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We are a team of teachers that have experience educating high school students in the field of Computer Science and Technology. Our goal is the integration of technology in the classroom. Technology is a valuable tool, however there is a void between technology and learning. Roombop aims to change that! RoomBop allows teachers to bring technology into their classrooms for any subject on any device, for all ages.
Students are going crazy for Fortnite! So bring Fortnite to your classroom with this resource. Have your students use this roll a story to generate story ideas for them to write about the game. All the topics on this roll a story have been cleaned up for school use.
This resource works great with our Digital Dice.
This resource allows your students to write 10 different stories based on the video game Fortnite. This resource includes an instruction page to setup the booklet. This booklet was designed with tabs and a table of contents.To setup the tabs, after printing the booklet, have the students cut around the tabs on the right side of the page. The students are then provided a map and 15 locations with instructions on what they can write for each. The resource kept also includes students who do not play the game, that way they can be engaged in the activity too. Included is a basic rubric for marking each writing piece.
Create custom bookmarks for your students with this resource. This is a great way to introduce an activity, but can also be used in other content areas such as math, social studies, and science. Use Google slides and add your own text and pictures, or print them out blank for the students to design their own.
This editable Google slide is setup with a standard 8.5” x 11” paper template. Each bookmark page has either 2 or 4 to a page. This makes it easy to print and distribute to students. Just print, distribute to students, & have them design their own for the book or content you are studying. Or create your own for a novel or lesson: just add the title or a notable quote, then print.
Includes
12 pages of bookmark templates, 6 outline styles in 2 sizes each.
3 different style, printable reading log.
Use this snakes and ladders game to help teach Sight Words in a fun and engaging way. It is the classic Snakes and ladders game but with a twist. You must say the word you land on and gain a point. You get a bonus total of points for getting to the finish first. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins. Based on how the game works, you might want team up stronger students to help verify saying words and keep the game going.
Included is a how to play handout, a blank board template (add your own words), prefilled sight word boards; 2 pre-primer boards, 3 primer boards, 2 first grade boards, 2 second grade boards and 2 third grade boards. There is also a tally chart for 2 and 3 players to keep track of scores. Each allows for multiple games on one sheet. Don’t have dice? Print, fold and glue the provided dice.
It simple to use, pick your board and print (or edit in Google Slides to your liking with your own words), print and play.
This ready-to-use set of TED Talk handouts. They can be used with ANY TED Talk! You can pick which of the 3 handout styles you want and provide them to your students to fill out while watching a TED Talk.
You can print these out and use it in a traditional way or allow your students to complete these TED Talk worksheets on a Chromebook, iPad or any other BYOD. These 3 TED Talk worksheets come on an editable Google Slide!
This is an easy to use Google Slide Wheel of Fortune game template. It will play like the popular TV game show. This game is great to review before quizzes and tests!
This game is generic and works with any subject area such as English, history, math, science, social studies, etc.
4 slides and easy to follow. Requires internet access, even when playing.
To start, go to the 4th slide and make a copy into your own Google Drive.
Other Google Slide Games:
Jeopardy
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Baseball Review
Basketball Review
Wheel of Fortune
Tic Tac Toe Review
Connect 4 Review
-Review Racer
There is no one right way to conduct literacy circles. The approach may change from class to class, teacher to teacher, student to student and sometimes-even day to day.
What Are Literacy Circles?
• Small groups of students meet to discuss reading passages (poems, short stories, novels, fiction or nonfiction).
• The discussion is student directed and student centered.
• The discussion is guided by the students’ response to what they have read.
• The circles allow students to engage in critical thinking and reflection through reading, discussing and responding to literature.
• Students are enthusiastic, motivated and actively involved.
This package includes
• How to use it with Google Docs
• About Literacy Circles
• 10 different handouts
This package includes the following handouts:
• Discuss
• Connect
• Summarize
• Vocabulary
• Illustrate
• Fact Finder
• Timeline
• Connection
• Conflicts
• Character Traits
Pick and choose the literacy circle handouts you want to use based on your students readings and needs. Since this package comes in an editable Google Doc, you can also make changes where you feel is necessary. Print them out or use them digitally on Google Docs!
Whether you are in a 1 to 1 classroom or have access to Chromebooks, laptops or iPads, this resource is a great way to have your students create a comic. Go paperless with this digital editable Google Slides. This resource includes 15 different blank comic book layouts. You can have the students print out their comic book once they finalize their digital version, as the resource is set to 8.5 x 11 paper size. Or you can pre-print the blank layouts with the included PDF and have the students draw on a paper copy. The choice is yours!
WHY USE COMIC STRIPS?
Another option for projects
Allows for a lot of creativity
Uses a familiar format
Can incorporate both visual and written information
Improve narrative writing skills
It’s fun!
INTEGRATING IT INTO YOUR CLASSROOM
Illustrate a concept from class, such as a property of science
Retell a story or a portion of a story they have read for class
Re-enact a famous scene from history
Students can tell about themselves with an autobiographical comic.
Students can make a comic that uses vocabulary words for that week.
The use of social media is a great way to engage and gain the interest of your students. Best of all, this resource is available in both printable pdf format as well as a Google Slides editable format. This Instagram template allows students to add text and pictures to an “Instagram Template”. The template is locked, so your students can’t mistakenly move or delete the background.
Use this to:
Have your students discuss a character or setting in a novel
Focus on a historical person
Focus on a Geographic area
Use it in science and have your students record their information
This resource allows your students to practise making words using digital tile templates, editable in Google Slides. This makes for a great spelling/phonics practice activity. Add the word list that you want your students to create and then they can quickly drag and drop the letter over. Also includes digraph and diphthong letter boxes.
Pages include:
Editable word list and blue box for students to drag letters to create words
Full page blue box and letters to create words
Editable word list and green box with digraph and diphthong letters on the outside of the slide for students to create words.
Word list with shelf
Word list, digraph and diphthong letters and shelf
Drag and drop digraph and diphthong letters
Usage guide with a “refresh” button
Students can use the templates to form one word or multiple words. All consonants are blue and all vowels are red. These slides can can used on Chromebooks, laptops/computers and iPads This resource comes in a standard size 8.5 x 11 printable PDF as well as an editable Google Slide. This means you can quickly print out the PDF and have the students cut and move letters and or use it digitally. This makes for a great distance learning resource.
Are you using a book/novel with a corresponding movie with your students? Then this resource is perfect for you! These 11 different graphic organizers compare a book with it’s movie counterpart. They have been created with two things in mind; to work with any story and to meet a variety of levels.
If you are worried that too many students take the easy way out and just watch the movie, that they will miss out of important details from reading the book, then this resource is also great. It makes it easy to tell who tried to take the shortcut and who did not.
This resource comes in a printable PDF as well as an editable Google Slide. Make changes as you feel is best for your class! You can print it out and provide the organizers to your students, or allow them to make a copy and fill it in digitally.
Have fun generating 10,000,000 different story combinations. This is similar to a “Roll a story” activity but instead of 216 options, there are TEN MILLION! Quickly generate a random character (with descriptor), a plot and a setting. Your students can then start creating a very fun and unique story.
Don’t like what was given? Keep clicking the big green “Generate Story” button to have an endless amount of story ideas for you and your students. Not enough options? Easily add your own to add more possibilities. Everything is editable on Google Sheets!
Includes:
Step by Step setup guide
Customization guide
Data Safety: learn how the Apps Script was created
You can have your students follow the 8 step setup and generate their own stories for quick writes or longer stories. Or maybe you can set it up and display it on your smartboard and roll a different story each day, where they have a quick writing activity with a paragraph long story. There are many options and ways you can use this resource.
Perfect for creative writing!
Students can use this template with Google Slides and enter their information into the editable text boxes in the family tree. If students have access to a webcam or other digital camera device, they may be able to insert a picture of themselves into the page of the family tree. This resource comes with two different family tree graphic organizer templates. One is an immediate family, family tree and the other is an extended family tree. Each style comes in black & white as well a friendly green theme, for a total of 4 different options.The best part is this resource is fully editable in Google Slides, so your students can use the family tree digitally or print it out with the included PDF.
This bundle is great to allow your students to create and write about a Superhero. This resource includes 8 different graphic organizers, all to prepare the creation of their hero. The students go from brainstorming their hero to writing the story and drawing the comic. This resource is great for a language grade as well as an art grade. Plus your students will have fun completing the organizers.
Superhero potential powers and traits organizer
Storyline organizer
Plot and conflict organizer
Characters organizer
Visuals organizer
Plot line organizer
The Story (where the students can write their story)
Simple comic template
This bundle also includes 15 different blank comic book layouts. You can have the students print out their comic book once they finalize their digital version, as the resource is set to 8.5 x 11 paper size. Or you can pre-print the blank layouts with the included PDF and have the students draw on a paper copy. The choice is yours!
This resource comes in a printable PDF as well as an editable Google Slide. You can print it out and provide the organizers to your students, or allow them to make a copy and fill it in digitally.
This resource is a great for prior or after the big Sunday football game, or really any time during the year where you want to include commercial related activities within your classroom. I have found that bringing Football hype into the classroom is a fun and engaging way to keep students focused and learning. This resource includes 7 different activities, graphic organizers and worksheets for your students.
Commercial Opinion Writing: the students pick one commercial and fill out the worksheet to form and back up their opinion.
Commercials: What Do You Remember? students fill in the organizer to see how many products, adjectives and expressions/slogans they remember.
Create a Commercial: students create their own commercial. This resource includes two different create a commercial handouts. Choose the one that suits your class best!
Draw your Commercial & Draw a commercial you saw: these two handouts are based on the student drawing their own commercial and the other handout is them drawing a commercial they saw. Both include a small writing activity.
Commercials: Watch & Reply: students while watching, will answer questions based on the big football game.
Best of all, this resource is a printable PDF file. It is also an editable Google Doc. This way you can make changes that best suits your students. If you don’t want to make any changes you can just print out the page(s) you want based on this PDF.
This resource is great for character analysis on any text. It will help lead to an essay or provide your students an opportunity to analyze a character based on their own thoughts, the narrative’s description and the student’s own reaction. This resource has three different styles, all editable in Google Docs. Use the style you like. Included is a printable PDF file as well as an editable Google Doc. This way you can share the organizer with your class and they can use it digitally. You can also make changes if you please. Or just print out the style that suits your class the best.
This one-page “Persuasive Essay Outline” is for students to brainstorm and organize their ideas before writing their essay. This is a great help to students as it guides them in their writing and ensures they do not leave out necessary components.
Included is a printable PDF file as well as an editable Google Doc. You can have your students fill these outlines out with their Chromebooks, iPads or other BYOD!
This package contains:
Information page on using this outline with Google Docs and or printing
Information page on how to structure a persuasive essay.
Persuasive Essay Outline information chart.
Students can use this self & peer editing checklist to self edit their work before handing it in. This checklist comes in two styles in a printable PDF file as well as an editable Google Doc. One style is for self editing and the other includes sections for self and peer editing. It works great for all language related written pieces. The main categories of self editing include: Punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling. Since this resource is fully editable in Google Docs, you can change the categories that suits your students. Share this self & peer editing checklist with your students on Google Classroom or print it out for them. The choice is yours!
This resource works great while teaching Main Idea & Details to help students organize their thoughts. It works with any text. This graphic organizer can be utilized during reading or literacy, guided reading, shared reading, or independent reading. Students record the main idea of the text and the details that support the main idea. This resource comes in three styles, all are editable in Google Docs. Included is a printable PDF file as well as an editable Google Doc. This way you can share the organizer with your class and they can use it digitally. You can also make changes if you please. Or just print out the style that suits your class the best.
What is Story Mapping:
• It is a graphic organizer
• Helps students learn details from novels, short stories, any informational text
• There are many types of story maps
This package includes
• How to use it with Google Docs
• About Story Maps
• 10 different story mapping handouts
Pick and choose the story map handouts you want to use based on your students readings and needs. Since this package comes in an editable Google Doc, you can also make changes where you feel is necessary. Print them out or use them digitally on Google Docs!