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Curriculum Area: Science |
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Curriculum Area: Science |
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This activity was developed in one of the templates from “The Writing Bin” CD and documents what the land known as Bloody Marsh looks like today. In 1742 a decisive battle between the British and Spanish was fought on this land for what is now the State of Georgia (Please see the companion activity “The Battle Of Bloody Marsh” for a historical perspective of the battle. This activity looks at the land and its inhabitants nearly 260 years after the famous battle.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Science
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 was developed in one of “The Writing Bin” CD’s scaffold-ed templates. Developed originally in a third grade classroom, it uses clipart to provide students with things associated with the Spring season. This activity does not include any initial content piece up front, so teachers should provide some content about the subject before the students are asked to write about it.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts & Science
This activity was developed in one of “The Writing Bin” CD’s scaffold-ed templates and provides children with eight pages of photographic images of things associated with Spring. Originally developed in a classroom with older students who were functioning at or around a second grade level of literacy, the activity gives students the ability to both read and write about different Signs of Spring.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts & Science
This activity provides both a detailed description of how and why flooding occurs and the damage it can do to both property and people. The photographs that are included in this activity were taken during the floods that hit Western Washington during late 2007. This activity is built in a template from The Writing Bin CD.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts & Science.
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 developed in one of "The Writing Bin" CD's scaffolded templates and provides children with a photographic set of images about winter. Students then have the opportunity to write about their impressions of the different images using the scaffolded writing support built into the activity.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts &
Science.
This activity was developed in one of "The Writing Bin" CD's scaffolded templates and provides clipart images of different winter occurrences. Students get to click on an image to insert it on the page and then write about it using their own words and the scaffolded writing supports built into the activity.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts & Science.
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.
After reading about the Hubble Telescope in the first five pages of the book, students are then given the opportunity to click a button to open a toolbar of photographs taken by the Hubble Telescope.
When the student clicks on a picture, it is automatically inserted on the page. The students are then asked to name the object they are looking at, and to describe it in the textbox provided on that page.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts 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.In this activity, which is based upon the adventure template available on the Learning Magic, Inc.'s "Adventures in Reading" CD, children get to navigate through a tropical rainforest and a tropical butterfly house. On each of the fifteen pages high quality photographs along with short videos are used to show the tropical plants, ponds and butterflies in a pseudo-native environment. Students determine their course through the adventure. When they are finished, they can write about their experience in either of two journals, Butterfly House Writing or Butterfly House Writing - Supported, both of which are also available for download from Goodies.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Science.
This activity was developed in one of the new templates that will be available on the Learning Magic, Inc. Writing Bin CD later this year. It is a companion activity to be used after students complete Butterfly House Adventure. Two introductory pages explain the writing assignment. Then the child is provided with a button which when clicked will display eight pictures to insert of images that they have seen in the adventure activity. Children choose and insert a picture and then have the opportunity to write about their recollections and knowledge of the butterflies and their environment in the textbox provided on each page.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Science.
This activity was developed in one of the new templates that will be available on the Learning Magic, Inc. Writing Bin CD later this year. It is a companion activity to be used after students complete Butterfly House Adventure. Two introductory pages explain the writing assignment. The child is provided with eight pages of pictures and textboxes that enable them to write about their recollections and knowledge. A toolbar with sixteen words they have encountered during the adventure provides additional writing support.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Science.
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.
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.
This activity tackles a way-out pollution problem, junk in space. Through NASA photos, original art, and animations, students learn that an amazing assortment of debris is in orbit around the earth, including old broken down satellites, pieces of exploded rockets, and even ordinary household trash. The Space Junk activity then links to a second IntelliPics Studio 3® activity, Space News. Here students can set up a scene using clip art derived from NASA photos to illustrate space junk in orbit along with the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle, and/or various satellites. When their scene is finished, a picture of the scene goes onto a newspaper page where the student can write about it.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Science.
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.
"Parts of a Motorcyle" 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 colored circles. Once the child places the magnifying glass inside a circle it will take them to a page where they can write about that part of the motorcycle.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Science.
A Stormy Day is an activity developed in the Learning Magic Electronic Book template. In this activity children are presented with five pictures/movies of a stormy day as seen through window panes, by opening the window slightly, by opening the window further or going outside, and then watching as the storm passes and rainbows appear.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts and Science.
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.
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.
In this activity the children are told that there is a problem in that we don't know the names of the animals presented on the pages. They are asked to make up a name for each animal and give the reasons why they are naming it. Animals included in this activity include: A fennec fox, a striped hyena, a red panda, a gila monster, a scarlet ibis, a tapir, a whiptail lizard, a gemsbok, a sloth bear and a Japanese serow.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts, Science.
A bald eagle is migrating north along the west coast of the Untited States. Photos of well-known mountains and other landmarks provide a basis for students to write about both the landscape and the bird's movements. The activity was created using the Animated Stories Toolkit.
Grade level: 3-5. Curriculum area: Language Arts, Science.
"Can you name this bird", is an activity developed in the Learning Magic Electronic Storybook template. This activity provides a look at ten unique birds, both in the form of close-up photos and as a brief description each one. The text provides one or two facts about each bird and in some cases "word rhymes" were used to try to fix the name of the bird in the child's mind (i.e. people might "gawk" at the "auk".)
Grade level: 3-5 Curriculum area: Language Arts and Science
The activity provides a detailed description of the human body's circulatory system inclusive of the arteries, veins, capillaries, bone marrow, and the heart and its parts. A review of the components of our blood i.e. red and white blood cells, and platelets is also provided. This activity was created in the Learning Magic "Text and Graphics TGCR" template, one component of our newest CD, "Comprehension". After each reading page there is a related page containing a multiple-choice question which tests and assesses the child's comprehension.
Grade level: 3-5 Curriculum area: Science and Language Arts.
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 provides information on land snails and slugs and looks at the unique characteristics of these gastropods. The activity was built in IntelliPics Studio 3® using pictures and short movies to show the difference between the creatures. There is an IntelliTalk 3®- based review or test also attached to test comprehension and understanding.
Grade level: 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 has lots of reading in context and is inclusive of discussions regarding phylum, classes, orders, and species. We review the physical characteristics of beetles, butterflies, crane flies including discussions on exoskeletons and compare insects to a tarantula and other arachnids.
Grade level: 3-5 Curriculum area: Science and Language Arts
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.
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
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
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
The ecosystem activity was developed in conjunction with a teacher in the fourth grade who had been teaching on basic biomes and ecosystems. She wanted to develop an activity that allowed kids to sort and classify animals and plants within various ecosystems. We used the IntelliMathics 3® Phonics Template with modifications for photographs to provide a sorting activity for her kids
Grade level: 3-5 Curriculum area: Science
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
This IntelliPics Studio 3®- based activity provides lots of photos of the birds in their natural habitat, along with information regarding their history in North America, their feeding, their nesting, their mating habits, and their physical characteristics. At the end of the 20+ page activity, the children also get to write about the American bald eagle in a linked IntelliTalk 3® activity.
Grade level: 3-5 Curriculum area: Science and Language Arts
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.
