M2- Smart Exchange Activities

1.       Name of Activity: Dr. Jean’s Songs

Age Level: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

Subject Recommendation: Mathematics, Music, Geography, English Language Arts

Description of how you plan to implement with students:

I really like the words to the different Geography songs. The words, music, and motions help students to learn the locations and names of the continents, oceans, and states. The music to the lyrics is easy to pick up as it is sung to familiar tunes. I would use this to help my third grade students learn the names and locations of the continents and oceans on the globe and map. I could display a map on the white board first with the words and then we’d sing the song- music could be playing in the background. Then we could sing it again with a map that was not labeled showing on the white board.

2.       Name of Activity: Measurement

Age Level: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Subject Recommendation: Mathematics

Description of how you plan to implement with students:

This activity gives choices as to where students can visit. It has metric, converting, standard measurement, and an area they can practice converting inches to feet, cm to km, etc.

After reviewing measurement with my students, I can see this being used as a station on the computers. The students, working in pairs, can navigate to the areas they want to explore and do the practice at the end on a piece of paper. That would be a quick formative assessment.

3.       Name of Activity: Incredible Inferences

Age Level: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Subject Recommendation: English Language Arts

Description of how you plan to implement with students:

This lesson is a great activity to introduce inferences. I would put this on the white board and we would use this as a mini-lesson on inferences. I really like how they use the graphic organizer: What I Read + What I Know Already = What I Infer. I would follow up with reading from our selection that day and picking out any inferences.