Surfing the Internet safely, cyber bullying, and practicing good digital citizenship is covered in the 12 activities below.
Here is what is in the bundle:
1. Be Safe Online (2 Page Worksheet) Discusses not giving out to much personal information online.
2. Cyber Bullying (2 Page Worksheet) looks at how to identify cyber bullying and how to deal with it.
3. Digital Compass: (1 Page Worksheet/rubric with link to online activity) This is website that looks at different issues with online safety. Very fun for the students.
4. Internet Safety Game: Beat the Hacker! A fun Jeopardy type game with a twist. This game covers Internet safety, Online Friends, Safe or Scam, and Saying Things Online. Play as a class in teams, or individually.
5. Writing activity: (5 Pages) Are Friends on the Internet real friends? Students will write and essay answering the essential question Are Friends on the Internet real friends? The is a one page reading about Internet Friends, a guide on how to write the essay, and writing tips fro struggling students.
6. Famous Magician on Social Media: (2 Page Worksheet) A short story about a magician and his social media account where he is putting himself at risk online. The worksheet includes follow questions.
7. Be safe Online (2 Page Worksheet) Short read with questions. Discusses things that put people at risk online.
8. Online Safety Bumper Sticker: (1 Page Worksheet) This activity comes with rubric and template.
9. Online Safety pledge: (1 Page Worksheet)
10. Online Safety: Safe or Not (1 Page Worksheet and Answer Key) Discusses things that are safe and not safe to say online.
11. Cyber Safety Story Board: Comes with online link and Rubric to complete activity. Fun online activity.
12. How to determine if a website is fake: (2 Page Worksheet with links) This is a fun activity where students will go to a list of website s and try and determine if they are real or fake.
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There are two documents in this packet:
The academic student contract sheet helps put in place strategies to get the student to improve their grades, but also lets them know that they are in danger of failing if they do not turn their academic performance around.
The daily monitoring sheet is a tool to help parents, guidance counselors and teachers see what is going on in all of the students classes daily. The sheet is set up to record a whole week of what the student has done and has not done.
The documents are in Microsoft Word and can be easily edited to meet the needs of individual schools.
In 335 B.C., Alexander the Great set out on a campaign to recapture former Greek cities and to expand his growing empire. Ten years into his campaign Alexander had never known defeat. He now controlled an empire that included Greece, Egypt, and the massive Persian Empire. His troops grew tired of war but Alexander wanted to push on into India. He makes an awesome speech to rally his men. This activity includes some background on Alexander the Greats campaigns, an Excerpt: Speech of Alexander the Great, 326 B.C. at Hydaspes River, India and questions about the reading. A great primary source activity.
Read 3 different primary sources about Hernan Cortes and the Aztecs. These primary sources look at the Spanish greed for riches, land and gold and how the Aztecs had a lot of enemies that Hernan Cortes will exploit to defeat the Aztecs. After reading the primary sources have the students answer the questions about the readings.
This lesson comes with three primary sources that explore how Hernan Cortes could have been seen as a hero or a villain. After reading the primary sources students will decide if Hernan Cortes was a hero or a villain? They will then write an essay defending their answer based on what they have read.
This lesson comes with three primary source readings, a guide on how to write a five paragraph essay, a rubric, and sentence starters for struggling writers.
Have fun teaching your students about Ancient Egypt by playing a trivia game! It covers a lot of vocab like Papyrus, the Nile River, Pyramids, Embalming, the Sphinx, Pharaohs, Hieroglyphics, and more!
A fen stem challenge where students build a simple helicopter. The team that gets their helicopter to hover the longest wins!
Here is what is in the packet:
1. Teacher Guide
2. Prototype Worksheets
3. Results/Reflection Worksheet
This is a great STEM activity with little prep compared to other STEM challenges. Students will go through a simple design process to build a paper tower to see how high it can go.
What you get:
1. Teachers guide on how do the STEM challenge.
2. Prototype worksheet (2 pages)
3. Results and reflection worksheet.
This is a fun stem challenge that I call "Escape the Island" Students will design and build a raft from mostly materials they find outside. If they can get their raft to move from one end of a Rubbermaid bin to the other by blowing on the sail and it floats for 15 minutes they win. This activity is a lot of fun and does not require the teacher to purchase a lot of materials
Students will use the design process Journal and App Lab to create an App that helps someone in society. The design process Journal is in PowerPoint that will help guide the students through the design process, developing ideas and creating an app. There is also links to Introduction to App Lab so students can learn the program and App Lab where the students will create their app. App Lab is a simple program where students can design and create apps. There is also links to a few help videos as well.
Objective: Students will create an App that solves a problem in society using the Design Process Journal and App Lab to design, build and record the results of the App they created.
This is a fun activity for students to learn about the Salem Witch Trials.
Here is what is in the packet:
-There are 3 different Priamry source scripts for the puppet shows:
· Testimony of Tituba a Slave from the Island of Barbados: Salem Court Trial May 1692
· Testimony of Rebecca Nurse: March 1692
· George Jacobs Jr. May 1692 Testimony in Court
-Worksheet to analyze primary source document
-Teachers guide
-Rubric
-There is a parent letter to get puppet show donations
-BONUS! Additional resource that is fun! Worksheet on how to identify a witch.
NOTE: This product is in both PDF and Microsoft Word so you can edit it.
Have fun learning about St. Patricks Day, Leprechauns, Shamrocks, and all things Irish with this fun trivia game. The game is multiple choice and plays like a fun Jeopardy game.
Have fun playing a game and learning about online safety, digital citizenship and expectations for a digital classroom. This game covers cyberbullying, Internet trolls, strangers online, talking to people online, digital footprints, expectations of a digital classroom and much more.
Students will debate the first amendment in school in a fun and engaging activity that they can connect to real life. They will be debating whether or not the students had a constitutional right to pray at a school football game based on the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment.
What you get:
1. A one and a half page short read of the event, an explanation of the Bill of Rights that relates to the issue and a list of arguments for both sides.
2. A few questions to get the students to think beyond what they just read.
3. A worksheet that will help the students write out and prepare for the debate.
Students will debate the First Amendment in school in a fun and engaging activity that they can connect to real life. They will be debating whether or not the students had a constitutional right to publish the school newspaper based on the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment.
What you get:
1. A one and a half page short read of the event, an explanation of the Bill of Rights that relates to the issue and a list of arguments for both sides.
2. A few questions to get the students to think beyond what they just read.
3. A worksheet that will help the students write out and prepare for the debate
This packet comes with six different lessons that deal with school issues where the students rights may have been violated and students will choose whether or not the school administrator had the right to do what they did based on the Bill of Rights. There are followup questions to get the students to think beyond what they just read. The students will then write an argument in support of the administrator or the students.
What you get in the packet:
Each lesson comes with a short story of the scenario like a student being searched in school. It also comes with questions and instructions on how to write an essay if you choose to take the lesson further.
Here are the titles of the six lessons:
1. Students Searched in School: 4th Amendment
2. Fight at School: No Trial! 5th Amendment
3. Students Organize to Protest School Problems and are Suspended: 1st Amendment
4. Principal Censors School Newspaper: 1st Amendment
5. Prayer at a School Football Game: 1st Amendment
6. Students Car is Searched at School: 4th Amendment
Have fun teaching about the Aztecs by playing a trivia game. Great for reviewing vocabulary, Aztec Culture, Conquistadors, and the fall of the Aztecs. It is also easy to change a question if you need to. This is also great to review before a test or quiz.
Have fun teaching about the Aztecs by playing a trivia game. Great for reviewing vocabulary, Aztec Culture, Conquistadors, and the fall of the Aztecs. It is also easy to change a question if you need to. This is also great to review before a test or quiz.
This is a great activity to better understand the Constitution. It has questions for each section of the Constitution. A great guide to help your students better understand the Constitution