Here is a fascinating article about the Hurricane of 1900 that examines its impact on the island of Galveston and asks students to apply mathematical knowledge and skills to the statistics learned about in the article and its accompanying reference materials.
Here is another example of digital note taking ideas. This one takes all of the notes from my class outline and makes them a drag and drop activity. This is another way to engage students in a history lecture. Selecting the current bullet point being discussed and dropping it in place requires your student to read through the notes on the screen and on the activity.
This activity identifies whether or not the notes are placed in the correct order and provides a grade which can help with quick and easy student accountability for note taking.
My students always wanted a way to take their notes on the Chromebook. I knew they would just copy paste the notes off of my website though so I didn’t allow it. Recently I came up with this idea for digital note taking that deals with the copy paste problem, by making drop down boxes for the blanks and basically turns the notes into the students first progress check on understanding the new material.
I made this activity on classwork.com It is a fabulous tool for taking an existing activity and digitizing it.
This is a fill in the blanks notes outline that has been converted to a digital activity. I have included mostly drop down selections and open text boxes for students to complete the notes while following along with the teacher and the lesson. All of the dropdown and numerical entries do check for accuracy and will provide a total grade so that notes can be come a grade weighted assignment.
This second Space Force activity has students practice their skills and display their mastery of converting feet to yards TEK 4.8c. Students convert feet to yards and show their answers by targeting asteroids and blasting them with the Space Force Laser Deployment System.
