Learning Activities

Adverbs, is a short video explaining what an adverb is.  The video is made up of student drawings which illustrate an adverb.  The drawings were then used to make a collaborative video. It is not an elaborate video but it illustrates student work and brings a visual element to the understanding of adverbs.

ABCYa Paint is an online paint, color and drawing activity for children. It features many colors, fun stickers and paint tools such as shapes, brushes, and text tools.

The tool will be used in this activity to engage students in illustrating an adverb and using it correctly in a sentence with the online typing tool within the paint program.

The final student product can be saved as a .jpeg to be used for other projects.

Geometry Pad is an iPad App that provides students interactive practice in creating geometric shapes and understanding geometric concepts. This app helps students learn geometry using an engaging and interactive coordinate plane.

After reading and reviewing the book “Hatchet”, students will work independently to create a movie poster.  Each student should use Glogster to design a poster that will persuade others to read the book. Glogster is an online interactive tool that supports students in creating flyers, handouts, posters, etc.  Students can use graphics, images, texts, and videos to design these educational articles.

In this learning activity, students will be able to create a graphical representation of Christopher Columbus' voyage.  Timelines can be organized by time of day, date, or event, and the tool allows students to create a label with descriptive text.  Students can also add an image for each label to make the timeline more visually appealing.  Students can share their final timeline via email.

This interactive tool provides videos of the pilgrims embarking on their first journey.  Students can explore the experiences and historical significance of the pilgrim's voyage, settlement, and first harvest celebration.

In this learning activity, students will watch a video from the National Park Service about the Trail of Tears.  This video can be used as an introduction to the study of the Trail of Tears. It will provide students with a connection to how the Native Americans must have felt during the Cherokee Indian removal when the Native Americans were forced to move westward from the Southeastern United States.

During this before activity, the students' prior knowledge will be assessed and activated by completing an ABC brainstorm of matter using the Alphabet Organizer tool. The digital tool allows the student to create an alphabet chart or book using words and pictures. The students can have voice and choice by choosing to create an alphabet chart with five words per letter or with a word, note, and picture for each letter. When the project is complete, the students can save their work, print their work, or share their work through an e-mail link. This web tool requires a computer with internet access and Adobe Flash Player.  

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

Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking.

After reading Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", students will create an Animoto video that details their opinion (based on textual evidence) about whether the narrator is insane. Animoto is a FREE video-building tool that incorporates the use of pictures, music and text. 

Animoto will be used by the students so that the students can clearly explain their feelings about whether the narrator was mad.