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Engineering Task: Make a tower out of no more than 100 marshmallows and 100 toothpicks. The goal is to hold as many pennies as possible. There are two tests at the beginning of this assignment to help the students discover the strength of triangles. Then the students are asked to design a structure of their own. Then they must join their group and discuss their designs. They then decide on a final group design. Then they build their tower. After they have built their structure, they test their

A Student Favorite! To show me what my students have learned about life in space and on different planets, they design space ships to travel around space. They must design and label the interior and exterior of their ships. Then write about why they added the features that they did.

These 3 items are pieces of my simple machines unit. Each day we learn about a different simple machine. We find the definition and real-life examples of each one and record it in our "Simple Machines Notebook" (included). Once we have learned about each simple machine, the students write an informative essay on simple machines (included). Lastly, I have included a simple machines quiz that I use.

A worksheet to help your student's record their planet research. It is organized in typical paragraph structure: topic sentence, details and conclusion. The final draft will have 3 paragraphs. The final draft paper is included as well.

Pages for each letter of the alphabet. Space to write about each entry. Could be used for a variety of topics. I have used it as an end-of-year class project: "The ABCs of Room 35's." I have also used it for a end-of-year review project for social studies: "The ABCs of Massachusetts."

A creative writing assignment in our space unit. The students record information about a new planet in a journal entry (draw and write about a planet that they make up).

Vocabulary pages for angles, polygons, triangles and quadrilaterals. Each page includes definitions, examples and places for students to show their understanding. Please note: The thumbnails distort the spacing of this document. This should download with properly.

A printable book titled Numbers in My Life. Students fill in the numbers in their life and draw pictures on each page.

Six writing tasks for the 100th day of school. Spans multiple grades: I used it in first grade and in third grade.

Writing Assignment used in my Energy Unit.

Use these to make a "yearbook" for the students at the end of the school year. Or use as a New Years activity to get your students thinking about the previous year and making a goal for the coming year.

Multiplication Word Problems

Name the geometric figures shown.

Hundreds Day Math Activity

A challenging interdisciplinary worksheet.