K-2 students will learn basic technology terms with a scavenger hunt and games!
Move tiles into the correct order for an arugment essay with a claim, evidence and explanation.
Student choice board for fiction adaptable by teacher to students and literature.
A student team of engineers, design a way to transport water from Point A to Point B without wasting or spilling any water.
Students will explore the basics of literacy through fun and interactive activities using Micro:bit technology.
Students develop their language and literacy skills, including reading, writing, and communication.
Students will collaborate in groups to foster teamwork and communication.
Chico has a friend who is stuck in a laundry shoot and uses a new tool to help his friend get free. Create a new tool using materials from a list provided and work within a budget constraint.
In this lesson students engineer ramps and race monster trucks. Students estimate and measure distances traveled and then organize and visually represent this data in a graph.
This is an PBL project that includes a Driving question, grabber, culminating activity and a rubric. By giving students text and expecting them to summarize the articles and be able to come to their own ideas about what they think about the topic. And by letting them analyze the material it gives the students the opportunity to examine the text for themselves.
Needs and Wants vary based on setting. Students need to be aware of this when discussing needs and wants.
Needs and Wants vary based on setting. Students need to be aware of this when discussing needs and wants.
This writing assessment can be used within an informational, research-based unit. Students will spend time, in class, reading myths based on natural disasters and researching a natural disaster. Students will create their own, original myth based on their independent research.
This writing assessment can be used within an informational, research-based unit. Students will spend time, in class, reading myths based on natural disasters and researching a natural disaster. Students will create their own, original myth based on their independent research.
Many students read without questioning a text or analyzing the author's viewpoint. This lesson will introduce students to recognizing point of view of the author. By reading two versions of the same tale and completing an interactive Venn diagram, students recognize that there are not only different versions of a story, but also different viewpoints to consider when reading.
Teaching Kindergartners the difference between sound and silence.
Student choice board ELA. Adaptable for any unit/topic.
Introducing the genre of Fantasy to students. They will gain an understanding of the content and produce their own story for the product. Modifications can be made on the length of the story the are to write. There can also be a more in depth conversation on the genre by older groups.
Students Share Their Reading Through A Short Movie! Integrates plot structure, main ideas and summarizing.
Much better than a written report!
Students will research an African American person based on set questions. The students will present their person in an interview format - Guess Who.This resource has been remixed to add a digital presentation option.
This original resource was a great activity using technology. I would use this as well as have students use the interactive map to find distance between towns/cities they may be more familiar with.
In this lesson, students will be determining the central idea of a text about the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. They will also examine how quotes help to develop a central idea. Next, they will be writing an objective summary. Students will then research information from NASA about becoming an astronaut, as well as quotes that support why someone should become an astronaut. Finally, students will plan and write an argumentative essay about why someone should apply to become an astronaut using claims, evidence, and commentary. To enhance this lesson with a digital focus, instead of the traditional essay format in the origial plan, students can be given the choice of several digital mediums to present their findings. This digital foucs allows for student choice, selection and/or creation of visuals to support student thinking and arguments, and customization of content for the stuent's specific audience.