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Grade K-2 Activities |
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Grade K-2 Activities |
Instructions: Click on any activity's purple underlined title for more information and a chance to download the activity.
This activity was developed in the Three Button Choice Template which is available on the Learning Magic "Three Button Choice CD". Please note that this is a non-commercial CD. If you would like further information on the CD please email us at info@learningmagicinc.com for further information on how you can obtain this CD. Please reference "3 Button Choice CD" in your message line.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5, Middle/High School. Curriculum area: Life Skills.
This activity was developed in one of the templates from "The Writing Bin" CD and documents the various types and characteristics of bats around the world.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Science
This activity was developed in one of the templates from the Learning Magic, Inc. "Comprehension" CD and is a companion activity to "Bats". After students have read and written about bats, they then can take this comprehension test which automatically captures student answers for reporting and data collection.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Science
This activity is a whimsical reading book which outlines what I might own if I owned an Odd-itorium. The odd-itorium includes attractions such as a Cyclops, a fire-breathing dragon, a wizard and a green cross-eyed snake to name just a few.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Language Arts.
From our "The Suitcase Series" CD, this math activity provides students with the ability to practice subtraction problems with built in animated support which will provide them both auditory and visual representation of the problem when the "help" button is clicked.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Math.
From our “The Suitcase Series” CD, this math activity provides students with an opportunity to paint a picture of a fish while correlating the colors and numbers on a toolbar to the numbers on the picture. Number recognition can easily be examined through this fun activity.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Math.
From our “The Suitcase Series” CD, this math and early learning activity will provide students with an opportunity to continue patterns. Each page has different images within the pattern and students are asked to place two objects on the page to continue the pre-existing pattern.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Math and Early Learning.
This activity was built in one of "The Writing Bin" CD’s scaffolded templates and provides photographic images, sound effects etc. of different things you might see in the sky. Repetitive text along with the photographic images introduces each object to the student initially. Later in the writing portion the student then has the opportunity to write about each object using their own words.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5. Curriculum area: Life Skills and Language Arts.
This activity was specifically developed to aid an elementary school child who was having trouble sharing food in his classroom and in a lunchroom setting. One of the student's favorite things to do was to go a local farm where he loved to watch, pet and be around the large farm animals. We developed the "Sharing The Hay" activity, which shows the different animals on the farm "eating and sharing hay", using one of the templates from the recently released The Writing Bin CD to provide writing support.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5. Curriculum area: Life Skills and Language Arts.
This puzzle is built upon one of the templates available on the Learning Magic, Inc.'s Puzzling CD.
As the three puzzle pieces are removed, a close-up photograph of a one inch tall crawfish with his pinchers fully extended in an attack position is revealed. One final click on the puzzle results in a short movie of the same crawfish waving his pinchers back and forth as he slowly retreats to the water's edge.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5. Curriculum area: Cause and Effect and Science.
The "It's Springtime" activity is a short six page activity that was built specifically for single and dual switch users who have low vocabulary skills.The activity cycles from page to page after a mouse or a switch is clicked. The six pages have photographs, sound effects and movies where appropriate to illustrate things that occur in the spring.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Cause and Effect and Science.Magic Kingdom answers a teacher's request for us to develop something for a student who always wanted to go to Disney World, but due to being so profoundly involved physically was never able to make the journey. So we have attempted to bring The Magic Kingdom to her.
High quality videos bring it all to life, and later in the activity the student has a chance to choose four different areas to visit. Magic Kingdom is appropriate for Grade 2 and upward depending upon the child.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5. Curriculum area: Cause and Effect.
This activity was developed in one of the two-button templates from Learning Magic, Inc.'s Cause & Effect And BEYOND CD in conjunction with a fifth grade special education teacher who wanted to introduce new language in and around the subject of vehicles and provide quick classroom assessment of her students' knowledge in this subject area. A simple modification, displaying the button names, optimized this template to produce an activity that accomplished both goals.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Language Arts, Cause and Effect, and Life Skills.
This puzzle is built upon one of the templates available on the Learning Magic, Inc.'s Puzzling CD. It requires the child to click on the puzzle three times to remove the three puzzle pieces and display the entire picture of the Owl Butterfly. When the child clicks a fourth time, a movie plays which shows the butterfly flapping its wings. This puzzle is being used in classrooms as a subject starter about tropical butterflies, their environment, their defense mechanisms (i.e. camouflage) and other subjects related to the tropical rainforest.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5. Curriculum area: Cause and Effect and Science.
Susan Norwell is the author of this writing activity, which provides background on firefighters and what they do on a day-to-day basis to keep us safe, followed by pages where children can write. Clicking an "Insert Pictures" button in the template provides eight firefighter-related photos on a toolbar, which children can insert into the pages to illustrate their story.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Life Skills.
The On the Farm Writing activity is based upon one of the new Learning Magic Picture Writing templates that we are developing. On the first writing page, students can click on the Insert Pictures button, which will open a toolbar with eight photos of different animals that may be found on a farm. They can then click on any animal to insert the picture onto the page. Then they can write about the animal in the textbox provided.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Life Skills.
Kids take a virtual trip to an old-fashioned amusement park in this activity. They can choose any or all of five rides from the map that makes up the menu page. The narrative, animation, and movies make this a realistic and fun exploration.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Life Skills.
There are actually 6 activities in this Goodie, three books and three writing activities. The books and writing activities are on three levels, from a simple animated story and errorless writing set (easy level) to a discussion of photosynthesis, chloroplasts, and why leaves change colors coupled with a conventional level writing book with photos to describe.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Science.
Here is an activity that lets you plant a garden without getting hot, sweaty, and sunburned. Best of all, it is switch accessible, and comes with its own IntelliKeys® overlay, so that all students can participate. Students are cued to pick the correct garden implement or materials for each step, and IntelliMation® carries out the action as they loosen the soil, rake it smooth, shake out the seeds, cover them with dirt, water carefully, and wait for the sun to cause the seeds to sprout. Then they see the flowers grow and bloom, and get to color the flowers. They finish by writing about their garden and printing it out.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts, Science, and Life Skills.
The Baton Rouge Zoo Adventure is an activity built upon one of the templates found on the Learning Magic, Inc. "Adventures in Reading" CD. In this adventure children get to explore the wonderful Baton Rouge, Louisiana Zoo at their own pace, choosing their route through the story much like they would explore a zoo in the real world. Close-up photos and exciting videos of the animals bring a vivid sense of realism to this exploration.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Science.
The BlueBonnet Swamp Adventure is an activity built upon one of the templates found on the Learning Magic, Inc. "Adventures in Reading" CD. In this adventure children get to take a virtual walk along pathways into a swamp where they get exposure to both the plants and animals that live there. Children will learn about the general environment in the swamp and encounter animals along the way including but not limited to dragonflies, alligators, raccoons and owls.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Science.
"Parts of a Butterfly" is an activity developed in the "Parts of a..." template created by Learning Magic. In this activity the child will be able to move a magnifying glass around the various parts of a motorcyle as highlighted by colorful circles and squares. Once the child places the magnifying glass inside a circle or square it will take them to a page where they can read about that part of the butterfly.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Science.
"Follow the Easter Bunny" is an activity that uses clickable invisible buttons to guide children through the story as they pursue the Easter Bunny to his final destination. As the Easter Bunny hops through the pages, the child is asked to click on where the Easter bunny is "hiding" or "where you last saw him". We will be using this activity to assist in visual tracking and to also help teach the concepts of "in" and "behind" for early learners.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Holidays.
"Remember how much fun it was to color Easter eggs? Remember how un-fun it was to clean up the mess? Avoid the mess by coloring a digital Learning Magic egg instead! "Paint The Egg" is a switch accessible activity that allows your students to paint multiple stripes on an egg by choosing colors from a toolbar with twelve distinct colors available.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Holidays.
f I Owned An Elephant" is a book written in the Learning Magic Electronic Book template and it tells the story of Ordell who imagines what it would be like to have his very own pet elephant.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Language Arts.
The child is presented with a picture of a dilapidated house (Haunted House) and is asked if they can help find out who lives in the house. A click on any one of the seven windows or doors will provide a glimpse inside the house. Each window or door has an appropriate Halloween based character or characters behind it. Sound effects and IntelliMation accompany the characters.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Cause and Effect.
This Halloween based puzzle is created in the Learning Magic three piece puzzle template. With each click, part of a Halloween scene is revealed and a Halloween sound is heard. Once the child has clicked three times to remove all of the puzzle pieces, they can click a fourth time and they will receive the final reward. A large number of Halloween characters emerge along with a final sound effect, and a concluding auditory message of "Trick or Treat".
Grade level: Birth to 5 and K-2. Curriculum area: Cause and Effect.
Vehicle Addition to 6 is based upon the NEW Learning Magic addition template which not only tracks the correct number of objects in the counting boxes but also checks to make sure that the objects in the counting boxes are the correct objects based upon the text box scenario. For example, the text states that four jeeps and two corvettes are available for sale at an audition. The child first is instructed to place four jeeps in the left counting box, then two corvettes in the middle counting box. After that they are to place the total number and assortment of vehicles in the right-most counting box using the correct objects and finally to write the equation below.
Grade level:K-2. Curriculum area: Math.
Halloween Subtraction to 9 is based upon the NEW Learning Magic "Subtraction Plus" template. In this template we not only track the correct mathematical calculation but also track and check that the correct objects (i.e. children dressed as ghosts and or witches) are put into the counting boxes as described in the text box above.
Grade level:K-2. Curriculum area: Math.
In the collaborative development process of "The Exploring Nature Collection" with Pati King DeBaun, we developed a series of books for varying levels of emergent readers. In the final compilation process some of the books we had developed were not incorporated into the final shipping version of the product. Who Has Antlers is one of those extra books, written at the Easy level on the subject of who has antlers. Each animal is shown in a high quality photo.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts and Science.
Students can write about riding the bus, meeting the teacher, carrying a lunchbox, reading new books, getting those lovely new sharp unbroken crayons, and more in this errorless activity.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts, Life Skills.
This activity is based on the IntelliTools Classroom Suite® Explore template. We have provided six background images of the sky and a series of things that you will find in the sky including bats and blimps.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Math
In this activity the child is presented with ten addition questions regarding wizards and princesses that meet in the forest. A forest background is also provided as a backdrop to the addition problems. The activity is built in the Addition template that comes with Classroom Suite.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Math
In this activity the child is presented with ten addition questions regarding crabs and starfish that meet at the beach. An ocean shore background is also provided as a backdrop to the addition problems. The activity is built in the Addition template that comes with Classroom Suite.
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Math
Students can write about a picnic in this Easy Writing activity. The sentence starts with "A picnic is" and the available sentence endings include: sunny weather, cooking outdoors, hot dogs, hamburgers, cold drinks, watermelon, keeping cool, flying a kite, playing horseshoes, and (inevitably) ants.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts, Life Skills.
In this activity pictures and sentence endings to the "Independence Day Is" sentence starter include: "The fourth of July", "celebrating America's Freedoms", "watching fireworks", "family picnics", "watching the parade", "red, white and blue hats" and "waving sparklers". Students can use this errorless writing template to write about the holiday.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts, History.
This activity is a puzzle similar to the US Puzzle that ships with IntelliTools Classroom Suite®, but with three pieces instead of nine. Each click removes a puzzle piece until the final surprise. In this case, the fourth click sets off a Fourth of July fireworks display, complete with whooshes, bangs, and cheers.
Grade level: Birth to 5 and K-2 Curriculum area: Cause and Effect, Holidays.
"Monsters Under My Bed" is an original poem/book developed in the Learning Magic Electronic Storybook template. The poem was written by Byron and the artwork/illustration was done by Ann. We both believed as young children that there were monsters hiding either under our beds or in the closet, so we had to bring them to life again in our second childhood.
Grade level: K-2 and 3-5 Curriculum area: Language Arts
The Chicken House is a two part activity. The first portion of the activity was developed in IntelliPics Studio 3® and provides pictures of the chicken house and its wide variety of residents. After exploring the chicken house and its denizens, the activity is linked to an "addition" activity which provides a series of questions related to the number of poultry that are involved in various endeavors around the chicken house. The second portion of the activity is built in IntelliMathics 3® .
Grade level: K-2. Curriculum area: Math
This activity is based upon the IntelliTalk 3® Writing In Science Template. and provides images pertaining to a medieval kingdom. Images include the castle, a dragon, an archer, a prince, a king, a knight, a princess and a queen. A word bank of appropriate words to possibly use within the story is also provided.
Grade level: K-2 and 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts
This activity is based upon the IntelliTalk 3® Writing In Science Template. and provides images pertaining to a medieval kingdom. Images include the castle, a dragon, an archer, a prince, a king, a knight, a princess and a queen. A word bank of appropriate words to possibly use within the story is also provided.
Grade level: K-2 and 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts
This activity is based upon the IntelliTalk 3® Writing In Science Template. It provides children with characters with which they can write their own stories about make-believe kingdoms. The characters include a king, a princess, a wizard, a prince, an elf, a giant, peasants and a jester. A word bank of appropriate words to possibly use within the story is also provided.
Grade level: K-2 and 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts
"Where Does Sadie Sleep?" is an activity designed in the original IntelliPics Studio® Electronic Book template. It is a nine page book that explores where Sadie (Byron's 19 year black tabby) sleeps during the day.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts
This activity is built in IntelliPics Studio 3® and utilizes the original Electronic Storybook template created by Karen Sheehan. The story is a simple one: the story of a mosquito, a frog, a heron, a lion, a big game hunter and another mosquito. The kids we have worked with have gone back multiple times to "read it" and it continues to hold their interest and laughter.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts
This activity is based upon the IntelliMathics 3® Addition Template (Addition in the Desert). In this activity the child is presented with eight addition problems using the numbers 1-5 to arrive at sums ranging from two to five. The activity has a background picture of the woods. Children are presented with addition problems wherein they have to add beetles and caterpillars together.
Grade level:K-2. Curriculum area: Math.
The Addition in the Sky activity provides children with the ability to add up to ten planes or helicopters in the sky at any one time. The activity provides ten problems, each based upon a written problem that is presented in a text box.
Grade level:K-2. Curriculum area: Math.
The Subtraction in the Savanna activity is based upon a modified template that Learning Magic has created for subtraction. We modeled this template after the IntelliMathics 3® Addition template (Addition in the Desert activity). The child must put items equal to the remainder in a final counting box and then write an equation to represent the story or question that was originally presented. This activity works with numbers from 1 to 6.
Grade level:K-2. Curriculum area: Math.
This activity provides children with the opportunity to write about eight items found in the bathroom as they relate to daily grooming and cleanliness. The items include bathtub, toilet, hair dryer, tooth brush and tooth paste etc.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5 and Middle/High Curriculum area: Life Skills
This activity is based upon a sequencing template, and was developed to provide students with the steps to exit the school bus, enter the building, visit the bathroom if necessary, and then proceed to their classroom where they have to hang up their coats and proceed to their desks with various instructions/steps along the way. The purpose of the activity is to see if the child can put the steps into the proper sequence.
Grade level: K-2 and 3-5 Curriculum area: Life Skills
This activity provides a wide range of photos on various spiders. The activity provides details on what constitutes a spider and how they vary from insects. It also discusses unique characteristics and habits of various spiders in regards to webs, habitats and hunting.
Grade level: K-2 and 3-5 Curriculum area: Science
This activity explores Dragonflies and Damselfies as unique water-loving insects. The activity is written in IntelliPics Studio 3® at a first to second grade level and includes an IntelliTalk 3® self-checking/correcting quiz at the end to check for student comprehension.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Science
This activity primarily uses digital photos to show the characteristics of a butterfly. The activity defines butterflies as insects and outlines in a simple manner what characteristics a butterfly has that makes it an insect. The activity also traces the steps of metamorphosis and the butterfly's life cycle.
Grade level: K-2 and 3-5 Curriculum area: Science
This activity is designed using photos, images and short videos to show the bumblebee's behavior and characteristics. The activity defines bumblebees as social bees. As insects they are compared and contrasted with honey bees.
Grade level: K-2 and 3-5 Curriculum area: Science
This activity was built in IntelliPics Studio 3® in conjunction with a group of teachers who were wanting to teach prepositions to children who were struggling with learning these concepts. The activity includes 24 digital pictures, one short video, and IntelliMations to draw the student's interest.
Grade level: 3-5 and K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts
The activity was requested by a group of teachers who wanted to extend the popular Brown Bear, Brown Bear paradigm to one that asks the question "What do you hear" rather than "What do you see". As a result, ten new animals are presented in photos with appropriate sound effects, starting with a lion and revolving back to him
Grade level: Birth to 5 and K-2 area:Cause and Effect
After posting the activity "Mr. Lion - What do you hear?", I received several requests asking if I would create a similar activity using photos and appropriate sound clips of farm animals. A click of a switch; a press of a button on an IntelliKeys keyboard or a mouse click will move the child through the ten pages, and then back to the first page.
Grade level: Birth to 5 and K-2 Curriculum area:Cause and Effect
The ice and icicles activity was developed after having a discussion with a second grade class wherein we were asked what makes ice freeze. Doing some initial research on materials that were already at the school, I found there was little available. As a result, the first time it got cold enough for ice to freeze on the local ponds, out I went with my camera and the activity and resulting extra photos are now available for your use.
Grade level: K-2 and 3-5 Curriculum areas: Science and Language Arts
This activity is a puzzle similar to the US Puzzle that ships with IntelliTools Classroom Suite®, but with three pieces instead of nine. Each click removes a puzzle piece until the final surprise. This puzzle has a close up photo of an appealing Burmese Mountain dog who will bark a cheerful greeting.
Grade level: Birth to 5 and K-2 Curriculum area: Cause and Effect
This activity is based upon the IntelliPics Studio 3® Puzzle template. Each click removes a puzzle piece until the final surprise. This puzzle has a close up picture of Elsie, a wonderful sow who lives close by. She will also give you a welcoming set of grunts when the child provides the final click.
Grade level: Birth to 5 and K-2 Curriculum area: Cause and Effect
This activity is a puzzle similar to the US Puzzle that ships with IntelliTools Classroom Suite®, but with three pieces instead of nine. Each click removes a puzzle piece until the final surprise. In this case, the fourth click not only fully reveals the fire engine, but sounds the siren.
Grade level: Birth to 5 and K-2 Curriculum area: Cause and Effect
John and Clarice are visiting the local zoo. Should they go to the primates area first, or start out observing the animals of the savanna? Choices made by the student reading this story determine what will happen next. On each page of this activity, students read a paragraph and then make a choice between two buttons to decide what they want to do next.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5, and Middle/High School Curriculum area: Science and Language Arts
Henry is walking along the beach when he sees an old crate floating in the water. Does he open the box or continue walking? Choices made by the student reading this story determine what happens next. On each page of this activity, students read a paragraph and then make a choice between two buttons to decide what they want to do next.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts
On each page of this activity, students hear a recorded question asking them which of two prepositions apply to a situation. Pictures and in some cases IntelliMations illustrate the preposition, and the student clicks one of two buttons to indicate the correct answer. This activity advances after each answer.
Grade level: K-2 and 3-5 Curriculum area: Language Arts
On each page of this activity a text box asks a question beginning with "which". The question is read out to the student, and the student has a choice of two pictures to click on in order to answer the question. The pictures consist of pairs of familiar objects, such as a table and a desk, and the exercise tests if the student can distinguish which one the question is asking about.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts and Life Skills
This easy errorless writing activity provides children with seven sentences about various activities and items associated with Valentine's Day. Sentences and images are provided in each case and represent the actions of giving flowers and chocolates plus providing images of cupid, heart shaped cookies and more. .
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts
This activity is based upon the Easy Writing template and provides children with the "beginning sentence" of "Saint Patrick's Day is" followed by seven Irish symbols of the holiday. When clicked, each of the symbols completes the sentence with sentence endings that relate to leprechauns, dancing the Irish jig, looking for pots of gold etc.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts
This easy errorless writing activity provides children with seven sentences about vehicles that their parents may drive at different times. Vehicles include but are not limited to sports car, recreational vehicle, convertible, utility vehicle and van. Images of the various vehicles are provided within each sentence.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts, Life Skills.
This easy errorless writing activity provides children with seven sentences about dinosaurs and identifies individual animals that were considered dinosaurs including stegosaurus, macroplata, tyrannosaurus rex and more. Images of the dinosaurs are provided within each sentence.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts, Science.
This new errorless writing activity provides children with seven sentences about what winter is including but not limited to: building a snowman, scraping the ice off the windshield, having frozen breath, and bundling up against the cold weather. Images of the various winter characteristics are provided within each sentence. Note: This is an all-new "Winter Is" activity, with a new set of sentence enders and images differing from those in the two previous "Winter Is" activities that were posted on the IntelliTools Activity Exchange.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts, Science.
This easy errorless writing activity provides seven sentences about squirrels and their physical characteristics and activities. They include but are not limited to: "has a bushy tail", "hunts for cones", "eats nuts", "chatters at you".
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts.
This activity is based upon the IntelliTalk 3® Easy Writing template. It provides children with a sentence starter of "My dog likes to" and then provides seven fool proof sentence enders for children to click on and write simple complete sentences.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts.
This activity is based upon the IntelliTalk 3® Easy Writing template. Byron had created an Easy Writing activity about what a dog likes, so Ann decided to do one about the preferences of cats. Children begin the sentence with "My cat likes" and can complete the sentence with any of seven sentence enders just by clicking buttons.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts.
The activity "Saint Patrick's Day" is based upon the IntelliTalk 3® Writing in Science template and provides children with eight images relating to Saint Patrick's Day. A corresponding word bank provides appropriate words to write about Saint Patrick's Day and the items associated with the Irish. Images include the four leaf clover, green hats, shamrocks, leprechauns etc.
Grade level: 3-5 and K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts
This download is a combination of three simple activities. The first one was developed in IntelliPics Studio 3®, and includes a photograph of Peter Pan's statue in Kensington Gardens, London on the first page, followed by the history of the book Peter Pan. The second activity uses the IntelliTalk 3® Fairy Tales Template to provide the basis for children to resequence the story. The third activity is a short review written in IntelliTalk 3® with answer fields to test the children's comprehension and memories of both the story's history and the story itself.
Grade level: K-2 Curriculum area: Language Arts
