Secondary Sub Plans

Students choose 3 tasks to complete activities on the current novel you are reading in your ELA class.

Students explore how culture and experience shapes a person's identity.

Students learn the concept of reading laterally in order to recognize altered or manufactured stories.

Students create a personal mood meter and explore the concept of happiness.

Students will explore a virtual field trip and share 4 things they learned.

Students choose a past unit of study from your course and create a project to summarize what they learned in that unit.

Digital Escape Rooms

Ditch That Textbook has several ready-to-go seasonal digital escape rooms. Grab the link and share with students.

5 minute fillers for any lesson

SMART Shout it out

Teacher: click this link to add the Shout it Out activity to your Lumio Library. Click on the activity thumbnail and choose START. Click on the People icon in the upper left to get your Class ID code. Have students select Lumio by SMART from their Classlink dashboard and enter your Class ID. Once everyone is in your lesson, click Start for Class from the center of the page. You can verbally ask students your question or write it on your class whiteboard. When you have all student responses, click the gear on the left toolbar and choose End to stop accepting responses.

Copy and paste Brightspace assignments

Below you will find ready-to-go Brightspace Text Assignments with teacher instructions and copy & paste student directions. Open a new Brightspace assignment to get started - don't forget to change the assignment type to TEXT!

Three truths and a lie

Teacher: choose a topic from your curriculum.

Copy and paste the following into Instructions box: In the text box below share 4 "facts" about [insert content topic here]. 3 of your facts should be true and accurate, 1 should not be true. Click SUBMIT when done.

I see, I think, I wonder

Teacher: insert a picture or short video in the Brightspace Assignment instructions window. It is best if the image/video is embedded on the page and not a hyperlink or file the students must click to open.

Copy and paste the following into Instructions box: In the textbox below include a minimum of three sentences - one for what the picture/video makes you think about, one for what you see in the picture/video, one for what it makes you wonder.

Complete the Story

Teacher: insert a picture in the Brightspace Assignment instructions window. It is best if the image is embedded on the page and not a hyperlink or file the students must click to open.

Copy and paste the following into Instructions box: Use this picture as inspiration to write a story.  Decide if this picture takes place at the beginning, middle, OR end of the story.  Then, write out your story in the textbox below. 

Remember to explain and describe [insert relevant content vocabulary here] in your story.

If this artwork is the beginning of a story, what might happen next?

If it this artwork is the middle of a story, what might have happened before? What might be about to happen?

If this artwork is the end of a story, what might the story be?

Quick Write

Teacher: Choose a topic and choose a time limit between two and ten minutes for students to respond to an open-ended prompt.

Copy and paste the following into Instructions box: Your goal for this activity is to continue writing for the entire time.  Respond in the textbox below to the following prompt:

Based on what we've been learning this week [select a stem below to complete this sentence]