This second-grade core learning activity provides students with an opportunity to explore the concept of compensation using both addend's unknown word problems. Compensation is a strategy based on place value. It is the underlying concept behind the "Making it Friendly" addition strategy.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will work in groups to create cards using templates. Each card will have a model of the fraction, mixed number, or improper fraction. After making the cards, students will answer questions during a whole-class discussion to compare fractions with different numerators and denominators using visual models or benchmarks.
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.
Students will research jobs/professions using American Sign Language. They will identify and list various types of jobs/professions and the cities and states where these jobs are most concentrated. Students will identify a job in which they have a personal interest.
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
Students will choose a real estate property for rent or sale in a target language-speaking city to research. After choosing a property, students will record information that they can understand from the website, such as price, size, number of rooms, year of construction, date of availability, location, and special features. Students will be using the interpretive mode of communication, as well as strengthening their understanding of products and practices of the culture.
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
This online game requires students to save seven members of a Royal Family from prison by using their order of operation skills to build stairways leading to their secret cells.
This learning activity was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U Project.
This lesson will connect students with actual artists from Nicaragua while introducing the topic of fair-trade, non-profit organizations as well as opening up the classroom for a discussion on the culture of Central America. It is best to partner this lesson with your school’s Pulsera Project sale, but all resources are available whether or not the sale occurs at your school. You can start the completely free service-learning project by visiting: http://www.pulseraproject.org/getinvolved. The lesson is best for a block schedule or consider providing extended time depending on class make-up/target language reading level of students.
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages Course of Study Resource Development Summit.
Students will choose a real estate property for rent or sale in a target language city to research and then present to the class as a group. The students will prepare a group presentation about their property, in which they will speak freely to the class in the target language giving the basic information about the overall property and descriptions of each furnished room. Students will be using the interpretive and presentational modes of communication, as well as, strengthening their understanding of products and practices of the culture.
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
This learning activity should be done at the end of a lesson on factors and multiples. The teacher will pose a real-world problem that requires the students to create multiple designs for a tabletop using all the factors of 24. Using virtual manipulatives, students will work individually to create multiple designs for a table using all the factors of 24.
This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
In this learning activity, students will learn how to find the components of a vector by subtracting the coordinates of an initial point from the coordinates of a terminal point. This learning activity can be used as a stand-alone activity or a core lesson activity. Corresponding activities can be found in the Notes or Recommendations section.
This learning activity introduces a numberless word problem that asks students to write an addition word problem. The task involves students exploring combinations of numbers that make ten. The students will start with "what do we know" and end with "how many could be." The activity will allow students to have multiple correct responses.
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.
In this activity, students will practice decomposing a number in multiple ways using pictures and recording the decomposition using pictures and numbers.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This activity allows teachers to formatively assess students' understanding of multiplicative rates of change from different representations. The activity presents four different viruses of different spread rates, and students are to determine which virus is the most virulent and justify their responses.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This learning activity is a free interactive fraction game from Math Games that will give students the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of multiplying a whole number by a fraction. Students will be asked a series of word problems involving multiplying a whole number by a fraction. Some questions will have multiple choice answers and some will require a free-response. There are four different levels of the game. Students advance each level based on the number of correct questions answered. This activity should be used at the end of a lesson on multiplying a whole number by a fraction to assess mastery of the standard.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, students will match the number cards to the correct quantities represented on a ten frame spinner. Students will count each quantity aloud while finger pointing to the colored dots on the ten frame. Students will then write the given numerals from 0 to 10 correctly next to the ten frame on their ten frame spinner page.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this learning activity, students will be introduced to the concept that skip counting by 4s will result in an even number since 4 is an even number. This learning activity may be used before learning the four multiplication facts to engage students through singing and movement with numbers.
This alignment is the result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In the learning activity, students will review the Fundamental Counting Principle. After the students have reviewed the Fundamental Counting Principle, the students will use an exit ticket to assess their understanding of the topic. This activity is to be used as an after-activity.
In this task, students will be exploring number patterns as they add or subtract ten and as they add or subtract 100. The students will see what happens to the digit values in numbers as they work through this activity.
This learning activity will provide online practice with solving word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, taking apart, and comparing with unknowns in all positions. The students will use strategies they learned to solve the problems presented to them in this engaging online game. This is a helpful tool to measure the students' application of skills.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This learning activity will be used to add and subtract vectors and is intended for an assessment activity. The students will complete the Adding and Subtracting Vectors Assessment to demonstrate mastery of how to add vectors end-to-end, component-wise, and by the parallelogram rule, determine the direction of their sum, represent vector subtraction graphically by connecting the tips in the appropriate order, and perform vector subtraction component-wise.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, students will demonstrate their knowledge of more than, less than and equal to by creating sets that match the terms.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This learning activity will be used during a lesson on using scalar multiplication with vectors. Students will explore how to perform scalar multiplication component-wise and represent scalar multiplication graphically. This activity will lead to learning how to compute the magnitude of a scalar multiple cv using ||cv|| = |c|v. The teacher will use the Scalar Multiplication of Vectors Lesson to cover the “I Do,” “We Do,” and “You Do” portions of the lesson.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This resource provides teachers with a plethora of multistep word problems that can be used for instruction and small group or independent practice. The teacher can choose the difficulty level of the problems as well as the skills addressed (mathematical operation, one-step, two-step, etc.).
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This activity is an exploration of mixed numbers, improper fractions, multiplying fractions by a whole number, and adding fractions with unlike denominators. The students will create a digital design using virtual pattern blocks. Counting the hexagon as one whole, the students will multiply the fractional pieces of their design and then use a blank pattern block template to add fractions with unlike denominators and find the total value for the picture.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will view target language movie trailers, select a movie that interests them, and research where and when they could see the movie and what the cost would be. Finally, students create a movie poster for the film providing basic information about the film. (This lesson includes 3 phases, uploaded as separate learning activities.)
This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, the students will visit the website, Probability Fair, to reinforce a lesson on finding simple probability or chance. The students will demonstrate their knowledge of finding probability to acquire the most tickets in the class.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource GAP Project.
In this learning activity, a teaching video will help students learn how to perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems with both decimal and scientific notation. The students will use scientific notation and choose units of appropriate size for measurements of very large or very small quantities (e.g., use millimeters per year for seafloor spreading). Finally, they will interpret scientific notation that has been generated by technology.
This learning activity can be used as a stand-alone activity or a Before Activity. The During and After activities can be found in the Notes or Recommendations section.
In this learning activity, students will learn to solve multistep problems posed with positive and negative rational numbers in any form (whole numbers, fractions, and decimals), using tools strategically. The students will apply properties of operations to calculate numbers in any form; convert between forms as appropriate, and assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies.
This learning activity can be used as a stand-alone activity but is best used as a Before Activity, the During and After Activities can be found in the Tools or Recommendations section.
In this introductory activity, students will use two-color counters to explore adding integers. Students will also develop a working definition of the additive inverse. Using online two-color counters, students will discover algorithms for adding integers. Finally, students will develop addition integer rules based on the solutions to the mathematical sentences modeled using the two-color counters.
Adding Integers Using Two-Color Counters Student Response Page
This activity is a way to assess students' understanding of multiplicative comparison. In this activity, students must draw a picture, write a multiplicative comparison statement, and write a multiplication equation.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
The Blank Unit Circle PDF is a tool that can be used 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. After a lesson on the Unit Circle, students will be asked to fill out the Blank Unit Circle PDF to be turned in as an Exit Ticket.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This second-grade learning activity extends students' understanding of arrays into problem-solving situations. This activity is designed to be in the elaborate portion of the 5E lesson plan format.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This activity can be used as an introduction to using the area model to divide large numbers. Students will complete a real-world division task that guides their thinking to use the area model.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This learning activity will be used at the end of a lesson on adding, subtracting, and multiplying matrices of appropriate dimensions./p>
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
