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Learning Activities

Overview

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.

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will:

  • collaborate with others to complete a digital project
  • use critical thinking skills to solve real world problems
  • communicate effectively with others
  • publish a digital product worthy of sharing with an audience

Activity Assessment Strategies

  1. Students will share the product with one other team for peer review, and evaluate the feedback provided to make improvements and/or changes.
  2. Students will produce a final copy of the product in iMovie format and share it with the teacher for electronic distribution to the community.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Overview

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.

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will:

  • collaborate with others to complete a project
  • use critical thinking skills to solve real world problems
  • communicate effectively with others

Activity Assessment Strategies

Finished product will be evaluated by peers and teacher.  Additionally, the students could seek feedback from the general public in response to the PSA.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Overview

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.

Activity Learning Objectives

The student will be able to describe the contributions the individual made to society and how those contributions impacted Alabama. 

Activity Assessment Strategies

Evaluate script for accuracy of information regarding assigned person and how their contributions impacted society.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Overview

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. 

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will be able to determine events leading to the American Revolution and organize these events in chronological order on an interactive timeline. 

Activity Assessment Strategies

The students will be assessed on the accuracy of events listed on the timelines they created.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Overview

“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.

Subject Area

Grade(s)

9, 10, 11, 12

Learning Resource Type

Learning Activity

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will:

identify water as a renewable resource.

recognize that plastic bottles use nonrenewable resources.

propose solutions to the problem with using plastic bottles to bottle water.

Activity Assessment Strategies

  1. Students will give one piece of evidence from their research in the form of a Quick Write that supports the following.
  • Water is a renewable resource.
  • Overuse of plastic water bottles can cause problems with either land or ocean pollution.
  • Propose one solution to the problem of using plastic bottles.
  1. After students complete the Think-Pair-Share, each group will report their findings to the class and each individual student will turn in answers to the following questions to the teacher at the end of class. 
  • Is bottled water cleaner?
  • Is bottled water tastier? 
  • Is bottled tap different than plain tap?
  • What is the energy footprint of water bottles?

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

Overview

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.

Subject Area

Grade(s)

7

Learning Resource Type

Learning Activity

Activity Learning Objectives

The student will solve linear equations will one variable. 

Activity Assessment Strategies

The teacher will observe students solving linear equations within the game to determine progress towards the learning objective. 

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

Overview

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.

Subject Area

Grade(s)

8

Learning Resource Type

Learning Activity

Activity Learning Objectives

The students will analyze functions in various forms.

Activity Assessment Strategies

The teacher will immediately recognize whether or not students understand by viewing the results. If there is any question, the teacher may ask a student to orally discuss their solution.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Content Standard(s)

Overview

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

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will be able to compare the United States government with other governmental systems such as monarchy, limited monarchy, oligarchy, dictatorship, theocracy, and pure democracy.

Activity Assessment Strategies

A simple rubric to establish guidelines for avatar creation and demonstration that student understands the governmental system being portrayed.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Overview

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.

Activity Learning Objectives

The students will:

  • define the characteristics of a compare and contrast essay
  • develop ideas to use in an essay
  • organize their thoughts and opinions about two works they will compare
  • understand transition words to use when comparing and contrasting two works, characters etc. 

Activity Assessment Strategies

The teacher will view the completed student maps to assess whether students had a clear understanding of the similarities and differences in order to develop a compare and contrast essay. 

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

Overview

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.

Activity Learning Objectives

Students will be able to identify the role of militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism in World War I.

Activity Assessment Strategies

Have students discuss in groups their responses and analysis of the political cartoon. After sufficient time for students to discuss, have groups share aloud responses and analysis of the political cartoon.

Activity Acceleration and Intervention

Aligned Standards

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