Learning Activities Hub
Classroom activities for PreK–12: critical-thinking breakouts, science, literature, STEAM, math, digital citizenship, and AI literacy.
Miguel Guhlin · TCEA
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114 projects
Classroom activities 21 projects
ELE Activity Bank
Professional learning and K–16 classroom activities aligned to the TCEA Essential Learning Expectations.
Language Bridge
Bilingual and ESL activities, printables, and language supports for emergent bilingual students.
Getting to Know You
Grade-band interest inventories and community-building resources, with research and TEKS alignment.
Suffrage Sojourn
An interactive journey through five turning points in the history of voting rights.
The CLEAR Crew — Detective Thinking Game
Crack the case one clue at a time with the CLEAR thinking process — a critical-thinking checklist for young detectives.
Critical Thinking Breakouts
Grade-band breakout activities (3-5, 6-8, 9-12) across ELA, science, and social studies that teach evidence-based reasoning, available in seven languages.
Breakouts Correlation Guide
A multilingual correlation guide mapping the Critical Thinking Breakouts to standards and thinking skills.
Breakouts Answer Key
The facilitator answer key and recording sheet for running the Critical Thinking Breakouts activities.
Fourth of July Critical Thinking Breakouts
Twelve self-contained U.S. history escape activities across three grade bands (3-5, 6-8, 9-12). Students open clues, weigh evidence, and crack four locks each — building history knowledge and critical-thinking habits. No logins, no data collected.
Fourth of July Breakouts Correlation Guide
A standards correlation guide mapping the twelve Fourth of July breakouts by grade band to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, Common Core literacy standards, and the CLEAR thinking process.
July 5 & Black Freedom Holidays Breakouts
Twelve self-contained critical thinking breakouts across three grade bands (3-5, 6-8, 9-12) exploring the freedom days the calendar often overlooks — Frederick Douglass’s July 5 address, Juneteenth, Pinkster, Watch Night, and more. Students open clues, weigh evidence, and crack four locks each. No logins, no data collected.
Black Freedom Holidays Breakouts Correlation Guide
A standards correlation guide mapping the twelve July 5 & Black Freedom Holidays breakouts by grade band to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, Common Core literacy standards, and the CLEAR thinking process.
TCEA Activities Hub
A single searchable home for classroom activities in seven languages. Its flagship is the Critical Thinking Online Breakouts (CTOBs) — self-contained, browser-based reasoning escapes across six suites (CLEAR, Fourth of July, July 5 & Black Freedom Holidays, Bible as Literature, Science, and Idioms) — alongside Problem-Solving Teaching units, Relic Rooms, Digital Math Tools, and the Map Puzzle generator. Search by name, topic, or grade; no logins, no data collected.
Bible as Literature Breakouts
Thirty-one critical-thinking breakouts on the Texas-adopted Bible stories, studied academically — as literature and history, never devotionally. Covers every K–12 required-list Bible item (creation, Noah, David & Goliath, the Psalms, the Prodigal Son, Job, 1 Corinthians 13, and more) across four grade bands, in seven languages.
Bible as Literature Breakouts Correlation Guide
A TEKS correlation guide mapping each Bible as Literature breakout to the ELAR strands, the CLEAR reasoning focus, and the high-effect-size instructional strategy engineered into its locks.
Science Critical Thinking Breakouts (Grades K–8)
Critical Thinking Online Breakouts across the Texas science TEKS, Grades K–8 — from pushes and pulls to conservation of mass. Each grade has a featured breakout, a concept set, a hands-on STEM engineering design challenge, and a student word bank, in seven languages.
Science Breakouts Correlation Guide
A standards correlation guide mapping the Science Critical Thinking Breakouts by grade to the Texas science TEKS and the reasoning moves engineered into each lock.
Idioms & Sayings for Multilingual Learners
A multilingual idioms & sayings suite for grades 3–12 — decode English idioms with your home language as a resource (ESL) and compare sayings across languages. 12 breakouts fully translated into seven languages (including French & Latin units for world-language classrooms), a 66-idiom illustrated spotlight, a three-game Idiom Arcade, printable card decks, and teacher UDL/ELPS/lesson-plan supports. Aligned to the Texas ELPS (idiomatic expressions) and WIDA; no logins, no data collected.
Idiom Arcade — 3 Idiom Games
Three fast, free, self-contained arcade games that teach English idioms: Match Blitz (timed idiom–meaning matching), Meaning Meteors (a catch-the-meaning canvas arcade), and Trap Escape (a literal-vs-figurative reflex game). Playable by touch, mouse, or keyboard; runs entirely in the browser with no logins and no data collected.
Idioms & Sayings Standards Alignment (ELPS / TEKS)
How the Idioms & Sayings suite aligns to the Texas ELPS (19 TAC §74.4), the ELAR TEKS, and the LOTE TEKS for Bilingual/ESL and multilingual classrooms — with a K–12 public-school appropriateness statement and links to the Texas EL program frameworks.
Printables and writing 2 projects
Teacher Printables
Classroom-ready packets, science labs, cue cards, supplemental aids, and classroom-management resources.
Daily Writing a Day
A school-year calendar of Daily Oral Language sentences and TEKS-aligned writing prompts.
AI tools and prompt libraries 11 projects
Build Your Handbook: Claude vs. ChatGPT
One staff-handbook PDF, rebuilt as an accessible web page by two AI assistants — Claude and ChatGPT. Open each version side by side and compare the layout, navigation, and reading experience against the original source PDF.
TCEA AI Custom Instructions Library
Reusable AI personas and custom instructions for productivity, planning, writing, and educator workflows.
AI Essentials Prompt Library of 100
A searchable set of educator prompts for AI Essentials training and classroom support.
K-12 Image Prompt Library
Classroom, library, and office-ready image prompts organized by task and instructional use.
Generative AI Adoption Checklist
A step-by-step institutional checklist for thoughtful generative AI adoption.
AI Adoption Roadmap
An interactive roadmap for district and campus AI adoption stages, policies, and implementation moves.
AI Adoption Roadmap - Extended
The longer version of the AI adoption roadmap with expanded guidance and phase detail.
Augmented K-16 AI Learning Framework
A role-based AI learning framework with scenario tools for leaders, designers, builders, facilitators, and instructional support teams.
TCEA ELEs Alignment Assistant
An assistant for connecting work to TCEA Essential Learning Experiences and related instructional goals.
AI Design Companion
A TCEA blue-and-gold strategy reference with ALDO prompts, visible learning resources, and AI-supported lesson design tools.
ALDO Prompt Studio
A guided studio for building strong AI prompts with the ALDO framework, worked examples, and references.
Instructional strategies 8 projects
Visible Learning with Ed Tech
Pair high-impact instructional strategies with educational technology.
High-Effect Strategy Coach
An interactive K-12 coaching tool for selecting and applying high-effect instructional strategies.
Matching the Strategy to the Phase of Learning
A guide to aligning visible learning strategies with surface, deep, and transfer learning.
Comprehensive High-Impact Learning Phases
A visual reference for surface, deep, and transfer learning with strategy recommendations.
Top Instructional Strategies
A presentation-style guide to instructional strategies worth embracing for stronger learning outcomes.
Beyond the 20 Percent Policy
Classroom strategy guidance for responding to restrictive AI policies with better instructional design.
Technology Integration Resources
Two companion guides: Planning and Assessing Technology Integration (PATI) and a tour of EdTech frameworks (SAMR, TPACK, TIM, Triple E, and more).
The ACE Framework
A seven-language teaching companion for the Relic Rooms series. ACE — Articulate, Connect, Extend — is a simple thinking routine that moves students from spotting clues to explaining and testing a conclusion. Includes the three moves, a worked example, and a classroom-ready ACE card; every Relic Room now embeds a worked ACE example on its directions screen.
Leadership and technology 13 projects
When Disaster Strikes
Make decisions during a simulated school cyberattack in this incident-response game.
Digital Capacity Matrix for the SPR Pathfinders
A self-assessment matrix across eight capacity areas — choose the statement that best fits where you are today and get a summary with next steps.
TCEA Registration Dashboard
A course registration and revenue dashboard for tracking professional development activity.
District KPI Dashboard
A district-level KPI dashboard with an accompanying markdown data file.
Technology Dashboard
A technology-focused dashboard with KPI views and companion data.
K-12 KPI Dashboard Generator
A browser-only dashboard builder for district, campus, instructional, and technology KPIs with export options for JSON, CSV, Markdown, HTML, and PDF.
Buyback Technology Vendor Assessment Tool
A structured tool for evaluating buyback technology vendors against district priorities.
Teacher Observation and Coaching Platforms
A slide-by-slide vendor comparison of teacher observation and coaching platforms, separating formal evaluation workflow tools from coaching, reflection, and teacher-preparation products.
Family App Privacy Audit
A 15-minute interactive guide for reviewing app permissions on a child's device.
PROTECT Rubric v2.0
A student data privacy assessor for reviewing vendor policies, terms, addenda, and security documents.
Data Display Patterns
A TCEA field guide to choosing the right chart and data-display pattern for dashboards and reports.
School District App Intake Form
A teacher and staff app intake form for submitting apps for district review, with an optional Google Sheets backend for collecting requests.
Assessment System RFP Scoring Tool
A weighted rubric for comparing district assessment systems, with non-negotiable gate checks and a side-by-side vendor comparison you can export to CSV.
Classroom tools 22 projects
Classroom Word Search Maker
Create classroom word searches from custom terms and themes.
Crossword Puzzle Maker
Build classroom crossword puzzles from custom clues and word lists.
Crossword Student View
The student-facing view for solving generated crossword puzzles.
LetterJam Puzzle Maker
Generate letter-based word puzzles for vocabulary and language practice.
LetterJam Student View
The student-facing view for playing LetterJam puzzles.
Map Puzzle Generator
Generate map-based puzzles for geography and spatial-reasoning activities.
Meme Puzzle Maker
Create and configure meme-based puzzles for classroom use.
Meme Puzzle Student
The student-facing view for completing meme puzzle activities.
Classroom Wheel Spinner
A customizable spinner for names, prompts, choices, and classroom routines.
Story Wheel Maker
A wheel-based generator for story ideas and writing prompts.
Classroom Shape Spinner
A shape spinner for math, discussion, selection, and quick classroom activities.
Classroom Dice Roller
A flexible dice roller for games, questions, grouping, and classroom decisions.
Classroom Coin Flipper
A coin flipping utility with themes and classroom-friendly controls.
Dots and Boxes
The classic Dots and Boxes pencil-and-paper game adapted for the classroom.
Draw and Sketch
A quick sketching surface for drawing, annotation, and visual classroom prompts.
Color Pop Magic
A scratch-canvas drawing tool for revealing hidden backgrounds with a custom cover color and pen.
Dicebreaker Creator
Create dice-based icebreaker activities for groups, meetings, and classes.
Dicebreaker Roll View
The play view for rolling and running a Dicebreaker activity.
Classroom Fortune Wheel Teacher
The teacher-facing setup view for a classroom fortune wheel activity.
Classroom Fortune Wheel Student
The student-facing fortune wheel view for classroom participation.
iBINGO Game Maker
Build custom BINGO boards for review, vocabulary, and whole-class games.
Vendor Flash Cards
Practice recognizing educational technology vendors with interactive flash cards.
Courses and professional learning 21 projects
VIBES Studio
Plan a classroom tool through Vision, Instruct, Build, Evaluate, and Ship. Create chatbot prompts, review testing checks, and download a project plan or editable draft. Runs in your browser with no sign-in.
Vibe-Coding in the Classroom
A grade-band project gallery for classroom-ready vibe-coding ideas and student-facing activities.
Vibe Coding a Free ShareSpace
A slide-style walkthrough for building a free Padlet-style sharing space with a downloadable demo solution.
Codex Project Organizer
A beginner-friendly brief builder that turns a project idea into a structured Markdown prompt for AI-assisted coding, with a modular version for defining inputs, outputs, and tests.
TCEA Tools Menu
The launch menu for classroom utilities including spinners, dice, word search, drawing, puzzles, and fortune tools.
AI Essentials for Educators
A course export/reference page for AI Essentials content, activities, and linked resources.
AI Essentials for Educators - Course Reference
A second course reference version with expanded AI Essentials content.
Daily Quick Write Generator
Generate daily quick write prompts for classroom routines and literacy practice.
AI-Powered Newsletter Architecture
A Lunch and Learn resource for building AI-assisted newsletter workflows for educators.
Oreo Teaching Personality Test
A light classroom or workshop activity based on how participants eat Oreo cookies.
Apps by OneScreen
A showcase of purpose-built classroom apps for educators tired of AI tools that miss the mark.
Relic Rooms
A series of self-contained, seven-language investigation activities: students examine nine illustrated mystery exhibits in three steps — identify it, understand its purpose, and connect it to what came next. Aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills across science, social studies, technology applications, and career. Starts with The Vanished Classroom.
Extinct Creatures (Relic Room)
A grades 3-7 science investigation (Relic Rooms series) about nine extinct animals — dodo, woolly mammoth, T. rex, megalodon, and more. Students identify each creature, its role or adaptation, and its closest living relative today. Seven languages, aligned to the Texas science TEKS (19 TAC Ch. 112).
Vanished Trades (Relic Room)
A grades 5-8 social studies and career investigation (Relic Rooms series) about jobs the modern world left behind — lamplighter, switchboard operator, iceman, human computer, and more. Students identify each trade, what the worker did, and what replaced the job. Seven languages, aligned to the Texas TEKS (19 TAC Ch. 113 + Ch. 127).
The Transportation Graveyard (Relic Room)
A grades 3-6 social studies investigation (Relic Rooms series) about old ways of getting around — penny-farthing, steam locomotive, zeppelin, stagecoach, ocean liner, Concorde, and more. Students identify each vehicle, what it was used for, and what replaced it. Seven languages, aligned to the Texas social studies TEKS (19 TAC Ch. 113).
Dead Communications (Relic Room)
A grades 4-8 technology investigation (Relic Rooms series) about old ways people sent messages — telegraph, telegram, carrier pigeon, pneumatic tube, party line, pay phone, fax, pager, and answering machine. Students identify each tool, what it was used for, and the modern equivalent. Seven languages, aligned to the Texas Technology Applications TEKS (19 TAC Ch. 126).
Mystery Minerals (Relic Room)
A grades 5-8 science investigation (Relic Rooms series) about minerals — quartz, halite, graphite, talc, magnetite, gold, diamond, calcite, and hematite. Students identify each specimen, a key property (hardness, streak, magnetism, reaction to acid), and how people use it. Seven languages, aligned to the Texas science TEKS (19 TAC Ch. 112).
Cloud Detective (Relic Room)
A grades 3-5 science investigation (Relic Rooms series) about clouds — cumulus, cumulonimbus, stratus, cirrus, nimbostratus, and more. Students identify each cloud, describe what it is like, and predict the weather it signals. Seven languages, aligned to the Texas science TEKS (19 TAC Ch. 112).
Hall of Inventions (Relic Room)
A grades 4-8 investigation (Relic Rooms series) about world-changing inventions — the printing press, light bulb, telephone, steam engine, vaccine, wheel, compass, airplane, and transistor. Students identify each, the problem it solved, and what it made possible. Seven languages, aligned to the Texas TEKS (19 TAC Ch. 113 + Ch. 126).
Endangered Today (Relic Room)
A grades 6-8 technology and economics investigation (Relic Rooms series) about everyday things fading now — cursive, cash, car keys, landlines, paper maps, newspapers, DVDs, checks, and passwords. Students identify each, how it is used today, and what is likely to replace it. Seven languages, aligned to the Texas Technology Applications TEKS (19 TAC Ch. 126).
The Vanished Classroom
A standalone investigation activity (grades 4-8) about instructional practices from the 1800s that classrooms no longer use. Students examine nine teaching relics — slate, hornbook, recitation, the dunce cap, and more — and uncover each one's purpose, limitation, and modern replacement. Seven languages, with a score and printable reflection. Part of the Relic Rooms series.
Assessment and reflection 5 projects
Reflection Time Assessment
A guided reflection assessment for educators and learners to capture and review thinking.
Reflection Dashboard
The facilitator dashboard view for reviewing reflection responses across a group.
Entry / Exit Ticket Item Analysis
A tool for analyzing entry and exit ticket items to surface misconceptions and next steps.
Water Cycle Pre-Assessment Flashcards
A formative pre-assessment flashcard set, an example of student interactive assessment.
ACE Framework Learning Recommendations
Learning recommendations generated from the ACE framework for next instructional moves.
Library resources 3 projects
Vibe-Coding for Librarians
A companion website with librarian-focused tools, use cases, prompts, and downloadable vibe-coding resources.
LibVibes Prompt Library
Nineteen library-focused vibe-coding starter prompts, each with a VIBES game plan and its own linkable page, all nineteen built and playable.
LibVibes example tools
A collection of browser tools for library instruction, reading, research, and everyday library tasks.
Presentations 2 projects
AI as Your Instructional Design Partner
A web-based slide deck on using AI as a partner in instructional design.
NSF TechAccess: AI-Ready America
A TCEA briefing web deck on the NSF TechAccess AI-Ready America initiative.
Publications and creative tools 4 projects
AI-Powered Publications and Dashboards
Five working examples for publications, newsletters, dashboards, resource directories, and reading digests. Sample data is included.
AI Newsletter Architecture
An interactive guide to designing an AI-assisted newsletter workflow.
Markdown Converter
Convert Markdown into formatted content and document exports in your browser.
TCEA MediaMkr
Create and edit media, documents, charts, puzzles, and classroom visuals with browser-based tools.
Collaboration examples 1 projects
Collaboration Examples
Explore sharing boards, sticky notes, discussion galleries, and question boards. These are setup examples; connected use requires your own backend.
AI for the Defense 1 projects
AI for the Defense
Professional learning for criminal defense: session decks, ethical scenarios, prompt libraries, and printable handouts.
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