Explore our activities and exercise that get students practicing skills, building knowledge, and engaging in hands-on learning. For school, home, and anywhere learning.
ELA
To the right are short instructional videos associated with your selected skill. No Certificates can be earned upon completing these videos.
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.
Analyzing Persuasive and Argumentative Writing Using Google Classroom
Students will be able to recognize and identify an author’s use of persuasive and argumentative writing techniques and use those skills to revise and edit an essay.
Bagel vs Bagel: Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development Using ReadWorks
Students will be able to show their understanding of a reading passage and its key vocabulary words.
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.
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.
In this activity, students will use the Sphero Mini to follow a path. This activity will start by driving Sphero through a maze. At different points on the path there will be "checkpoints" and students will respond to story prompts. This activity can be done multiple times for several different texts. Some of the checkpoints could involve characters, setting, problem, solution, etc. Join us as we explore a unique literacy activity with a Sphero Mini twist!
In this activity, students will direct Sphero to a sight word that is called out. Using the Activity Kit materials, students can 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.
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.
Sphero RVR - Color Walk Roots & Prefixes
Using the color sensor, students will program the RVR to read a list of words related to the Roots & Prefixes category and associated to each specific color tile. This activity encourages students to use the movement and control blocks to drive over the color tiles, pause, and list words that fit the category. This also uses speech blocks as well as the "On Color" event block.
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.
Build reading and listening comprehension skills for your students by creating videos of you reading a text aloud to them. You don't have to be on camera, but having your students hear your voice can be of huge benefit! Use Screencastify to create this video content and then share it with your students on Google Classroom.
