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 digital tool is an interactive virtual tour of Ellis Island.  Students will travel through the rooms of Ellis Island, learn the purpose for each room, see primary documents and photos, and hear stories from actual immigrants who came to America through Ellis Island.

The ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool is a simple online brainstorming tool. In this activity, the Webbing Tool will be utilized to review the concept and vocabulary of a butterfly metamorphosis and life cycle.

ReadWriteThink profile is an interactive profile for students to learn how to create a safe online profile.

This organizational tool for grades K-12 uses the plot diagram pyramid to map events in a story.  You can choose beginning, middle, and end for younger learners or exposition, climax, and resolution for older learners.  The mapping tool allows readers to recreate a story you have taught in class, or writers to map out the ideas for an original piece. 

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.