In this activity, students will construct their own electromagnet from a battery, wire, and a nail.
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This activity is designed to be an introductory activity to generate student thought and interest in energy transfers and identification of potential and kinetic energy transfers in a system.
This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This activity is used to introduce students to mythology. After this activity, learners will be able to identify and categorize the patterns found in various myths. Students will be able to write arguments to compare and contrast the patterns found in two myths.
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This learning activity should be used during a lesson to make predictions, record observations, and create a hypothesis to help fully understand the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. Students will observe and record the results of three different balls rolling down an inclined plane towards a cardboard box. Students will hypothesize the reason the balls made the cardboard box move.
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This activity can be used at the beginning of a unit or lesson on matter. The students will be given a list of items and will need to identify which items they consider to be matter. The students will also be asked to identify items that they don't consider to be matter and give reasons why. This activity can be used independently or with partners.
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In this activity, the students will activate prior knowledge using ABC brainstorming changes in matter. students will use Readworks "Mix the Old With the New” to learn about chemical properties. The students will read an article and answer questions about chemical properties. Finally, students will construct a summary paragraph from what they learned.
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This learning activity should be used at the end of a lesson or unit on the events and issues leading up to the Revolutionary War. The students will watch the satirical video depicting famous colonists issuing a declaration to King George III. The students will discuss the meaning of the video and identify the key players that are depicted in it.
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This introductory activity presents the topic of indigenous groups in Latin America. Through the use of a controversial Coca-Cola television advertisement from 2015, students will begin to discover and discuss the unique qualities of indigenous groups as well as issues they face in society. This activity builds upon prior knowledge of content, vocabulary, and grammar in the target language.
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In this activity, students will design an experiment to test factors that affect the strength of an electromagnet.
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Students will interact with a Tornado VR Experience on Youtube and make observations about Earth's natural events that happen over a short period of time. Students will engage in conversation to discuss how natural disasters affect their lives.
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Students will practice the concept of unit rate by comparing the prices of various items in grocery store advertisements.
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Thinglink is a digital resource that provides click-and-learn tags within images and video to enhance learning and take it beyond the textbook or classroom walls!
Students can use this specific Thinglink as a digital source to meet the Alabama Course of Study standards for gathering and recalling relevant information, paraphrasing and creating grammatically correct content, and giving proper credit to digital sources.
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This activity allows students to describe the world in spatial terms using maps by becoming a part of geography. The students will actually become coordinates on a map that will help them master latitude, longitude, and cardinal directions.
This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This lesson should be used at the end of a poetry unit or lesson. Students will use technology tools, including the internet, word processing tools, and Canva to produce a page of original poetry which will be published in a collaborative e-book.
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This learning activity may be used during or after a lesson to teach or check for understanding of multi-syllable words. This lesson applies word analysis skills in decoding words and counting syllables in multisyllabic words. Students may dance, sing, clap and/or count syllables along with the video in order to incorporate rhythmic movement skills.
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Students will work in pairs and roll various colored dice in order to create polynomial expressions for addition and/or subtraction.
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This activity can be used as an introduction to atomic structure. Students will be given several sealed envelopes and asked to use their senses to identify the objects inside. Students aren't allowed to open the envelopes, but they may use any of their senses to figure out what is inside. The teacher can compare this activity with the discovery of the atom and its structure.
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This learning activity should be used after students have analyzed and examined three informational texts in order to answer the Big Question, "What does it mean to be an American?" Students will then use textual evidence from one text in order to produce a found poem as a whole class. This activity provides students the ability to approach poetry in a non-threatening manner, while also asking students to look past only explicit meaning in texts. Found poetry is the literary equivalent to a collage, so students respond to this activity positively because of its creative nature.
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Students will be creating a Halloween-themed recipe and then altering it to feed various amounts of "witches". The students will practice both multiplying and dividing fractions.
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This learning activity will teach students how to use the technology tool Canva to create a poster instead of the standard tri-fold board. During this activity, students will be assigned a famous person. They will research their person's personal statistics (birthdate, career, hometown, famous quote, picture) and design and create a poster using Canva.
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After studying a character, students will create a Word Art design to show how a particular character develops over the course of a text.
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The Oreo Method of writing an argument essay helps students to develop an argument using textual evidence and commentary to support a claim. This method also allows the student to develop a pattern for creating clear, vivid and precise writing. This Learning Activity would be for any non-fiction text.
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The students will work as a team to accurately answer the question posed. Students must agree on the answer, gather the letters needed to spell it, and arrange themselves so that they hold the letters in order and right side up. The first group to correctly answer is awarded the point(s) for that question. This review game requires communication, collaboration, and creativity and can easily be adapted to any subject area.
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In this grammar lesson, students will use a graphic organizer/worksheet to determine three concepts: the subject, action verb, and direct object in a sentence
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This learning activity should be used during a lesson on using models to construct an explanation of how the force exerted by a rubber band changes as the band is stretched. This learning activity can be used as an assessment.
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After reading, analyzing, and discussing the article “E-Cigarettes: A Dangerous Trend” and using the hyperdoc, students will synthesize information to learn the dangers of e-cigarettes and design, create, and publish a Public Service Announcement video that explains the dangers of e-cigarettes.
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In this activity, students will research synthetic medicines and their natural counterparts which perform the same functions. After evaluating the pros and cons of each, students will write a persuasive paragraph expressing their opinions about whether to use synthetic or natural medicines.
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Students listen to a book about a jackrabbit that wishes for horns so that he can be fierce. After listening to the read aloud, the students discuss animal adaptations for survival, including physical characteristics, habitat, and diet.
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This activity guides students through the process of creating a graph of a particular data set. Students can produce a bar graph that compares different categories, a line graph that shows a change in something over time, or a pie graph that shows percentages of a whole. Students will select the most appropriate graph choice, input data, create labels and titles, and make design choices to enhance the graphic representation of the data.
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This online article and infographic from the Institute of Public Speaking explains the components involved in active listening, an important skill for students to develop when communicating and collaborating.
Use of this tool will serve as an aid in helping students to meet Alabama's Course of Study standards for locating, recalling, curating, and correctly summarizing information while also learning about the components of active listening.
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This activity can be used at the beginning of a lesson on thermal energy or energy transfer. The teacher will conduct a demonstration involving two balloons (one only filled with air, the other filled with air and water) and place them over a flame. The students will then make predictions, observations, and provide explanations based on the demonstration.
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In this learning activity, students will identify the origins, development, influence, key tenets, and cultural contributions of an early world religion (Judaism, Greek and Roman gods, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam) in an online storyboard. They will use StoryboardThat to develop a comic strip detailing the early religion and its cultural contributions.
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This activity should be used at the beginning of a lesson about the long-standing racial prejudice issues in America as depicted in short stories like Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” (1894). The teacher can use the Poll Everywhere site to create a question like “What 'appropriate' word comes to mind when you compare racial prejudice of modern-day America to the America of 125 years ago?” You can use the responses to the question to create a “Word Picture” on the Poll Everywhere website so that students can see all responses on the board. This will segue to viewing a YouTube video entitled "Too White to Be Black Too Black to be White" (5:36 min.).
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This learning activity should be used as an after activity to allow students to demonstrate their understanding of patterns and characteristics associated with the traditional Hero's Journey myth (mono-myth). This learning activity could be used with the learning activity "What Makes a Hero?" to introduce these concepts. The students will brainstorm ideas for a personal hero who fits the characteristics of the traditional myth using a My Hero's Journey Book Proposal and The Hero's Journey. The assignment is presented to students as a letter from a publisher asking them to submit their ideas for a book using the traditional hero's journey pattern and characteristics. The students will answer questions and insert illustrations from The Hero's Journey to help them think through their ideas.
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In this activity, students will investigate the effectiveness of a pharmaceutical medicine and its natural counterpart. They will evaluate the pros and cons of each and make a recommendation about the best choice for the consumer. Students present their research to the class and evaluate the research of their peers.
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