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Virtual Youth Group Games for COVID-19. By Dan Colwin March 27, 2020. Looking for game ideas to use for your virtual youth group gatherings? We’ve got you covered. Churches and youth ministries are facing numerous challenges related to COVID-19. Youth groups are unable to meet in person. Students are wrestling with isolation. Investigate and evaluate virtual reality platforms, software and apps to meet education objectives. Create a workshop environment to engage and train teachers to better understand the technology and practically embed virtual reality in the curriculum. About the author.

8 Fun Activities for Virtual Learning Meetings

Would You Rather Debates – Virtual learning with students can be activity-based. The would you rather activity asks students to evaluate choices and explain their thinking These questions are a great way to get a conversation started in a fun and interesting way. Don’t forget to ask students “Why?” after because this can be the best part of the conversation. Here is a great site would your rather ideas.

2. Twenty Questions – For this virtual learning activity Have kids guess things like characters, time periods or scientific facts.Rules: Players take turns asking only “yes” or “no” questions in an attempt to figure out the answer. Ask as many as 20 questions.

3. Movie and Netflix Reviews – Help kids learn to communicate and write by doing the virtual learning mock movie reviews during a team meeting. Assign a few kids each session to go as a fun way to start a meeting or get a conversation started.

4. Virtual Talk Shows – This virtual talk shows takes learning and makes it fun. Students take the place of characters, concepts, or even a time period in a virtual talk show. Each student takes the “hot-seat” to answer questions showing their comprehension of an idea from the viewpoint of a person or idea being studied in class.

5. Hot or Not – In this virtual learning favorite, students use two pieces of paper and write Hot or Not and then as the teacher talks about ideas in content the kids decide whether this is Hot (good) or Not (not so good) and then defend their choices. One fun example would be on the topic of The Fall of the Roman Empire The idea could be higher taxes to help support the large Roman Military. Kids could decide if that is a HOT or NOT idea, and then explain why.

6. Two Truths and Lie – Students come to the meeting with Two Truths and a Lie about a literary character, historical figure or event, or math or science concept. Then see if the other students can figure which statement is the lie and why. You can even prepare a collaborative doc that students can see ahead of time. Boom! A favorite face-to-face learning activity goes virtual!

7. Doodling Together – Students love to doodle and remote learning makes a great way to have them do this collaboratively. They can interpret stories, ideas or people and compare their doodles with their classmates.

Microsoft: Use OneNote and a collaborative notebook.
Google: Use a collaborative Jamboard

Need more information on this virtual learning sketchnoting activity? Get students Sketchnoting with these introductory videos and learn more about the why by watching Sylvia Duckworth explain the importance and research behind this strategy. All this is curated into this Wakelet. Also, check out this Day of Sketchnoting post!

8. PowerPoint, Slides or Buncee Brain Dump – Once your class is ready to start, find a volunteer who is ready to fun present and start the first random slide deck. The volunteer must then present on those slides to the group. You can give people an entire slide deck each or have them tap out to other members after a few slides. Keep the slides to a minimum by using only visuals. The key is getting people to improvise and have fun while practicing their communication skills under pressure!