Teachers in our community have built over a million activities in Amplify Classroom, and our annual Activity Builder Spotlight Contest helps educators across the globe discover these resources. Each year, teachers submit custom activities in one of two categories: Beginner (for users just starting their activity-building journey) or Pro (for those who’ve mastered Computation Layer or embedded advanced graphs to create student interactions). Our community votes on their favorites, and winners receive a prize plus permanent placement in our Featured Collection.
Meet this year’s winners! Try these incredible teacher-created activities in your classroom, or copy and edit them to fit your grade level(s) or unique classroom needs:
Fractions NF5-13 by Krystal Centinello
Beginner category
Students build conceptual understanding by interpreting a fraction as the division of the numerator by the denominator.
Balance This by Wes Overton
Beginner category
Using an interactive balance scale, students experiment with properties of equality and learn to solve equations with variables on both sides.
Exploring Expressions and Like Terms With Coins! by Michael Felias
Beginner category
By sorting coins and calculating their total value, students discover what expressions are and how to combine like terms.
The Accumulator Function by Pablo Garcia
Beginner category
This activity prepares students for the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and applications of integration by introducing accumulator functions.
Bike Jumps! by Michael Bostick
Beginner category
This modeling activity introduces lines, parabolas, and rates of change through the context of bike jumps.
SWEEP! – Coding Introduction by Nathaniel Heading
Pro submission
This introduction to coding for beginners builds foundational skills in sequential thinking, functions, and loops.
Combining Like Terms (With Algebra Tiles) by Kayla Skidmore
Pro submission
Through visual algebra tiles, students learn to model expressions and practice combining like terms.
Coordinate Plane Darts by Richard Hung
Pro category
Students sharpen their coordinate graphing skills through an engaging game of darts! The teacher dashboard will show a checkmark if students score at least one point in three rounds.
Metroid Trig by Matthew Stack
Pro category
Students apply trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate side lengths of right triangles.
Bath Time! by Bryn Humberstone
Pro category
This activity takes students through real-world application of linear graphs exploring the relationship between bath volume and time.
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