- Integrating technology into math instruction helps children tackle complex math tasks.
- Ideas for digital math activities include:
- Digital shape hunts
- Digital math journals
- Digital task cards with QR codes
- Ideas for digital science activities include:
- Digital weather reports
- Observation eBooks
- Tracking predictions
- Digitally illustrating and explaining life cycles
- Digital science journals
Sharing a variety of media to support all learners is helpful with any subject, including math and science. Using some of INFOhio’s supplemental digital instructional materials with your students help bridge the comprehension gap. Browse and explore these instructional materials from INFOhio.
INFOhio eBooks and Videos About Math
BookFlix
Share the eBook, Can You See a Circle? Explore Shapes from BookFlix, and have students complete a scavenger hunt around the room looking for and identifying different shapes. Students can record their findings in their math notebooks.
World Book eBooks and Videos
- Addition - This graphic nonfiction eBook introduces critical basic addition concepts.
- Counting to 10 - This video from World Book Early Learning shows how to count by 10 using the fingers on each hand.
- Counting with Colorful Food - This eBook from World Book Early Learning counts food at the grocery store.
- Fun with Numbers - This eBook features activities that introduce the concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions.
- Fun with Shapes - This eBook introduces early concepts in geometry.
- Learning About Numbers - This video from World Book Early Learning counts different items up to 10.
- Learning About Time - This video from World Book Early Learning shows different types of clocks and how to tell time.
- Numbers - This graphic nonfiction eBook introduces the history of numbers and number systems.
- Subtraction - This graphic nonfiction eBook introduces critical basic subtraction concepts.
INFOhio Math Professional Learning eBooks
- Early Elementary Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Justice - This eBook walks teachers through the process of applying critical frameworks to instruction, using standards-based mathematics to explore, understand, and respond to social justice issues.
- Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Tasks: Fostering Hope in the Elementary Classroom - This eBook helps teachers to design and refine inspiring mathematics learning experiences driven by the kind of high-quality and culturally relevant mathematics tasks that connect students to their world. With the goal of inspiring all students to see themselves as doers of mathematics, it provides guidance and practical classroom tools that empower educators to shape culturally relevant experiences while systematically building tasks that are standards-based.
- Figuring Out Fluency: Addition & Subtraction with Whole Numbers: A Classroom Companion - This eBook offers educators the inspiration to develop a deeper understanding of procedural fluency, along with pragmatic tools for shifting classrooms toward a fluency approach. It provides access to more than 100 strategy-aligned, classroom-ready activities to build fluency adding and subtracting multi-digit whole numbers. It includes routines, games, and completed examples.
INFOhio Resources, eBooks, and Videos About Science
- BookFlix - These paired fiction and nonfiction popular texts engage readers and support literacy. They help students build foundational skills by making connections and building background knowledge and vocabulary. A read-aloud feature can be disabled as readers progress. Lexile reading levels are included.
- Capstone Interactive eBooks - This is a library of 1000 interactive, unlimited-use eBooks for grades K-6 on the topics of science and social studies. High-interest texts include highlighting and read-aloud capabilities.
- World Book eBooks - Support reading initiatives and instruction in a variety of content areas with 1500 eBook titles, including World Book exclusive content. The library includes fiction and nonfiction and provides unlimited, simultaneous access for each book and user.
The author shares some ideas on teaching parts of a plant. To do so, share these eBooks:
- Learning about Plants - This activity-based eBook introduces topics like the parts of plants and their functions, plant reproduction and adaptations, and the importance of plants to people.
- Plant Parts Smarts - This eBook explores plant parts with the help of Charlie the origami bee.
- Seed to Plant - This eBook introduces the life cycle of a sunflower.
Share with your whole class this page from the eBook Learning about Plants to show how a seed germinates and becomes a plant.
Consider using these lesson plans and interactive activities from Open Space to explore some of the science concepts shared in chapter 16.
Butterfly Life Cycle
In this interactive lesson for grade 1 and grade 2 students, explore how butterflies change and grow throughout their life cycle.
Plant Parts
Through KIDS Clubhouse Adventures, students read and discover more about plants. They show what they've learned by creating their own flower gardens using art supplies.
Reflecting on Your Learning
Answer the following question in the Professional Learning Book Study: Building Blocks for Tiny Techies Open Space group Discussions. Find the Chapter 16 reflection question in the Discussions tab. Reply to the thread and review other participants' responses.
- Open Space is an instructional materials repository that organizes high-quality content that is freely available from the web. Do a keyword search and filter by Education Level or Subject area to find lesson plans and materials you can use in the classroom. Share what you have found in this discussion thread.
- What are some concepts from the “Ideas for Easy Digital Science Activities” you could use in your classroom? Do you do some of these already?
