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This series of three lessons will help your upper-elementary, middle school, or gifted elementary students learn more about what friendship means, where to find friends, and what kinds of friends they might have. Complete with activities and rubrics, this set of lessons will raise everyone's awareness of each other's emotional needs. This set of lessons is perfect for the beginning of the year or as a mid-year community builder. It is also ideal for counselors or prevention specialists to use

Help your students develop interesting, well-rounded protagonists and antagonists with these character development sheets. Each sheet includes basic descriptors to choose from along a spectrum, a space to draw a sketch of the character, and questions to help the writer think about the character's purpose in the story.

This planner is designed to help students with group work/collaboration skills. Instead of having jobs assigned by the teacher in a group project, this planner helps students determine the necessary jobs, match them to each group member's strengths, and come to an agreement about a fair distribution of jobs. If student groups use this planner throughout the year, they should internalize this process and become more independent and successful with group work.

Get your primary students involved in problem solving by helping them to identify what "bugs them" (problem identification). Use one of these pages to provide initial motivation and to organize your students' ideas, then help them to choose a problem "bug" to begin working on finding a solution for.

These problem solving strategies labels are designed to help your students learn to be excellent math problem solvers. Use them when teaching problem solving strategies to help your students identify the strategy you are using, and label it for themselves when they try it out. Each label has a picture to activate their memory! These could also be used in a math center or in small groups as labels for a sorting activity - just select problems at your level and let students sort them into strategi

This assignment effectively enables your independent learner to learn about and show understanding of mixtures and compounds. Your student will use internet sites and your textbook to learn about physical and chemical change and mixtures and compounds. After learning independently, your student will label examples, diagram, and write about these topics to show that they are ready to move on to experiments, in-depth research, or an independent study.

This assignment effectively enables your independent learner to learn about and show understanding of the basics of matter. Your student will use internet sites to learn about atoms and their parts, molecules, and the states of matter. After learning independently, your student will diagram and write about these topics to show that they are ready to move on to experiments, in-depth research, or an independent study.