This document describes a do-type activity for 4th grade students involving an online spelling game. It outlines how the spelling game works on the ABCya website, with students competing in teams to spell as many words as possible within a time limit. The top four scoring students will then participate in a spelling bee in front of the class, with the winner receiving a trophy. The goal of the activity is for students to practice spelling basic words while having fun and building skills through competition.

1. DO ACTIVITY FOR
FOURTH GRADE
STUDENTSBy Miranda Fadness
EDU 652
Professor nortz
October 4, 2013

2. Common Do-type Activities
◦ Practice activities: Drill and practice, hands-on, guided
analysis, and teamwork.
◦ Discovery activities: Virtual laboratories, case
studies, and role playing.
◦ Games and Simulations: Quiz show games, word
games, puzzles, adventure games, software
simulations, and device simulations.
◦ (Horton, 2012)

3. PRACTICE ACTIVITIES

4. How practice activities work: Repeat
the cycle as many times as
necessary
•The teacher assigns the activity or task for the students.
Assign Task
•The students do the task
Perform
•After the performed task, it is evaluated by the teacher or computer.
•(Horton, 2012).
Feedback

5. DISCOVERY ACTIVITIES

6. How Discovery Activities Work
Prepare
• The teacher introduces the activity and
how to do it. There may be specific
questions.
Perform • Do the activity
Record
results
Infer • Identify the principle that happens
from the discovery ( Horton, 2012).

7. GAMES AND
SIMULATIONS

8. How Games and Simulations Work:
clarify the objective
Type Objective Type Game for a Do Activity
Create Requires a simple activity: Example a puzzle
Decide A learner makes a decision and gets and immediate result
Do Practice a realistic task
Know Quiz or question based game
Believe Discover rules and concepts for themselves.
Feel Emotion stimulating (Horton, 2012).

9. 4th grade Do Activity:
Spelling Game online
◦ For this lesson, students will be playing a Spelling game
on ABCya.com.
◦ This game will help the students learn to spell basic
words but in a fun manner.
◦ This activity will encourage friendly teamwork and
competition.

10. Spelling Bees
Game
Online

11. Game instructions
◦ http://www.abcya.com/spelling_practi
ce.htm
◦ Each student will push start and enter
their name for the team.
◦ Push create game and choose a
private game.
◦ The password that you enter will be
“apple”.
◦ There are four computers allowed per
session

12. Instructions ( Cont.)
◦ Push the start game button and the
game will begin.
◦ You will hear a voice of the computer say
a word out loud.
◦ You will then spell the word by touching
the letters in the order to spell the word
correctly.
◦ The letters will appear in the honeycomb.
If you are wrong it will give you a hint.
◦ This is a timed game.
◦ The winner gets the most words in the
minute time.
◦ We will go through this 4 times each.

13. End results
◦ At the end, it will place the
winners in order of time and
correct words.
◦ The winner gets a place in
the Spelling Bee.
◦ After this activity we will have
a Spelling Bee with the top 4
winners of the game.

14. SPELLING BEE
We will have a Spelling
Bee contest to determine
the best speller in the
class. The winners of the
game will get up in front
of the class. I will read
words and each student
will continue to spell
words by rotating. If you
get any letter wrong you
are out. The winner gets a
trophy! ( See bottom
picture to the left).

15. Goal of Spelling DO-Activity
◦ Students will gain an understanding of basic words and how to
spell them.
◦ Students will gained a larger understanding of words and how to
correct their mistake.
◦ Students will learn different forms of timed pressure by
competition.
◦ Students will learn the technology of using internet based games
for learning,
◦ Students will grow skills while having fun.

16. REFERENCES
ABCya! Spelling Bees | Spelling Practice. (n.d.). ABCya.com | Kids Educational Computer
Games & Activities. Retrieved October 7, 2013, from
http://www.abcya.com/spelling_practice.htm
Horton, W. (2012). E-Learning by design (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Wiley.