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Practice Activities Ask Students to Deepen their Understanding of the Learning Objective.

Whether online or offline, these activities will most likely require the least amount of revision to deliver in a Remote Learning context. Whatever it was that you would have engaged students with in your face to face classroom could be incorporated into your Remote Learning Plan, assuming it directly addresses your identified learning objective.

Independent Learning Platforms

In the areas of Math and English Language Arts, there are many independent learning platforms that could be leveraged in an online setting to provide practice activities for students. These are great for two reasons: 1) the educator doesn't have to create the question sets and 2) many have built in feedback for students if they are struggling. Zearn is a great example of the latter for K-6 Math.

An important consideration with independent learning platforms is the student experience. Prodigy (1-8 Math) and Dreamscape (2-8 ELA) are two great examples of gamified independent learning platforms. These tools are highly engaging for students. Both allow educators to select the specific skill students are practicing, or allow students to progress on their own mastery path.

Alternatively, educators can create their own question sets for students to access inside of independent review platforms, like Quizlet, or practice activities inside of a learning management system, like Canvas.

Learning Management Systems

Learning management systems are also great ways for students to turn in their work. While immediate feedback isn't necessary for Practice activities, timely feedback is. Desirably, students would receive teacher feedback on Practice activities before embarking on the Product segment of your remote learning plan.