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Life Skills Activities |
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Life Skills 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 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.
In this activity students have the opportunity to visit and enjoy the various activities at a crawfish festival, including Cajun music, food, and rides. The activity includes fifteen pages and students get to choose which way they explore the festival. There are eight different paths through the environment.
We suggest that teachers ask the students to take notes as they travel through the festival, as they will have an opportunity to write about their adventures in a follow-up journal, also available to download from Goodies.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Life Skills.
This activity explores the subject of what an antagonist is. In the first chapter the word 'antagonist' is defined and then students are informed that in the following three chapters they will meet two characters and have an opportunity to watch them interact.
The two antagonists are a cat, Jake, and a dog, Cooper, who are next door neighbors and interact through a gap in the fence. At the end of the story the student has the opportunity to make a final determination as to who was the biggest antagonist throughout the encounter.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Life Skills.
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.
The State Fair Adventure takes children through two common areas of the fair, the section with a large number of rides and the section where animals are on display. The red and yellow buttons on each page allow the child to choose which way to go next. Thus students decide in what order to explore, and as a result they become active participants in the fair. Besides the photos, movies of the rides and the animals make this a very realistic experience.
Grade level: K-2, 3-5, Middle School. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Life Skills.
The State Fair Writing activity is a companion activity to State Fair Adventure. After exploring the State Fair Adventure activity, the State Fair Writing activity first provides children with reminders of what they saw and experienced at the Fair. The child then chooses eight out twelve photographs of the fair from a toolbar to write about regarding their remembrances of the fair.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Life Skills.
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.
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.
This sequencing activity is based upon the IntelliTools Fairy Tales template, which was developed in IntelliTalk 3®. Students are challenged to arrange sentences presented in random order from a toolbar to form the correct sequence of steps for making bread.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Life Skills.
The activity "Baking Bread" was developed using the Learning Magic Electronic Storybook template. This reading activity introduces students to an old-fashioned skill, breadmaking. Movies and animation combine with the narrative to create a real life experience.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Life Skills.
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.
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.
The Swimming Hole was created in the "Text Only TOCR5Q" template, one component of a new CD available from Learning Magic entitled "Comprehension". This original story is presented as a book with a cover and a single page of text. After the story is read, the child is then presented with five separate questions to test the child's comprehension of the story. Questions not only test recall of the text but also inferred meaning within the story.
Grade level: 3-5 Curriculum area: Language Arts and Life Skills
This is a two part activity. The first part, an introduction written in IntelliPics Studio 3®, relates the story of Sharon who has come home and found a note from her mother along with sixty dollars in cash. The note asks Sharon to go to the grocery store to purchase nine items. The second part of the activity was developed in IntelliTalk 3® and provides nine purchase scenarios where Sharon has to get the correct change back in the fewest number of bills and coins as she purchases each item.
Grade level: 3-5 and Middle/High. Curriculum area: Math and Life Skills
This activity was built in IntelliTalk 3® and involves a series of money problems revolving around a trip to the mall to purchase school clothes. The children are presented with a series of situations and shopping decisions where they purchase various clothing items and then have to get the correct change back in the fewest number of bills and coins.
Grade level:3-5 and Middle/High Curriculum area: Math and Life Skills.
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 was built to help children in a middle school life skills classroom prepare and make apple pancakes. The activity includes first, a sequencing activity which tests the child's capabilities in remembering the steps in the correct sequence. Secondly, it includes a writing activity.
Grade level: 3-5 and Middle/High Curriculum area: Life Skills
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 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.
