Avery Learning Lab

This activity is similar to a lab and is designed to be done in groups. You will need any type of cereal with more than one color in it, a hard candy such as M & M's or Smarties, vinegar, and baking soda for the activity. Students will use these items following the instructions given, to figure out whether each combination is a physical or chemical change. Then this will help them decide if it forms a mixture or a compound. There are Analysis and Conclusion questions to do once the activity i

A great simple lab about how temperature, size, and volume can effect the rate of a reaction. This lab is done using Alka-Seltzer tabs (or other effervescent tabs). It includes the data tables and Analysis and Conclusion questions. It was originally designed to be done in groups but it can be done by individual students.

Fantastic Lab that students love and is one of my favorites! Since I always do these two together you get two labs together. The first is a lab to demonstrate Osmosis. You use eggs that have been soaked in vinegar to dissolve the shell, then soak them in other liquids. The results really bring home how water moves in and out of a membrane. When you pop an egg open to show them how far the food coloring got in, you will have the attention of every eye in the room. The prep for this lab takes 7-

This a great activity for helping struggling readers. I have used this activity with kids ranging from 1st grade up to 8th. What is Repeated Reading? -Act of reading a short text that is at the student's reading level, multiple times, over a period of several days. -It is used to give the student repeated exposure to sight words, and helps them increase their fluency (WPM-words per minute that are correct) Reasons for Repeated Reading: -Boosts sight word recognition. -Helps increase fluency.

Basic Power Point on trophic levels. Briefly covers what each level is ex. producer, primary consumer, etc. Has several visuals of trophic pyramids. Also uses a visual to demonstrate the loss of energy at each level (left with 10% of previous level's energy). There is a slide that asks the student to come up with their own pyramid as well.

This is by far one of my elementary and middle school tutoring students' favorite reading handouts. You may be familiar with UNRAVEL or other reading strategies. I have taken my experience with students that are getting tutoring because of reading struggles in the classroom, and I have developed a simple 5 step reading checklist (the 6th step is to circle or write your answer). The trick is that the students focus on reading and understanding the whole story first. Many strategies tell kids t

This product is perfect for the parent or teacher looking to help their student(s) improve study habits, through proven study strategies. Here at Avery Learning Lab we have created a system that we use with our students for greater studying success. We have included: -Our Top 15 Study Strategies -a step by step explanation for how to help your student start creating better study habits. -a Tally Sheet to help keep track of the strategies that are working. -a link to ideas for brain breaks whic

This Practice has been a huge success with several of my tutoring students. It is a no frills practice that involves both adult and student participation. White boards work best for me, as my students love any chance they can get to use one of my white board posters. However, you can also use plain paper for this. You simply pick the sound or sounds you want to work on. You write a word on the board missing a letter. You say the word then have the student pick out what letter they think should

Basic Power Point about Matter. Includes some vocabulary, a drawing of the Atom, States of Matter, and some of the scientists who influenced the discovery of the atom as we know it today.

This activity gives students a chance to take pieces of evidence and form a hypothesis. In the teacher instructions you start out with a sentence that you will cut up into its word pieces. Groups of students are given the pieces, but are only allowed to look at a few at a time. The students then work as a group to try to come up with the original sentence, as more words are slowly revealed to them. I got the inspiration for this activity from another teacher's website, then created my own so tha