Classroom Resources

As part of this activity, you will be learning how to create visual organizers and how to create and use QR codes in learning.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

When you have completed this Thing you will:

1. Know how to set a personal learning goal and reflect on my progress [Empowered Learner]

2. Be able to organize and manage information [Knowledge Constructor]

3. Understand how to use a scientific design process to collect and analyze information [Innovative Designer]

4. Be able to express myself and share my ideas and work digitally [Creative Communicator]

5. Be able to collaborate with a group to create an original design [Creative Communicator, Innovative Designer]

This lesson will help students see that fitness can be fun and beneficial while also being involved in a team game. Additionally, this is a great game to teach students how to move into open spaces to receive passes from teammates. Students will also seek to elevate their heart rate to their Exercise Benefit Zone throughout the game.

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

This activity includes three levels of passing: rookie, starter, and all-star. Students move with various dribbling skills and pass with other students. Throughout the activity, dribbling/movements can be changed by using various offensive tactics and teaching ways to create open spaces. Later in the activity, defense can be added to further teach both offensive and defensive tactics. This activity is designed to teach basketball but can be adjusted to teach many sports that utilize team defensive and offensive tactics.

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

Students learn about the life of John Lennon through his lyrics in a breathtaking book, John's Secret Dreams: The Life of John Lennon by Doreen Rapaport. After studying the life of Lennon, students write a short story from their lives following the style of Rappaport by weaving lyrics from some of their favorite songs throughout. Finally, students create a classroom book including each student's story from their life.

This lesson introduces the process the class will use to design games for the remainder of the unit. The class walks through this process in a series of levels. As part of this lesson the class also briefly learns to use multi-frame animations in the Game Lab. At the end of the lesson, they have an opportunity to make improvements to the game to make it their own.

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The class works in groups to design aluminum foil boats that will support as many pennies as possible. At the end of the lesson, groups reflect on their experiences with the activity and make connections to the types of problem-solving they will be doing for the rest of the course.

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In this interactive game from iCivics, students run their own firm of lawyers specializing in constitutional law. They decide if potential clients have a right, match them with the best lawyer, and win their case. The more clients you serve and the more cases you win, and the faster your law firm grows! This game can be played during a lesson on the constitution for reinforcement or after a lesson as an assessment. It can be played in a whole group or individually.  

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PBS's Off Book asks if hacking is inherently good or bad, or if is it an ethical area we have yet to define. Looking beyond the media hype and scare tactics, it is clear that "hacking" is a term that should be up for debate, and that some hackers could actually be heroes and not villains.

Communication is an art. It involves listening and speaking as well as reading and writing clearly and creatively. Technology provides creative opportunities for expressing yourself digitally.

These Quests provide opportunities to learn about different software applications for creating digital objects or artifacts to communicate your ideas in new and creative ways.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

When you have completed this activity you will:​

1. know how to use different media tools to communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively [Creative Communicator]

2. be aware of the advantages and disadvantages of different media tools [Creative Communicator]

3. know how to select an appropriate technology tool to meet different types of communication [Creative Communicator, Knowledge Constructor]

4. understand how to use and remix several different technology tools responsibly to communicate information [Empowered Learner, Creative Communicator]

5. be able to use a design process to plan and create digital artifacts [Innovative Designer]

Ignition: Digital Wellness and Safety is a digital literacy curriculum designed to provide students with the information literacy skills they need to safely and confidently navigate the digital world.  

These six digital responsibility lessons encourage students to take practical steps to protect their own privacy and safety online, while also teaching them how to evaluate content for accuracy, perspective, and motive. Ignition helps students acknowledge the benefits of digital communities and resources while guiding them to successfully navigate potential pitfalls in their digital lives.

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

In this self-paced literacy lesson, students watch documentary videos about bullying and read informational text about how bullying may affect the function of a democratic society. Students develop their literacy skills as they explore the role of personal freedom, particularly freedom of speech, and how bullying limits such personal freedom.

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

In this unit, students explore a variety of resources—texts, images, sounds, photos, and other artifacts—to learn more about the Holocaust. Beginning with journal writings and a picture book to introduce the central issues, the unit focuses on student-centered inquiry. Students explore a range of print and non-print resources through extensive online inquiry activities. Progressing from individual work to a group learning project, the unit culminates in publishing the group's findings in topic-based newspapers. 

The lesson includes complete lists of picture books, read-aloud books, reference texts, and online sites and collections that allow teachers to customize the activities to fit the available resources and students' specific research interests.

Dive into app development by exploring existing apps that may serve similar users. Each group identifies a handful of apps that address the same topic they are working on, using those apps to help refine the app idea they will pursue.

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This lesson covers common issues that arise when designing web pages in HTML to include the use of intellectual property. The class will correct errors in a sequence of increasingly complex web pages found on Code Studio and learn the importance of comments (narratives), whitespace, and indentation as tools for making web pages easier to read.

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Students write a journal entry in which they imagine themselves as the rhinoceros and describe its journey to a new preserve.

Students will watch two video segments in order to take notes and answer questions about the relocation of the black rhinoceros to wildlife preserves across Africa. Using this background information, students will write a journal entry in which they imagine themselves as the rhinoceros and describe its journey to a new preserve.

In this video lesson, students are working toward gaining fluency in writing equivalent expressions. The goal of this lesson is to highlight a particularly common error: mishandling the subtraction in an expression like 8–3(4+9x). To this end, students first analyze and explain the error in several incorrect ways of rewriting this expression. Then, they consider the effect of inserting parentheses in different places in an expression with four terms.

Students will observe children's products and discuss their likes and dislikes about each product. They will view a variety of advertisements and decide if they would purchase the item or not. They will begin drawing an advertisement for a product. 

In this novice-mid Spanish activity, students work in pairs to practice interpersonal conversation skills. Students are paired together and one student uses a pre-printed question card to ask questions of the other student. The responding students must spend three minutes answering the questions. The goal is to add in as many details as possible and to avoid one-word answers. After three minutes, the roles are reversed. Students will then change cards so that they discuss another topic with another student. The topics covered in this review are common level 1 topics: Vacation, Family & School. (The school questions can be adapted to apply to your specific school as needed.)

Each day, America’s teenagers are bombarded with misleading messages about drugs. Glamorized by media and endorsed by peers, the consequences of drug use and experimentation are dangerously disguised, and often hidden altogether. The reality is that drug use can alter a teen’s life forever. That’s why every student should be given the tools to make a decision against using drugs - and the best place to give them those tools is your classroom.

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This resource is a series of worksheets that can be used to extend learning in the physical education class or by students that are unable to actively participate in physical education class due to injury or sickness. 

This novice level language learning activity introduces Level 1 students to each of the Spanish-speaking countries. Using the provided printout, students are asked to look up demographic information for each country including: population, life expectancy, literacy rate, GDP per capita, and exports. All information is recorded on the provided map, creating a visual overview of each Hispanic country.

This visual organizer breaks down the acronym for setting a SMART Goal and allows students to put their goals on paper. While a simplistic worksheet, this resource can be printed and used during goal-setting activities. 

This novice mid to novice high German activity leads students through an authentic website as they explore topics important to German families. Vocabulary covered in this activity includes gift giving, celebrations, leisure activities, and more. As students search this site, they are guided by an activity guide that asks them to first identify key vocabulary, followed by individual exploration throughout the site to look at topics of personal interest. After exploring on their own for a bit, students are directed to specific sections of the site where they will use their interpretive reading skills to identify and explore perspectives behind family celebrations.

This Latin activity utilizes unique authentic resources from Ancient Rome. Using photos of Latin graffiti discovered on ancient ruins, students are able to interpret basic information from written text. Students start by observing the Latin alphabet and how it was written. Extension activities offering more hands-on activities include creating a plaster of Paris "wall" or wax tables encourages students to try their hand at writing as the Romans did long ago.

This Spanish language video was created specifically for novice mid to novice high students. It introduces students to a variety of technology-related vocabulary by identifying and explaining various parts of a computer or laptop. This resource connects easily with Alabama's Digital Literacy standards. A printable transcript is provided for teacher or student use. The provided link relies on Latin American Spanish but an option to view a Spain version is included. Open the Guía Didáctica  to access a set of printable activities that can be used by students as they watch and work with this video resource.

This novice-high to intermediate-low Spanish activity focuses on the correct uses of ser and estar. The provided lesson activity includes 4 heritage speakers describing their past. As students listen they are asked to complete a cloze activity that requires them to specifically listen for examples of how the speakers are using ser and estar. Students then discuss the uses of ser and estar that were observed in the video samples. Finally, students are asked to create their own dialogues showing that they can correctly use these two verbs in the preterit and imperfect tenses.

Traditionally, geography is studied as two interconnected parts: physical geography and human geography. For the first half of this series, we will be focusing on physical geography, which is all about recognizing the characteristics of the environment and the processes that create, modify, and destroy those environments. But remember, human-environment interactions are fundamental to studying geography so we won't be ignoring human impact, it just won't be the primary lens we're using to view the world. Today, we'll explore erosional gullies in Madagascar as we discuss the world's dynamic landscape, the Great Barrier Reef as we introduce the four major earth system (the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere), and we'll finish with a deep dive into Iceland as we introduce the major realms of physical geography. (These are geographer specializations that you may have heard about like topography, geomorphology, pedology, hydrology, climatology, oceanography, meteorology, and biogeography.)

In this lesson from iCivics, students learn what keeps the government from having too much power. The lesson outlines five basic limits on government. Students analyze the true story of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, in which many of those limits disappeared, and they evaluate fictional cases of governments with limits missing. The concepts in this lesson prepare students to understand why the U.S. Constitution is structured the way it is.

In this interactive activity, students will be introduced to the concept of probability and led through steps to find the probability of an event occurring. 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.

This is a soccer lead-up activity. Students should have the basic fundamentals of dribbling and passing before attempting this activity.

In this TV411 activity, students are introduced to aspects of diabetes. The video clip in this activity explores how to tally the amount of carbohydrates one consumes each day. Students then learn to calculate the percentages of people who have diabetes.

This full-color printable resource illustrates Spanish greetings, making it easy for students to recall advanced vocabulary words rather then relying on the most common phrases when greeting others. This prepared handout uses a series of emojis to help elementary, middle school, and high school students make visual connections with this vocabulary topic. The vocabulary words are separated into three groups: postive, neutral, and negative. This resource can be printed for each student or enlarged to hang on the classroom wall allowing students to make connections between the target language and their own. This resource is most useful for novice low and novice mid language students.

This novice mid to novice high German activity encourages students to listen to an authentic resource as they use interpretive listening skills to gather information about the song's content. Students start with a prelistening activity before listening to the song. Throughout the song, they are asked to complete a cloze activity to help guide them through the lyrics and improve their listening comprehension skills within this mostly present tense song.  Finally, students are encouraged to use vocabulary gained through the previous activities to create their own version of the song as they write about something that is dear to them.

The provided link is a full-text English version of Julius Ceaser's 'De Bello Gallico.' While students are expected to study the Latin version of this literary work, the AP College Board suggests that students also be familiar with the English version, especially books 1, 6, & 7. Students and teachers are provided multiple download options. Students and teachers of Latin levels 1 and 2 will find this English companion a useful tool in completing the following tasks: reinforcing student investigations into elements of Roman daily life; explaining the significance of people, events, social structures, and comparing the actions of Julius Ceaser and other historical figures.

This unique set of activities is geared toward intermediate mid to intermediate high Spanish students working toward the AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam. The goal of this unit is to reinforce the theme of Science and Technology as students practice each proficiency skill. The geographical region of emphasis is Puerto Rico. This lesson includes an interactive PowerPoint that walks students through each individual activity as they click on icons within the slide. (Be sure to open the slide show in presentational view in order to take full advantage of the interactive activities.) Tasks include writing, listening, reading, speaking, and cultural explorations. Cultural topics referenced in these tasks include: food, celebrations, sports, geography, and art.