M3- Smart Exchange Activities

Name of Activity: Main Idea and Details
Age Level: Grade 3-5
Subject Recommendation: Reading
Description of how you plan to implement with students: This activity starts off like a power point explaining what a main idea is and telling what details are.  It then goes on to explain where they can be found in a paragraph. Here is where the activity begins. Students are asked to find the main idea and details of the examples. I would use this on the white board as a whole group instruction to begin with. It recommends that you use red to underline the main ideas and blue to underline the details. This would be a great mini-lesson. They give you 4 examples that can be done as whole group instruction. You can slide the answers over to check their work. At the end they have 2 resources that students can click on to go to for practice on their own- Kids Lab Grade 3, Main Idea online Quizzes, and Gamequarium Main Idea and Detail Game. After doing the mini-lesson with the group, students would go to their different stations. One would be the computers, where they would go to this site and practice finding the main ideas through both links, another would be with me, where we would practice finding main ideas and details in their reading selections as we read, and a third station would be writing a paragraph that had a main idea with three supporting details.


Name of Activity:Landforms
Age Level:Designed for 1st Grade, but can be used K-12
Subject Recommendation: Social Studies
Description of how you plan to implement with students:This activity introduces landforms. It is suggested that the students create examples of the landforms with play-doh while going through the slides. It explains the different landforms. Then it allows you to roll a dice and match the name on the dice with the picture of the landforms. Then there is a concentration game where you match the word to the landforms. There is also a matching game where they match the definition to the correct name of the landforms. I would use this as a whole group activity with my social studies classes. Since I only have 30 minutes, I would have my students use the play-doh, as well. We would go through the entire slide activities using the white-board. At the end of class, I would have a simple matching, cut/ paste activity, where they match the definition and name to the picture of the landforms. This would be their exit slip.


Name of Activity:Past-Tense Verbs
Age Level:Grade 2-3
Subject Recommendation:Language Arts/ Grammar

Description of how you plan to implement with students: This lesson introduces what a past-tense verb is and the rules for adding ed or doubling a letter and then adding ed. It has a cute little robot that transforms the words. It also has a word sort at the end for students to put the words in the correct category- - add ed, irregular verb- not a verb. I would use this as a min-lesson for spelling. I would put this on the white- board and have students follow along with a dry-erase board. Students would write examples when asked to do so. We would put suggestions on a large chart- paper to keep in our writing area.We would discuss irregular verbs and irregular past-tense verbs. We would add them to our chart, also. At the end when students are asked to sort the words in the correct category, I would ask them to divide their slate in three parts and come up with an example of their own. (A formal assessment). These would also be added to our chart paper.