their day. Be completely silent for 60 minutes, then write or tell about the experience. Was it hard? Help out at home by picking up your bedroom or playroom as fast as you can. Set a timer to see just how long it took. Make a list of 10 positive things about being at home for a few days. Create a different body pose for each letter of the alphabet. Can you sing the alphabet while doing each pose? How quickly? Graph the types of birds that frequent your yard or windows. Make a menu of foods that you have in your house right now. What meals could you make? Be sure to decorate it and make it look official with prices and pictures. Put your favorite book, toy, and keepsake on a small table in sunlight. Draw or paint a full color still life. Check our website daily for additional remote learning supports: bit.ly/BSDremotelearning

Remote Learning Choice Board #3 Before you read today, write/say four questions you have about the book by looking only at the cover. If your question gets answered then record the answers. Design a map of every state/country ever visited by people in your family. Using what supplies you have, can you create a parachute for one of your toys? Take a video of you dropping your toy and post it on Seesaw. Sing a song that you know or learned at school to your family and be sure to take a bow at the end. Find ten rocks smaller than a dime. If they were a rock family, what are all of their names, ages, roles in the family? Determine the volumes of ten containers, then display them in order in a photo. Call a relative or friend from another state and ask them to teach you 10 special things about where they live. Write about a fun day you had with your family. Be sure to draw a detailed picture to go with it. Offer to help clean up after a meal today without being asked. Take some extra time to wipe down the kitchen until it looks fabulous. Think of 5 people you'd like to send kind wishes to. What would you say? Maybe you could even send them... Have someone describe an animal to you without telling you the name, then draw their description. Does it look like the animal? Did you guess it? See how far you can jump in 5 tries. Challenge another person to try to beat your top jump. Measure and average out your results. Draw the most fantastic and fun water park you can imagine! Be sure to give it a fitting name. What rules do you have at your home to be sure that you are safe from getting hurt? Can you list 10? Check our website daily for additional remote learning supports: bit.ly/BSDremotelearning

Remote Learning Choice Board #4 Create a new cover for a book you love. Take a picture and post it on Seesaw. Re-enact a famous historical event using family/friends/toys as your actors. Be sure to be historically accurate. Research for details. Listen to some music and see how many different instruments you can hear. Try to name them all. Invent your own game. What are the rules? How do you play? Make a schedule for your day. Write down the times you will do each thing in your schedule. What takes the most time? What takes the least amount of time? Make an obstacle course and try to maneuver through carefully. Call or Facetime a friend to and chat with them. Ask what they are doing at their home and tell them about all that you have been up to. Write 10 words that describe you. Ask your family to write 3 words about you, do they have the same words? Offer to sweep or vacuum today. Put on your favorite song and make it fun! Find shapes in the sky by laying down together and choosing different objects to search for in the clouds. For every year of your age, do that many sit ups, push ups, jumping jacks, squats, toe touches, and side stretches. Find a flower. Can you name all of the parts? Take a picture or draw it from memory and label the parts. Ask a family member to create a squiggly line on a piece of paper. Then draw a picture using that line. What can you create? See if you can list at least 30 body parts. Can you name all the parts of the respiratory system? digestive? circulatory? Check our website daily for additional remote learning supports: bit.ly/BSDremotelearning

Remote Learning Choice Board #5 Make a list of businesses in your community and the service they provide. Determine which businesses are local small businesses and which aren't. Which business could you help support? How? When you finish reading today, answer these questions about your book/chapters: who? what? where? why? when? Create a rhythm by clapping, snapping, and slapping your thighs. Repeat your rhythm in a pattern. Teach your rhythm to someone else at your house. Try to do it in unison. Build a robot out of cardboard (perhaps some toilet paper tubes). Share a photo/video of your robot with others. Make a set of flashcards appropriate for you to practice. Make it a game by seeing how many you can answer in a minute. Try to beat your score. Graph your results. Learn the alphabet in sign language, teach another person and spell words to each other. Create a card or email for someone who is living at a nursing home to let them know you are thinking about them. Maybe share a story or joke with them? Write a short story from the point of view of a piece of litter. What is their story? It all began when... Explore smell by helping to cook a meal today while taking notice of each smell present. Give a weather report on how you are feeling, I m dark and cloudy with some raindrop tears coming out etc. Collect leaves from ten different (non-harmful) plants. Sort them by size, color, and texture. Can you identify the plant or tree name? Set up an indoor bowling lane. What could you use for pins? What could you roll to knock them down? Play 10 frames and keep track of your score. Create a chart with sections for each of the food groups. When you eat today, put each food into the correct category to see if you ate from each food group. Create a comic strip with narration, speech bubbles, and an action packed story line. Check our website daily for additional remote learning supports: bit.ly/BSDremotelearning