ALEX Learning Activity Resources

ALEX Learning Activities

Title: I Covered It!
Digital Tool: Book Cover Creator
Web Address URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/book-cover-creator-30058.html
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (4) 35:

35 ) Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace. [SL.4.4]

Digital Tool Description: Students can use this tool after they have read a book within a small group. They will create a book cover depicting their own interpretation of the main idea and create illustrations that they believe represent the book. Students will have the option to use different formats, depending on their preference of front/back/side covers. Students can print their covers and share them within their small groups. This way, students can hear different views and thoughts on one story.

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Title: I Covered It!
Digital Tool: Book Cover Creator
Digital Tool Description: Students can use this tool after they have read a book within a small group. They will create a book cover depicting their own interpretation of the main idea and create illustrations that they believe represent the book. Students will have the option to use different formats, depending on their preference of front/back/side covers. Students can print their covers and share them within their small groups. This way, students can hear different views and thoughts on one story.

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Title: I Have a Dream
Digital Tool: Civil Rights Movement Video
Web Address URL: http://www.schooltube.com/video/02831c44b39940f193f9/I%20Have%20a%20Dream:%20Martin%20Luther%20King%20Day
Standard(s):
[SS2010] ALA (4) 14:

14 ) Analyze the modern Civil Rights Movement to determine the social, political, and economic impact on Alabama.

• Recognizing important persons of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr.; George C. Wallace; Rosa Parks; Fred Shuttlesworth; John Lewis; Malcolm X; Thurgood Marshall; Hugo Black; and Ralph David Abernathy

• Describing events of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, the Freedom Riders bus bombing, and the Selma-to-Montgomery March

• Explaining benefits of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Brown versus Board of Education Supreme Court case of 1954

• Using vocabulary associated with the modern Civil Rights Movement, including discrimination, prejudice, segregation, integration, suffrage, and rights

Digital Tool Description: The tool used is a video from schooltube.com. The video shows students taking on the roles of influential African Americans in the United States. At the end, the students are reciting the "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Title: I Have a Dream
Digital Tool: Civil Rights Movement Video
Digital Tool Description: The tool used is a video from schooltube.com. The video shows students taking on the roles of influential African Americans in the United States. At the end, the students are reciting the "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr.