About Adobe’s  
‘​Khan + Create​’​ Activities 
 
At Adobe, we believe in creativity for all.  
 
When students are given the opportunity to apply their knowledge through 
creating, designing, imagining, and self expression, their learning becomes deeper, 
more engaging, and ultimately more meaningful. With the rise of flipped, blended, 
and online learning, students and teachers increasingly use video and online 
content as a core part of their learning resources. For over a decade, the non-profit 
Khan Academy​ ​has inspired us with their mission of providing free, world-class 
educational videos, articles, and practice questions for millions of students and 
teachers across the world.  
 
As an extension to the meaningful instruction and practice Khan offers today, 
Adobe’s creative toolkit allows students to create and communicate using writing, 
images, video, audio, animation, and design. These modalities help students 
demonstrate deeper levels of knowledge, critical thinking, communication, and 
creativity. Adobe also enables opportunities for peer- and teacher-feedback by 
making digital creative work easy to share and make collaborative. 
 
To support holistic content + practice + create learning experiences, Adobe has 
partnered with classroom teachers to create the activities in this series that we call 
“Khan + Create.” Each activity begins with Khan Academy materials, and then 
presents students with guided activities to create, express themselves, and 
experience the full breadth and richness of new topics and subjects. 
 
List of activities 
PRIMARY  SECONDARY 
(Elementary School)  (Middle and High School) 
   
● Growth mindset: set a ‘SMART’ goal​ (​ all  ● Growth mindset: mistakes are opportunities​ ​(all 
subjects)  subjects) 
● Tell a story with memory and perspective  ● Teaching simple and compound sentences to 
(literature and language)  other students​ ​(literature and language) 
● Mystery is the mood​ ​(literature and language)  ● Tell a story with tone and color​ ​(literature and 
language) 
● Join the grammar squad​ (​ literature and 
● Tell a great story: the day you faced your fears 

 
  

language)  (language arts) 

● Primary ratios​ ​(math)  ● Visualize a molecule​ (​ science) 
● Building arrays​ ​(math)  ● Design a cell​ (​ science) 
● Baking, cooking...and math​ ​ ​(math)  ● Cell communication​ ​(science) 
● How did you solve that?​ ​ ​(math)  ● Heredity and eye color​ ​(science) 
● Find shapes all around you​ ​(math)  ● The Silk Road ​(social studies) 
● Parallel streets and famous landmark​s​ (math)  ● A person in time online​ (​ social studies) 
● On my block​ (​ math)  ● Human nature and the purpose of government 
(social studies) 
● Modern art in 2020​ ​(social studies) 
● Technology and government communication 
● Common and proper nouns​ (literature and 
(social studies) 
language) 
● Transcendentalism, the outdoors, and you​ ​(social 
 
studies) 
  ● Get creative: interpreting the world around you 
  (art and art history) 
● Linear perspective in art ​(art and art history) 
HIGHER EDUCATION 
(College and University)  ● Set up your shop​ ​(math) 
  ● Need 4 speed​ (​ math) 
● Take action as an environmental strategist  ● Angle pair relationships​ (math) 
(careers and science) 
● The United States from 1754-1800​ (social studies) 
● Dream job project ​(creative careers) 
● What if? Let your imagination flourish​ (​ literature 
● What if? Let your imagination flourish  and language) 
(humanities) 
● Take action as an environmental strategist 
● Designing to create a better tomorrow  (careers) 
(careers and design) 
● Designing to create a better tomorrow​ ​(careers) 

Information for teachers 

 
 
The team of teachers who created these activities with Adobe intentionally made them available 
as free, creative-commons licensed, and editable Google docs that anyone can take, copy, and 
adapt them to suit their own context, needs, and goals. You know your students best, so we 
encourage you to customize where needed to align to the content knowledge, depth, and length 
that best aligns to your lessons, units, or course curriculum objectives. 
 
Most of these activities use Adobe’s free, easy to use, and cross-device tools like Spark, and the 
creative principles and activities can be adapted to augment or work with other creative tools or 
technologies, digital or otherwise. Teachers should also feel empowered to use other relevant 
learning content, from Khan, to textbooks, to other sources, in order to ground students' content 
knowledge. 

 
  

 
Adobe Spark and other Creative Cloud apps require an account and Adobe ID login. Keep in mind 
that children under the age of 13 are not allowed to create their own Adobe ID. Sign in with social 
media accounts is also supported. You can learn more about Adobe Spark and Creative Cloud login 
and technical details, including instructions for logging in if your district or school has Spark 
deployed, by clicking ​here​.  
 
You can also find more free teaching materials, courses, and professional development for using 
Adobe in your classroom on the ​Adobe Education Exchange​. 
 
 
Information for parents or guardians 
 
We hope you find these activities engaging and meaningful to do alongside your children and 
young learners. Most of these activities include opportunities for students to share their thinking, 
reflect on what they’ve learned, and express themselves, which make for fantastic discussions and 
conversations. We encourage you to join in, and explore and learn new subjects, content, and 
digital skills too! 
 
Adobe Spark and other Creative Cloud apps require an account and login. Keep in mind that 
children under the age of 13 are not allowed to create their own Adobe ID. Sign in with social 
media accounts is also supported.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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