March Theme: Economics
Shopping and Spending in
our Community
 Unique
Learning: Wants & Needs (CS4):
A switch accessible activity to give
students the opportunity to think about their wants versus their needs. Students
pick an item from the toolbar to place inside either the wants or needs bubble.
We're talking about needs (gotta have 'em!) and wants (fun stuff!). Our kids are
really getting the hang of this complex concept! An activity to correspond to
the Unique Curriculum March 2009 Unit. www.uniquelearning.com. Symbolstix are
copyrighted property.
Unique Learning: I Buy (CS4):
An errorless writing activity that allows
students to select items to buy from McDonald's and Wal-Mart. An add-on activity
to the article reading for this month's Unique Learning curriculum (www.uniquelearning.com).
We're using this activity to promote word pairing in sentences, and comparing
and contrasting in the real world.
 Easy
Writing Community (CS3): A
simple writing activity with real photos of common community places. Students
can write a 3 part sentence selecting a community place and the item you might
buy there. "At ___" + "I buy" + ___. Requires understanding of association
between places and the items sold there. A companion activity to the In My
Community Series
 Community
Quiz (CS3): A find the picture quiz using photos of popular
places in the community. Fun sound effects and great photos! One of a 3-part
Community Theme set uploaded to the Activity Share.
 Easy
Writing Community Errorless (CS3): Simple, switch-accessible,
errorless writing about places we like to go in our community. Created for a new
auditory scanner, this is a very simple writing activity which is easily used in
dedicated scanning mode. Places are represented by photographs.
 In
My Community (CS3): A click through story about places in our
community. Great photos of popular places- McDonald's, Burger King, Walmart and
more. Includes a movie file of the drive thru at McDs!
Previous Theme Downloads:
October/Halloween Themed Activities
Taking Care of Me! Health and Hygiene
Activities
February Themed
Activities: Family, Community and History
Directions for Download:
Classroom Suite activities (CS) require you to own
Classroom Suite from Intellitools. Classroom Suite from either
Dunamis Inc or Intellitools.com.
To use the activities from our website, click on the screenshot,
select "save" on the popup and save the activity file somewhere on your computer
(I recommend the desktop so you don't forget where you put it!). Do not
unzip the file. Open Classroom Suite and click on "import."
Browse for the activity (on your desktop) and double click it. Classroom
Suite will do the rest of the work for you.
Boardmaker files (BM) also require you to own Boardmaker
software. Basic Boardmaker will allow you to print and use the BM6
activities above. To access the interactive boards you need either
Boardmaker/SDPro, Boardmaker Plus or Boardmaker Plus Player.
Boardmaker Plus Player is now available for a limited time for $99.00.
"Boardmaker Plus Player is a new product from Mayer-Johnson that allows you to
easily deliver adapted curriculum to the students who can benefit from it. By
purchasing a copy of Boardmaker Plus Player for each of the computers in your
classroom and media center, you allow every student to use the activities you
create. Parents can purchase Boardmaker Plus Player and teacher created
activities can go home so that parents can work with their children on their
home computer." Boardmaker is an unbeatable tool for creating visual schedules, communication
boards, recipes, worksheets and more.
Clicker 5 (C5) activities also require you to own the
original software. Clicker 5 and related products can be purchased from
Dunamis Inc or at
www.cricksoft.com/us.
To use the activities on our website, click on the screenshot.
You will be asked whether you want to open or save the file. I suggest you
save it to your My Boards folder. When you're ready to look at your board,
open Boardmaker, select "Open a saved board" and browse for your board.
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