Learning Activities

This engaging learning activity will allow students to compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits and record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.  The students will enjoy using the mathematical understanding of place value using dice to create numbers. The students will use mathematical reasoning to decide if the numbers are greater than, less than or equal to. This activity makes comparing numbers fun!

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This activity is for a virtual hundreds chart puzzle game.  Students can use the puzzle to explore number patterns within 100, finding 10 more, 10 less, 1 more, and 1 less of a given number. This activity will be best used after students are familiar with a hundreds chart.

This activity was created as a result of the DLCS COS Resource Development Summit.

This activity is intended to be used as an assessment of students' ability to solve problems with three addends. The assessment includes a word problem and a performance task. The problems provide an opportunity for students to demonstrate an understanding of the properties of addition. 

Students will draw a snowman and identify colors, clothing, and body parts of the snowman. Students will answer simple questions about the drawing.

This activity was created as a result of the World Language COS Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity should be used at the end of a word study/phonics lesson. In this learning activity, students will use their knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences to write a short story about their favorite animal (or any topic chosen by the teacher).

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This catchy video introduces students to nouns. Students will discover that nouns are all around them! While watching, students will record nouns from the video which will lead to a class discussion in nouns and the difference in common and proper nouns.

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Students will explore sounds using plastic cups and rubber bands to simulate a stringed instrument. Students will experiment with the vibration of sounds by plucking the bands and listening to the sounds. They will change the string’s tension and gauge to create different pitches. Finally, students will work with a partner to create a melody on their stringed instrument.

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.

This is an interactive game where students will add a two-digit number and a one-digit number by rolling a number cube and adding a given number. Students will be given directions on what to do when they roll a specific number. Then, use a counter to cover the number on the gameboard. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

The teacher will read Perfect Square by Michael Hall or use the digital tool to show the book being read aloud. The students will work with a partner to explore art materials and change a "perfect square" of construction paper into a new work of art. 

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity will guide students through solving story problems. It will help the students unpack simple word problems with unknowns in all positions.  The students will use different strategies to solve problems. It will encourage the students to make sense of problems. This learning activity will engage the students so that they will feel confident in solving a variety of story problems.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity is an engage activity that should be used at the beginning of a lesson or unit on heredity. The class will look at a picture of a family (preferably the teacher's family) and compare how some physical characteristics are the same and some are different.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.

This government learning activity is an introduction to civics and government. The students will apply their learning of how a government makes rules and laws to create a classroom constitution that the students (citizens) will be able to vote on. 

This resource was created in partnership with Dothan City Schools.

Students will watch the video clip to gain an understanding of what happens to our trash. Students will learn about recycling and decomposing and the types of materials associated with each. Students will write or draw the process of recycling to show what they have learned.

This activity was created as a result of the GAP Resource Development Summit.

This activity is a digital breakout to enhance a unit with animal standards or for classes that have a field trip to the Birmingham Zoo. It can be used before or after the field trip or during the unit. It is an activity that will build collaborative and critical thinking. It can be used as a whole group activity for K-2 classrooms or for teachers/classrooms that are not familiar to digital breakouts. It can be an activity for small groups in K-5 rooms if students are familiar with digital breakouts. 

This Learning Activity was created in partnership with the Birmingham Zoo. 

Students will learn to write simple code for robots to read. Students will use blue, black, red, and green markers to write their names on a blank sheet of paper. Students will use robots to trace their written names. Students will experiment with writing their names in various colors, noting how different color combinations prompt the robot to move differently.

This learning activity was created as a result of the ALEX - Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) Resource Development Summit.

In this phonemic awareness small group activity, the teacher will provide instruction on segmenting and blending phonemes. The students will segment words into their individual phonemes while using counters to count the number of phonemes in the word. Students will then blend the phonemes in the word and identify the number of phonemes present.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Students and teacher collaboratively collect and organize data on the length of days throughout the year and analyze patterns that they see. Students and teacher will create a digital spreadsheet and a connected chart in order to reflect and make observations while analyzing the data represented in chart format.

This activity was created as a result of the DLCS COS Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity will build students' understanding of place value. The students will work with a partner to play a game to build two-digit numbers in hopes of being the first to build a tower. This activity will lead to students' understanding of math and place value while being actively engaged in the activity.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Google Drawings is a tool that allows students to be creative in sharing what they know. Students will use Google Drawings to create a word cloud of words chosen by the teacher. These words will come from sight words and spelling words that follow a phonetic pattern. It is available on Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS.

This activity was created as a result of the DLCS COS Resource Development Summit.

This activity is a game that allows students to practice addition with three addends and word building. Students build decodable and/or high-frequency words with letter tiles (a printable option is provided) and then find the sum of the word. They record the words and the equations on a recording sheet.

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This activity starts students on their path to knowledge about food. It also gets the conversation going about the view of food in other countries. The students will learn the various food categories in context with an authentic resource and will also have a starting point to compare foods in different countries.

This activity was created as a result of the World Languages Course of Study Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity should be used at the beginning of a phonics/word study lesson. In this learning activity, students will use a Ten Frame to break a word into separate sounds and then write the sounds to correctly spell the word. This activity should be used with words less than 5 sounds and the words should all use the same skill. 

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity may be used during or after a lesson to teach or check for understanding of multi-syllable words. This lesson applies word analysis skills in decoding words and counting syllables in multisyllabic words. Students may dance, sing, clap and/or count syllables along with the video in order to incorporate rhythmic movement skills. 

This activity is a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This is an art activity to reinforce which materials allow light to pass through. This activity should be completed after teaching a lesson on opaque, translucent, and transparent. Students can complete this project individually, with a partner, or in a group.

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity is a fun and interactive game. It will develop number sense by composing and decomposing numbers as well as building a foundation for place value skills. It can be used in whole group and small group instruction.  Before this game, the students will need to know strategies for making numbers in different ways. After the students are comfortable with this game, it can be varied by playing it with breaking into three parts. Students will have the opportunity to use several of the mathematical practices. This task allows the teacher to assess students' mathematical understanding.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

The teacher will introduce three types of artwork to students: portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. After explaining the characteristics of each form of artwork, the students will sort famous works of art into three categories based on the subject matter.

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity is a teacher-led introduction to solving word problems involving situations of taking from and comparing. The read-aloud and the activity will provide opportunities to review subtraction. Also, it will provide opportunities for a rich discussion about solving story problems. The students will use different strategies including drawings, objects, and equations to learn how to solve story problems. It is helpful to share students' responses to increase understanding of solving story problems.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Students will listen to music of various tempos including andante, allegro, and largo. They will aurally identify the three different tempos using body movement.

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity is an introduction to civics and government. The students will learn how rules and laws protect citizens in the local and state communities. The students will learn the responsibilities of citizens. 

This resource was created in partnership with Dothan City Schools.

Students will create culturally inspired artwork to be displayed in a local business. For example, students learning Spanish will create unique works of art inspired by the culture of Mexico to be displayed in Mexican restaurants in their community. Students will also learn simple vocabulary and useful phrases to be able to communicate in the target language when visiting Mexican restaurants. Throughout the lesson, the students will be exposed to cognates and “borrowed words” to help them begin comparing and contrasting the target language with the English language.

This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.

ABCya provides a fun and educational interactive game that teaches students to count by ones from another number other than 1. In this particular connect the dots, students are counting by ones from the number 21 to 40. The game provides scaffolding after wrong attempts and gives accuracy in a percentage when the dots have been connected.

This activity will demonstrate student knowledge of fairy tales and their features. Students will independently read a fairy tale of their choice.  They will identify fairy tale features of their chosen fairy tale and add specific information on fairy tale features to a graphic organizer.

This learning activity was created as a result of the ALEX - Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) Resource Development Summit.

In this learning activity, the teacher will provide instruction on the vowel team conventions for representing the long vowel a sound. The students will use picture clues to determine words with long a spelled ai or ay and write the words using the correct vowel team. Students will then participate in a read and roll activity to practice reading words with long a vowel teams ai and ay.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

In order to create music to the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See by Bill Martin, Jr., the students will:

• Sing a call and response
• Play a steady beat
• Create rhythms on rhythm instruments

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.

This engaging learning activity will help students understand that the two digits in two-digit numbers represent the number of ones and tens. It will give the students opportunities to have hands-on experience making two-digit numbers using snap cubes. The students will visually see the numbers to begin comparing two-digit numbers.

This activity results from ALEX Resource Development Summit.