This is a high activity game that works on passing, catching, moving to open space, teamwork, and a variety of other skills. It can be played with any number of students on a variety of playing areas. The only equipment needed is a ball.
This exercise is designed to introduce students to the events that occur in the cell cycle and the process of mitosis that divides the duplicated genetic material creating two identical daughter cells
This online interactive website chalk full of games and simulations cover all of the following topics:
*Plasma membrane structure and function, roles of phospholipids, transport proteins (carrier and channel), cholesterol and carbohydrates, types of transport, diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active transport, osmosis.
This is a perfect tutorial/game based/simulation driven online resource for teaching, re-teaching, or reviewing the basics behind the plasma membrane and cell transport.
At this website you receive clues and analyze data to solve the outbreak case and save lives! This interactive website allows you to be the disease detective.
The purpose of the word search is to provide a framework for chemical formulae review as well as creating awareness of differences between different naming methods for a variety of compounds. As formulae names are discovered they can be discussed and then the actual symbolic representation made.
This site is a gateway to projects involving public participants in real-world research, with hopes of fostering connections for sharing ideas and resources.
Use this module to help students learn about being and engaged citizen. Evaluate the obligations citizens have to obey laws, pay taxes, defend the nation, and service on juries. Experience the responsibilities of citizens at the local, state, or federal levels. Conduct a service project to further the public good. This teaching module comes with lesson plans, readings, student guides and handouts, practice, games, a review, a gallery walk, and an opportunity for student simulation/engagement.
Do your students have what it takes to be the next hit Broadway musical producers? In this free civics learning game, students assume the role of a theater producer adapting true events from United States history to the stage. It’s up to them to analyze primary sources from the Library of Congress to create a new smash Broadway musical hit that is historically accurate and celebrates the power of ordinary citizens in creating change. Students work with different theatrical departments to learn about important aspects of creating a musical, such as costuming, set design, writing, and music. Once all the mini-games are complete, they are rewarded with a scene from their musical on opening night, completely personalized based on the creative choices they made during their game experience.
Students will use the Hopscotch or Tynker App (either on an iPad or web-based) to create their own video game. This project is designed for grades 6-8 but could be adopted to other grades. The project is intended for use after students complete the 20 hour course on introduction to coding on Code.org (https://studio.code.org/s/20-hour)
CodeMonkey is a great way for students to gain a better understanding of how programming works. It is an engaging platform where programming knowledge is acquired alongside 21st century skills through collaboratively playing and solving puzzles, inventing, creating and sharing.
From Code.org:
"In this lesson, students will relate the concept of algorithms back to real-life activities by playing the Dice Race game. The goal here is to start building the skills to translate real-world situations to online scenarios and vice versa."
Game teaches the importance of safeguarding against identity theft and fraud by allowing the user to hack fictitious financial information and accounts and avoid detection
Cone Baseball is a small-sided baseball skills game that allows students to practice hitting, throwing and catching, and fielding skills in a small group wihich results in high student activity time. This game imitates a real game without the waiting time.
In this online game, students will practice counting forward from a given number with the known sequence. Students choose a starting point and then will practice sequencing numbers in a 20 digit range.
iCivics offers a variety of different ways to engage in the celebration of Constitution Day. They offer a simple one-day lesson, but also expand to more in-depth WebQuests, DBQs, and online games related to the Constitution and its effect on our government and our way of life. To gain full access, educators must establish a free account.
Game where students act as the president to make national security and diplomatic decisions.
Students have several opportunities to practice counting by ones in groups, interactively.
In this lesson students will understand that they can begin counting at a number other than 1 in a counting sequence. Students will understand that numbers follow a sequence. this will help students gain an understanding of operations as they learn to count on from any number they will develop strategies for counting on in addition.
This lesson will build fluency with counting objects to 10. Students will engage in counting with objects and a 10-frame to recognize groups of numbers.
In this simulation, students will run a county and make decisions that affect the success of their county. Constituents in the simulation pose problems for studenst to determine if they should solve and which department inthe county should be responsible.
Instructor Notes: Teachers can assign this content to their students in iCivics account and then Clicking the Assign button on this activity. Teachers will then have the option to add a Class into iCivics OR Sync a roster from Google Classroom. This will allow teachers to see student's responses. There are also Downloadable Resources available to support this learning activity.