Interactive Lesson Library

Create your own interactive story about a special oak tree! Learn why oak trees are important and how they help the environment. Write a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, including a setting, characters, and a problem that gets solved. Use Elementari to add animations and interactive elements that bring your story to life.

Introduce students to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by having them select their top 3 and create an interactive app. Students will design an app with buttons representing their chosen SDGs and use voiceovers to explain the significance of each. This lesson promotes global awareness, coding, and digital citizenship.

Foster meaningful intergenerational dialogue about climate change through interviews with older generations. Students will gather insights on how climate change has impacted different generations and create an interactive story using Elementari. This digital project will blend personal stories with coding elements, encouraging students to explore climate justice through the lens of older generations while building coding and storytelling skills.

Dive into the world of climate justice and discover the impactful work of activists! Start by researching a climate justice issue that matters to you and learn about key activists. Then, design and code an app on Elementari to share what you've learned. Your app will showcase the issue, explain its causes and impacts, and highlight the work of climate heroes.

Engage students in the life cycle of a tree through research and storytelling. In this lesson, students will research a specific tree species and create an interactive story using Elementari. The story will follow the tree's journey from seed to maturity, incorporating coding animations and interactive elements to bring the story to life. Scaffolded sentence starters and fill-in-the-blanks will guide students through the writing process.

Create an interactive game inspired by "Shark Lady." Students will design a marine environment game where a character moves using buttons, and sharks move randomly across the screen. They will code animations, use number variables for random positions, and implement collision detection for a game-over condition.

Code an interactive story where a magical tree grows when specific words are spoken. Students will design their story with images and backgrounds, write a "Tree Keeper Promise" to care for trees, and code speech recognition to make their tree respond to their voice. This lesson combines coding with creative storytelling, making it ideal for an Earth Day and Arbor Day activity.

Code an exciting game where players drag lowercase letters to match their uppercase counterparts. Students will design their game, record their voices, add sound effects and background music, and learn to integrate these elements with code. Encourage students to share their creations with peers and younger friends, fostering a collaborative and interactive learning environment.

Students will remix classic fairy tales into original narratives by reconfiguring story elements and characters. They will structure their stories and enhance them with digital skills, coding background music and voiceovers on Elementari. Students will finish by publishing, sharing, and commenting on each other's stories!

Write a personal narrative that captures the essence of their daily routines, activities, and experiences. Students will select significant moments to highlight, making their stories engaging and reflective of their personal lives. Additionally, students will enhance their stories by adding background music, bringing their narratives to life.

Dive into environmental storytelling with this lesson, where students address climate issues by designing a "Choose Your Own Adventure." They'll pick a problem—like biodiversity loss, water scarcity, deforestation, climate change, or pollution—and craft stories with choices leading to different environmental outcomes, showcasing the significance of our actions on the planet.

Embark on a captivating adventure into the secret world of spies and invisible ink, inspired by Josephine Baker's remarkable espionage during World War II. In this interactive lesson, students will write a narrative hook and code a hidden message to reveal by dragging an object over it, blending history with the magic of coding.