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Teqtivity Skills

6th-8th Grade

To the right are short instructional videos associated with your selected skill. No Certificates can be earned upon completing these videos.

Blackout Poetry

Students will start with a text sample, including but not limited to prose, quotations, paragraph samples provided by the teacher and create blackout poetry. 

*Note: SLSO is now known as Lumio and has even more features than before!

Presidential Baseball Cards

Watch this to learn how to create an activity for students in which they analyze the lives of various key figures during an important moment in history. 

Refrigerator Magnet Poetry

Students will create and share a poem in Google Slides by moving words on refrigerator magnets.

Identifying and Recognizing Idiomatic Expressions in English Using Lumio

Students will be able to recognize and identify idiomatic expressions in everyday English.

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FOIL Method

Students will review the FOIL Method by working out problems in an online worksheet activity.  Then they will take an online assessment (SMART Response 2 Quiz through Lumio, formerly known as SMART Learning Suite Online).

Earth's Spheres Digital Dioramas

Help your students learn about Earth's spheres using Edpuzzle. Then they'll use what they've learned to create virtual dioramas of Earth's spheres in Google Jamboard. 

Atom Builder Lesson

To review the atomic structure of atoms and how this affects their ability to combine in chemical reactions, this lesson allows students to draw their structure using cloned objects and consult several Periodic Table resources.
*Note: SLSO is now known as Lumio and has even more features than before!

Digital Citizenship Teq-tivity

Students will learn what it means to be a Digital Citizen and learn about what they can do to be responsible members of the digital community

*Note: SLSO is now known as Lumio and has even more features than before!

Calculating Mean, Median, and Mode

Students will find measures of central tendency, specifically mean, median, and mode. Students will learn how to calculate these meaures through the use of a random number generator, google forms, an interactive Peardeck presentation and a self correcting google sheet.   

Culture Show and Tell

Students will highlight an aspect of their culture and present it to their peers using an online video platform. They can highlight something personal (as in something unique to their family that is currently practiced), ancestral (passed down generation to generation), or cultural (something celebrated by people of their ethnicity, religions, race, etc.).  Through this, they will celebrate what is unique to their own culture as well as celebrate and learn about the cultures of their peers.

Geometry Choice Board

Students will pick several topics from the choice board to complete using their knowledge of geometry, but also using other skills such as creative writing and illustrations.   

*Note: SLSO is now known as Lumio and has even more features than before!

Opportunity Cost

In this video students will be able to understand that every decision they make has a consequence and be able to define opportunity cost.

Quadratic Formula

When teaching the Quadratic Formula to solve for x and graph parabolas (quadratic equations, we can present our Notebook file from Lumio, formerly known as SMART Learning Suite Online and give students inking tools to work out the process and graph the functions. Take a look!

Self-Paced Refraction Lab

Students will conduct a self-paced lab on refraction using Google Slides and Pear Deck to facilitate their report.

Makey Makey - Simple Circuits

Using your Makey Makey board, you will complete some simple circuits by using conductive material, alligator clips and your fingers!

Makey Makey - Insulators and Conductors

What types of materials are conductive?  Join me as I demonstrate a lesson using our Makey Makey board as students explore the concept of insulators and conductors.

Makey Makey - With Gamepads

In this lesson demostration, students make a gamepad using Play Doh.  I show how to test the gamepad out with Scratch programs and also some online free games.  This will all lead up to Game Design as students become more familiar with creating circuits on the Makey Makey board.

Age of Exploration

Students will learn about the Age of Exploration using Ozobots.

Historical Timeline with Ozobots

Students will create historical timelines of different time periods with the help of Ozobots!

World Religions with Ozobots

Students will learn about various religions around the world with the help of Ozobots.

Build a Bridge Challenge

Let's build a bridge for Sphero to drive over! Students will be challenged to create a bridge using a variety of classroom or household materials. Then, students will program Sphero to drive over the bridge. Students will be challenged to think about different types of bridges, incorporate multiple design elements, and hold the weight of the Sphero.

Sphero RVR - Color Walk Biographies

Using the color sensor, students will program the RVR to read a list of words related to the Biographies 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.

Sphero RVR - Speed Test

Using the movement blocks for Sphero EDU and the RVR robot, students will fill out the Speed Test Chart. They will experiment with various speed settings and time periods and use ratios to calculate the centimeters per second unit rate.

Sphero RVR - Right Triangle Paths

After studying interior and exterior angles of polygons, students will program their RVR to trace around the path of a large pentagon. This will involve speed and heading settings in the Sphero EDU blocks.

Sphero RVR - Pentagon Paths

After studying interior and exterior angles of polygons, students will program their RVR to trace around the path of a large pentagon. This will involve speed and heading settings in the Sphero EDU blocks.

Math Memes

Students will pick a math concept they have studied during the academic year and create a math meme in Google Slides and/or Google Drawings.