In this learning activity, students will use Cuisenaire rods to decompose fractions. Students will explore fractional decompositions using these concrete materials. Students will show how a whole can be broken into parts and use an equation to represent the decomposed fraction.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will work in pairs and roll various colored dice in order to create polynomial expressions for addition and/or subtraction.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This activity offers an opportunity for students to immerse themselves in Mexico´s Day of the Dead celebrations. Through the use of 360-degree videos, students are able to explore on their own as they watch the culture come to life in front of their eyes. Technological requirements are minimal but the awareness gained of Mexico´s products and practices are exponential.
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.
In this learning activity, the students will work together taking turns to add small quantities encouraging counting on rather than recounting the set from one each time. It engages the students by using the number cubes to produce numbers and collect counters. It will help students to count and organize numbers more efficiently.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This formative assessment can be used to determine if students understand addition or subtraction with numbers up to ten. The activity allows students to explain how they represent addition up to 10 by using pictures, numbers, or words.
This read-aloud will engage students and get them thinking about grouping hundreds, tens, and singles to make numbers. The students in Earth Day Hooray! have the challenge to collect 5,000 aluminum cans. At the end of each day, they have to add to their previous totals. They do this by adding hundreds first, then tens, and then the ones. The teacher will stop the video after each day and ask questions that will make the students mentally add and subtract numbers.
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 work with manipulatives to explore the concept of division and represent concrete models with division equations.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This activity is a digital entry ticket for students. Students will share real-life applications of polygons while completing this activity. The purpose of this activity is to develop student interest in the properties of polygons.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This second-grade engagement activity uses Quick Images in a Number Talk format to begin to build a conceptual understanding of compensation, which is the underlying concept behind the "Make it Friendly" addition strategy.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this activity, the students will look at concrete representations, followed by pictorial representations of arrays. Students will write equations, using repeated addition, to determine the total number of objects in a rectangular array.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this introduction to integers, the students discuss the meaning of the number zero and then practice determining whether a situation should be represented by a positive or a negative number. They will either jump or sit down to physically represent integers.
This activity results from 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.
In this learning activity, students will discover how spider webs are made by watching a short video. Students will compare photographs of spider webs and look for patterns. Finally, students will create a 3-dimensional patterned spider web using geometric shapes and lines.
This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.
This Digital Breakout is a perfect way to enhance a unit of study with animal standards for grades 3-5. It can be used before or after a unit of study or a field trip to the Birmingham Zoo. Students will work creatively and collaboratively to solve academic puzzles to unlock an answer. Academic puzzles are centered around a variety of Course of Study standards that engage students through the Breakout process. This activity can be done as a whole group for students that are not familiar with the Digital Breakout process. This activity can be done in small groups in grades 2-5 with students that are familiar with the Digital Breakout process.
This Learning Activity was created in partnership with the Birmingham Zoo.
In this authentic learning task students are designing a rectangular patio using 40 patio stones. This task will have many answers, but students will choose the design they like best. Students will use that design to determine the perimeter in part two of the problem.
In this learning activity the students will be using different amounts of color tiles to discover rectangles that have the same area but different perimeter, have the same perimeter but a different area and have the same area and same perimeter.
This activity is a performance task where students design a locker with a specific volume. They must create two different rectangular prisms with the same volume and record the length, width, and height of each one. They must also choose which dimensions are the most appropriate for a locker and use reasoning to support their choice.
In this learning activity, the students will watch a video about the number pairs that make up the number 5. The students will sing along with the video and perform the hand movements making number pairs for the number 5.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
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.
This is a free learning activity from Illustrative Mathematics. In this learning activity, students will read a headline about Giantburger restaurants, solve the real-world problem presented, and justify their reasoning.
This activity results from the ALEX 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.
This lesson incorporates an interactive image created in Genial.ly to explore three works by Pablo Neruda. Working together, students will listen to and analyze the lyrics of each poem to compare and contrast the themes and symbols of each.
This activity is a result of the ALEX 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.
Students will look at a number and determine how many rows and columns it creates in a Lego brick to create equal shares.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.
Students will review the concept of ratios by creating a work of art based on ratio relationships.
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.
This learning activity will be used to introduce adding and subtracting vectors and is intended as an introduction or engagement activity. The students will watch the Adding and Subtracting Vectors video to learn how to add and subtract vectors. This activity will lead to learning 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 was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
In this learning activity, students are introduced to the concept of adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers through an animated free math video from GCFLearnFree.org. In the video, a bird demonstrates how to move up and down the number line based on the operation and integers in the equation. It is a clever way to remember which direction to move based on the positive and negative numbers in the equation. Students then practice the tricks they learned using an interactive game.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Students will be introduced to arrays in this second-grade engagement activity. As students examine real-world examples of arrays, they will use terms such as rows and columns to describe the array. In a whole group discussion, the teacher will use student observations to highlight the different attributes of arrays that make them a useful model for repeated addition.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
The teacher will demonstrate the relationship between multiplication and division by projecting the fact family worksheets to an interactive whiteboard or document camera. Students will work in small groups or individually to complete their own fact family worksheets.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
Critical thinking is a relevant skill for today. Prior to this learning activity, students will explore the values of each coin, the dollar bill, and will have been exposed to money word problems. In this learning activity, “Plickers” are used to formatively assess solving money word problems to guide the teacher's next steps. Students will use critical thinking when deciding what operation to use in each money word problem. Students will be able to make real-world connections when adding/subtracting different coins.
This activity was created as part of a collaboration between Alabama Technology in Motion and ALEX. Activity author recommended by TIM Trainer Barry Wiginton.
Students will write a narrative essay about a holiday that they celebrated. Students will then research that holiday in the target language and give a presentation to the class, comparing and contrasting traditions of the target culture(s) to those here. (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, Math Interactives, to reinforce a lesson on proportions. The students will demonstrate their knowledge of proportions by calculating missing values that will develop photographs. For completion, the students will arrange the photographs to view the final product.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource GAP Project.
