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Learning Activities

Stop Cyberbullying

Overview

Infinity Interactive Learning Lab provides a interactive training site for teaching them how to prevent cyber bullying to students. Students watch a video and apply the concepts they have learned.

Activity Learning Objectives

• Students will understand the meaning of "cyberbully".

• Students will learn to recognize different forms of cyberbullying.

• Students will learn different strategies for dealing with a cyberbully.

• Students will learn the importance of enlisting the help of a trusted adult when cyberbullied.

Activity Assessment Strategies

Teacher will use the quiz at the end of the teacher guide to assess the students understanding of the lesson.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Flight to Freedom: the Underground Railroad

Overview

Mission US 2: Flight to Freedom provides an interactive role-playing game that is available for streaming or download. The player assumes the role of a slave and journeys to freedom via the Underground Railroad. The player makes choices, has conversations with characters, and learns about life on a Southern plantation and the struggle for the  freedom of slaves.

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

  • Describe the rise of the Underground Railroad and its leaders, including Harriet Tubman and the impact on the abolitionist movement.
  • Identify causes of the Civil War including states' rights and the issue of slavery

Activity Assessment Strategies

At the completion of the game, students will write about their experiences as a slave in their journal.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Using Symmetry to Create Art

Overview

Symmetry Artist is an interactive painting activity that allows students to draw on an axis of reflective symmetry or rotational symmetry. Students can customize line style and color. The symmetrical art is printer friendly.

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

4

Learning Resource Type

Learning Activity

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will recognize lines of symmetry in two-dimensional figures. 

Students will draw lines of symmetry. 

Activity Assessment Strategies

Assess understanding of symmetry using the handout and student's creations on the digital tool. 

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

MA19.4.29

I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr.

Overview

Blabberize will allow students to take their own voice and add it to a picture that talks.

In this lesson, students will create their own "I Have a Dream" speeches and put them with a picture of how they may see themselves in the future (example: a picture of a pilot, nurse, teacher....) The picture will talk with the words of the student's own speech.

Activity Learning Objectives

Understand the key events and people in the Civil Rights movement

Read, interpret, and organize information using a variety of sources and tools.

Apply productivity/multimedia tools and peripherals to support personal productivity,  communication, and learning throughout the curriculum.

Activity Assessment Strategies

Students will turn in their writing (a minimum of two paragraphs). Students will share their speech with the class through their Blabberized photo.

Students will demonstrate understanding of the Civil Right Movement and the impact Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had based on class discussions; while reading the book and after watching the "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Interactive Fraction Comparisons

Overview

This interactive game allows students to practice finding equivalent fractions, and adding fractions

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

3

Learning Resource Type

Learning Activity

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will explain and compare equivalent fractions. 

Students will add fractions with unlike denominators. 

Activity Assessment Strategies

The teacher will observe students' use of the interactive game. Students who use fewer cards during the game have mastered the standards.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

MA19.3.15
MA19.5.10

How would you feel?

Overview

This video has teenagers explaining what cyberbullying means.  It also tries to explain why people cyberbully and it has students telling about times when they had been cyberbullyed.

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will:
  • Gain an understanding of cyberbullying
  • Gain an understanding of the different ways people are cyberbullyed

Activity Assessment Strategies

Upon completion of the video the students will participate in a game to determine the level of understanding. Please follow this link for the game http://deal.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Cyberbullying_Interactive_Game.swf

 

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Create Comic Relief about Revolutionary War Heroes

Overview

ToonDoo is a digital comic creator that allows you to add backgrounds, characters, props and speech bubbles. You can tell a story through pictures.

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will identify the contributions of historical figures from the Revolutionary time period.

Students will create a cartoon highlighting the contributions of historical figures during the Revolutionary War.

Activity Assessment Strategies

The cartoons will be the assessment tool. You will check that the content represents the characters historical importance.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Taking Turns to Counting On

Overview

In this learning activity, the students will work together taking turns to add small quantities encouraging counting on rather than recounting the set from one each time. It engages the students by using the number cubes to produce numbers and collect counters.  It will help students to count and organize numbers more efficiently.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

1

Activity Learning Objectives

  • The student will count and keep track of amounts up to 60.
  • The student will count on from an unknown quantity.
  • The student will organize objects to count them more efficiently.
  • The student will relate counting to addition by counting on. 

Activity Assessment Strategies

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

MA19.1.5
MA19.1.10
MA19.1.10a
MA19.1.10b
MA19.1.10c
MA19.1.10d

Weight Loss Pills: Findings

Overview

In this activity, the students will do a presentation about an over-the-counter weight loss pill. They will explain how the drug will work and if the drug is safe and effective. Each group will have a given amount of time to do their presentation. A rubric, Rubric Weight Loss Pills, will be used to score their work.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Subject Area

Health Education

Grade(s)

8

Activity Learning Objectives

The student will be able to analyze the validity of health claims made concerning weight loss supplements.

The student will explain if diet pills are a safe and healthy way to lose weight.

Activity Assessment Strategies

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

HE19.8.3.1

Technical Theatre: How to Build a Hollywood Flat

Overview

Students will learn how to assemble a Hollywood flat. Students will learn the names of all pieces that comprise a flat, they will learn how to arrive at their measurements for all pieces, practice cutting the pieces, assemble all pieces together with predrills, impact drills, screws, and glue. At the end of the activity, students should understand all parts of the flat and also how to build it from the ground up.

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

9, 10, 11, 12

Learning Resource Type

Learning Activity

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will learn: 

1)   to apply basic research to understand the different parts of the Hollywood flat (rails, stiles, toggles & skin).

2)   to apply basic research to understand the materials and measurements of materials needed to construct a Hollywood flat.

3)    to apply basic research to understand the purposes of a Hollywood flat in the theatre (a fake wall, a scenic element, etc.). 

4)   to apply basic research to understand how to assemble the flat (step by step instructions).

5)    how research from technical elements will help them develop ideas regarding the visual aesthetics and composition of a scene or play.

6)    to use tools regularly used in a scene shop to construct basic scenic elements.

Activity Assessment Strategies

Determine if the students have built the flat properly by measuring all sides, all pieces within the flat, checking for how the flat was assembled, ensuring all corners are square, each joint has glue & two screws; & the luan lines up with the edges of the flat frame & that all edges are smooth.

After construction, ask students (formative assessment):

1) the measurements of all pieces (stiles, rails & toggles).

2) how each piece was assembled and in what order.

3) to list names of the types of wood used in construction & to identify each type.

4) to list names of all tools used during construction.

5) to share ideas about how and when the flat might be used in an upcoming scene or production.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

AE17.TH.PRO.1

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