Digital Breakout Vault

This is a fantastic website for teachers!

A digital breakout is much like the in-person physical breakout done in the classroom. The main concept is to solve clues to unlock all the components in order to solve the main breakout mission. The digital format requires the internet, a device connected to the internet, paper and pencil for working out the clues, and critical thinking skills for solving clues.

As presented at the VCEC Convention 2022, Shellye Wardensky created a Google Site called Digital Breakout Vault with over 60+ breakouts she created to share with teachers and their students. She also posts breakouts created by other teachers who also want to share their work publicly.

These are just a few of topics included: Egypt, Animals, Continents, States of Matter, Famous Americans, Ancient Civilizations, Solar System, Colonial Virginia, Civil War, Reconstruction, Ocean Floor, Outer Core of the Earth, Plants, Black History Month, and Plagiarism.

https://sites.google.com/view/digitalbreakoutvault

If you have a breakout that you’ve made and want to share it on the Digital Breakout Vault website, please email Shellye at: swardensky@ycsd.york.va.us She will see that you get credit for your work.

Kids Edition of the Nightly News

NBC NIGHTLY NEWS: KIDS EDITION is a digest of the top headlines, broken down for kids to best understand the world today. Lester Holt hosts this once a week edition of topics in today’s news. Each episode runs approximately 15-20 minutes. Well worth the time to watch!

Check out the January 27th edition and kids will gain a better understanding about inflation. They will also learn about the hippopotamus born 6 weeks prematurely. Find out what the word hippopotamus stands for. These are only two of the topics covered.

February 3rd edition covers the winter Olympics, Willow the new Whitehouse pet, body temperatures, and friendship on display with inspiring kids.

Wordle – Your Daily Word Game

Can you guess the Wordle in 6 tries or less?

Think of a 5 letter word and key it in. Click the Enter button to submit your guess. After each guess, you will be given colors on the tiles. GREEN means you’ve guessed the right letter and that the position is correct. GOLD means you guessed the right letter but it is in the wrong position. GRAY means the letter does not apply.

Wordle – your daily puzzle game!

Only one puzzle a day. Check the timer on your results screen after your play.

Chromebook Split Screen

You can quickly split two screen views on your Chromebook display by first clicking on a window you want to position, then hold down the ALT key and tap on the left bracket ” [ ” (for left side) or tap on the right bracket ” ] ” (for the right side.