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Lesson Plans (1) A detailed description of the instruction for teaching one or more concepts or skills. Learning Activities (3) Building blocks of a lesson plan that include before, during, and after strategies to actively engage students in learning a concept or skill.

ALEX Lesson Plans  
   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (1) 1 :
1. Engage in collaborative discussions about topics and texts with peers and adults in small and large groups, utilizing agreed-upon rules.
[ELA2021] (1) 43 :
43. Use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing with guidance and support from adults, working both individually and in collaboration with peers.
[ELA2021] (1) 42 :
42. Participate in shared research and writing projects to answer a question or describe a topic.

a. Recall information from experiences to contribute to shared research and writing projects.

b. Gather information from provided sources.
[ELA2021] (1) 3 :
3. Ask and answer questions to seek help, get information, or clarify information to confirm understanding in response to information presented in audible, text, or digital format.
[DLIT] (1) 19 :
13) Create a research-based product collaboratively using online digital tools.

Examples: Find simple facts about a specific topic, create a slide that contains facts located in trade books or other sources.

[DLIT] (1) 6 :
R6) Produce, review, and revise authentic artifacts that include multimedia using appropriate digital tools.

[ELA2021] (1) -2 :
R4. Use digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically for research and writing, both individually and collaboratively.
Subject: Digital Literacy and Computer Science (1), or English Language Arts (1)
Title: Getting to Know You
Description:

The students will go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find. By completing the scavenger hunt, the students will gain a better understanding of how we are all dependent on one another in a small community.



ALEX Learning Activities  
   View Standards     Standard(s): [DLIT] (1) 1 :
R1) Identify, demonstrate, and apply personal safe use of digital devices.

[DLIT] (1) 6 :
R6) Produce, review, and revise authentic artifacts that include multimedia using appropriate digital tools.

[MA2019] (1) 2 :
2. Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20 by using concrete objects, drawings, or equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Subject: Digital Literacy and Computer Science (1), Mathematics (1)
Title: Multimedia Math Word Problems with Seesaw
Description:

Seesaw is an online portfolio that allows students to document their learning.  Students can use Seesaw to add artifacts throughout the year. This activity is to have students solve a word problem and explain it within Seesaw.

This activity was created as a result of the DLCS COS Resource Development Summit.



   View Standards     Standard(s): [DLIT] (1) 6 :
R6) Produce, review, and revise authentic artifacts that include multimedia using appropriate digital tools.

[ELA2021] (1) 30 :
30. Write legibly, using proper pencil grip.

a. Print upper and lowercase letters fluently, using proper approach strokes, letter formation, and line placement.

b. Print first and last names using proper letter formation, capitalization, and punctuation.

Examples: De'Andre McGill, Kim Mi-Sun, Juan de Jesus, Janie Parker

c. Use lower case letters in the majority of written work, using capitals only when appropriate.

d. Write letters of the English alphabet in alphabetical order from memory.
Subject: Digital Literacy and Computer Science (1), English Language Arts (1)
Title: Words, Words, Words - Spelling Practice Gone Digital With Google Drawing
Description:

Google Drawings is a tool that allows students to be creative in sharing what they know. Students will use Google Drawings to create a word cloud of words chosen by the teacher. These words will come from sight words and spelling words that follow a phonetic pattern. It is available on Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS.

This activity was created as a result of the DLCS COS Resource Development Summit.



   View Standards     Standard(s): [DLIT] (1) 6 :
R6) Produce, review, and revise authentic artifacts that include multimedia using appropriate digital tools.

Subject: Digital Literacy and Computer Science (1)
Title: Formatting Text in a Document
Description:

This activity will teach and or reinforce students how to format their text in a word processing program using font size, bold, underline, italics, color, and center. The activity will also introduce or reinforce inserting images.

This activity was created as a result of the DLCS COS Resource Development Summit.



ALEX Learning Activities: 3

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