Digital Back-to-School Stations – Welcome Students Back – Distance Learning

Get to know your new students with a digital Back-to-School Welcome Stations activity! This activity is ideal for grades 6-12, and it works for ANY subject area.

This Digital Back-to-School Welcome Stations activity is ideal for middle school and high school students and is optimized for digital learning, distance learning, and Google Classroom. SMARTePlans teaching units run on the Google platform. Digital sentence combing bell-ringers for remote learning!

STATION 1

Get to know your new students with a digital class survey. This survey (Google Forms) includes questions about students’ interests and well as their access to technology for distance learning. Teachers can edit and customize the survey to fit their individual needs.

STATION 2

Get students acquainted with your class accounts you’ll be using in your class during the school year. This station comes with an editable class account information sheet that you will share with your students. Students will record the account, login information, and sign up for their accounts.

STATION 3

This is a syllabus scavenger hunt. Upload your syllabus (teacher syllabus not included) to the included student Slides. Students read through the document and complete a scavenger hunt form when they read, find, and record important syllabus information.

STATION 4

Introduce yourself to your new students by creating and sharing a digital nameplate. Then, share your nameplate with your students and have them create their own. This will allow the class to get to know one another.

*There is prep work with this resource! In order for teachers to have access to all of the files and customize this resource to suit their individual class needs, teachers will need to link some of the documents to the student slide page. This resource includes directions on how to link files in Google Slides.