REMC Association

Marble RunCreating a marble run is fun for all ages. For those who are younger, they are learning the basics of engineering design. As students get older and learn more about physics, the designs will get more elaborate.  Marble runs can be made out of anything which makes it a great repurposing activity for students to create the best run they can with materials at hand.  Students can play a computerized version or build their own with a variety of materials. This STEAM activity card will take

Pop Art Image EditingStudents may create new images in the style of Andy Warhol while learning photo editing skills. The Pixlr photo editor is a free site where students may create or modify images and then download them for use on other projects.

Beyond the TextbookDue to a lack of content (in many textbooks) regarding the role women and minorities played during the Revolutionary War, students will be asked to compile resources using various resources including Michigan’s Open Book Project and various other online resources regarding a specific unit of study. Once curated these resources will be shared and utilized by the class in order to compare the roles these groups played and how their actions affected the outcome of the Revolutiona

Math Patterns in NatureThere are patterns in everything we see. In kindergarten, students begin to learn to recognize basic shapes like circles, ovals, squares and rectangles. They will learn that the shapes often form patterns that can be orderly and sequential and others that might appear to be random.  They will learn to identify these patterns in inanimate and animate objects. Around the classroom, they learn that the boards are rectangles and the tables are square or round. In nature they w

Fourth Grade Reading Fluency and SeeSawSeesaw is a web-based and application platform where students can post pictures from the classroom, annotate, speak their mind, and create electronic portfolios that connect school and home. Parents are able to see student work as soon as it is posted. In this activity, students will read a piece that is uploaded to SeeSaw by the teacher. The teacher may want to have students use the piece again in the year to measure growth.

Pattern RecognitionComputational thinking assists students to break down problems into smaller parts so that it is easier to understand and solve them. In all disciplines, students have problems to solve. Learning to use decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction and algorithm design will help students reach success in all projects. Students can use computational thinking while working on a school project to coding and programming a game. The terms are difficult for a 2nd grader to learn, b

AlgorithmComputational thinking assists students to break down problems into smaller parts so that it is easier to understand and solve them. In all disciplines, students have problems to solve. Learning to use decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction and algorithm design will help students reach success in all projects. Students can use computational thinking while working on a school project to coding and programming a game. The terms are difficult for a 2nd grader to learn, but they sh

AbstractionComputational thinking assists students to break down problems into smaller parts so that it is easier to understand and solve them. In all disciplines, students have problems to solve. Learning to use decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction and algorithm design will help students reach success in all projects. Students can use computational thinking while working on a school project to code and program a game. The terms are difficult for a 2nd grader to learn, but they should

Create Your Own SpriteWhen students are learning to code they use often sprites as icons to move around the screen. When you hear the word sprite, you think of an item that may be small in size, but in web design, a sprite actually refers to a large image composed of several variations of smaller images.  Piskel is a free online sprite creator for creating animated sprites and pixel art. If you sign in, you can save your sprite to your own gallery.

Graphing Fuzz BugsStudents will sort Fuzz Bugs by color into matching containers creating a bar graph. Questions are then asked requiring students to interpret the graph and enter in answers. Questions are read aloud for nonreaders.

DecompositionComputational thinking assists students to break down problems into smaller parts so that it is easier to understand and solve them. In all disciplines, students have problems to solve. Learning to use decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction and algorithm design will help students reach success in all projects. Students can use computational thinking while working on a school project to coding and programming a game. The terms are difficult for a 2nd grader to learn, but the

Fifth Grade Reading Fluency and SeeSawSeesaw is a web-based and application platform where students can post pictures from the classroom, annotate, speak their mind, and create electronic portfolios that connect school and home. Parents are able to see student work as soon as it is posted. In this activity, students will read a piece that is uploaded to SeeSaw by the teacher. The teacher may want to have students use the piece again in the year to measure growth.

Survey SaysComputational thinking is the thought processes involved in formulating a problem and expressing its solution(s) in such a way that a human or a computer can effectively carry out. Students are presented with a scenario surrounding a relevant contemporary public issue on which they can take a stand. Students will work together to create a survey that will then be shared with various groups, in order to analyze the ways in which certain groups perceive a given issue. Once collected, th

Creepy CrawliesStudents will begin to learn how to do basic research using Michigan eLibrary's Early World of Learning. This basic encyclopedia is meant for non-readers as the text is very basic and the site will read everything aloud for those who cannot read yet or prefer to listen. Students will learn about creepy crawlies and where they live, eat and other interesting facts about them.  This activity may take more than one class period. Teachers may want to introduce the Early Book of Lear

A History Remix Using PhotosAn engaging way for students to learn about and make comparisons in history is to create remixes using photos and paintings from that time in history. Using the Library of Congress archives and Google images in the public domain, students can download the images and remix them using iPiccy to communicate about that time in history.  This activity will take several class periods.

Third Grade Reading Fluency and SeeSawSeesaw is a web-based and application platform where students can post pictures from the classroom, annotate, speak their minds, and create electronic portfolios that connect school and home. Parents are able to see student work as soon as it is posted. In this activity, students will read a piece that is uploaded to SeeSaw by the teacher. The teacher may want to have students use the piece again in the year to measure growth.