Student Activity Planning
Activity Planning
A variety of activity templates are provided below that you may use to differentiate your instruction and plan your classroom activities. In conjunction with the activity templates below, you may also wish to use the lesson plan template documents provided on the Daily Planning page.
Recipe Cards
Stations can differentiate instruction and support every learner, plus allows for teacher support via small group instruction. When thinking about rolling out stations, a strong culture with clear expectations and student ownership is key to effective implementation. Rolling out strong routines can help you use the time more efficiently, while also giving students clear expectations around behaviors and actions throughout the allotted time. Recipe cards, outlining steps and procedures, are a great way to provide guidance and instruction in a station rotation. Click on the recipe card icon to view a template recipe card that you may copy to your Google Drive to use when presenting a recipe card activity to your students.
Two additional sample recipe cards are available below for your reference:
Playlists
Playlists give students choice over when, how and what they do to reach an academic objective. Playlist-based instruction can provide students with greater choice and motivation while giving teachers more time to provide individualized support to students who need it most. Playlists can incorporate both offline and online digital learning. When using playlists, teachers have more time to do what’s most important – check in with students, lead small-group instruction, and build relationships.
There are several digital tools that can be used to create playlists. One tool can be found at goformative.com which offers free accounts and integrates with Google Classroom. Or, click the playlist icon to view a template playlist that you can copy to your google drive.
To learn more about playlists:
- Go to goformative.com/join
- Enter the code HUBFCY.
- View the presentation about playlists to learn more.
You can also view a sample playlist in a Google doc here.
Menus and Choice Boards
Menus and Choice Boards are an incredibly effective way to differentiated learning by giving students a menu or choice of learning activities. These graphic organizers allow students to choose how they will learn a concept. They can be organized so students need to finish one square before moving to the next, they can be random, or can be organized in a specific way. They are an easy way to differentiate some of the ideas you may not have had time for in the regular lesson and can be created in a variety of styles and mediums, from hyperdocs, Tic-Tac-Toe boards, Must Do - May Do checklists, and menus.
Click the menu icon to view a template for a menu activity that you can copy to your Google Drive.
In addition, there are additional templates below that you can copy to your Google Drive: