Join the Wild Kratts team as they discover the "sixth sense" that platypus's have: electroreception. The team explains that electroreception allows the platypus to sense electrical charges in the surrounding area and figure out what is in the environment.
In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to create and analyze line plots. The terms range and mode will be introduced. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the strategies taught during the activity can be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.
In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to write a positive integer as a product of its prime factors. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that describes strategies taught during the interactive is available to be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.
This resource is a collection of ideas for student self-assessment.
Players need to work together to find solutions to group/individual challenges. Cooperation games put an emphasis on team building, communication and trust. Tactical problems relating to cooperation games include communication, cooperation, teamwork, trust, and problem-solving. This resource includes multiple descriptions and illustrations for cooperative games.
This classroom resource provides a video that will describe the parts of the eye and how they work to allow sight. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short test to assess their understanding. This resource will provide background information to students before they create their own models.
The goal of this activity is for students to launch their rockets (foam balls) into outer space using partner parachutes. Students will move with their classmates to send objects upward.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
This free resource from PBS LearningMedia is a video about online safety. Students learn on the Internet there are places where you sometimes meet people you don't know. Stick with what is real; only accept online friends you know in real life. This video visually supports a lesson or unit on internet safety.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
This lesson helps students improve their writing abilities and their attention to details while experiencing a new technology called Descriptive Video. Also known as described programming, Descriptive Video refers to programming with an additional audio track that narrates a film's visual elements. Students watch the opening scene of the standard version of the Disney film The Lion King and write a description of it. They then watch the same opening scene with the descriptions and captions available online at the National Center for Accessible Media. They will write another descriptive summary of this scene. Students share their two writing samples aloud and compare their pre- and post-audio descriptions.
Building classroom community is one of the most challenging yet most important tasks for any teacher, and it needs to be reinforced frequently throughout the year. This lesson gives students the opportunity to be innovative, creative, and expressive while building a sense of community. In this lesson, students explore the genre of acrostic poetry and participate in a shared writing experience with acrostic poems. Using the Internet, students explore and investigate the characteristics of acrostic poetry. They then brainstorm positive character traits about one of their classmates using an online thesaurus and compose an acrostic poem. Students use an interactive online tool to write and print the final draft and then share their poem with the class.
This lesson dives deeper into the concept of processing that was introduced as part of the definition of a computer. Pairs work together to put a deck of cards in order, a form of processing information. In the end, the class discusses what processing means within the context of solving information problems.
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The Odd Squad doctor needs an assistant! You can help cure the Odd Squad agents of their odd ailments by collecting data to make a diagnosis while learning about fractions, volume, coordinates, and greater than/less than comparisons.
After this video lesson from Classroom Connection, students will know the difference between a trapezoid and a parallelogram, and be able to answer the question, “Are you a square?”
Verbs have a singular and a plural form. When using a verb in a sentence, pay attention to the subject-verb agreement. This means, that the subject and the verb must agree in number. In this lesson, students will learn about subject-verb agreement. This resource offers videos, games, and worksheets to help further understand the concept taught in this lesson.
Are you a movie fan? Do you like animation or live-action? Do you watch movies in 3D? It makes the special effects seem so real! Have you ever WONDERed how moviemakers do it? It‘s not magic! Many times, they use Computer Generated Imagery (CGI). In this learning activity, students will learn about CGI and how designers put the images in films. The students will also learn about some of the films that include CGI. Finally, the students will identify CGI in a movie and discuss how it affects the experience of the audience.
Students will define "ostinato." They will listen to Three Little Birds by Bob Marley and identify words that are repeated. They will use these words to compose an ostinato. They will perform the ostinato with the song.
Students will analyze Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. They will identify the animal portrayed by the tempo, dynamics, and instruments. They will choose an animal and compose a piece of music that describes the way the animal moves.
Students will analyze illuminated manuscripts. They will identify decorated initials, historiated initials, borders, illuminations, parchment, and scribe. They will write a fairy tale and illustrate it in the style of illuminated manuscripts.
Students choose a partner. Each set of partners is given an index card with a series of questions. For this activity, students simply walk with their partner and interview them using the questions provided. Once all of the questions are asked, the partners switch roles using the questions on the backside of the card.
This is a great cool-down activity.
Students will analyze two pieces of abstract artwork. They will identify the elements of art. They will make line sketches of each piece.
This interactive hands-on French activity introduces students to the artist Henri Rousseau and his artistic style. The activity instructions and resources are in English, making it suitable for novice-low to novice-high French learners. This particular activity also connects directly with the national science standards as students discuss Rousseau's rainforest and the animals he chose to include in his work. Students start by exploring Rousseau's background and then explore ideas on why he chose to draw the rainforest. Students then create their own artwork while incorporating scientific elements like those found in Rousseau's work.
Students will compose music grooves using math concepts such as shapes, angles, and patterns. Start working with one of the "specials" pizza presets and add/remove "toppings" to adjust the groove, or click on the "Shapes" tab and drag various shapes onto the big circle to play and explore math-inspired grooves. The shapes include triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon. They can download their compositions or share a link to the composition.
In this YouTube video, students will be introduced to George Washington Carver, an Alabamian who made contributions in the fields of science in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. George Washington Carver sure was one brilliant guy! He overcame many of the obstacles that he faced to develop many inventions, including hundreds of uses for peanuts.
This resource provides a variety of activities that will help students see through the smoke and learn the truth about cigarettes. This guide includes standards, related links, discussion questions, activities for students, and reproducible materials.
This resource includes easy to print activity sheets and a quiz.
The ear is specially designed to change sound waves into signals the brain can understand, allowing you to hear. That is not all they do, though. Your ears also help you balance!
This classroom resource provides a video that will describe the structures of the ear and how they work together to allow us to hear. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short test to assess their understanding.
This novice low French activity provides a fun way to practice pronunciation of French sounds. As a warm up, teachers use a series of pre-printed cards as they model the pronunciation of each word and sound. Students are to repeat the words. Then, teachers lead students through reciting a variety of tongue twisters, focusing on specific pronunciation sounds. Six different tongue twister cards are provided. The teacher can lead the class through each one or have students work in pairs to practice the phrases, paying special attention to the phonetic sounds made by the French alphabet.
Students will analyze Igor Stravinsky's Firebird and Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. They will listen again and draw a picture of what they feel while listening to each piece. They will compare and contrast each composer.
Students will analyze resist paintings. They will use oil pastels to draw a vase, stems, and flowers. They will use watercolors to create the resist wash filling all empty space with color.
Students will observe dance movements in drawings and paintings. Students will work in pairs and do simple gesture drawings of their partner in a dance pose. They will choose a sketch to make a new drawing and paint it with watercolors. They will write a persuasive essay discussing the importance of dance in schools. Students will work in groups to choreograph a short dance.
This Kindergarten through 5th-grade activity puts a spin on traditional bingo. Each student gets a fitness bingo card. Finding a new partner for each exercise, students will do the exercise then sign their partner’s paper. Students will continue this until all spots have been filled. This lesson focuses on different exercises to move the whole body (psychomotor skills) as well as teamwork (affective skills).
This video is available in both English and Spanish audio, along with corresponding closed captions.
Students will explore form in sculptures by Alexander Calder. They will experiment with lines by drawing and creating sculptures.
This lesson helps young people understand the basic concepts of concussions. Youth will discuss brain injuries and complete a KWL chart (already Know, Want to know, what I Learned) to list facts about concussions. A hands-on learning activity gives young people a chance to experience what living with a brain injury may be like. Finally, the youth will reflect on what they learned about brain injuries and how to prevent them.
Novice mid and novice high Spanish students work with a series of infographics focusing on fruits and vegetables. Each student is encouraged to gather specific information from the authentic resource they are assigned. After gathering the required information students complete an interpersonal communicative activity by interviewing their peers about the other infographics.
Baby animals have been captured and it is up to the Kratts to use their knowledge of animals and power suits to rescue the creatures. Players will figure out which powersuits are needed to get through the maze.
Weathering and erosion are continuous processes that gradually change the natural environment over time. Weathering is the process of wearing down materials into the sediment. Erosion occurs when this sediment is moved.
The classroom resource provides a video that will describe how weathering and erosion shape Earth's surface over a long period of time. There is also a short test that can be used to assess students' understanding.
