Learning Activities

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.

This Operations with Scientific Notation Practice Problems Quizizz game has 23 questions to test the understanding of performing operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems where both decimal and scientific notation are used, and is intended to be used as an assessment activity. Quizizz allows the teacher to conduct student-paced formative assessments through quizzing, collaboration, peer-led discussions, and presentation of content in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages.

(This learning activity can be used as a stand-alone activity but is best used as an After Activity.)

Students will use the Quizizz response system to review solving multi-step problems posed with positive and negative rational numbers in any form (whole numbers, fractions, and decimals) and to use tools strategically. This Multi-Step Real-Life and Mathematical Practice Problems Quizizz game has fifteen questions to test the understanding of solving multi-step real-life problems and is intended to be used as an after-activity. Quizizz allows the teacher to conduct student-paced formative assessments through quizzing, collaboration, peer-led discussions, and presentation of content in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages.

(This learning activity can be used as a stand-alone activity but is best used as an After Activity, the During and After Activities can be found in the Notes or Recommendations section.)

This activity is a game that allows students to practice addition with three addends and word building. Students build decodable and/or high-frequency words with letter tiles (a printable option is provided) and then find the sum of the word. They record the words and the equations on a recording sheet.

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

Students will take a deeper dive into word problems to gain a firm understanding of multiplicative comparison.  They will compare problems using additive vs. multiplicative comparisons and problems where either the set or the product is unknown.  The activity also includes a matching game for students to match equations, models, and comparison statements. 

In this learning activity, students will practice adding and subtracting vectors in 2D. This learning activity can be used as a stand-alone activity or an assessment activity for the corresponding activities found in the Notes or Recommendations section.

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, the students will fill in each ten frame to represent numbers 0-20 in sequential order.  This learning activity should be used after a lesson on counting from 0 to 20.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Closing Up the Unit Circle is a Google Form that has two higher-level thinking questions as a quick assessment of learning for the lesson. This form is formatted as a quiz to be used after a lesson on modeling the sine curve and right triangles.

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

Students will play a game to practice adding fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 by creating equivalent fractions.  For each question they get right, the students will get to choose a playing card from a deck.  At the end of the game, they can trade in their cards for a prize.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Students will graph radical functions in the coordinate plane and identify key features. Students will be sure to label the axes and scale of their graphs. Students will identify the domain and the range of each function from the graph of the function.  

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

“Las Charlas”, or Chit-Chats, allow the student to take ownership of vocabulary, content, and grammar at the end of a unit. Las Charlas helps to build student confidence in the target language while speaking about a semi-familiar topic. This Charla includes the topic of Hemingway in Cuba. Students are given two resources to explore and learn about Hemingway’s time in Cuba. Students will present a two-minute interpersonal chat with the teacher on the information they have learned.

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

Students will create culturally inspired artwork to be displayed in a local business. For example, students learning Spanish will create unique works of art inspired by the culture of Mexico to be displayed in Mexican restaurants in their community. Students will also learn simple vocabulary and useful phrases to be able to communicate in the target language when visiting Mexican restaurants. Throughout the lesson, the students will be exposed to cognates and “borrowed words” to help them begin comparing and contrasting the target language with the English language.

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

In this learning activity, students will collaboratively play an interactive online scavenger hunt for geometric figures including quadrilateral, trapezoid, rhombus, parallelogram, rectangle, square, right triangle, acute triangle, obtuse triangle, angles (right, acute, and obtuse), parallel lines, and perpendicular lines using the GooseChase app.  

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.

Students will review and solve multiplication of numbers less than 100 using word problems and arrays by creating a prompted work of art.

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

In this engaging activity, students will combine the world of mathematics and pop culture by delving into interesting facts about the talented singer, songwriter, and dancer Jason Derülo. Through an interactive activity featured in the Alabama Virtual Library, students will have the opportunity to reinforce their understanding of important mathematical concepts while simultaneously piquing their interest in music and pop culture. Through this interactive approach, students will gain confidence in applying the greatest common factor (GCF) and the least common multiple (LCM) concepts to practical situations while enhancing their problem-solving skills.

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.

In this learning activity, students will be able to measure common classroom items to practice measuring to the nearest 1/2 and 1/4 inches. Students will use this skill in future activities to collect data to the nearest 1/2 and 1/4 inch for line plots. This activity is an introductory activity to measurement and data that allows students to practice a needed skill to master the standard. 

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.

This learning activity will be used to introduce multiplying a vector by a scalar and is intended for an introduction activity. The students will watch the Scalar and Vector video to learn how to multiply a vector by a scalar. This activity will lead to learning how to represent scalar multiplication graphically by scaling vectors and possibly reversing their direction and compute the magnitude of a scalar multiple.

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

In this activity, students will complete an exit slip using Google Forms. Students will begin the activity by rating their understanding of computing perimeters of polygons and the area of triangles and rectangles in the coordinate plane. Finally, students will respond to a short answer question in order to demonstrate mastery of the content standard.

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

This Google Slide Show gets students warmed-up by activating their thinking about expanding numbers in various ways. Students will then use that knowledge to solve multi-digit multiplication problems.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This digital tool will challenge students to show their mastery of fluently multiplying and dividing within 100 by using their knowledge of the relationship between multiplication and division. Students have the option of three different challenge modes.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This activity is part research and part role play in order for students to learn about an important historical/current figure in the target culture.

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

Students will research a holiday in the target language to identify key information and compare and contrast traditions of the target culture(s) to those here in the United States.

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

Half-Court Rounding is a game in which students try to score as many points as possible by rounding numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, or tenth. Students can try any kind of shot within the game and have 90 seconds to score as many points as possible and beat their opponent. If they answer incorrectly, the student misses the shot. Students can also choose a two-player game where they can play a friend or classmate.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.

This learning activity should be used at the end of a lesson on recognizing angle measure as additive. The students will find missing angle measurements using a real-world problem. This learning activity can be used as an assessment.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.

This activity is for a virtual hundreds chart puzzle game.  Students can use the puzzle to explore number patterns within 100, finding 10 more, 10 less, 1 more, and 1 less of a given number. This activity will be best used after students are familiar with a hundreds chart.

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

In this learning activity, students will create a Voki as a creative, easy-to-use tool that will help motivate students, improve lesson comprehension, and student participation.  Students will use a Voki to define key mathematical terms ( factors, sum, terms, product, quotient, coefficients) needed to identify parts of an expression.

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

In this activity, students have to use their knowledge of place value to determine the numbers being compared. Then, students will compare the numbers using the correct comparison symbol of <, >, or =.

In this learning activity, students will watch a video Graphing on the Coordinate Plane from Simplify the Middle. Students will learn how to graph points as well as how to identify a point that has already been graphed. After watching the video, students will complete an exit ticket to demonstrate their understanding.

In this lesson, students will use an online spinner to explore theoretical and experimental probabilities. Students will also make predictions and support their reasoning before completing a probability experiment. Then students will design a spinner where all the sections are not uniform. To be able to compare results, the only variable changed is the size of the sections. Students will express probability results in both percent and fraction forms. Finally, students will reflect on a simulation of a given event.

What's the Chance Activity Page

After a lesson on adding and subtracting polynomials, the students will complete an exit ticket by picking three questions from The Thinking Tree to answer.

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

Students will work through a Desmos activity on Normal Distribution. They will be reminded of how to find the mean and standard deviation of a data set. Students will practice doing both calculations. Next, using the mean and standard deviation they will define the intervals in a normal curve and will approximate the percentage of items in each interval using the Empirical Rule.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

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.