GenYESGenYES Activity Guides and Curriculum

The basic GenYES site license includes GenYES Activity Guides. These guides provide activities, resources, and virtual handouts to start GenYES in a school.

GenYES Activity Guides (comes with basic site license)

  • Do you need the optional GenYES curriculum?

    The basic GenYES site license is designed for a school running GenYES as an extra-curricular activity. It includes activity guides, a teacher implementation guide, and many resources to get your GenYES club up and running.

    The optional curriculum provides more comprehensive lessons, activities, and resources that are helpful for a daily GenYES class, or for a teacher with less experience teaching a project-based technology course.

    What is GenYES?
  • Collaboration and communication
  • Technology Assistance Projects (TAPs)
  • Teaching and learning with technology
  • Tech support
  • Media and information literacy

GenYES Curriculum (optional)

With the GenYES curriculum, the GenYES teacher and students receive access to the extensive online curriculum resources designed to help plan, manage and run a GenYES class. The materials have been carefully designed to reflect the best practices and experience gained from running GenYES classes over the past eleven years.

The curriculum offers over 20 units of technology lessons and activities that can be customized by the GenYES teacher. Over 100 hours of curriculum covers technology skills, project planning, tech support, community service, media literacy, and more.

These curriculum materials are designed to work with the basic GenYES site license tools to form a complete support system for the GenYES teacher and class.

Each GenYES curriculum unit contains multiple activities, preparation guides, classroom procedures, assessment and activity extensions.

Technology Units
  • Online Research
  • Online Communications
  • Presentations and Multimedia
  • Digital Photography, Audio, and Video
  • Web Publishing

Technology Support Units

  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Problem Solving
  • Technical Writing and Documentation
  • Researching Solutions
  • Customer Service
  • Housekeeping
  • Creating Learning Resources

21st Century Units

  • Contemporary Social Issues
  • Cyber-safety
  • Media Literacy
  • Media Influence
  • Career Exploration
  • Portfolios

Leadership Units

  • Teaching as Leading
  • Leadership in the 21st Century
  • Being a Leader

Community Service Units

  • Community Leaders
  • Community Service Projects

Sample Resource on Podcasting with Students

Download a sample resource on podcasting. Includes definitions and resources for teachers, ideas for educational uses of podcasts and a handout for students to help them create podcasts for their school. Download the PDF

Curriculum Resources

The GenYES curriculum contains over 200 resources linked to every activity for the teachers and students to use throughout the course. These consist of class handouts, surveys, planner pages, quizzes, and student materials. These resources are online and easily accessible to GenYES students and teachers.

Best Practices/Sample Projects (videos)

Easily accessible online videos show GenYES students and teachers explaining the GenYES model, showing their completed projects, and talking about how GenYES works in their school. These videos are also useful to explain GenYES to parents, administrators and potential partner-teachers.