In this activity, students will read a piece that is uploaded to SeeSaw by the teacher. The teacher may want to have students use the piece again in the year to measure growth.

Tinkercad is a free online application that quickly allows students to virtually design three-dimensional objects and create files for 3D printing.

There is nothing more fun than tinkering and taking apart old and broken equipment and toys and creating something from it. Give a student an old phone or computer and have them take it apart. They can try to put it together again or create something new from the pieces. The students will see what these things look like inside and better understand how the equipment and toys work.

Toony Tool is a free web tool that works on any device with a web browser. It allows students to be creative as they create their own cartoon/realistic scenes, comic scenes, posters or memes. It does not require a login. Pictures can be uploaded as well. Students can download or share their creations.

The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept.

Students will learn about algorithms and how to create and follow step-by-step instructions when going through the code.org lessons.

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This Project-Based Learning experience blends art and linear equations to help students make connections and extend their knowledge from a very basic understanding of y = mx + b to a true understanding of how slope and y intercept look differently in both equation form and graphed. Students get to use their creativity while at the same time make some major connections:
1) How do equations that have opposite slopes look on a graph?
2) What happens when two equations have the same slope but opposite y intercepts?
3) How does scale factor affect the appearance of the art?

I used this with my 6th grade honors class (preparing for Algebra I in 7th grade) but it would be appropriate for any middle school grade level and I even had a 5th grade teacher state that she would modify this lesson to teach graphing lines which I may also do with my standard 6th grade students!

Epic has over 25,000 books, videos and quizzes for students. Elementary teachers are able to sign up for a free account and use the Epic library with their students. Students will learn how to navigate a digital library and use appropriate tools to aid in their reading. In this activity, students will be introduced to fables and will use Microsoft Paint or Google Drawings to illustrate the moral of the story.

Students love to express themselves with images and videos. As we know there are a plethora of images and video readily available on the Internet for use in remixing other materials to create something new. Students can use public domain images and videos to remix for an assigned school project.

Visnos is an interactive math website that provides many different math tools to allow teachers to show math visually and allow students to explore with the tools.Visnos can be used with grades one-five as there are activities for telling time, fractions, multiplication tables, subtraction facts, angles, measurement using a protractor.

I turned each 5-part episode (each segment  last about 14 mintues) in an end-of-class activity for students.  For days 1-4, students would review the first 4 parts and make notes in their individual investigation ntoebooks (a.k.a. compoisiton books).  They would record math concepts, questions they had about the investigation, and any people of interest.  On day 5, usually Friday, students would watch the last segment, and then complete their weekly investigation form, focusing on using their notebooks for math concepts, persons of itnerest, questions from the investigation, etc.,Two results of this activity are:Students are more engaged in learning about the day's content and less inclined to be passive learners.Students are seeing concepts covered in both my and previous math classes and how they can be utilized in everyday life.I believe this is asissting students in become not only more active learniers, but also in becoming practical learners where the can utilize content to assist in solving problems.I've attached two of the investigation forms.  One is a completed verison of "The Case of the Missing Baseball" and the other is a ready for completion verison of "The Case of the Dirty Money"  The videos themselves are available on various Youtube channels, and I have heard that the program is available on DVD.

This is a unit introduction for any unit that has a thematic focus on the concept of "home." The first activity asks students to use critical thinking with art from the Smithsonian collection. Students will ask questions and look at commonalities. The second part of the activity asks students to look at an artist's sculptural interpretation of the idea of "home." The final piece of the activity involves students watching a video ("Fatima's Drawings") about a young girl who had to leave her home in Syria due to war and violence. Student are asked to analyze her concept of home and how it evolves.

Students will create a short screencast that helps present a local or global issue to a wider audience. The screencast will include a voiced narration presenting an idea on how to solve the issue and requesting ideas in return. After considering the feedback received students will create a new screencast to present the ideas.

Math can be solved through story problems. Most stories are divided into three acts. Learn about the 3 Act Math program.

Willie Worm is an enjoyable and challenging visual-spatial problem, which encourages persistence in problem-solving, as well as providing students with a purposeful reason for practicing counting and writing numbers from 1-25.

Wonderopolis is a free informational site that asks and answers interesting questions about the world. Wonders of the Day questions are posted daily, and each is designed to get kids to think, talk, and find learning moments in everyday life.

In first grade, students will start learning basic keyboarding and word processing skills. Students should be able to take their weekly spelling words and create two-three sentences as well as add provided images

Students will obtain multiple viewpoints on the issue of bullying and brainstorm possible solutions, with peers, educators, and parents, via video-conferencing.

Would You Rather Math is a website that contains fun math challenges that students can solve. A picture is presented with a math task and a question that begins with, Would you rather?”. A worksheet is available for problem-solving. Students justify their answer with mathematics. This is a perfect website for math centers and can be used at different grade levels other than 4th. Can be used at 3rd grade on up depending on the skill level of the students.

In this activity, students will create a piece of writing and read it to their audience on SeeSaw.