Explore our activities and exercise that get students practicing skills, building knowledge, and engaging in hands-on learning. For school, home, and anywhere learning.
PrK-2nd Grade
To the right are short instructional videos associated with your selected skill. No Certificates can be earned upon completing these videos.
Structures and Behaviors of Plants and Animals
The teacher will begin with a “Shout It Out” activity for students to identify the different traits plants and animals need to survive. Once students understand the basic needs of life, they will create and label a Venn diagram; one side for plants and the other side for animals. Students will then look at a series of pictures and write down similarities and differences of the characteristics of each plant and animal on the Venn diagrams they have created. As an extension, the teacher will divide the class into teams to talk about the story of the "Three Little Pigs" and how their behaviors (building different types of houses) affected their survival. The teams of students will then create a short story that features adaptations.
Non-Standard Units of Measure Kindergarten
During this activity students will measure various household objects using non-standard units of measure (paper clips). This will be done both digitally with SMART Learning Suite Online and with manipulatives.
Thank You Notes For Community Helpers
During this activity, students will learn about the people that serve and help their community. They will practice basic research skills to learn about their chosen community helper. They will then practice writing skills by writing them a thank you note.
During this activity students will explore light, shadows, 2D and 3D shapes. They will accomplish this by building a structure that casts a shadow and tracing that shadow. They will then try to re-build the structure based off the shadow drawing. Students will also learn the vocabulary words "transparent" and "Opaque and be able to use them to describe and object.
Who doesn’t love a castle? During this activity students will explore shapes and how they can fit together to create a castle. At the end of this activity students will have described and named 2D shapes and sorted them according to likeness. They will have also engineered a castle and worked their fine motor skills by picking up and placing the shapes.
Van Gogh Inspired Self Portraits
Over the course of several lessons students will learn about various famous artists. They will explore seveal types of art and artistic movements by praticing basic research skills. Students will have the opportunity to create a work of art inspired by the artist they are studying. Students will also have the opportunity to build their vocabulary and work on their fine motor skills. In this lesson specifically students will study Van Gogh and create a self portrait inspired by his.
Jackson Pollock Inspired Painting
Over the course of several lessons students will learn about various famous artists. They will explore seveal types of art and artistic movements by praticing basic research skills. Students will have the opportunity to create a work of art inspired by the artist they are studying. Students will also have the opportunity to build their vocabulary and work on their fine motor skills. In this lesson specifically students will be learning bout impressionism, modern art and Jackson Pollock. Like Pollock they will explore unconventional methods of painting and creating artwork
This is a digital twist on a traditional back to school activity. During this lesson students will have the opportunity to explore and express their likes, dislikes, preferences and tell their classmates and teachers their story by writing and illustrating their own book. This purposely simple template with sentence prompts allows students to create from scratch without distractions. This lesson will also open door the to have discussions about individuality, families, friends and all things involving the whole student. This lesson can be done all at once, or over the course of the school year.
How Can I Help The Environment?
Students will go to Your Plan, Our Planet by Google. Students will go through answering questions about their daily habits and learn information and tips on how they can reduce their own carbon footprint. Students will use Google Drawings to create a poster intended to show ways we can reduce, reuse, and recycle.
*Note: G-Suite is now known as Google Workspace
Rolling Down the Number Line with Addition and Subtraction
In this activity, students will use the Sphero Mini to practice solving word problems. Students will do this by rolling their robot up and down the number line to solve the addition or subtraction equations in the word problem.
Sight Word Dance with Sphero Mini
During this lesson, students will practice their sight word frequency by “dancing” their Sphero Mini to the sight word that is read aloud.
In this activity, students will engage in a Sphero Mini bowling activity with a math twist! Students will set up the bowling pins and use the Sphero to knock the pins down. Students will determine how many pins are left and they will subtract that number from the original number of pins. Additional "pins" or objects can be added on to make this activity more advanced. In addition, students can apply different math strategies such as addition, multiplication, and division to take this activity to the next level!
In this activity, students will engage in a unique Sphero Mini activity! Students will work on identifying shapes and using the Sphero Mini to trace each shape. Students or teachers will draw the shapes and then drive Sphero over each shape. This will lead into a discussion of different types of shapes as well as a great opportunity to practice shape recognition and Sphero Mini driving skills!
Sphero RVR - Color Walk Vowel Sounds
Using the color sensor, students will program the RVR to read a list of words related to the Vowel Sounds category and associated to each specific color tile. They will use the Drive tool in Sphero EDU and stop over each color. This also uses speech blocks as well as the "On Color" event block.
In this activity, students will direct Sphero to a sight word that is called out. Students can use additional materials to create an obstacle course to add to the excitement of this activity! They will need to navigate to the sight word, say the word, and use the word in a sentence. This can be adjusted for each grade level and can be expanded on by having students write the words, write a story with the words, etc.
Let's test our knowledge with Sphero! In this activity, students will take a "pop quiz" by answering questions and driving Sphero to the correct answer. This activity will begin by have answer choices set up (A,B,C,D). From there, multiple choice questions for any given subject area will be assigned to students. To answer the questions, students will drive the Sphero over to their answer choice.
Sight Word Dance Off with Sphero SPRK+ and Bolt
During this lesson students will practice their sight word frequency by "dancing" their Sphero to the sight word that is read aloud.
Students will create a Google Slide presentation about their family. They will begin by defining the word family, then identify each member of their own family and take a picture of them. They must then write 2 - 3 sentences identifying the different properties of what families are, what families have, and what families can be.
Ordering and Comparing Length Measurements as Numbers
The teacher will have the students login to Lumio, formerly known as SMART Learning Suite Online, and push each slide as an individual activity for the students. The students will use the the Lumio lesson to measure different items using objects that are the same length. The students will compare objects and arrange them by their length. Once the students have completed the activity the must find a household object to measure using another object (ex: using paper clips to see how long the TV remote would be). As an extension, the students will take their selected item and use a Google Hangout/Meet to discuss their findings with their class. To review the teacher will create a "Rank Order" LAB Activity for the students to do indivdually with Lumio to check for understanding.
Egg-tastic Engineering (Structures)
During this activity students will engage in the engineering design process to build a structure with plastic eggs and modeling dough. This can be doing individually or as a group project.
Students will begin with an exploration of an image of an example community and identify details in an illustration that hint at the type of community. The teacher will then provide students with concept mapping templates. Students will work independently or collaboratively on a concept mapping activity on Lumio, formerly known as SMART Learning Suite Online, moving written descriptions or images into the associated type of community. Students might also choose to free draw their own images that describe that community type!
During this activity, students will activate prior knowledge of standard and non-standard units of measurement and gain new understandings about the need for standard measurement. Students will practice measuring using virtual manipulatives on handouts pushed out through Lumio, formerly known as SMART Learning Suite Online. Through interactive handouts, students will apply their knowledge of standard and non-standard units to measure various household (or classroom) objects in two different units and record their results on a digital handout.
During this activity, students will apply previous knowledge and new understandings to complete two interactive activities focused on community helpers and their benefit to the community. In the first activity, students will categorize examples of community helpers to recognize similarities among community helpers. In the second activity, students will pair community helper names to their description.
Color My World (Color Mixing, Tints and Shade)
During this activity students will use the manupulatives created in SMART Notebook to review the color wheel and experiement with tints and shades. There will also be an oppertunity to review the colors of the rainbow with a quick Class Lab game.
*Note: SLSO is now known as Lumio and has even more features than before!
