How to Make Distance Learning Fun with Scoot!

Have you ever had one of those days when you feel like your students just aren’t listening and they are wiggling all over the place? Of course you have!

Social Distancing Scoot Game:

Social Distancing Scoot Game

1. Enlarge the cards and hold them up, or display the cards on a smartboard one at a time. Now remember you have to hold the cards or flash them quickly.
2. Instead of saying “Scoot” since they can’t move to another desk, you can say “Go” or “Stand” and the students have to stand, write their answers quickly on the recording sheet that is provided, and sit back down.

You can also add some other types of movements like “jump” or “hop on one foot” and they have to do the movement before they write their answers and sit back down.

The nice thing about doing Scoot this way is that you can go in order so the kids don’t have to find the correct number on their sheets. You will just have them write the answers in order from 1-24.

A fun surprise

Distance Learning Scoot Games

Remind them

Social Distancing Brain Bounce Games

Another game that students can play at a distance is our Brain Bounce Game. Students  divide into 2 teams and take turns answering questions. We call it Brain Bounce because we tell our students that we are bouncing from one brain to another.

Normally, I would let them pick a card to answer but since we are social distancing now, have students say a number. You can pick that card out and read the card for the students. If they get the right answer, then they earn a point for their team.

Kids love this game because they are in teams! You can have the student stand to answer the card. Remind them it is okay if they don’t know the answer. 

Check out our popular Candy Brain Bounce at the bottom of the post. We also have Brain Bounce games for monthly science and social studies vocabulary themes.

Distance Learning Brain Bounce

You can still play this game virtually. We have included recording sheets if you want to use them. You just divide the kids that show up on your Zoom call or whatever you may be using.

Around The World

Another way to use our Scoot or Brain Bounce cards is to play “Around the World.” This is pretty easy to play in a social distancing manner because only 2 kids stand up at a time.

Now, normally you play where you hold up the card and the child that answers first, moves to the next desk. You can place circles with different countries or use different states and call the game “Around the USA.”

The student that answers first would move to the next circle. When a student that is ahead misses, then they have to go back to their seat.

You would need to write down how far the students get around the world. Every student gets a turn. The student that gets to more circles wins.

If your classroom isn’t very big

or you don’t have enough room to make your circles 6 feet apart, then you can still have 2 students stand at a time. You would draw the circles on the board and write the students’ names on the circles as they get the answers correct.

We hope that these ideas during Distance Learning will help your students to still get up and move and have fun while they learn!

Please comment with any game ideas you are using.

What are some fun games that you do to get your kids moving?

Please share this post with all your teacher friends so they can learn about Scoot.

Pam