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While reading the novel, students may use this character chart to help organize their information about the characters and analyze what role and impact each character has on the garden. Note: Maricela has been left off of the character chart due to the opinion that the content associated with her character is not appropriate for fifth grade students.

Do you need a review game that won't take your entire class period to play? Do your students need extra practice solving word problems? This PowerPoint is a teacher-friendly resource for adding and subtracting decimals. Students are encouraged to solve word problems and apply their skills for adding and subtracting decimals. Many students can solve basic addition and subtraction problems with decimals but struggle when the problems are presented in a word or story format. This resource is

Are you in need of a fun way to provide extra practice and review of decimals for your students? This resource will help you encourage your students to "give a hoot" about decimals and "owl" bet they will solve these problems perfectly! This PowerPoint presentation is a review of decimal skills, including adding and subtracting decimals, ordering decimals, and undertanding place values in decimals. Students are challenged with solving word problems as well as to name a mystery number using p

This opinionnaire is organized for students to assess their opinions on statements about diversity and community before and after reading the novel Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman.

In this small group (or independent) project, students research and calculate the cost of owning a pet. Math skills used include adding, multiplying and dividing whole numbers, decimals, and/or fractions. Writing skills and critical thinking is integrated by having student choose what items to purchase, where to purchase them at the best cost, and create reasons to persuade Patrick's parents to allow him to get a pet.

This PowerPoint presentation is a fun way to review expressions and equations with your students. Students work independently or within small groups to answer multiple choice and constructed response algebra problems. They can write on whiteboards/slates (or a notebook is fine) and keep track of correctly answered problems. Firefly Doug the Math Bug reveals the answer to each problem which gives immediate feedback to the students. Feel free to give rewards to those who are successful in answe

Need a way to motivate your students to write? Wanting to integrate different subjects with writing? This collection of writing prompts and projects is the perfect solution for motivating students to write in different formats on a variety of topics! These writing prompts and projects are part of a Million Dollar Mission writing assignment. Students are required to choose at least one writing project for each week and can earn up to $100,000 for each project completed. Students love havin

For an activating strategy before reading the novel Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman, have students answer each question from the chart using sticky notes and post them on the chart. Then share and discuss as a class. After reading the novel, go back and have students add any new ideas or information to each question using different colored sticky notes. Then share and discuss as a class how their perception of a neighborhood and/or community may or may not have changed.