Learner Centered Activities and Lessons

Students will create an If-Then Adventure Story using Google Slides. Google Slides supports branching links to build a story where different choice lead to different slides. Learning objectives include: Identify and describe the main stages of the water cycle: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, infiltration, and groundwater storage.Explain how the sun's energy drives the water cycle.Describe the different forms of water found in the water cycle (liquid, solid, gas).Identify the re

Activity Objective: Review essential ecology concepts as part of a research project. Big picture concepts include Ecosystems, Biodiversity, and Populations. Students will choose a critter that they are curious about. (student choice) As they learn more about the critter, they will make connections to essential concepts connected to ecosystems, biodiversity, and population ecology. Students will share what they learn using a video or by creating a web page. The activity is designed to have stud

Description: A Google Slide Interactive Activity to help students reflect on 2024 and set a one word goal for 2025. Includes videos and resources to reflect on 2025 and instructions for choosing one word as a foundation for 2025. One word you can focus on every day, all year long… One word that sums up who you want to be or how you want to live. It will take intentionality and commitment, but if you let it, your one word will shape not only your year, but also you. It will become the compass th

This document explores the use of Google Docs interactive features to create engaging activities for students and staff. It provides tutorials and resources on features such as checklists, document tabs, pageless settings, dropdown responses, smart chips, Google Drawings, and inserting Drive files and YouTube videos. The document also covers additional features like emoji reactions, Mote audio, Google Maps smart chips, and table templates. It concludes with a list of additional resources for fur

Memes can be a great way to get students creating and thinking critically as they reflect on essential concepts and classroom activities. This is a Google Slides Template to safely create memes for classroom activities, assessments, learning reflections exit slips, and more. Memes can help students to summarize and synthesize information. By creating a meme, students are forced to distill a concept down to its essential elements and then express it in a creative and concise way. This process ca

Description: Google Slide deck with instructions and 20 editable templates that can be downloaded as graphics for students or staff to create and share one word challenges. These are graphic templates to help students create shareable graphics with their one word. This not the full activity. Please view the preview to see what you are purchasing. Why One Word Challenges for Students? " History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history." - Clarence Darrow Success an

The goal of this activity is to engage students in sharing who they are.  Students will respond to several prompts. (These can be modified to fit your class.)Students will record their voice using the prompts as a script. The recommended tool is Adobe Express “Animate your voice”, but any tool that allows a student to record and share would work. This site allows students to creatively animate their voice using a variety of animated characters. An extension of the activity, students can use Adob

Weekly reflection is a cornerstone of effective learning. By taking a moment each week to consider the material covered, students can solidify their understanding, identify areas needing further attention, and refine their study habits. This self-directed analysis not only strengthens their grasp of current concepts, but also equips them with the critical thinking skills necessary to become independent learners who are motivated and prepared for future academic challenges. This Google Document i

This interactive Google Document will help students explore the following objectives Identify the five main layers of the Earth's atmosphere.Describe the key characteristics of each layer, including:Altitude rangeTemperature profilePressure profileComposition of gases Compare and contrast the different layers of the Earth's atmosphere.The activity includes images, embedded Google Drawing graphs, linked readings, linked videos, and tables for student responses. There is also a linked Google Form