The digital version of Participle Adjective Cover Up is slightly different. For this version I inserted a custom script in order to create an additional menu item called "Ending." Students click "Ending," and then "Generate Ending," and a box pops up that says "You rolled -ed," or "You rolled -ing." Students then search the board for a sentence that requires the specified ending to complete it. The student reads the sentence aloud, correctly filling in the blank, and then is able to drag one of his/her X's over the spot to claim it. Here's a short video showing the game in action:
The digital version is played in a similar fashion, but it has a specially coded "Dice" menu added to it. The first student clicks on "Dice" and "Roll Dice," and a window pops up showing a number between 1 and 12. Play then proceeds as described above, with the student checking his/her board to see if the square is available or not and forming a sentence when it is. Covers are the grey X's in the center of the board, which can be dragged and dropped where needed.
Both digital games have been designed and uploaded so the only things that can be moved or edited on the slides are the covers. The words and pictures are all part of the background and cannot be accidentally (or accidentally-on-purpose) deleted or changed. Here's a short video showing the digital version of Present Perfect Cover Up in action: Cover up really is one of the most popular games in my classroom. The use of milk jug lids for covers makes it cheap to make and helps it stand out from other games. The students especially enjoy the element of chance added by the fact they can't control the dice roll and so the first person to take a turn isn't automatically the winner. All of the versions of the games (paper and digital for distance learning) are available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store, just click the photos above or buttons below. Also available are bundles of the paper and digital games at a 25% discount, and a script you can add to Google Slides or Docs to create your own game using a D6 number cube.
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1. Create your picture in Google Sheets (or Excel if you prefer). Get it exactly how you want it to look once the students have correctly completed the activity.
2. Go over several rows from your picture and start typing your questions. In this case I had sentences that I wanted students to complete, but it could be anything from a math problem to a factual questions. You just need to have a defined answer that everyone will type the same. Place one question per row. 3. In front of your questions color the box where you want students to type their answer. Students must type the correct answer, in the correct box, for the picture to "magically" appear. 4. Now you're ready to start conditionally formatting your picture. Go over to the picture and randomly select however many cells you want to tie to the first answer. Be sure all of the cells are the same color! 5. In order to help myself remember which cells I'd already done I first changed the selected cells to white. 6. Click on Format, Conditional Formatting. 7. Click "Add Another Rule" 8. In the Format rules box click the down triangle and choose "Custom formula is." 9. In the box enter the formula: =$Y$3="Who's" The Y is the letter of the column where the answer will be typed. The 3 is the number of the row where the answer will be typed. Inside the quotation marks is the text for the correct answer. If your answer is numerical it does not require quotation marks. 10. Choose the color you want the cells to turn. 11. Click done. 12. Repeat steps 4-11 for each of the questions you've created, being sure to conditionally format all of the cells in your picture. You can test your work by going through and typing the answers in the boxes and watching the picture appear. When incorrect answers or typed, or correct answers are typed incorrectly, nothing will happen and the boxes will stay white (or whatever color you set them to be).
The first time I created a mystery picture I fell into the trap of recreating digitally what I had on paper. I made every cell correspond to an answer (80 questions for an 80 cell picture) and every answer correspond to a color (all of the "am" answers were blue). The great thing about digital is that you are freed from these restrictions. You can make every answer correspond to as many or as few cells as you choose (just remember they all have to be the same color). You can also make any answer be any color, even if it wasn't that color previously (hence my activity has two possible answers but three different colors). The digital format opens up a lot of possibilities!
My students already enjoy mystery color pictures and I can't wait to see their response to the digital version! Want my mystery picture activities? Use the buttons below! Want a free digital color activity? Sign up for my e-mail list on the right and you'll get a force a copy link for my present tense to be mystery picture!
In order to have students do the retelling portion of the assignment I would approach it in one of several ways. If the student is old enough to type, I might add a second slide that consists only of a text box before sharing the assignment. Then the student could, on the second slide, type out his/her retelling of the story. If the student wasn't able to, or didn't want to, type the story, I could instruct him/her to use the voice typing feature that is built into Google Slides to insert the retelling into the speaker notes (Tools-Voice Type Speaker Notes). Another option could be to use an add-on such as mote to leave voice comments. The possibilities truly are endless. Each set of sequencing sentences is available separately in paper or digital format. There are also discounted bundles that offer a single book paper + digital versions, all books paper versions, all books digital versions, and all books paper + digital versions. Check them out today!
I would love to create a similar resource for each of the classes in our program. My plan is to create a There's a Video About That and Review Menu for each course I teach in a semester. Hopefully the process won't be too overwhelming that way and I can eventually have a complete library for my students.
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