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Virtual Gymnasium Templates

Need to design a digital virtual gymnasium quickly? Whether you teach at an online school or you’re out of the building due to inclement weather, natural disaster, or pandemic, school must go on. Don’t spend all day designing your own when you can be up and ready in an instant. These virtual gym templates make it quick and easy. Simply arrange your space, save your slide, insert it into a new Google Slides document, and make your clickable links. That’s it!

All of the graphics inside each of the five background slides are fully moveable and customizable. Make different interactive gyms for each of your grade levels. Link to assignments using images and text. Design your virtual gymnasium with your personality in mind. Have a Bitmoji®? Your digital gym can be turned into a virtual classroom Bitmoji style! Use the Chrome extension to locate your personalized character, drag it to your desktop, and add it to your slide. I know your students will love seeing your character dance. 

I designed this resource with physical education teachers in mind. I’ve included graphics of sports equipment, hula hoops, scooters, gym mats, and even a rope climb. I also included every student’s favorite: the parachute! I’ve topped it off with a long series of windows, a transparent ceiling lamp, and even heavy duty doors. And yes, all of these elements can move, too! And, I made a few of the items like the helmet, foam finger, bleachers, and megaphone match so they were uniform in color to represent school colors. 

Organize your physical education distance learning plans into one digital space and have them ready to go. Schools will likely start requiring teachers not only have sub plans but plans in place for at home learning. Feel prepared and ready to go.

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Why Design a Digital Classroom?

There are many challenges with distance learning, one of which is the lack of warmth and connection students feel in a remote environment. Whether you’re teaching in-person, assigning things via Google Classroom, or sending home packets, not being with students can feel rather impersonal.

Creating your own gymnasium is one way to engage learners (and hopefully lure more into completing phys-ed challenges and tasks). What student wouldn’t be excited to see what you have planned for them this week when the materials are presented in a unique and inviting way?

Use these virtual gymnasium templates to design your own space, link to assignments, and show off your personality. Move objects around within the space for different classes or weekly assignments. Add your own graphics, too! Take screenshots of assignments or import photos of class pet, inspiring posters, or anything else that would make it feel more your own. If you’re creating online video content, take a screenshot of the video and overlap it on the tv. And lastly, if you have a personalized avatar character, add that in, too.

Why Use Google Slides for A Virtual Gymnasium?

• FAMILIARITY: A lot of the features of Google Slides are similar to PowerPoint and will get your room up super quick. No need to edit a PowerPoint and figure out how to upload it to Slides.
• USER-FRIENDLY: You are likely already familiar with storing files in Google Drive.
• INSANT SAVE AS: All changes in Google Slides are instantly saved in Google Drive. Ever accidentally close down an app or other online software and changes weren’t saved? Eliminate the frustration and disappointment of lost presentations!
• ACCESSIBILITY: Parents, students, and admins can use an iPad, desktop or laptop computer, and even a Chromebook to access your virtual gymnasium to view assignments.
• SHAREABILITY: Simply share your digital gym the same way you’ve been sharing assignments with students via Google Drive or Google Classroom.

Teacher Directions

The download contains a four-page PDF with directions on how to access the virtual gymnasium templates. I’ve included step-by-step picture directions for some basics including inserting and resizing images as well as how to flip an image. I think it’s important that you understand how to use some of the basic of Google Slides so you can be successful.

But I’ve gone a step further in outlining the order of operations in curating your space. How to import images, add video screenshots, add text boxes and images, and how to link to external content are all included. I think all of this will help you get your space up quickly and the way you want it.

And this document comes ready to go in Google Drive, so don’t worry about trying to figure out how to import it into your Drive!

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