Learning Activities

This learning activity should be completed at the end of a geometry unit or after a lesson on symmetry. The teacher will pose a real-world problem that requires the students to create a design for a stained glass window. Using virtual manipulatives, students will work collaboratively to design a symmetrical stained glass window that has at least one line of symmetry.

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS 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 is an activity used to introduce a lesson on explicit and recursive formulas for a sequence from a pattern. Students are asked to examine a pattern and find a formula to describe the sequence in the pattern. They will then determine if they wrote an equation that is recursive or explicit using the given definitions of both.  

The 10 Less and 10 More document can be used as an assessment, exit pass, or practice sheet for students working on adding/subtracting ten and 100 from any given number between 100 and 900.

This learning activity will guide students through solving story problems. It will help the students unpack simple word problems with unknowns in all positions.  The students will use different strategies to solve problems. It will encourage the students to make sense of problems. This learning activity will engage the students so that they will feel confident in solving a variety of story problems.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity will be used during a lesson on Adding and Subtracting Vectors. Students will explore 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. The teacher will use the Adding and Subtracting Vectors Lesson to cover the “I DO” and “We Do” portions of the lesson.

This activity was created as a result of 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.

This learning activity will be used during a lesson on Scalar Multiplication. Students will explore how to multiply a scalar into matrices in order to produce new matrices. The teacher will use the Scalar Multiplication Lesson to cover the “I Do” and “We Do” portions of the lesson.

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

This video will introduce students to the skill of writing equations based on word problems. There is also a karaoke-style video that reminds students of the steps for transforming word problems into equations as well as important vocabulary words. There is a corresponding seven-question quiz that will be used to assess student understanding of this concept. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Piet Mondrian is an artist famous for creating his masterpieces out of line art that utilized clean lines through rectangles. This activity will help us to create our own “Mondrian” by using our knowledge of factoring Quadratic trinomials through the use of Algebra tiles and area models.

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

Students will view target language movie trailers, select a movie that interests them, talk about them with a peer, then complete a graphic organizer. (This lesson includes three phases, uploaded as separate learning activities.)

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

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.

CalcWorkshop is a subscription-based service, however, Unit Circle With Everything is a free webpage with printable PDFs. Unit Circle With Everything 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.

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

In this activity, students will begin thinking about the power of exponents. They are given a choice of receiving 500 coins right now or receiving one coin the first day and doubling the amount each day for a month. Students will watch a free video tutorial to guide them through why exponents are used, how to simplify the same-base number with exponents, and how to show equivalent expressions to bases containing negative exponents. The video tutorial explains exponents in a way that all students can understand. Then, the students will revisit their choices by watching another video and work problems posed to see if their choice was wise considering the power of exponents. This activity can be used as an introduction to a lesson on exponents. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Department Summit.

This learning activity is a fun and interactive game. It will develop number sense by composing and decomposing numbers as well as building a foundation for place value skills. It can be used in whole group and small group instruction.  Before this game, the students will need to know strategies for making numbers in different ways. After the students are comfortable with this game, it can be varied by playing it with breaking into three parts. Students will have the opportunity to use several of the mathematical practices. This task allows the teacher to assess students' mathematical understanding.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This learning activity will be used at the end of a lesson on complex numbers. The student will use the relation i² = -1 and the commutative, associative, and distributive properties to add, subtract, and multiply complex numbers.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Students will complete a division word problem activity that requires them to find whole-number quotients and quotients with remainders. This activity should be used after the students have been taught division strategies. This activity can be used as an assessment or extra practice for solving division word problems.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.

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

Students will use data from a table to make multiplicative comparison statements of the data. This activity allows multiple practice opportunities.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

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.