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Learning Activities

Untangling the Web

Overview

Doodle Splash is an online interactive that allows students to incorporate their drawings with their writing.  This site allows them to visualize their ideas and prompts them to write about those ideas.

Activity Learning Objectives

  • The students will create a visual representation of a character of their choosing from Charlotte's Web.
  • The students will be evaluated on their ability to summarize a character in Charlotte's Web.

 

Activity Assessment Strategies

The students should print their Doodle Splash activity.  These printed materials and the drafts of their prompt responses should be handed in and graded by rubric. (Sample rubrics can be found at teAchnology.)


This rubric should include sections that check for understanding and appropriate use of grammar.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

1920s Bio Cube

Overview

This is a fun way for students to develop an outline of a person to complete a biography using specific prompts to describe a person's significance, personality, and background.  The information entered will be used to create a digital cube that can be printed out and folded into a 3-dimensional cube.  

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will be able to identify notable persons of the early 1900s and describe their cultural contributions of the times including various writers, musicians, artistis, turn-of-the-century inventors, and modern women.   

Activity Assessment Strategies

Students will be assessed on their Bio Cube Planning Sheet.  

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Where are you going?

Overview

In this learning activity, students will watch a video with music and dancing to teach the different cardinal directions on a compass.  Students can interact and move with the video.  

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will be able to explain the use of cardinal directions and the compass rose.

Activity Assessment Strategies

  1. Ask the students what the four cardinal directions are.
  2. Ask the students to use movements to show the direction.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

How Solid Are Your Geometry Skills?

Overview

The Illuminations tool called Geometric Solids is an excellent way to enhance a lesson and provide students with a deeper understanding of the properties of geometric properties. This tool will help students learn the relationships between vertices, faces, and edges. This tool can help students master finding the surface area of three-dimensional figures. This tool also demonstrates the relationship between the solid shapes and their nets.

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

6

Learning Resource Type

Learning Activity

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will:

  • manipulate and identify the number of faces, vertices, and edges of three-dimensional shapes.
  • compare and contrast three-dimensional shapes and their nets.
  • create their own net.

Activity Assessment Strategies

1. Ask each student individually to orally identify the number of faces, vertices, and edges of the three-dimensional shapes.

2. Check the students' graphic organizers that analyzed the properties of solids for accuracy.

3. Have the students share the net they created with the class. In their presentation, they must identify all faces, edges, and vertices of their shape.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

MA19.6.27

Comic Strip Solutions!

Overview

This website is a tool for students to use to create their own comic strip story. This Make Beliefs Comix tool will be used in this activity as a closing project following a lesson on identifying the problem, action, and solution of a story.

Activity Learning Objectives

The students will be able to:

  • navigate the Make Beliefs Comix website to create a comic strip story.
  • create a comic strip story that includes a problem, action, and solution.

Activity Assessment Strategies

  • The teacher will assess each student accurately creates a comic strip story with Make Beliefs Comix.
  • The teacher will check that each student's comic strip story includes a problem, action, and solution.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Do You Know Your Plant's Cells?

Overview

The Study Jams Slide Show has auto-timed advancing slides that show actual photographs of the different parts of plant cells. Key vocabulary is listed on the title page. It provides an introduction to plant cells.

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will sketch a plant cell and label and define the functions of its parts.

Activity Assessment Strategies

The teacher can assess the sketches of plant cells or can give students the Study Jams quiz on the cover page of the slide show.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Fraction's Narration

Overview

Educreations is a digital white board where students can draw, narrate, and view different lessons. Students can create their own lessons or view ones that other people have made.

Learning Resource Type

Learning Activity

Activity Learning Objectives

The student will create a drawing and narration about how to multiply a fraction by a whole number and justify their steps by using the digital tool Educreations.

The students will use correct language and its conventions when speaking in their narration

Activity Assessment Strategies

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

MA19.4.16

Become a Poet with Technology

Overview

This interactive activity challenges students to use a graphic organizer and write an acrostic poem.

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will:

  • identify unique characteristics of an acrostic poem.
  • Organize words from the word bank that relate to the poem's main topic
  • create an acrostic poem using a graphic organizer.

Activity Assessment Strategies

Determine if the students are able to generate their own poetry with the use of technology

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Aboard the Mayflower

Overview

This interactive website allows students to relive part of the journey to America on board of the Mayflower. The website provides pictures and details concerning hardships that were faced in and outside the vessel. Students can also tour the ship and locate up to 7 rooms the Mayflower offered.

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

  • Utilize technology as a means of research and learning
  • Identify a timeline of Pilgrim life
  • Identify the Mayflower and recognize the path of the journey on a map
  • Identify the bodies of water the Mayflower traveled upon
  • Analyze the journey of the ship
  • Remember important dates
  • Understand hardships that were faced by Pilgrims on board
  • Recall pictures and videos seen throughout website usage
  • Compare and contrast student life with a Pilgrims

Activity Assessment Strategies

Students will turn in the letters they completed. They will be graded on the facts and differences listed and the accuracy of each. Students will also be graded on participation on group work as well as computer usage to research.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

The Water Cycle Adventure

Overview

The Scholastic StudyJams Water Cycle video can be used in the classroom to introduce students to the three steps that make up the water cycle. There is an included link to a quiz to assess the students learning. 

Activity Learning Objectives

The student will be able to:

1. visually represent the three steps that make up the water cycle.

2. list the three steps of the water cycle. 

 

Activity Assessment Strategies

The teacher will observe the students while they complete the quiz together as a class. The students will be assessed on their answers to the quiz and the description of the three steps. 

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

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