Kaelyn Kraft

Interactive Learning Activities

Website’s Name Websites URL Description of Interactive Learning

Activity
Free Starmatica http://free.starrmatica.com/games/enrichment-venn-diagrams/ This activity involves reading a short
passage about two animals and then
comparing and contrasting their
characteristics in a Venn Diagram. The
activity already has the characteristics
written out and the student drags it into
the corresponding part of the Venn
Diagram. This activity is engaging,
because students get to drag the
characteristics into the appropriate
section and the stories are short to keep
students attention.
PBS Learning https://mpb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/plum14.sci.life.feeddingo/feed- This activity involves creating a
Media the-dingo-an-ecosystem-game/#.Wo3BO6inHIU balanced ecosystem for plants and
animals to survive in. It teaches
students how plants and animals
depend on each other. This activity is
interactive because students get to
place each plant and animal where they
want. The students must assess what
each animal needs to survive, and then
think critically because they can only
add five things per “day”.
Top Marks https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering This activity focuses on ordering
numbers and skip counting. Students
drag and drop sections of a caterpillar,
with a different number on them, in the
correct order from least to greatest.
Arcademic Skill http://www.arcademics.com/games/giraffe-dash/giraffe-dash.html This activity involves telling time.
Builders Students select a giraffe to race and
must select the correct time for their
giraffe to win the race. There is a clock
at the bottom of the screen, and
students use that to select the correct
time.
Starfall http://more2.starfall.com/n/holiday/earthday/load.htm?f&n=main This is a beginning reading activity.
Students are read aloud a short book
about earth day. On each page of the
book is an interactive activity in which
they can sort, by dragging and
dropping, plastics, cans, and paper into
three buckets. The other activity
includes planting a tree. Every time you
click on a word the activity says the
word and then shows how it is written
on lined paper.
Shepards http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/punctuation.htm This activity provides practice on
Software selecting appropriate punctuation.
There is a sentence presented on the
screen that contains no punctuation,
and students must select the appropriate
punctuation mark. Once they click on
it, a chameleon eats the punctuation
mark and then moves close to the
sentence. The students then click the
correct location and the chameleon
spits the punctuation in to the spot the
student selected.
Scholastic http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scrapbook/ This activity involves describing
characters from a text. Students type in
ten things about a character and then
select different physical characteristics
from a selection of pictures. The
characteristics include hair, eyes,
mouth, clothes, and complexion. The
teacher can have students describe a
character from a book they read or
come up with their own character from
a story they wrote.
Abcya http://www.abcya.com/spelling_spree.htm This activity involves selecting the
correct spelling of words. The game
says the word, and then the students are
supposed to select the correct one from
three options. After the student selects
the correct spelling, the can launch a
ball up to the piñata that the word is
written to pop it. Once the student pops
the piñata, the next word comes.

Fun Brain https://www.funbrain.com/games/bumble-numbers This game involves matching sums to

the corresponding equation. The
students control a bumble bee, who
flies around to catch the falling sums.
The student then drops the sum over
the correct equation.
PHET https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/fraction-matcher/latest/fraction- This game involves matching fractions.
Interactive matcher_en.html The student drags a shape that is
Simulations divided into a certain number of shaded
and nonshaded parts, to one side of a
scale, and then drags either a shape
with the same number of shaded and
nonshaded pieces or a fraction
expression to the other side of the
scale. This activity helps students see
that the orientation of the shape does
not change the fractions and shows the
relationship between fractional
expressions and visual representations
of the fraction.