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Technology Lesson Ideas
A comprehensive collection of 60+ authentic classroom assignments, hands-on digital projects, and tiered success criteria spanning Levels 1 to 6 (Foundation to Mastery). Filter by grade level or search by topic, tool, or software.
Sunflower Colouring
Digital art and colouring exercise using Canva templates to practice mouse precision and colour selection.
Keyboard Skills
Practice fundamental keyboard layout, finger positioning, and basic typing activities through guided games.
Computer Parts
Interactive live voting and quiz on external and internal computer components and peripherals.
Animal Presentation
Open this Slides presentation and add text and images about your favourite animal! Vikki will help you too. Then we will add Animations and Transitions :)
Parts of a plant
Add the parts of the plant. Add a new text box for each blue line. Add a new page and tell me what you know about plants! Can you add images of the different types?
Code Boogie - Santa Tracker
Open the "Dance Class" and follow the code to make the Elves dance! Sequence dance steps using visual blocks.
Properties of Materials
Interactive science and materials quiz assessing understanding of hard, soft, flexible, and waterproof materials.
Design a Building!
Create a Drawing. Use geometric shapes (rectangles, triangles, circles) to design an architectural building facade.
Famous Building
Create a Drawing. Insert an Image of your famous building on one side. On the other side, use Shapes to recreate the drawing.
Canva Cave Painting
Create a new Whiteboard in Canva - the Green one! Collaborate using prehistoric motifs, handprints, and earth tones.
Cave Painting
Digital art project exploring ancient symbols, pigment colours, and cave illustrations using digital drawing tools.
Programming 2.1
Programming! Can you draw a line and visit the houses? Early turtle direction, 90-degree angles, and step counts.
Programming 2.2
Advanced early stage block sequencing and navigation puzzles in Busy Things Computing.
Design a School
Open Canva. Create a new Whiteboard - the GREEN one. Design a school. Search for: school, classroom, kitchen, dining room, computer room, swimming pool, sports hall, toilet, playground, football pitch, basketball court, garden, theater, office.
Design a 3D Town! Take a Screenshot.
Build an island town using procedural blocks in Townscaper. Practice left-click (place), right-click (remove), and drag to rotate. Take a screenshot when finished.
Human Body Systems
Log into Figma and create a new FigJam. Copy organ and skeletal components from the source board, paste into your FigJam, arrange them in accurate anatomical positions, and use the pens to draw a human body outline.
Earth Movements
Illustrate Earth rotation (day/night) and orbit around the sun (seasons) using labeled vectors and callout arrows in Google Drawings.
Christmas Show Poster
Create a publicity poster in Canva. Integrate the 5 Ws: What, When, Where, Why, and Who with eye-catching typography and seasonal graphics.
Code Boogie - Santa Tracker
Open Dance Class in Code Boogie. Solve algorithm loops to program character choreography.
Technology Timeline
Research technology and inventions across historical eras (Egyptian, Roman, Middle Ages, Modern). Duplicate the timeline board in FigJam, add curated imagery, and explain the impact on everyday human life.
Technology Poster
Select one invention from your FigJam timeline and design an informative Canva poster with tiered success criteria:
Layers of the Atmosphere
Create a Canva Whiteboard illustrating Earth atmospheric layers: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Karman Line, Thermosphere, and Exosphere with altitude markers and orbital objects.
Earth Layers and Movements
Complete interactive geography challenges: 1. Layers of the Earth Quiz, and 2. Volcanoes & Tectonic Boundaries Quiz.
Edpuzzle - Plate Tectonics: Practice
Watch the video lesson on continental drift, tectonic plates, and fault lines with embedded formative check questions.
Programming 3.1
Navigate to Computing Early Computing in Busy Things and solve logic levels: 1. Block-a-doodle-do, 2. Helicopter Rescue, and 3. Path Peril.
What is "Value"?
Interactive Pear Deck presentation examining monetary, emotional, societal, and personal values through guided prompts.
Canva Diamond Values
Construct a Diamond 9 ranking diagram in Canva, prioritizing core values from most important to least important with written justifications.
Design a Community
Plan and zone an equitable town community in Google Drawings, balancing residential housing, public services, green spaces, and commerce.
Building Budget
Enter building costs, calculate totals using simple SUM formulas, and manage financial constraints for your community plan in Google Sheets.
Curipod Year Review
Interactive Curipod classroom presentation reflecting on technology skills, milestones, and favourite digital projects.
Digital Portfolio
Build a personalized portfolio in Google Sites. Set up navigation, design an autobiography landing page, upload profile graphics, and publish with classroom view permissions.
Explorer Fact file
Research a historical explorer and document their life on a shared FigJam board: biography, navigation routes, discoveries, cultural exchanges, and global legacy.
Online Calendar
Configure Google Calendar: input weekly school timetable, set up recurring events throughout the academic year, apply color codes to subjects, and configure notifications.
Canva Diamond Values
Rank 9 human rights and ethical values in Canva using diamond hierarchy layouts with reflective captions.
Code Boogie - Santa Tracker
Compose dance routines using loop repetitions, conditional event triggers, and nested blocks in Code Boogie.
Wonderful World - Geography Skills
Play Countries of the World Map Quiz. Cross-reference unfamiliar locations using Google Maps search, street view, and satellite layers. Level up to GeoGuessr panoramic exploration.
Graphics from Data
Analyze global youth statistical dataset. Format rows, apply data sorting, and generate bar and pie charts in Google Sheets.
World Data - What do you notice?
Identify 5 significant patterns or anomalies from the World Data document. Reflect on quality of life, access to education, and technological disparities across continents.
Class Survey Results
Design a classroom survey, gather categorical data, construct a spreadsheet table, and produce formatted column charts with titles and axis labels.
Mindmap - Changes in the World around us
Create an interconnected concept map in FigJam using geometric nodes, color-coded arrows, and sticky notes illustrating environmental and technological changes.
Programming 4.1 - Code.org
Work through Course E / Express curriculum on Code.org, mastering repeat loops, conditionals, and debugging routines.
Password Safety
Your password is the most important thing you need to remember - in your head only! Never write it down. Devise a strong passphrase substituting letters with numbers and symbols, and update your Google account security.
Interland
Play Google Be Internet Legends: navigate Kind Kingdom, Mindful Mountain, Reality River, and Tower of Treasure to build internet safety awareness.
Pear Deck - Digital Footprint
Interactive Pear Deck lesson examining permanence of online posts, privacy settings, and constructing a positive digital identity.
Historical Elements
Explore scientific and historical compound creations using logical deduction and combination in Little Alchemy 2.
Elements, Logic and Little Alchemy 2
Document combination trees, decomposition chains, and algorithmic deduction pathways for 20+ compound elements in Little Alchemy 2.
Digital Portfolio
Create a Google Site named "Your Name - Digital Portfolio 23-24". Publish site, add VIEW link to Classroom. Add a page with your Canva profile picture, and a second page called "All about me" with a short autobiography. Publish updates.
Human Timeline
Use FigJam and create a whiteboard covering 5 Life Stages with Information > Ages, Descriptors, Images, and developmental milestones.
Boys and Girls Quiz
Participate in and review formative quiz structure and question design using Google Forms.
Food Groups Quiz Creation
Create a Google Form with questions about Food Groups. Make it a Quiz via Settings. Add title, questions, and correct answers. Add link to Classroom and Portfolio. Email form to classmates, check responses in a Sheet, and update portfolio.
AtL Self Reflection 1
Complete the Approaches to Learning (AtL) self-evaluation measuring self-management, research, and communication skills.
Figjam of emotions
Create a Figjam board investigating emotional regulation and emotional intelligence with differentiated criteria:
Bookmarks!
Save frequently visited websites to the Bookmarks Bar using folders: 1. Your Portfolio, 2. Classroom, 3. Canva, 4. Oxford Reading Buddy, 5. Typing Club, 6. Figma.
Christmas Carols Poster
Create a blank poster in Canva to publicize the visit to the Entre Álamos Residencia (singing carols, sharing a snack) applying graphic hierarchy principles.
Code Boogie - Santa Tracker
Design algorithmic choreography sequences with conditional timing in Code Boogie.
Technology Timeline
Research and Record: Eras in history, Civilizations in each era, and significant Inventions. Create a Document, insert a Table (3 X 9), and fill in Eras (Prehistory to Modern Age), Civilizations, and Inventions.
Technology Timeline Video
Transfer your research into a video via Canva (1920 x 1080). Title page + pages for each Era/Technology/Invention.
Creative Writing - Story
Create a Document, type your narrative story, apply paragraph formatting, custom fonts, drop caps, and image text wrapping.
Programming 5.1 Blockley Games
Follow the path from left to right and complete each level in Blockly Games: Puzzle, Maze, Bird, Turtle, and Movie.
Programming 5.2 Kodable
Progress through Kodable levels focusing on condition statements, loops, functions, and debugging.
Programming 5.3 - Code.org
Complete intermediate computational thinking challenges in Code.org Course F (functions with parameters and nested loops).
Computer Hardware
After practical demonstration, create a whiteboard (green one) in Canva including vocabulary, functions, and images/graphics for External Parts (Computer, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, Trackpad, Battery, Webcam) and Internal Parts (Computer Case, Power Supply, Motherboard, Hard Disk, Processor CPU, RAM).
Hardware Quiz
Assess knowledge of motherboard slots, processing cycles (fetch-decode-execute), and storage devices via Quizizz.
Curipod Year Review
Class review and collaborative reflection on year-long technology competencies and digital skills.
Digital Portfolio
Create a Google Site named "Your Name - Digital Portfolio 23-24", publish it, add view link, add profile picture page, and an "All about me" autobiography page.
My Personal Map
Go to Drive > New > More > My Maps. Include a Map Name, named Layers by category (Food, Entertainment, Work), Points, Lines, Areas, Directions from A to B, custom icons/colors, base map view change, and embed map on your portfolio site.
Creating Graphics from Data
Arrange demographic data in a Table, select data series, create graphics (line graphs, clustered bar charts), and customize typography, axis ranges, and legends.
Spreadsheet Maths 1
Enter data, enter correct formulas (=SUM, =AVERAGE, multiplication), navigate a spreadsheet, create graphics, adjust formatting, use visual data in explanations, and add document windows to your portfolio.
Bookmarks!
Save frequently visited websites into folders on the Bookmarks Bar. Take a screenshot using the Snipping Tool and upload it to show organization, and add a page to your portfolio.
Mail and Email
Use Figma to create a new FigJam showing how the traditional postal mail system works versus how electronic mail (SMTP, IMAP, packets) works, highlighting similarities and differences.
How the Internet works
Create a dynamic presentation in Prezi exploring network topology and internet protocols:
.1 Network Quiz
Test recall of routers, switches, IP addressing, DNS servers, and client-server architecture.
Hardware Quiz
Formative assessment on PC hardware specifications, memory hierarchies (registers, cache, RAM, secondary storage), and CPU architectures.
Edpuzzle How the Internet works
Watch video documentary on IP packet routing, fibre optic data transmission, and server requests with integrated comprehension questions.
Hardware Questions - Individual
Independent diagnostic check on hardware troubleshooting, bus speeds, and peripheral interfaces.
Hardware Prezi
Add a Hardware Topic to your Prezi including: Computer case, Mouse, Keyboard, Monitor, Printer; Motherboard, Processor, Hard Drive, RAM, Power Supply; PCI, CMOS Battery, Graphics Card; Ports (USB, VGA, HDMI, Ethernet); Fan, Heatsink, Adapter, storage sizes, Logic Gates. State the FUNCTION of each part!
Code Combat
Copy code: SandNightFind. Open the link and paste the code to join the class. Write Python / JavaScript syntax commands to guide your hero through dungeon labyrinths.
Software Quiz
Test discrimination between Operating Systems, Application Software, Device Drivers, and Utility Programs.
Software
Build a comprehensive software architecture presentation in Prezi:
Human or Hardware?
Metaphorical comparison activity matching human anatomical systems (brain, veins, senses) to computer architecture (CPU, bus, I/O sensors).
Computers, Networks and the Internet (Pear Deck)
Collaborative Pear Deck slide deck analyzing how local intranets connect to wide area networks and global web servers.
Electrical Circuits
Construct interactive DC circuits in PhET interactive simulation (batteries, resistors, switches, bulbs). Solve circuit challenge puzzles in Crack the Circuit and Learning Circuits.
Skating Video
Use Canva to create a video editing project using skating footage.
Programming 6.1
Blockly Games programming challenges. Master the Pond and Pond Tutor levels using JavaScript conditional logic and mathematical coordinates.
Programming 6.2 - AI Chat Bot Helper
Pair program with the "Code Master" custom Mizou AI tutor. Prompt the AI for code hints, explain syntax errors, and reflect on AI strengths and hallucinations.
Code Combat
Complete Python/JavaScript algorithmic combat challenges, writing while-loops, arrays, and variable assignments.
Create a Kahoot
Design a high-quality multiplayer Kahoot quiz for the PYP Exhibition. Formulate balanced questions, write plausible distractors, attach media, and generate a scannable QR code.
Exhibition Invitation & Display items
Design professional invitations, stand banners, and signage in Canva for the Primary Years Programme Exhibition.
Three Part Information Leaflet
Design a double-sided trifold brochure in Canva. Coordinate panels 1-6 according to physical folding flow (Panel 1 front cover, Panel 2 inside flap, etc.).
Exhibition Kahoot
Peer-test and conduct live multiplayer trials of student-created exhibition Kahoots, gathering user experience feedback.
Exhibition Resources to P R I N T ! !
Prepare printable assets for exhibition stands: game QR code posters, presentation summaries, activity sheets, and visitor badges.
Exhibition Attendance & Showcase
Curate physical and digital learning artifacts, QR codes, and demonstration stations for the final PYP Exhibition showcase.
QR Code Generator
Customize and download high-resolution QR codes with custom branding and logos. Perfect for linking student digital work, games, and forms on printed posters.
Royalty Free Media Toolkit
Curated creative commons repository: Pexels and Pixabay for high-res stock photos and video clips, Renderforest for video intros, and Free Music Archive for safe audio tracks.
Portfolio Pages Guide (Y4, Y5, Y6)
Comprehensive expectations and rubrics for student Google Sites portfolios across Upper Primary. Guidelines on organizing by PYP Units of Inquiry, documenting context, skills, and learner profile attributes.
Typing Club Granada College
School portal for touch-typing mastery with Single Sign-On (Google). Tracks words per minute (WPM), accuracy, and finger ergonomics.
LEGO Education SPIKE Prime Web App
Web-based visual robotics and motor programming IDE for SPIKE Prime controllers, smart hubs, color sensors, and force sensors.
Code.org Student Learning Portal
Global computer science curriculum portal offering CS Fundamentals courses, App Lab, Game Lab, and AI for Oceans modules.
Kodable & Tynker Coding Portals
Gamified coding platforms designed for early logic, sequencing, conditional logic, and block-to-text transitions.
Scratch Creative Computing Portal
MIT Scratch block-coding environment for creating interactive animations, video games, and simulations, adhering to student privacy protocols.
Kahoot! PIN Entry Portal
Fast game-pin launcher for classroom participation, live competitions, and formative assessment reviews.
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