20 Zoom Meeting Activities and Games Ideas for Teachers

READ A STORY TO YOUR CLASS (gives them time to relax and recharge)

PLAN A SHOW AND TELL (pick a few students ahead of time to share with the class something they have been working on or a favorite toy)

CREATE A CLASS MASCOT (use a puppet or soft toy to lead a song or explain an activity)

PLAY BINGO (have your students create a bingo board ahead of time, you can practice spelling words, themes you are working on, etc)

PLAY 20 QUESTIONS (Pick something related to what you have taught that day)

SCAVENGER HUNTS (Give the students to find something in their home that starts with a certain letter, color, makes them feel... etc)

SCHEDULE DRESS UP DAYS (Gives the students a chance to wear something fancy or fun to their zoom)

MYSTERY BAG OR BOX GAME (Put something in the box related to what you are teaching that day and have the students guess what's in the box)

EASY SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS (Have the students predict or draw a picture of what they think will happen)

LEARN A NEW SONG (have some kind of movement along with it)

SET UP A TRIVIA GAME (weekly review of what the students have learned or a practice before a test)

PLAY SECRET CHARACTER (Similar to the game Guess Who but using students from your class)

PLAY BOOGLE (Give the students 10 letters and see how many words that can create or come up with)

CREATE A WORD MATH PROBLEM OR RIDDLE (have the kids solve, a good activities for the beginning or end of a zoom meeting)

PLAY SCATTERGORIES (Pick a letter and come up with a least seven things the students have to think of that start with that letter)

PLAN A TALENT SHOW (Give your students a few days to come up with their special talent)

JOURNAL TIME (Give the students a prompt and give them time to draw and write)

CREATE A CLASS STORY (You can start the story and have each student come up with a sentence or two)

WOULD YOU RATHER (Create the questions and two scenarios ahead of time)

PLAN A VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP (You can lead with sharing your screen, just Google "virtual field trips for kids" to plan)