Learning Activities

Weebly is a great technological tool that allows the user to design their own website. This tool is great for students because it introduces them to the technological aspects of web design. It allows the user to design the website with various themes to choose from. The site also allows the user to add photos, videos, and other audio players to their website. Social media such as Facebook and Twitter can also be linked to the website. Webpages for the site can also be created and managed to include blogs and comments about anything the user desires.

This website allows the students to practice multiplication problems by having them shoot the balloon with the correct answer. The teacher can also choose exactly what type of multiplication fact to be practiced such as 2s,3s,4s, etc. This website will help reinforce or even teach students multiplication. Also, the repetitive nature of this game lends itself to easy memorization of multiplication facts. It is a game that can be used in a short amount of time as one game only lasts about three minutes.

ReadWriteThink Printing Press offers four different ways for students to publish their writing.

In this digital workspace, students will learn how to count, collect, exchange, and make change for coins.

This digital tool is an interactive way to experiment with solids, liquids, and gases. Students are challenged to find the correct category for other examples such as milk, sand, rain, helium, wood and air. Watch what happens when you heat liquids and cool gases.

In this activity, students will use a cube creator to organize the key elements in a story. The Story Cube Creator interactive allows students to summarize the key elements in a story, including character, setting, conflict, resolution, and theme. This interactive tool is used to help the students organize the story in a fun and engaging way.

This YouTube video can be used to introduce a lesson on World War II and the reasons for the United States' entry into the war.  This is a video of President Roosevelt delivering his speech the day after the attach on Pearl Harbor declaring war on Japan.

This tool will help children correspond pictures to an actual number. The child will count the objects shown in the picture and select the number that corresponds with the number of objects shown.

Animoto helps you create extraordinary videos from your photos, video clips, words and music through an iPad or iPhone.

This interactive website should be used after the class spelling words have been introduced to the students. The interactive can be used to enhance the students’ knowledge of their spelling words through word descriptions, games, and a test.