Learning Activities

This is an instant activity for classes to engage in full body warm up. The activity is geared for students to work cooperatively while warming up for the main lesson for the day. This is an easy set up to use and move out of the way for other class activities. The activity card can be displayed on a screen or printed to give each group. The only set up needed is the activity card and a deck of cards. 

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

This lesson activity focuses on Civil Rights movements in 1963 and should be used as a discussion topic for collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) in English Language Arts. The students will watch the video, PBS-The Children's March, followed by a collaborative discussion with diverse partners in which students will clearly and persuasively express their ideas about the video. This activity involves the use of cell phones, but a lesson variation is available.

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

Students will view target language movie trailers to identify main themes and significant details and select a movie that interests them. The students will identify information such as director, main actors, genre, opening date, and plot topics.

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

Advanced Theatre students will determine subtext to explore the inner thoughts of their character.

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

This activity is designed to help students learn and understand what a claim is and what evidence is. Students will collaborate to create a definition for both claim and for evidence. The teacher will assist students in solidifying their understanding of each term.

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

In this learning activity, students will be introduced to the differences between proportional and non-proportional situations or relationships. The lesson includes dialogue, teaching material, and re-teaching material. To get the most from this activity, students should know that linear relationships can be represented as words, tables, graphs, and equations. 

This learning activity can be used as a stand-alone activity or a Before/Engage Activity.

This learning activity is a task presented to the class to introduce the topic of rounding.  The real-world context of the problem engages students as they learn the purpose and strategies for rounding multi-digit whole numbers using place value understanding. Students use a number line to identify benchmark numbers.

In this activity, students will watch a short video clip that displays how quickly past viruses have spread and how deadly they are. This will activate students' prior knowledge about rates of growth and provide the context for the simulation activity they will engage in during the next activity.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

In this activity, students will be introduced to actual historical people who were forced from their homes in Africa, as a part of the slave trade, and brought to Alabama on the ship Clotilda. Students will read a brief informational text and use the content to complete a K-W-L chart, mark the birth and death place of each enslaved person, and formulate questions about the course of the enslaved person’s life.  Students will not be made aware of the enslaved status or the means they traveled to the United States during this activity, but they will begin to recognize, with guidance from the teacher, that Mobile, Alabama, along with other sites, was a center of the slave trade and is home to a port that was a stop on the Triangular Trade routes.

In this activity, the teacher will present students with the video Partitioning Circles and Rectangles. The teacher will introduce and define the math terms whole, equal shares, partition, halves (half of), thirds (third of), and fourths (fourth of). The teacher will use the Google Slide presentation to build and activate students' background/prior knowledge of circles, and rectangles while expanding students' knowledge of the math terms.

This resource was created in partnership with Dothan City Schools.

This whole group activity will allow students to notice patterns as they orally count by ones and tens up to 100. 

This engagement activity allows students to use metric measurements to measure the length of an object. The students will use strategies based on place value and the properties of operation to combine the length of multiple objects with the same length to solve a real-world metric measurement problem.

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

In this activity, the teacher will introduce the game "Start-n-Stop" to help students count forward from any given number within a known sequence.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity should be used to introduce the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  The students will explore the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by reading and viewing pictures on the website https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/history/martin-luther-king-jr/. The students will use a T-Chart to compare and contrast cultural differences during The Civil Rights movement.

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

Students will analyze Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms Posters from FDR's famous speech to Congress using the digital resource and will make connections to the United States' preparation to enter World War II.

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

Your ship is damaged and must rely on mission control to lead you on a rescue mission to save one of your astronauts. Students will design the game board, create the instructions (algorithm), look for mistakes (debug), and finally run the mission (program) to save the astronaut. Resources such as a blank game board, instructions, task cards, and debriefing and reflection sheets provided.

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

In this activity, the students will be introduced to antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms using examples on index cards. Teaching students to read and write often involves teaching them about how language works in general. This lesson focuses on strategies you can use for teaching synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. Giving students an understanding of the aforementioned phenomena leads to better comprehension, better spelling, and more expressive writing. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

In this interactive activity, students will be introduced to the concept of the greatest common factor (GCF) in a fun and engaging way. The activity revolves around an exciting article featuring NHL hockey star Nathan MacKinnon and his remarkable achievements in the sport. As students read the article, they will encounter five intriguing questions about MacKinnon's life and career. Using GCF, students will deduce the correct answers from the given choices. The primary goal of this activity is to introduce students to the concept of GCF and spark their curiosity through real-life scenarios involving a well-known sports figure allowing students to connect mathematical concepts with their interests and experiences, creating an enjoyable and relatable learning experience.

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

This learning activity is designed to activate students thinking about perimeter and area. Students will work together to answer writing prompts about a rectangle that has an area of 36 inches.

In this activity, students will further expand their knowledge of energy and matter by exploring electrons. Students will learn that the flow of electrons creates electric currents. Students will explore open and closed circuits and complete experiments that use electricity. 

This resource was created in partnership with Dothan City Schools. 

Students will identify their current daily usage of digital devices through a personal log or estimation. Then, students will read an article and watch the corresponding video which describes a recent report that found the average American spends more than 12 hours a day on a digital device, not including time spent on school work. Students will discuss their opinions with a classmate. The teacher will lead students in a discussion regarding the impact of this digital consumption. Finally, students will brainstorm and discuss other activities they could do in a day if they spent less time on their devices.

Students can graph the parent functions. They will use paper and pencil to graph the basic parent functions and list the key features of each function.  

This activity results from the ALEX 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.

In this activity, students will construct their own electromagnet from a battery, wire, and a nail.

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

Many people find the hardest part of composing music is getting started. This lesson will describe an engaging activity where students will use a die to select the rhythmic values of their next musical composition. First, rhythmic values of notes/rests are assigned to the six numbers of a typical six-sided die. Next, the students will access a virtual die (or use a real one) and roll it. Then, they will draw the note/rest value on staff paper (or use digital notation software) using standard notation. The student or teacher will then decide on a time signature and the student will add bar lines to the string of note/rest values. Finally, the student will perform the rhythm on an instrument (musical instrument or body percussion).

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

Students will respond to a work of art by writing a narrative. Teachers will need a way to display the work of art to the entire class--either through digital resources or a printed version. 

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

This activity will introduce students to researching using basic keyword searches with digital tools. The students will research animals on Pebble Go accessed through the Alabama Virtual Library. Throughout the activity, the teacher will model DLCS 2.12 - Conduct basic keyword searches to gather information.

This learning activity was created as a result of the ALEX - Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) 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 activity will introduce students to the term "brand strategy." After learning the meaning of the term, students will identify their favorite brand and explain why they like the brand. Students will share their responses with classmates and discuss successful branding strategies. 

In this activity, students will complete a quick write and cloze notes to prepare to analyze how author James Hurst uses imagery in the short fiction piece "The Scarlet Ibis" to create meaning in the piece as a whole.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit. 

Through this activity, students will be introduced to the vocabulary terms "more than, less than, and equal to." Students will use these terms to make comparisons of sets of objects and gain an understanding of "more than, less than, and equal to."

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Students will look at stock images of different people as an introduction to developing interesting characters in a piece of narrative fiction writing. The students will brainstorm to establish character traits and backgrounds that are interesting and then write a short character summary.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

In this grammar lesson, students will use a graphic organizer/worksheet to determine three concepts: the subject, action verb, and direct object in a sentence

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

Students will be introduced to how an Internet search works by experts in the field and practice conducting basic keyword searches.

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

Students will make artistic choices in movement and vocalizations to connect and share the essential vocabulary in describing the beginning of civilization in the Indus River Valley as a "flashmob" for other students within their school. Through this method, teachers will front load tier three vocabulary instruction to support literacy in reading informational text. 

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