Classroom Resources

This learning activity can support the development of fluently adding and subtracting within 100 to solve a problem using drawings or equations. This task introduces students to a problem utilizing a short video clip of a man stacking Pringle chips. Students are then tasked with analyzing the video and utilizing the information gained to make estimates and determine how many Pringles were needed to make the Pringle Ringle. This resource supports the development of fluency to 100 through authentic context and purposeful practice. This resource could be used as a formative assessment task for assessing fluency to 100 or as a whole-group engagement activity at the start of a math lesson.

Childhood is a time for laughing, learning, and playing with friends. Every day all around the world, children meet and make new friends. In this online book from the International Children's Digital Library, Monty the raccoon lies, breaking the trust his friend, Fritz the rabbit, had in him. This book highlights the importance of being a good friend and the consequences of lying.

See the supplemental materials for detailed teaching activities. The asset titled, "Forever Friendship—Making Friends Story Map" most closely aligns with the Alabama Course of Study.

This figurative language game helps to give children exposure to creative writing styles in a fun and engaging manner. Cell Shock also offers a sensory details option. This classroom resource also includes a quiz, worksheet, and teaching video to help with understanding.

Help students learn how to find the main idea and supporting details in a text with this fun, engaging animation video.

This novice low French activity guides students through a series of greetings and introductions. Students start with a warm up that asks them to create a conversation using a series of pre-printed cards. Once students decide the correct order of the cards they are to act out the conversation presented on the cards. Students are then asked to each select a card that identifies the role they will play in the activity. Pretending to be the person on the card, students will move around the room introducing themselves and greeting others. Students are also given the opportunity to select a 'time of day' card to indicate whether the conversation should take place in the morning, noon, or evening. This allows students to vary their conversations as they move around the room. As an extension activity, teachers can demonstrate proper gestures used in greetings and have students include these in their conversations.

Students will define dynamic markings pianissimo, piano, forte, and fortissimo. They will compile a list of words and instrument sounds that reflect a season. They will compose a four-measure piece of music for their assigned season. They will perform their piece in a rondo with the other seasons. They will listen to Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and identify each season represented by the music. 

Most students know that bullying is bad, and yet bullying still happens in our schools every day.

When we say hurtful things to other people, we often can’t see the damage that we’re doing on the inside. Our classmates may appear fine, but they’re really hurting. On the other hand, our kind words can be used to build someone else up, and make them feel beautiful on the inside.

These bullying lessons use apples to provide a memorable, visual to show the damage that can be done with harsh, unkind words.

This resource is a large collection of games and activities that are fitness focused. Most of these activities are geared towards cardio fitness.

This resource includes both written and visual descriptions. 

NGAKids Art Zone is a free iPad app.  It includes eight interactive activities, a sketchbook, and a personal exhibition space.  The activities are designed for children to use independently. 

3-2-1 Blast Off! CDC’s Injury Center has developed a mobile game app on concussion safety for children aged 6 to 8. Through a futuristic world of galactic racing adventures children can learn the benefits of playing it safe and smart!

The app aims to teach children:

• the different ways the brain can get hurt during sports activities.
• how important it is to tell a coach, parent, or another adult when an injury occurs.
• the importance of taking time to rest and recover if they have a concussion.

This Spanish game board can be used for any level of proficiency (novice low, novice mid, novice high, intermediate low, intermediate mid, intermediate high). This game is based on a Spanish television series and can easily be adapted to use with any vocabulary topic. Instructions are included for how to play and how to assemble the game board. Options for individual and full class (large) game boards are included. When questions and answers are provided in Spanish, students are able to reinforce their interpersonal communication skills.

Enjoy this colorful self-paced lesson to practice leveled reading. Use question words like “Who? What? When? Where? Why? & How?” Watch a real hot air balloon launch and meet a crazy ostrich who knows she can run but thinks she can fly. Students learn about how matter, mass, volume, and weight are connected to air. 

Learn about different water bodies and the various characteristics that make them distinct from one another in this multimedia gallery from WGBH. Water bodies are natural accumulations of water that makeup about three-quarters of Earth’s surface. Each one looks different when viewed from the ground (ground view) and from above (aerial view). Students can use the media in this gallery to explore, identify, and describe characteristics of various water bodies and to compare near-ground-level and aerial views of water bodies.

This video from PBSLearningMedia explains that the Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation's people asserting their right to choose their own government. The document was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain

The students will practice dribbling with their feet while working on spatial awareness and ball control. The students should have already been taught to look around while dribbling. They should be able to dribble without constantly looking down at their ball. All children will dribble at once so they need to look up and all around while dribbling so they don't bump into each other. 

In this video, students learn what allergies are and that there different kinds of allergies. Some kids are allergic to foods and others suffer from seasonal allergies resulting from pollen.

Hear advice on internet privacy from the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman, in this animated video from RUFF RUFFMAN: HUMBLE MEDIA GENIUS. With his uniquely comical style, Ruff helps students acquire some key twenty-first-century skills. This resource is part of the RUFF RUFFMAN: HUMBLE MEDIA GENIUS Collection. This video can be played during a lesson on identifying and demonstrating personal safety use of digital devices.

The teacher will present an informational text from the website, ReadWorks. The students and teacher can interact with this non-fiction text by annotating the text digitally. The students will answer the questions associated with the article as an assessment. This learning activity will introduce students to how animals can disperse seeds or pollinate plants. This could be used as a precursor before students design and create their own models. This learning activity includes a StepRead: StepReads are less complex versions of the original article. StepRead1 (SR1) is less complex than the original article, and StepRead2 (SR2) is less complex than SR1. This will allow the teacher to use this learning activity with students of varying ability levels. 

This resource provides a way to practice striking/volleying skills in a group setting.

Skill: I will strike the balloon upward using a paddle.

Cognitive: I will talk about differences between self and shared space.

Fitness: I will actively engage and work to improve my skill with a paddle.

Personal & Social Responsibility: I will safely move throughout shared space, respecting the personal safety of my classmates.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

This is a free video resource from PBS LearningMedia.  In the video, Penny and the KidVision VPK Kids visit the playground.  They learn playground safety rules and how to pump on the swing, climb the monkey bars and play hopscotch. Ready, Set, GO! It’s Playground Time!

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Students in a class form a type of community, and members must get to know one another for that community to thrive. When students and teachers share their backgrounds and interests early in the year, they develop a base for understanding that will support effective teaching and learning throughout the months that follow. This unit, which is designed for the first few weeks of school, helps build a classroom community. Students begin with a discussion about community and what it means to be part of a community. They then prepare interview questions to ask a classmate about their lives. Students interview a fellow classmate to compile biographical data about him or her and use a Web tool called Bio-Cube to organize the material. In a culminating activity, students use their completed Bio-Cube to introduce their partner to the class.

In this activity, second graders investigate American symbols and their value to the American people. Students learn the history of some American symbols and why American citizens hold these symbols so dear to their heart.

In this activity from The Electric Company, students will review the components of and practice reading bar graphs. Included are simple teacher-led activities for students.

In this classroom resource, students will learn about nouns. Every word is a part of speech and has a role in our language. The biggest "star" of the English language is a noun because it names things. A noun names person, place, thing, feeling, idea, or any concept. This resource offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept taught in this lesson.

Out of Sight Words is a beautiful, quirky game that allows children to practice their knowledge of high-frequency words. Kids have to read the high-frequency word and then find its corresponding image in the fun illustrations. Simply click on the word at the bottom of the screen and then find it in the picture. 

In this lesson, students will be able to plan and carry out an investigation to discover and compare the properties of liquids. Students will develop an understanding that liquids, like solids, have their own characteristic properties.

Students investigate three clear colorless liquids: water, mineral oil, and corn syrup. Students place drops of each liquid on the surface of a zip-closing plastic bag and see that the liquids look and act differently. Students tilt the bag and see that the liquids move down the plastic at different rates. Finally, students see a demonstration in which a drop of food coloring is placed in each liquid, and students make observations about the different ways the food coloring looks in each.

This novice mid to novice high ASL activity provides students an opportunity to practice vocabulary related to holidays and celebrations as well as asking questions. Students start with a quick warm-up in which they review how to use American Sign Language to stay each holiday. Then, students use the provided cards to play a game similar to Go Fish in which students ask for holidays rather than numbers.  After the Go Fish game, students will use a series of prepared question cards to practice using question words while conversing with peers. The holiday and question activities can be used together or separately depending on the goals for each classroom.

Students will analyze illuminated letters.  They will tell personal stories and illustrate them.  Students will illuminate a letter that represents the most important part of their story.  

This activity can be used as a warm-up activity or it can be used to practice locomotor skills and space awareness. This is also a great activity to use at the beginning of the school year because it helps students understand class rules and expectations. A video is included in this resource. 

Students will analyze the painting, Person in the Presence of Nature, by Joan Miró. They will create a creature that could live in the landscape in the painting. 

This fun and engaging learning activity focuses on the skill of hand dribbling while moving. This game can be set up to be continuous or can be organized in a competitive manner. This activity also provides a progression modification that makes the activity more challenging. 

Now more than ever, it’s important to break down the stigma of youth mental health and let others understand that reaching out is not a sign of weakness but a step in the right direction.

This informational material discusses characteristics that students should look for in a trusted adult.

Students will read different rhythm patterns.  They will create body percussion and improvise new rhythm patterns. Students will dictate rhythm patterns using iconic or standard notation.  Finally, students will compose their own rhythm patterns.  Demonstration videos are provided. 

Observe fast and slow events that change the face of Earth’s surface with this slideshow. Students will use evidence from videos and images to describe how changes on Earth’s surface can happen quickly or slowly. Students will have the opportunity to compare Earth’s surface before and after the occurrence of a natural event and describe how it has changed.

In this video from PBSLearningMedia, students see how Scarcity Cat learns to set the price for her stinky cheese. If she prices too low, demand will be too high. If she prices too high, demand will be too low.