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.
Students 5th-7th grade demonstrate their mastery of converting regular and improper fractions into decimals to save the earth from outside forces.
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Greetings 5th grade U.S. History teachers. Here is a selection of four different review game sets for your students.
We are going to work together to create our first PowToon animation. The video walkthrough below will teach your students how to take a template in PowToon and customize it with their own information for a project/presentation. We will be making our presentation about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I am providing all of the information and images that we will need at the link below.
Pause this video as needed to make sure your students are caught up with me.
PowToon template we will use.
https://www.powtoon.com/preview-template/626
Information we will use on this project.
BingoBaker.com is my new favorite Bingo card website. You can easily make your cards for free but I willingly dropped $24.95 for an unlimited life time membership to Bingo Baker. I had begun to build bingo cards in Canva but even with a template I realized I was about to have to manually cut and paste all of the terms over and over for a minimum of 30 cards. That task loomed over me like an executioners axe.
I went to the world wide webnets hoping to find a more reasonable solution. I stumbled across Bingo Baker and it was like all of my prayers had been answered.
All you have to do is copy paste in your list of terms and this wonderful program mixes them up in a bowl for you and repeatedly pours out tasty individual bingo cards to meet your needs.
You can also build your cards with images or questions and answers. Check it out. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Here are a few I made earlier:
MS RLA
Computer lab with images
Here is another teacher request for you. A different no-tech flashcard board game with a classic chutes and ladders theme. Here are all the other board games available. Use any small object for game pieces.
Your class must decide if you would rather assist a paleontologist with the excavation of dinosaur bones or help a photographer capture photos of dinosaurs. Click the image below to select your desired activity.
Here is the 6th Flash Card Game Board I have made for you. I am super excited to say that this one is from a teacher request (may favorite things). If you have never seen these before. They are simple generic board games that students can play against each other with review flash cards of any type. You can find the first five and more information here.
Click the picture above to visit Build-a-Bug where you get to assemble your own bug from their head to their thorax.
Study Stack is an amazing tool for reviewing digital Flash Cards. Today we are going to look at how to use your study stack flash cards to review off line.
Start at 1:10 watch for 3 minutes to get the point
4.3c Identify leaders important to the founding of Texas as a republic and state, including José Antonio Navarro, Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, and Anson Jones; 4.3dDescribe the successes, problems, and organizations of the Republic of Texas such as the establishment of a constitution, economic struggles, relations with American Indians, and the Texas Rangers; 4.3e Explain the events that led to the annexation of Texas to the United States and the impact of the U.S.‐Mexican War;
Click the image above to reach the Virtual Field Trip tour of artifacts at the Bob Bullock State of Texas Museum. We will examine artifacts related to the Republic of Texas, Annexation, and the Mexican War. The tour is fully voice narrated.
Below is a printable student activity handout to accompany the tour.
Need to review academic vocabulary with your U.S. History students? Look no further. Here are 100 unique printable bingo cards that contain the 97 terms identified by Lead4Ward as new academic vocabulary introduced to your students in their 8th grade course. I have also generated a call sheet of the terms and definitions in a spread sheet format I also used Flashcard Lab to generate Flash card versions of the terms and definitions so that you can print and cut those out for randomly drawing and calling your Bingo definitions. Here are all the files in .PDF Format.
Here are a few options for quickly assessing your students comprehension of a concept. This is a question I often get so here are my best answers all gathered up for you.
Lumio from Smart tech has a huge portion of it that is designed to be used by students on individual devices and not on SMART boards.
Nearpod offers similar options. To collect responses from students and discuss responses with the class.
Peardeck is very similar to Nearpod. Of course Quick Prompts are not free… I have walk through video of everything that Peadeck can do, there are very usable and useful free options.
Socrative is another option. Which can do Multiple Choice, T/F, and Short Answer in it’s free teacher account.
Mentimeter is another one I have used to collaborate and create a parent night presentation with interactive polling. Mentimeter adds in a word cloud option!
Want to keep it very low effort on your part? How about a Google Classroom discussion question, a Google Form, a Google Jamboard (or what ever they call it now, Figjam?), also a Canva collaborative work space can provide a super simple space for students to share what they know.
Here is a brand new food web activity for you called “Predator or Prey”. This is an interactive digital activity made in Genially. It really pushes students to think critically about their understanding of TEKS 5.9b and 5.9c as they relate to food webs.
