Learning Activities

In this lesson, students will use the concept of finding the probability of an offspring having more than one genetic trait simultaneously. They will use a shortcut method to find the probability and they will use a Punnett square calculator to check their answers. This lesson can be used to teach genetics in a science classroom or a practical "real world" application of probability calculations in a math classroom.

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

The teacher will introduce students to the word syllable and demonstrate to students how to count syllables in words using the digital tool. Next, the teacher will read a haiku poem to students and have the students count the syllables in the haiku using the strategy demonstrated in the video clip. Lastly, the teacher and students will read a variety of haiku poems, with the teacher encouraging the students to identify the syllable pattern in each poem using non-locomotor movements. The students will use mental math to calculate the number of syllables present in each line of a haiku poem and describe how this pattern supplies rhythm in a haiku. 

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

This learning activity will be used at the beginning of a unit on graphing conic sections to help engage the student. The student will create graphs of conic sections, including parabolas, hyperbolas, ellipses, and circles.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

This measurement menu is comprised of 11 interactives teachers can use with students to practice converting within the customary and metric systems of measurement. Students practice converting measures of length, weight, and capacity, as well as determining which unit of measurement is appropriate for a given object. The interactives are available to be played in relaxed mode or timed mode for an additional challenge. 

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.

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 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.

Seesaw is an online portfolio that allows students to document their learning.  Students can use Seesaw to add artifacts throughout the year. This activity is to have students solve a word problem and explain it within Seesaw.

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

This activity is an interactive online tool that allows students to explore and apply the order of operations to solve and evaluate algebraic expressions.

This activity was created at the ALEX Resource Development Summit.