Theme Based Activities: Family & Community History

...and Valentines!

	Unique Learning History: On the Road Again WH-Sort (BM+ 6) An interactive vocabulary sorting activity for people, places, actions and times associated with the Unique Learning Book, "On the Road Again." Students are asked to put people in the "who?" bubble, places in the "where?" bubble etc. Correct items stay in their bubble, errors snap back to their original position. by Vicki Clarke (symbols copyright from Symbolstix) >> Download
	Unique Learning History: My Family Can (CS3) An errorless writing activity that allows students to explore the fun activities their family members can do! Repeated line is "I can too!" A nice add-on activity to the storybook reading for "My Family Can" from this month's Unique Learning Elementary curriculum. We're using this activity to promote word pairing in sentences, exploring verbs and family member names. by Adina Bradshaw, Vicki Clarke, & Jessica Johnson (symbols copyright from Symbolstix) >> Download
	Unique Learning History: Long Ago in the USA (BM6) A printable or interactive Venn Diagram for students to sort activities from Long Ago and those of Today. Activities include gardening, going to school, using a microwave, playing video games and hopscotch. By Jill McCain & Vicki Clarke >> Download
	A Valentine for You (CS3) A 13-page Valentine Storybook based on a poem from Alphabet-Soup.net. IPS3 single switch, touch screen or mouse use with a toolbar for specific page selection. Cute customized overlay has switches programmed for a single click. >> Download
	Valentine Venn (CS3) A Venn Diagram comparing Valentines and Christmas. Students pick an item then pick the Venn hoop it goes in. Accessible by switch, auditory scanning, intellikeys and mouse. >> Download
	Valentine Stink Word-By-Word Writing (Overlay Maker) This Overlay Maker 3 file is designed to allow beginning writers (at a word level) to recreate the story "Valentine Stink" by Diane De Groat. I use this overlay with Intellikeys USB to access Writing With Symbols 2000. This overlay uses original artwork. Use of this overlay without ownership of the original storybook may constitute copyright infringement. >> Download
	What's Up, Val? (CS3) Val woke up with mixed emotions today! A silly storybook with animations and real voice narration for exploration of emotion words and their associated facial expressions. Accessible by switch and Intellikeys. >> Download

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.