Learning Activities

Prior to this activity, students should have learned to spell basic words. They’ve also more than likely recently learned various greetings and basic questions. In this activity, they put these skills together using a medium with which they are very familiar. It also enables them to discover that teenagers in other countries also text and use abbreviations. Although this activity is about writing, it is communicative because it takes two people to make it happen.

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

Molly's More or Less Quest is an interactive game that reads students a short word problem and asks the student to tell if the numbers are less than, greater than, or equal to that are given in the word problem. The numbers are visually displayed. When a student hovers over the word it also reads the word to them before clicking.

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

During this learning activity, students will solve a real-life task that allows students to create an array to find the total number of rows of chairs needed at a music concert. Students will write multiplication and division equations and solve them to complete the music concert task. This activity will help students see the relationship between multiplication and division.

In this learning activity from Geogebra, students will practice graphing ordered pairs. Students will complete three separate tasks: Task 1: Practicing plotting ordered pairs, Task 2: Plotting ordered pairs, and Task 3: Creating ordered pairs. Each task will have instructions to help the students to complete the lesson. 

In this activity, students will compute real-world problems with rational numbers while using a digital number line. Students are provided a sample problem to work through to become familiar with the digital number line. Since problems can be solved using multiple methods, students are asked to provide a number sentence to represent their number line model as well as the solution to the problem. Through the online digital tool, students can also share a link to their work with their teacher or classmates. This provides a great opportunity for students to investigate how to solve problems using multiple methods.

Using Number Lines to Model Real-World Problems Student Response Page

This Desmos Activity will lead students to sort patterns and write formulas for each pattern.  They will then sort the formulas into either recursive formulas or explicit formulas. 

This learning activity is a great way to add high interest to grade 5 standards. It can be used after the study of identifying and plotting points on coordinate planes, relating points and finding distances in a coordinate plane, graphing and interpreting data in a coordinate plane, making and interpreting line graphs, and basic computer skills. This activity can be completed as a partner activity/assessment or an independent activity/assessment.   

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.

In this learning activity, students will use a quality task to measure the lengths of toy cars to the nearest quarter of an inch and record their data in a chart. The class will use this data to create a line plot of the lengths of the toy cars. 

In this before activity, students will engage in a number talk to link strategies used with numbers within 100 to numbers within 1,000. The number talk uses numbers under 120.

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

Coloring 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 find and color the reference angles on the unit circle.

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

Students will go on a “shopping trip” to buy items with prices written both as decimals and fractions with 10 or 100 as the denominator.  After they have decided which five items to “buy,” they will calculate the total cost of their items by adding fractions with 10 and 100 as the denominator.  The students will use a visual model to represent the equivalence between fractions with different denominators.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Students will work in groups to put fraction cards on a number line.  They will need to use strategies based on fraction models and benchmarks to determine the proper placement.  This can be done as a race between groups.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity Let's Experiment With Graphs of Functions Using Technology! will be used during a lesson on identifying the effect on the graph of replacing f(x) by f(x) + k, k f(x), f(kx), and f(x + k) for specific values of k using technology, finding the value of k given the graphs, and recognizing even and odd functions from their graphs and algebraic expressions for them.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Students will draw a snowman and identify colors, clothing, and body parts of the snowman. Students will answer simple questions about the drawing.

This activity was created as a result of the World Language COS 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.

ChatterPix Kids is a fun, kid friendly app for the iPad and iPhone that can be used to enhance a geometry lesson on angles. Students will choose an angle (right, straight, obtuse, or acute), draw the angle on the graph, color it.  Students will identify a real-world object with the same angle attributes, take a picture, and draw a line on the picture for a mouth. Then, students will record their voice giving the measurement of their angle and relate their angle to one real-world object identifying common attributes such as; angle size, side length, side relationships. In this activity, students can work collaboratively in pairs or alone.

This learning activity was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U Project.

In this activity, the teacher will begin with the video, Partition Shapes Into Equal Shares. The teacher will review the definition of partition, whole, equal shares, halves, thirds, and fourths. The teacher will use paper plates, construction paper, and card stock to demonstrate partitioning the whole into equal shares of halves, thirds, and fourths.  

This resource was created in partnership with Dothan City Schools.

This activity should be used as extra practice or an assessment after students have been introduced to the relationship between multiplication and division. Students will find the fact family for a given array and then solve a word problem where they must write the multiplication and division equation that represents the problem. 

In this learning activity, students will watch a video that teaches them to count down from ten in order to see a rocket launch. Students will then practice in groups or independently to re-create their own blast off by counting backward from ten to zero.

In this activity, students will practice decomposing a set of 10 objects in multiple ways to gain an understanding of the various ways 10 can be composed.

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

Students will practice adding 10 more mentally using the interactive digital game "10 More Attack."

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity is a teacher-led introduction to composing numbers and to building number sense foundation.  It will provide students with a visual using literature.  It will provide opportunities for a rich discussion about making numbers and provide time to introduce mathematical vocabulary.  The discussion and recording of events from the book will help demonstrate ways to compose numbers in different ways.  It is helpful to use this before playing interactive games that help with composing and decomposing numbers.  

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

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 small group activity, the students will be playing a game of "Oh No!" to practice determining proportional relationships. They take turns pulling a card from a bag and determining if the relationship on the card is proportional or not. If it is, they get to keep the card. If it isn't, they have to put all of their cards back. The winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game.

This activity was created as a result of 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 choose a restaurant in a target language city to research and visit virtually. Students will then write a review of the restaurant and finally complete an unrehearsed conversation with a classmate about their experiences during their virtual visit. (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.

Students lead a quest for buried treasure in this geometry game. Students must follow clues to identify x- and y-coordinates on a treasure map, to lead them around the island before landing on the pirate booty. Students will also graph points on the coordinate plane.  

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.

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 Google slideshow has six images to help students represent adding up to 10 using objects. Each slide will prompt students to determine how many more of the displayed object is needed to make ten. This activity is used to activate student thinking and student engagement.

In this learning activity from Geogebra, students will learn how to identify the parts of the Cartesian plane and how to determine the signs of the coordinates of points on it. Then the students will use an applet to test their understanding of the rules governing the signs of the coordinates of points on the Cartesian plane. 

This learning activity will review and assess the students' understanding of counting on or counting back to find a missing number. The students will use strategies learned to count, find missing numbers, extend number sequences, and write numbers.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

In this activity, the students will practice matching a picture card, showing a set of objects from 0 to 20, to the corresponding numeral card. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

In this Desmos activity, students are guided through a series of questions to verify the relationships between the sides and angles of a 30°-60°-90° right triangle and a 45°-45°-90° triangle. This is intended to be a during activity for a lesson on discovering and applying relationships in similar right triangles. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.