Learning Activities

iMovie is a moviemaking app that allows students to make beautiful HD movies anywhere with everything they need to tell a digital story through an iPad or iPhone.

Educreations allows you to create and record lessons for students to view independently.  In addition, it give students a creative media they can use to prepare presentations for their teachers and classmates.

In this learning activity, students will choose a famous Alabamian and use Blabberize to bring their picture to life and describe the contributions the individual made to society and how those contributions impacted Alabama.

In this learning activity, students use an interactive timeline to create a graphical representation of an events leading to the American Revolution by displaying items sequentially along a line.  Timelines can be organized by time of day, date, or event, and this tool allows students to create a label with short or long descriptive text.  Students may also add an image for each label to make their timeline more visually appealing. 

“The Story of Bottled Water” video tells the story of how Americans are influenced to purchase more than half a billion bottles of water every week when tap water is less expensive and sometimes healthier than bottled water. The environmental effects of plastic water bottles add up to billions of bottles in landfills each year. The nonrenewable materials needed to package the bottled water add up to a mountain of problems that have a negative impact on the environment. The website also includes “Act, Learn, and Share” links to lead students and teachers into getting involved. This link is a great entry event for environmental education with the potential to develop into a project-based learning topic integrating all subject areas. 

This activity was created as a result of the GAP Resource Summit.

Ker-Splash is one of the interactive math games included in NCTM's Calculation Nation. Students collect tokens with variable values and combine like terms. Math strategy is required because each variable has a secret value that is not revealed until the end of the game.

Answer Garden is an online brainstorming tool that easily exports into other digital tools, such as Wordle or Tagxedo. It will also create a QR code which will facilitate easy access in a BYOD or 1:1 environment.

Use this link to create an avatar that represents the leader of a governmental system.

This interactive graphic organizer helps students develop an outline for one of three types of comparison essays: whole-to-whole, similarities-to-differences, or point-to-point. A link in the introduction to the Comparison and Contrast Guide give students the chance to get definitions and look at examples before they begin working. The finished map can be saved, e-mailed, or printed.

The image resource is an annotated ThingLink image that has embedded information and questions relating to the analysis of the political cartoon "School Begins".

ThingLink allows a user to take an image to augment it by adding a layer of annotations "over" the image. Annotations can include videos, links, and user created text.

Students will hover over the images at "touch points" where information is embedded such as questions and information about the political cartoon. This information will be used to analyze the political carton.