This learning activity should be used as an assessment activity that allows students to explain their thinking to solve problems involving equal groups for multiplication. Students will solve an equal groups multiplication word problem illustrating their thinking. They will then have to defend their answer on an extension problem.
In this activity, students will complete an online quiz using Go Formative. Students will answer varying types of assessment questions in order to demonstrate mastery of angle relationships found in regular and irregular polygons.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, the students will do a presentation about an over-the-counter weight loss pill. They will explain how the drug will work and if the drug is safe and effective. Each group will have a given amount of time to do their presentation. A rubric, Rubric Weight Loss Pills, will be used to score their work.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This activity guides students through the process of creating a graph of a particular data set. Students can produce a bar graph that compares different categories, a line graph that shows a change in something over time, or a pie graph that shows percentages of a whole. Students will select the most appropriate graph choice, input data, create labels and titles, and make design choices to enhance the graphic representation of the data.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will participate in a guided drama experience both alone and with peers when they step into the painting displayed. Students will select a character from the painting and become a frozen tableau until asked to tell the story of their character.
This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
Horrendous Soup is a game in which students have to make a recipe for the most disgusting soup they can imagine. Students progress through the game by adding ingredients to the soup. Some of the ingredients are measured in capacity, some are measured in mass, and some are measured in distance. This is a way to reinforce metric conversion skills. To successfully print out the recipe, students must demonstrate the ability to convert the amounts of ingredients to other metric units. For example, liters to milliliters and vice versa, grams to milligrams and vice versa, and millimeters to centimeters to meters.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.
This activity is an excellent reinforcement activity for students to explore patterns using shapes, letters, and numbers. The activity can be used individually or in groups of 2 or 3 students.
This learning activity was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U Project.
Students will evaluate and submit the paragraph they drafted in the associated during learning activity. They will engage in peer review using the class-generated checklist to ensure that they have utilized best research and writing practices. This activity is the culminating activity for the activity sets associated with standards ELA21.9.24 and ELA21.10.24.
In this learning activity, students will choose a key revolutionary leader from the American Revolution and research that leader. Using Canva or another graphic design platform, students will create an authentic-looking trading card of that person including his or her contributions to the American Revolution. It allows students to review material at the end of a unit of study.
This is a Google Slides presentation with a brief introduction to Rudyard Kipling, author of Rikki Tikki Tavi and an explanation of the conflict in the story between the mongoose and the cobras. The story is presented in both audio and pdf format. Attached to the Slides presentation is a digital plot diagram for students to complete as they read.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This After Activity is designed to come at the end of a class period when all activities have been focused on the same topic: subject-verb agreement. Teachers may use this exit slip as a daily grade and/or a formative assessment to judge the level of students’ understanding of this topic. Students must read the sentence and determine which verb agrees with the subject of the sentence. The student must then create a variety of sentences with tricky subjects such as compound subjects and collective subjects and demonstrate that he or she can make the verb agree with the subject.
This learning activity was created as a result of the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) Resource Development Summit.
Students will play a game to review Greek and Latin roots. Students will identify and define words with Greek and Latin roots. Students will also use these words in sentences correctly and draw a symbol or picture to represent the Greek or Latin root.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This learning activity allows students to explain their thinking to find the unknown side of a polygon when the perimeter is given. Students will solve three different problems where the perimeter is given and knowledge of polygon attributes are needed to find the missing sides. This activity can be used as an assessment or an extension activity after students have mastered how to find the perimeter of a polygon.
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.
This printable worksheet will assess student mastery of transforming word problems to equations with an unknown quantity and solving the equation correctly. This resource also includes a modified assessment sheet.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this lesson, students will focus on the relationship between the indirect object, which is also the preposition in the sentence, direct object and the verb. A jeopardy template will be used to provide both visual and immediate feedback to the students, as well as reinforce their ability to identify the direct object, verb, and indirect object.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will use Google Chrome Music Lab - Song Maker to create a Rondo Form piece. The students may explore different sounds and patterns to create their favorite Rondo Form. When they are satisfied with their piece, they will email the link to the teacher or post in Google Classroom.
This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
Students will discover how the Pythagorean Theorem describes the relationship between the lengths of the sides of a right triangle. By using this digital tool, students will understand the visual and algebraic proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. Students will apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find missing lengths and to calculate distances between points on the coordinate plane.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource GAP Project.
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.
Prior to this activity, students will have defined and identified language that is clear, coherent, and suitable for a particular audience and purpose. In this activity, students will contribute to a class checklist that may be used to evaluate writing. The teacher may choose to add to this checklist using lessons related to this standard.
In this activity, students will use an exit ticket to describe the pros and cons of the voting methods: Pluarilty, Instant Run-Off, and Borda Count. The exit ticket will be used to evaluate students' understanding of the voting methods.
This activity is the follow-up to the Pre-Test. It serves to introduce or refresh students about the steps in the writing process before writing an essay. This is a post-test to see what the students know before writing an essay. It gives the definitions of the seven steps and can be used to study throughout the course of the year.
This resource was created in partnership with Dothan City Schools.
In this activity, students will demonstrate their understanding of creating pairs of numbers that equal ten.
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.
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.
The students will read a letter about the plight of Alabama soldiers in the Rainbow Division of World War I and will create a list of supplies that were described in the primary document. The students will illustrate the Rainbow Divisions' need for supplies by creating fundraising posters.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.
The teacher will present an informational text from the website, ReadWorks. Students will 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 activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.
In this activity, students will collaborate in groups to create a dance phrase using their Keith Haring Dancing Drawings as a picture map.
This activity is to follow Keith Haring Dancing Drawings.
Students will assign a sequence to their Keith Haring Dancing Drawings for their choreography. They will give each of their drawings four counts before moving to the next pose.
This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, students will use "Fuzz Bugs - Counting, Sorting, & Comparing" from ABCya that provides a fun and educational interactive game that gives students the opportunity to sort, count, and compare the fuzz bugs. The interactive helps students learn to sort objects by colors, count the objects, then compare the different fuzz bugs.
After students interact with "Fuzz Bugs - Counting, Sorting, & Comparing" from ABCya, students will then collect and organize data about the number and attributes of the "Fuzz Bugs" collected in a Google Sheets template. The Google Sheets template will allow students to tally the number of "Fuzz Bugs" and the cells will turn the color to create a chart of the data collected.
This activity was created as a result of the DLCS Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, students will create a poster about computer hardware and software using Google Drawings (or other graphic design software). They will add facts about computer hardware and software from their note-taking graphic organizers. They will add images, graphics, or videos to their posters.
This learning activity was created as a result of the ALEX - Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) Resource Development Summit.
Students will use a graph created by using color theory and conflict resolution to solve a scheduling problem. They will provide an explanation for their reasoning.
Business industry experts agree that identifying a brand purpose and clearly communicating it with consumers is a critical aspect of brand positioning strategy. In this concluding activity, students will apply their knowledge of branding and brand positioning strategy to craft their own purpose statement and share it with their classmates. A thorough understanding of brand purpose and its impact on brand equity and image will lay the foundation for other digital marketing concepts and encourage students to begin building their personal brand.
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.
In this free learning activity from Illustrative Mathematics, students will be presented with a real-world problem involving Evan and his school bookstore account. Students will need to use the tricks they have learned about adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers to help Evan with his school bookstore account and justify their reasoning.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
After an extensive study of physical maps, the students will locate and create physical and political features on a map of Alabama. The Digital Tool will be used to research and aid in the creation of the features found in Alabama.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
