This learning activity is an assessment activity that uses an exit ticket to ask students to write both a recursive and explicit formula for a simple application problem.
This learning activity will be used to introduce multiplying a vector by a scalar and is intended for an introduction activity. The students will watch the Scalar and Vector video to learn how to multiply a vector by a scalar. This activity will lead to learning how to represent scalar multiplication graphically by scaling vectors and possibly reversing their direction and compute the magnitude of a scalar multiple.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This learning activity will explain the meaning of the signals used in the sport of football. The resource, Football Signals, will show how to communicate the infraction or play to the fans, players, and coaches. The students will watch the Alabama vs. Auburn game to learn the procedures.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This activity introduces balancing chemical equations through a YouTube video, and then students will model balancing chemical equations.
This activity is a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will research sights to see in a German-speaking city on an official tourism website in the target language. Students will then create and present a suggested travel itinerary for a weekend visit to the city to their classmates. (This lesson includes 2 phases, uploaded as separate learning activities.)
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
This activity moves the student past the recognition of melodic characteristics and toward the composition of melodies. In this activity, the student will use graphic representations to generate and draft a simple melodic idea and then transfer that idea into traditional music notation.
This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
The students will analyze the heart rate data they recorded during exercises to compare and contrast aerobic and anaerobic exercises. They will create a double bar graph to visually represent the data. The students will reflect on their performance of the exercises. Finally, they will develop an appropriate workout plan with balanced aerobic and anaerobic exercises.
This learning activity was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science (GEMS) Resource Development Project, in partnership with Dothan City Schools.
Musescore is an online music library for instrumentalists. Students may search specific song titles and then choose from various options available at varying levels of difficulty. Students may also listen to a recorded example of the music selected. Students can choose to publish a composition of their own and make it available to other students through Musescore. The activity will provide students with greater knowledge of the impact of computing as referenced through R3. of the Alabama Course of Study.
This learning activity will be used to introduce scalar multiplication and is intended for a Before Activity. The students will watch the Scalar Multiplication video to learn how to multiply a scalar into matrices. This activity will lead to learning how to add, subtract, and multiply scalar matrices with appropriate dimensions.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, the students will diagnose the various disorders of the applicants in the hiring scene of the movie, The Greatest Showman. The students will complete a case study activity sheet on the characters.
This activity is a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, students will use the preterit tense to tell others about things that have happened in their past. Using the free online tool provided by Read Write Think, students can easily create a graphically appealing timeline that features photos and vocabulary relevant to their individual lives.
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
Students will create a character and write a monologue portraying that character, inspired by photos and descriptions from the Humans of New York series.
This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
The purpose of this activity is to have students expand upon their own personal definitions of beauty and aesthetics that they formulated the previous class period. Students will examine beauty through the lens of nature, fashion, poetry, people, and art, using authentic resources and cultural elements from the Spanish-speaking world. Students will also reflect upon their own views of the products and perspectives of beauty and aesthetics while reflecting upon those from people in the Spanish-speaking world.
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
This activity allows the student to reinforce a lesson for multiplying binomials. The students will be visualizing the multiplication of binomials by manipulating tiles on a digital diagram.
This activity was created as a result of the GAP Resource Summit.
After learning to use database advanced tools with teacher support, students will repeat the process with a topic of their choice. Students will apply knowledge of advanced search tools such as term, field, Boolean operators, wildcards, and search limiters. Students will note how the search results change when additional search tools are employed and various research strategies are used.
In this learning activity, students will learn to add or subtract two vectors. The activity will teach the students how to add and subtract vectors in 2D. Vectors can be represented by line segments with a specific length (magnitude) and directions. Students will use this information to help visualize vector addition and subtraction. The scope of this learning activity will only consider vectors in two dimensions; however, the methodology described can be extended to vectors in three or more dimensions. The teacher will recall that a unit vector is a vector with a magnitude equal to 1 and that the unit vectors in the 𝑥- and 𝑦-directions are denoted by ⃑𝑖 and ⃑𝑗 respectively. This learning activity can be used as a core lesson activity.
Students will work through a Desmos activity on Normal Distribution. They will be reminded of how to find the mean of a data set. The process of finding the standard deviation of a set of data values will be introduced. Students will practice doing both calculations. Next, using the mean and standard deviation they will define the intervals in a normal curve and will approximate the percentage of items in each interval using the Empirical Rule.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, students will watch a quick video clip from YouTube that will demonstrate how dry ice can quickly freeze fruit, discuss properties of dry ice, and show how it sublimates. After watching the clip, students will then conduct seven different mini-laboratories with dry ice to expand their knowledge of the properties of matter and explore the process of sublimation - a solid transitioning directly to a gas skipping the liquid phase.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this learning activity, students will use the Quizizz response system to solve for Standard Deviation. Quizizz is a type of formative assessment - through quizzing, collaboration, and presentation of content, that allows the teacher to monitor the students' comprehension of a set learning objective. This Standard Deviation Quizizz consists of 9 questions that can be used as formative assessment or as whole group review. This activity is intended to be an After-Activity following a Standard Deviation Lesson.
Cutting Up With the Unit Circle is a Google Doc tool that allows the student to study the Unit Circle and the different parts that make up the Unit Circle such as reference angles, radian measure, trigonometric ratios, and angle measurements. The student will use reference angles on the unit circle to construct a sine curve. This allows the student to visualize where the graph originates.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will research various 'fad diets' to determine the macromolecules in abundance and deficit in the diets. Students will create an infographic to display their research and to argue from this evidence if the diet should be used and by whom, and what short and long term effects this diet could have on an individual.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will analyze the various products, practices, and perspectives of the Spanish-speaking world through the lens of music. Students will practice interpretive listening using the song “Latinoamérica” by Calle 13 to complete a cloze activity with the lyrics. Then, students will research and analyze the specific products, practices, and perspectives of Latin American culture that are mentioned in the song. Finally, students will engage in interpersonal discussion to compare their results and opinions of their findings. The basic format of this lesson could be adapted to fit a variety of songs on a variety of themes, from any language.
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
Students will take turns either being a patient or a doctor and conduct an unrehearsed dialogue as if they were on a brief visit to the doctor for a common illness or injury.
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
Students explore what makes a character interesting through the examination of physical objects. What do objects say about us? What assumptions do we make about people based on what they carry with them? Students will explore the items in a bag you have created that has been left in your classroom. The students will infer what type of person the bag belongs to based on the objects found inside. The class will work together to create a personal history for this character.
This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
Before students begin to search Alabama Virtual Library databases for both scholarly and popular sources, students need to know what a database is. In this activity, students will learn the definition of database and the characteristics of this type of search tool. They will also access Alabama Virtual Library to see the variety of databases within this free state resource.
This learning activity will be used to find components of a vector and is intended for an assessment activity. The students will complete the Where Is My Arrow Pointing Assessment to demonstrate mastery of how to find the components of a vector by subtracting the coordinates of an initial point from the coordinates of a terminal point.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will use the Quizizz response system to review multiplying matrices by scalars to produce new matrices. This Scalar Multiplication of Matrices Review Quizizz game has twenty questions to test the understanding of multiplying matrices by scalars and is intended to be used as an after activity. Quizizz allows the teacher to conduct student-paced formative assessments- through quizzing, collaboration, peer-led discussions, and presentation of content in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This activity should be used at the beginning of a lesson about the long-standing racial prejudice issues in America as depicted in short stories like Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” (1894). The teacher can use the Poll Everywhere site to create a question like “What 'appropriate' word comes to mind when you compare racial prejudice of modern-day America to the America of 125 years ago?” You can use the responses to the question to create a “Word Picture” on the Poll Everywhere website so that students can see all responses on the board. This will segue to viewing a YouTube video entitled "Too White to Be Black Too Black to be White" (5:36 min.).
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will research a holiday in the target language to identify key information and compare and contrast traditions of the target culture(s) to those here in the United States.
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
Students will practice using pantomime skills by creating inanimate objects. Students will work in small groups and in pairs to create various objects. The object ideas will be provided by the teacher. Students will have to quickly transition from one object to the next without overthinking. Students will have the opportunity to observe and comment on this exercise.
This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
In this learning activity, students will review an image representing the structures and functions of the digestive system. After observing the image, students will be asked to state what problems could occur in the digestive process, including any diseases or disorders they may have heard of.
This learning activity was created as a result of the ALEX - Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) Resource Development Summit.
This is a slide show that can be used for whole-class instruction or as a guideline for the appropriate questions to ask when evaluating the credibility of sources for purpose, accuracy, authority, relevance, and currency. The slides guide students to work in pairs and evaluate two provided sources for potential use as evidence on the provided topic. Student observations are recorded on graphic organizers.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will graph functions on a piece of large graph paper as a group. The teacher will display the finished product in the classroom or hallway.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This activity expands students’ knowledge of the cultural identity and challenges facing indigenous groups in Latin America. Using the technology platform Padlet and the jigsaw classroom strategy, students will explore and take ownership of content. Interpersonal and presentational communication is used to engage in and share information between students.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this lesson, the students will use authentic websites and digital resources to report on the current events happening in the target culture. The students will read the article in the target language, make a summary of the article, and determine what products, practices, or perspectives of the target culture can be identified in the article. Then, students will make a comparison between the reporting of the current event in the target culture and the same or similar event in the native culture. Students may present their current event in the target language and compare similar events in other target language countries through class or small group discussions.
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages Course of Study Resource Development Summit.
