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Student pioneers move their team’s wagon along the Oregon Trail map that uses actual landmarks. Wagon team members work together, completing y...
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Want to make elapsed time easier for your students? For many students the circular aspect of a clock makes it hard to understand elapsed time. ...
Summary: Students role-play a water molecule by rolling dice to simulate the movement of water within the water cycle.
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This mini-unit is designed to teach and review with students the importance of being polite, respectful friends by not interrupting. Taking turn...
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I created this to give my students some hands-on, higher-level thinking practice with the concepts of food chains and food webs. This will make ...
Classroom Money Pack offers classroom money patterns in a variety of denominations as well as directions for setting up a Classroom Economy syste...
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This product is an interactive simulation using dice that demonstrates the struggle to find freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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The Checkbook Project pumps life into a classroom the way the stimulus package pumped bucks into GM. It improves test scores, inspires the entrep...
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If you would like to get started building a classroom community and economy, this is the resource for you! I have shared 21 jobs (with the capac...
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Step by step tutorial on making beautiful paper water lilies. Enhance your bulletin boards or displays with this easy, inexpensive project. A...
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This amazing simulation of the Oregon trail gives classrooms a glimpse of what life was like on the trail. By rolling dice, keeping track of sup...
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A great warm-up bellringer for use when teaching about the Great Depression. This fun and historically accurate quiz allows students to play the...
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Now updated with eight questions! A fun bellringer testing student's abilities as a cook on an Old West cattle drive. Students are asked multip...
This is an AMAZING PowerPoint. It shows pictures of the Inner Planets to emphasize the comparison of their sizes, then it shows them in relation ...
This task asks students to pretend they have been hired by a home improvement company to solve two problems for them. The first job requires stu...
Underground Railroad Simulation Game Board Activity
This game is intended to be a simulation of what it was like to experience the Underground...
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Students will gain a first-hand experience at traveling west with this Oregon Trail Simulation Activity. Score can be kept for fun, for competiti...
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Trip Planners is a role-playing game that integrates math, geography, and writing. Students begin with a folder that includes an expense ledger,...
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This lab or activity is a hands-on and collaborative learning lesson that incorporates the following:
STEM
Earthquakes
Geology
Engineering
Design...
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This is one of my favorite activities! The students really have a lot of fun with this lesson. After a brief talk about how the DNA in each of us...
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This unit is bundled with the much larger American History Super Unit Version 2, located here:
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This engaging group activity helps students to grasp the myriad of difficulties that the colonists of Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth had to face...
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This Reader's Theatre covers the history of the famous battle at the Alamo in Texas. There are 14 characters including five Narrators, Santa Anna...
Thank you so much for buying “the genre’s court!” my students absolutely love going to court and defending their genres. We introduce and...
This interactive flash program randomly generates a two-digit by three-digit multiplication problem and then walks students through each step of ...
Amaze your students with this simple water cycle demonstration! During this lesson, you'll create a mini cloud in a glass jar using hot water, a ...
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This thermometer provides a simple but powerful example for your temperature lessons!
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Another great way to integrate math into the real world- this time of Grocery Shopping. Using coupons, planning a party, purchasing by weight, an...
This is a creative way for students to practice organizing the details of their writing in sequential order. I use this activity when I teach st...
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Are you looking for a highly engaging way to keep your students learning until the last day of school? This week-long camping simulation is the ...
Put a hands on twist to learning the Phases of the Moon. With this wheel students can easily visualize how the moon changes it's state in each p...
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This product is an interactive simulation using dice that demonstrates the struggle to find work during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression.
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A writing activity that provides students an opportunity to vicariously experience the pioneer journey west and the various hardships faced. Stu...
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An EZ Prep solution for science.
This is a fun four day project titled "Code-name: Reentry" which places students in a hands-on critical thinkin...
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Matter: Properties of Solids, Liquids and Gases
Enjoy the REAL WORLD MATH SERIES in one package. Students will be able to use these tasks in math stations. There are enough tasks to keep studen...
Great for Biology or Life Science, this hands-on genetic engineering activity will engage and excite your students as they create real hybrids in...
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Students will explore a user friendly virtual earthquake simulation website to become seismologists by calculating magnitude and triangulating ep...
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This PowerPoint presentation uses animations to demontrate 3 types of tranformations: translations, rotations, and reflections. Students can ac...
This is a highly interactive PowerPoint to be used in conjunction with a Smart Board, and your notes, and as many social studies teachers do, a s...
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Great for Biology and Life Science, this integrated math lab allows students to experiment with various "cell" sizes to determine the ideal cell ...
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Life Skills at its Best!
Comprehensive Activities to promote good citizenship, school spirit, responsibility, self-esteem, decision making, bala...
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What kid doesn’t have a famous person that they admire? Who doesn’t’ like to spend money? This download combines both interests into one mo...
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This QAR cheer will get your students up and out of their seats cheering for question answer relationships! My students love chanting this befor...
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Summer Camp in the Classroom is a simulation in which you transform your classroom into a campground. It has many computer related and non-comput...
Real world activities involving the foundational skills of computing area and perimeter. Ideas for setting up your classroom to represent a home ...
Clearly understanding place value is critical as students move into the upper grades, as Math moves towards a more algorithm based approach. Why...
This is a worksheet featuring questions regarding food chains and food webs that could be used as an in-classroom or homework assignment. Also in...
