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Internet-Free Activities for Middle and High School Classrooms, Any Subject

Recently, we experienced a school-wide Internet outage where I teach, and being without access to the World Wide Web really threw my students and me (along with everyone else in the building) for a loop. The days we were out of Internet, I had planned for students to make presentations that were stored in Google classroom, print papers to turn in, among other things that required Internet.  It’s not the first time the Internet has gone down in our rural school, but going without really kicked my Plan B mindset into gear.  So, I’ve put together a list of fabulous Internet-free ideas and resources for middle-high school in any subject that can be used in a pinch – or with some planning – when Ralph, or whoever, breaks the Internet.

1) Get Crafty or Build Something:

  • Collage projects are pretty much my go-to, hands-on activity when I need to grab something fast, plan for a sub, or fill some time.  Even my high school students love to cut and paste and create, and I think it’s even a fun way to sneak in a little reading. I always catch them actually reading the magazines we use. Plus, reusing those old magazines is the best way to recycle them.  In English class, I have students make character poems, character personality collages, book covers, social media posts, and the list goes on and on.

Theme collage after studying “Brave” and Malala Yousafzai

America dream collage after watching The Great Gatsby

Character collages for “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

Character collages for The Great Gatsby

  • Coloring never goes out of style, and crayons have been around way before the Internet was born.  Draw a scene from a book, illustrate a favorite quote, draw the plot, or draw a diagram of the solar system or various other subject-based topics that need to be reviewed through the year.  I’ve been using these color-by-grammar or color-by-figurative language worksheets in a pinch forever, and they are always a big hit with my secondary English students.

If you teach secondary math, the Math Stop has a fun coloring-based activity that would be awesome in a no-Internet setting.  Students develop their knowledge of graphing coordinate pairs, quadrants, and reflections about the x and y-axis with this fun and engaging art activity. Then, they make it personal by using the letters of their name to decode them into arbitrary numbers from a decoder box.  In the end everyone has a cool and colorful design that represents his/her own name.

Name Symmetry Art Math Activity

2) Play Games or Conduct Experiments:

  • Old-fashioned board games can be very educational whether you are playing them purely for the logic or teamwork of it, or if you are putting your subject-area twist on it.  That’s pretty much how I do it; everything has to be English-related. (Wink) When I found these ready-made game cards with an extensive bank of 144 CCSS-aligned grammar and literature terms and definitions by The Littlest Teacher, I thought I had hit the jackpot! If you teach middle or high school English, you are going to want these!

ELA Games Pack Review Grammar & Literature CCSS Aligned

  • I don’t know a student who doesn’t love a good game of Trashketball! You can set up a trashketball review game for any subject with little to no prep at all, and you’ll be set. For all things trashketball, I turn to the OCBeach Teacher. She’s the coach on this topic, and she has ready-to-go ELA games set up, so I don’t have to do anything but enjoy the game! She has full instructions and links to her no prep ELA review games here!

trashketball, march madness, games

  • Mazes, Puzzles, and Escape Games. Oh My! These are all the rage now. I think I write about them in almost every blog post I do with resource-related tips and ideas because they are SO much fun!  I recently used one of EoLA Ruth’s kinesthetic mazes to review frequently confused words, and we had a blast.  The kids skirted around the room as fast as they could to figure out the puzzles AND answer the challenges!  She has a free one for Independent vs. Dependent clauses.  Other teachers are raving about Carol Miller’s The Growth Mindset Escape Game. Every now and then kids need a little reminder to get back into that positive thinking routine.  Her Growth Mindset Escape Room is the perfect challenge for middle and high school students to both teach the concepts of a growth mindset and to have fun. Students are given a scenario where their school is taken over by the evil Dr. Dread and only way out is to use their brain power before it turns to mush!  If you teach secondary ELA, my collection of escape games is growing like crazy! Check out the entire catalog here. 

  • Other ideas include taking time to have students get to know their classmates better like with this fun Spanish speaking activity that gets them up and out of their seats to “Find Someone Who” can answer questions about classmates’ families, pets, favorite classes, sports and food.  Download it for free!  Truth or Dare would also pique your students’ interest, and I love how Reading and Writing Have uses this game – and others – to help students review vocabulary words! Whether you’ve chosen words from literature, from test prep lists, from a vocabulary book, or hand-selected words you think your students should know, the exercises in this bundle will complement them perfectly. Designed to work with any Tier 2 vocabulary list, these activities, games, and practice worksheets will get your students thinking creatively… without the Internet! 
  • Experiments and STEM projects always catch my attention. I think it’s because I secretly wish I were a scientist! That’s definitely not in my future, but I love seeing what other teachers are preparing for their students.  When I saw this Pirate Coding activity created by Curiosity and the Hungry Mind, I knew it was a treasure. (The puns are always intended.) Plus, I have a major soft spot for Pirates. (Again, what I wish I could be when I grow up.)  You’ll be able keep upper elementary and middle school students engaged in unplugged coding and STEM challenges with these cool activities!

Pirate Coding and STEM activities BUNDLE

  • This STEM project from Professor Doubter piqued my interest immediately, and I think your upper elementary or middle school students will want to dive right in, too.  This lab activity challenges students to prove there is REAL IRON in cereal by designing and conducting their own experiments to prove magnetic fields exist between objects!  The only materials you’ll need are a strong magnet, hand lens, ½ cup of dry breakfast cereal (Total® brand) in a small plastic baggie, and small beaker/container of water.  Grab the instructions and files here, and let your little scientists get busy!

Fields Exist Between Objects NGSS Middle School Magnetism Lab Activity MS-PS2-5

  • Last but not least, how about just going outside to play? From your middle school students to your high school students, everyone will be participating. Have students toss a ball around and review a point from the lesson.  Write vocab words on the sidewalk with chalk.  Misty Miller has her students go outside and play tag with math integers.  Integers Math Tag Relay is a great way to practice solving problems with integers while having fun.

Integers Math Tag Relay

3) Write:

  • If you are in the middle of a writing unit, and the Internet goes out, you don’t have to stop what you were doing entirely.  With every unit, my students benefit from analyzing sample papers.  You probably have a few lurking in your file cabinets, and if you can plan ahead, I have several available in any mode, too. I like to put students in groups or set up stations and use task cards to guide their analysis. (See another post here or a video via Facebook for how I do that.) Peer reviewing and/or revising are also super important in the writing process, and if students have been drafting on paper or have old papers that have already been graded, you can have them pull out those copies and review. I use self-evaluation forms, task cards, and “sticky notes” to get kids reading, reviewing, and revising their writing.

  • Writing is such a big part of the educational process, and it’s really important in any subject. Just something as simple as having students write a fun narrative about “The Day Without the Internet,” or an expository essay explaining  the effects of no Internet in school, or an argumentative letter to local legislatures persuading them to bring better Internet into the county – would be perfect.  Have students read them aloud, and that will help with your grading!  Science classes could write explanations of their most recent science experiment, and history classes could write summaries of an important event they just studied.

4) Read and Role Play:

  • I’m pretty certain every school has an old-fashioned library stocked with beautiful books just waiting to have their spines cracked. Take a visit! Also, our local newspaper delivers free copies of the weekly paper to our school.  It came to my attention not too long ago that my freshmen hadn’t really ever read or picked up an actual newspaper.  It’s hard to believe, but if you stop and think about it, that’s probably true.  If you can get access to some newspapers, have students do a scavenger hunt looking for text features, main idea sentences, use of dialogue, etc.
  • Nothing makes reading come alive more than acting it out.  Every unit I teach must include some kind of readers’ theater or role playing scenes because my students beg me for them. We either act out some scenes I’ve abridged or created, they create the scene by responding to a role playing prompt, or we just throw on some costumes and read the text we are studying!

Students responded to a role playing prompt and wrote “scenes” here for the play Trifles

Here students got dressed up to complete a second reading of Patrick Henry’s speech

Students reenact the famous scene from Act 4 of Macbeth

5) Listen to a Podcast or Watch a Movie:

  • While podcasts do require the Internet, you can play them right from your phone and use a Bluetooth speaker to project them for your class.  I love podcasts, too, because they are mobile. Grab your phone, speaker, blankets, chairs, hammocks, worksheets, and go!  Get my ready-to-go podcast worksheets for any podcast any subject here, and take a look at my growing list of podcast suggestions here!

Podcast Suggestions for the High School Classroom

  • Movies never go out of style, and they are perfect in a pinch.  You can find so many ready-to-guides for tons of movies, so you can just press play! 

All this made me think about back in the day when we didn’t have Internet, at least not so readily available and at such high speeds. What did we ever do?  Also, there are other times of the year when using the Internet might not be an option, perhaps if you are in a testing window at the end-of-the year, or if you are displaced from your classroom for various reasons.  Teaching and learning must continue, even if it’s going to look a little different or if your main lesson is going to be on pause for a little while.  Sometimes you can plan ahead, and other times, it’s unexpected. Basically, the show must go on, and we teachers know how to make that happen.

 

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Written by Julie Faulkner 3/2019, Photos Taken by Julie Faulkner or used with permission

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5 Ways to Keep Students Tuned-In at the End-of-the-Year

5 Ways to Keep Students Tuned-In at the End-of-the-Year

It’s getting to be that time of year when things get a little crazy – a little sideways.  Students – and teachers – are starting to tune out!  So hopefully, these ideas will make these end-of-year days less stressful, and more fun. Plus, these 5 ways to keep students tuned-in at the end-of-the-year are all student-centered and standards-based, so the kiddos stay engaged, and your job is easy. Join me for a fun recap of 5 ways to keep students tuned-in this time of year. Perfect for any secondary education classroom.

1) Make It Real

When the CCSS started to roll out and there was so much emphasis placed on nonfiction, I’ll be honest – like many other “old English teachers” – I was nervous about giving up so much class time to those texts over my beloved classic fiction texts.  Now, I love finding nonfiction texts that stand alone and/or that pair with my fiction.  And, honestly, the kids LOVE it when they know it’s real.  Students really “tune-in” with nonfiction because sometimes it’s so hard to believe that it is actually real! Sometimes I have them go searching on their own for real information – like in my mini research project on banned books in my Fahrenheit unit.  Or other times, I’ll pair the info for them and have them dig into the material in class like in my lesson on the LeRoy HS outbreak after we read Act 1 of The Crucible. Also, take a look at several bundles of hot topics informational text lessons I have ready-to-go. Whether you teach English or not, finding ways to bring in the “real-world” aspect of your subject matter really gives your topic purpose, and I find students are much more likely to buy-in.

Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set 1, 5 Ways to Keep Students Tuned-In at the End-of-the-Year
Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set 2, 5 Ways to Keep Students Tuned-In at the End-of-the-Year

2) Make It Personal

We all know that secondary students can be ah hem… self-centered. (Bless) So anytime they get to talk about themselves, there’s interest.  When my seniors read Fahrenheit 451, they do a generational Interview project as part of their reading tasks for the last section of my Fahrenheit unit.  They – and their grandparents – really enjoy the project and the students learn so much about their families and themselves. Another way to make it personal and keep kids tuned in is with poetry that speaks to them.  In my treating senioritis poetry pack, I’ve selected several poems that draw on students’ personal experiences and the follow up activities ask students to reflect on their past, present, and future. Another teacher shared this classroom success story about my poetry pack: “With less than a month left for the Seniors, they are losing their focus in class quickly. These are great assignments that keep them engaged and challenge them to keep at it. This is also great for Poetry Month (April). My student’s actual poems (from the extension activities) are being published in our campus newsletter to celebrate it.” Anything you can do as part of a lesson or short research project that allows students to make connections with their own lives will add a layer of interest they won’t be able to resist.

End of Year Poetry, Surviving Senioritis, Poetry Month Act, 5 Ways to Keep Students Tuned-In at the End-of-the-Year

3) Make It Interactive

I have to admit that I’d never used puppets in the classroom before with high school students, but now that I have, I can’t stop.  I also have to admit that it was partly my students’ idea to conduct the first puppet show I ever conducted.  When my seniors read The Canterbury Tales, I had made little cards with the characters on them. I wanted each student to read and research about that character to share with the class.  One student was holding up her card and thought she was being funny when she said, “We should do this as a puppet show.” I said, “Actually, that’s a great idea. Yes, we should.” That night I glued Popsicle sticks on the cards and borrowed a puppet curtain my mom had made for my nieces.  Voila!  The next day we had a puppet show!  After that, I let my emoji addiction get a little more out of control, and I made emoji puppets for accountable talk, review, point of view, and more! See my Facebook post about them. If you don’t have puppets for your class, then just consider what topic you teach that students to re-enact or role play. For an extra layer of rigor, have the students write the scripts, too!

Escape games are super hot right now, too, and you can find them in just about any subject and grade level. The end of the year is the perfect time to give one a try for review or just for fun.  I’ve made full-length games for some favorite stories I teach, and I recently started to make mini escape games that last 30 minutes! All of my games are designed so that you can use a physical lock box that you buy premade or make yourself or digitally with Google.  I love using the physical lock box for students, and I’ve created this quick video tutorial just in case you’ve wanted to try it, but have been a little apprehensive about it. When I conduct an escape game in class, I have 100% participation and engagement. It doesn’t get more tuned-in than that!

4) Make It Project-Based

Projects don’t have to be a lot of work for you. Nor should they be a lot of work to prep.  One year I wanted something new and fun for Earth Day, so I rummaged through my junk drawers at the house and had student create uses for the various items.  The skills we covered? Propaganda, Info-Text Analysis; Speaking and Listening, Presenting.  That project is for sale here! This time of year, my yearbook students also work on projects to keep them busy until the books come back.  They would be excellent for a yearbook class, business, art, or technology class.  I’ve also successfully done short research projects, and I have a ton of those available as well on a variety of topics.

Earth Day Paired Text Reading Lesson, Speech and Poem , 5 Ways to Keep Students Tuned-In at the End-of-the-Year

5) Make It a Movie Day

Let’s be real for a minute.  We can’t always show a movie, but if we are talking about getting tuned in, well, we can’t ignore the obvious.  If you missed my post about how to incorporate media effectively, click here to go check that out.  I will say that my seniors are going to be watching The Hunger Games next week.  Why in the world, right? It was their idea – and it wasn’t because they just wanted to watch it randomly.  In fact, they’ve been asking me all along our 451 unit if there’s a sequel to Bradbury’s magnum opus.  (Can we pause to just say how awesome it is that they want to read MORE 451?!?!?) Then one day, it dawned on a student that there was quite a bit of intertextuality between 451 and THG.  I had noticed the parallels before because I love THG! He made a pretty good case for it, so I thought this would be a fun way to end the unit. They’ll have to write something showing those parallels, of course.  Plus, I’ve got you covered for tons of movies with ready-made, standards-based movies guides. All you need to do is get the DVD and press play. Click over to my other blog post, as well, with more Tips for Teaching with Movies.

Here’s to a great rest of the year. Comment below with ways you successfully keep students tuned-in at the end-of-the-year.

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Updated 2021, written by Julie Faulkner

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Making Learning Interactive: 5 Strategies for the Secondary Classroom

Keeping kids engaged and involved is one thing. Keeping
teenagers engaged and involved is a whole other issue. However, interaction of
some sort is a staple for just about every day in my classroom to reinforce,
review, or revitalize a lesson.  Whether
it is just a quick conversation with a shoulder partner, a game that requires
movement to demonstrate understanding, or a hands-on task, students do
appreciate the opportunity to get out of those straight rows for a few
minutes.  Here are 5 interactive strategies
to engage secondary students!

1)      Face-to-Face
Discussions

Teenagers love to
talk.  So, I make use of every
opportunity to capitalize on their chatter. 
From the very first week of school, I model and we practice accountable,
academically productive talk.  Discussions
can come in several forms and fashions. 
Sometimes we just turn to our “shoulder partner” and share our journal
response; other times we move into our “row teams” and discuss a chapter from
the novel we are reading. One really fun way to spark discussions is with
Rotating Stations.  This type of activity
would work for many concepts.  I like to
use it for discussing key or significant moments from a text we are reading. Each
station has a quote taped to butcher paper, and then small groups rotate
through the stations adding their thoughts and comments to the paper.  When time is up, I play
a piece of a song, and that’s the signal for the groups to move to new stations
in the classroom where they continue their discussion, based on the ideas they
encounter from the previous group.  Rotations
continue every few minutes until each group has been at all of the positions
and has had a chance to consider all of the other groups’ comments.  Academically productive talk allows students
to share ideas, and it ultimately prepares them for an individual assignment,
such as a writing task.

Accountable Talk Productive Discussions & Collaborations P

2) Virtual
Discussions

Teenagers also love texting and social
media.  We aren’t a full BYOD school or a
1:1, but we do have a policy where teachers can request for students to use
their devices in class for an assignment, and we do have a floating class set
of iPads. When I can, I like to plan some extra time to host virtual
discussions.  Two free cool tools I use
to host a digital dialogue are Padlet.com and Today’s Meet.com.  Padlet has tons of uses, but one fun way is
to just pose a question or topic, and then students plug in the unique URL and
begin posting their responses.  Today’s
Meet allows teachers to set up a temporary “room” for discussion. Students join
the room and begin texting their ideas.  My
students give rave reviews about the days we gab with gadgets!

3) Review
Skills with Games that Incorporate Movement
Let’s admit that
review work isn’t all that glamorous. That is unless it’s interactive! A simple
way to bring in a quick review of vocabulary or the previous day’s lesson is
with Ball Toss Review. I have a small ball that I toss out to get the game
going. If we are reviewing vocabulary, I may say a word and have the student
define it.  He/she answers it and then
tosses to another student. This is also fun for reviewing the previous day’s
lesson.  One student states something
he/she remembers, passes the ball for another student to add an idea, and so
on.  Another strategy I use for reviewing
key skills is the “humanization” of more traditional classroom activities.  Do you have a sorting activity? Why not make it into
human-sorting? Have terms for students to match? Why not have students play it
human-matching style? Directions and materials are included in all of my “human sorting and matching” games! Additionally, most all of my literature guides come with a human plot chart activity for review (pictured below)! They are easy to make, and kids love them!  Check out my full catalog of Creative Worksheet Alternatives for ELA! 
ELA Review Games Activities -Vocabulary, Poetry, Grammar,
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4) Bring
Out Their Inner Child

 No matter how old
they are, teenagers still love a little cut and paste time! Once upon a time I inherited
a whole slew of magazines. I just couldn’t bear to trash all that beautiful authentic
text, so it hit me – Collage Bingo! This interactive activity marries a couple
of old favorites:  cut and paste collage
and the scavenger hunt.  I love this
interactive activity because my students get exposed to a ton of text, we are
reviewing key terms, and it is so easy to implement. Collage Bingo is even
great for short days or substitutes! 

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Figurative-Language-Collage-Bingo-FREE-Full-Length-Lesson-215213
 5)

Peer
Editing

I can’t say enough about the power of a productive
peer edit – productive being the key word here! 
I think where the peer edit breaks down is when students aren’t really
sure what they are looking for and aren’t comfortable communicating their
suggestions to a friend.  What I’ve found
to make peer editing actually work is to practice peer editing sample papers
from the “File of Papers from the Unknown Students” first.  Once we do guided practice, students gain
more confidence on how to offer constructive criticism.  There are several ways to orchestrate a peer
edit from providing students with a checklist, list of questions, or a
foldable.  To make a simple peer editing foldable,
just have students make one “hot-dog” fold. 
On one side of the fold have students list the strengths. On the other
side, have the list the struggles. Voila – an easy-peasy, no-prep peer edit
interactive activity!  Also, consider having
students focus their energies and comments by limiting or suggesting what they
look for – grammar, thesis statement, or colorful vocabulary. They don’t have
to tackle everything all at once.  Hearing
and seeing students interact to improve writing just gives me “cold dots,”
which is what my six-year old niece calls cold chills!
See more interactive ideas at my newest blog post: 

Formula for Classroom Success Series Post #3: Interactive and Real-World Strategies

I’m linking up with The OCBeach teacher over at her blog.  So, head on over for more ways to make learning interactive!

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🍋 Type 7 (The Enthusiast): you plan a fun and adventurous trip and pack the lemons as a snack⁠ #letsgo
🍋 Type 8 (The Challenger): you squeeze the juice in the eyes of your enemies⁠ #nomercy
🍋 Type 9 (The Peacemaker): you keep calm and ignore the lemons⁠ #everythingisfine #lifegoeson
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On the blog: Everything you need to know about ess On the blog: Everything you need to know about essential questions in lesson planning. ⁠
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My teacher planners are designed exclusively for t My teacher planners are designed exclusively for teachers with multiple preps and are perfect for getting your lesson plans and goals organized! With the PDF and ready-made-for-Google formats, you'll have everything you need to plan successfully. There are options for A/B Block Schedule or up to 4 Preps. Link in bio. ⁠
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I wore this outfit to my mother's retirement lunch I wore this outfit to my mother's retirement luncheon. She served our community in education for 45 years as an English teacher and then in administration. That kind of commitment is often unheard of these days. I'm super proud of her accomplishments!⁠
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Finished my first book of summer. Here are my thou Finished my first book of summer. Here are my thoughts on Dolly's #runroserun: ⁠
💡The voice is engaging, but I do wonder if it would have been better if it were told in first person. ⁠
💡Overall the characters were fun, but pretty predictable and somewhat flat. ⁠
💡There was enough suspense to keep me reading; however, the turning point seemed rushed and thus the main "secret" was underdeveloped. The secret wasn't what I was expecting, so that was nice. ⁠
💡Most of the time I felt I was reading a commercial: there was a lot of brand-name dropping. In many cases, I had no idea what was even being referenced. Perhaps that was a choice to show the stark contrast between the main character and the person she was trying to become. ⁠
💡I enjoyed the way the song snippets were incorporated in. ⁠
💡I'll always enjoy reading a story set close to home #tennesseeismyhome. ⁠
💡Favorite quote: "How had she became as necessary to his life as oxygen? ...The world is full of mysteries. He supposed the human heart - his human heart - had turned out to be one of them."⁠
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Overall, I give it 3 stars out of 5. ⭐⭐⭐⁠
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18 - the magic number today 🪄6/5/04 is our “m 18 - the magic number today 🪄6/5/04 is our “marry day” anniversary- that’s what my niece called weddings before she knew that word. If you think about it, though, her way makes so much more sense.  A wedding is special, but having a great life with someone is really about focusing on the marriage. I’m thankful God sent me this guy (🦄) and I know he feels the same way about me🤣🤣😜😜 Prayers for 18 x infinity more.
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