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Middle/High School Activities |
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Middle/High School Activities |
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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.
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.
A reading comprehension activity relates the events of September, 1900, when a hurricane as powerful and destructive as Katrina came ashore on the Texas coast. Photos and music from the era carry students back a century. The imaginative solution this city came up with to prevent future devastation is a good discussion starter for what today's cities along the Gulf Coast might do to cope with hurricanes.
Grade level: 3-5, Middle School. Curriculum area: Language Arts and History.
In this activity, we provide a short opening video of kids skateboarding and doing various tricks at a local skate park. The activity then provides three pages which show photographs of different tricks. Then the child will be presented with a picture of the skate park and its various components. By moving a skateboard graphic to different components of the park, the child will move to a page with a closeup picture of that part of the park. The page also has a text box in which the child can write.
Grade level: 3-5 and Middle School. Curriculum area: Language Arts.
This activity provides children with a picture and a short video of six instruments and lets them research and write, potentially about the various instruments, their origins, the way they are played (bow, fingers, hammers/mallets etc) and the various sounds they make. The instruments available include the banjo and fiddle together on one page, followed by the hammer dulcimer, the harp, the steel pan and finally the marimba.
Grade level: 3-5, Middle School. Curriculum area: Language Arts.
In this activity we provide children with close up photos of six marine mammals, along with short videos of each of the animals in the water. The marine mammals in the activity include the harbor seal, the northern fur seal, the walrus, the sea lion, the sea otter and the beluga whale. The template then provides the children with the opportunity to write about what they have observed.
Grade level: 3-5, Middle School. Curriculum area: Language Arts, Science.
This activity was created in IntelliPics Studio 3 by a group of 6th and 7th graders who had a class assignment to investigate and write about the Lewis and Clark expedition and their experiences at Fort Clatsop on the Oregon coast. The children went to Fort Clatsop, took photos and short videos of the Fort, listened to the various experts at the fort, and then went to the web and other resources to gather further information. This a good example of the work middle school and high school children are accomplishing using IntelliPics Studio 3®'s multi-media capabilities.
Grade level: 3-5, Middle School and High School. Curriculum area: Social Studies and History.
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
The Parts of a Set - Variety activity is based upon the IntelliMathics 3® Parts of a Set template. In this activity children are presented with ten problems, each with a variety of items and then asked a question about part of this group of items. The question requires them to build a fraction that corresponds to the correct answer.
Grade level:3-5 and Middle/High Curriculum area: Math
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.
The activity provides an initial seven page introduction of what children see as they walk around the pond. In a second portion, thirteen fraction problems are provided in a storybook form.
Grade level: Middle/High and 3-5 Curriculum area: Math
This activity incorporates pictures of various cabbage and broccoli fields as well as packaging of produce for shipment to market. There are a total of six fraction problems included in this activity and the problems are presented in a story book form.
Grade level: Middle/High and 3-5 Curriculum area: Math
This activity incorporates pictures of various iris fields as well as close up pictures of a variety of irises. The activity includes ten fraction problems that are presented in a story line manner based upon observations of the iris fields and the irises themselves.
Grade level: Middle/High and 3-5 Curriculum area: Math
This activity incorporates pictures of a strawberry fruit stand as well as a picture of raspberries growing on the bush. The activity revolves around the activities of the fruit stand and the various customers that come in each hour. A total of eight fraction problems are provided.
Grade level: Middle/High and 3-5 Curriculum area: Math
This activity combines pictures of the Hyde Park pony practice track in London and various horse images available from the IntelliTools Classroom Suite picture library. A total of eight fraction problems provide questions regarding the size, color, position and movement of the horses along the race track.
Grade level: Middle/High and 3-5 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: Middle/High, 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
The primary activity "WATER" was developed with three specific goals in mind. First we wanted to build an activity that encompassed both the four steps of the water cycle (evaporation, transpiration, condensation and precipitation) and then secondly explore water as it exists on earth. The second goal was to provide a basis for building an extensive vocabulary as it pertained to these two subjects.The third goal was to provide a contextual basis for kids to read about the subject.
Grade level: 3-5 and Middle/High School Curriculum area: Science and Language Arts
The Legends of the Blues is an activity that discusses the evolution of the Blues and its original sources to the Blues music of today. In the activity profiles and background information is provided along with original music from fourteen of the most influential Blues singers and musicians. PLEASE note that this activity will only function on PC based computers
Grade level: 3-5 and Middle/High School Curriculum area:History and Language Arts
This unit on Chocolate is actually five activities in one. The main unit recounts the history of chocolate from the days of the Mayans through its discovery and transport to Europe by Hernando Cortez and explores the cultivation and production of chocolate today. Subsequent to working through the initial unit there are four more activities for children to participate in.
Grade level: 3-5 and Middle/High School Curriculum areas:History, Math, Science, Language Arts
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
