Learning Activities

This interactive website allows students to examine the process of how each protein is coded for in the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) which hold the “The Secret Code of Life”. Students are able to manipulate models to explore transcription to demonstrate how complementary nucleotides bind to ensure a correct copy. Next, students are able to manipulate and observe, step by step, the process of translation. Students are then able to observe the folding of proteins and experiment with a protein model simulation. Lastly, students are able to apply mutations to a simulated protein sequence to observe what happens to the protein.

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

This tool allows the participant to visually create two equivalent fractions based on the fraction provided. This can be used as an introduction since it allows you to determine your own fraction and construct models. You can also use it as a closing activity to check students understanding by asking them to construct a visual model.

In this learning activity, students will choose an Alabamian who made contributions in the fields of science, education, the arts, politics, business, or civil rights and use the BioCube graphic organizer to summarize the information gathered through research.

This word cloud generator will provide an engagement activity for ALEX Lesson # 32258 It's Number Time.

This online word cloud generator is appropriate for second grade students.

This is an introductory activity on comparing and contrasting an informational text. Students will use a digital tool to label and create a 2-circle Venn diagram.  In this activity, it is used as part of a language arts lesson on comparing and contrasting two topics of an informational text.

In this learning activity, students will describe the events of the Sixteenth Street Church bombing in Birmingham as part of the Modern Civil Rights Movement by writing a TV script about the event.  Students will write a mock newscast based on the events that happened at the church bombing.

Infinity Interactive Learning Lab provides a interactive training site for teaching them how to prevent cyber bullying to students. Students watch a video and apply the concepts they have learned.

Mission US 2: Flight to Freedom provides an interactive role-playing game that is available for streaming or download. The player assumes the role of a slave and journeys to freedom via the Underground Railroad. The player makes choices, has conversations with characters, and learns about life on a Southern plantation and the struggle for the  freedom of slaves.

Symmetry Artist is an interactive painting activity that allows students to draw on an axis of reflective symmetry or rotational symmetry. Students can customize line style and color. The symmetrical art is printer friendly.

Blabberize will allow students to take their own voice and add it to a picture that talks.

In this lesson, students will create their own "I Have a Dream" speeches and put them with a picture of how they may see themselves in the future (example: a picture of a pilot, nurse, teacher....) The picture will talk with the words of the student's own speech.