Calling all young witches and wizards! Master essential 5th-grade math skills with this enchanting review resource, packed with a Harry Potter theme that will have your students casting spells for success! Engaging week-long activity for Ohio (or any) State Test OR End of Year themed Review. Review key concepts with a magical touch:Dormitory Volume : Master volume of rectangular prisms by calculating various pieces of furniture that will fit into your Hogwarts dorm room!Broom Races, Decimals a
🦃 Engaging Math Activity: Thanksgiving Dinner Budget Challenge (Differentiated!) Cure the "Turkey Week" Wiggles! 🏃♀️💨 Before Thanksgiving break, students get antsy—and need a break from traditional review! Get them out of their seats and applying real-world math skills with this highly engaging and differentiated activity. This math challenge is the perfect way to review critical skills while maintaining focus and excitement during the busy week leading up to the holiday. Why Teachers Love
This activity could be used as a station or as a stand-alone quick review activity. It focuses on using length, width and height to calculate the volume of a rectangular prism. It also incorporates an optional base area x height to find the volume. Students then compare their calculations to group members' rectangular prisms (created with cubes or legos, not provided in this product). Recording sheet and directions sheet are provided. Could also be used as a reinforcement activity for a miniles
This is a bundle of 5 math stations. These stations can be used as a review for the end of year math assessment. The stations focus on five areas that are heavily assessed on the 5th Grade Math End of Year Assessments. Included are the 5 Stations listed below. The "Operations with Fractions and Mixed Numbers Station" could be turned into 2 separate stations, making this a 6 station bundle. Not included: blocks/cubes to create rectangular prisms for the Volume Creation Station. To individually pu
I use this in my Harry Potter 5th Grade Math Unit at the end of the year as a review. However, it can be used as a stand alone lesson for identifying the attributes/characteristics of polygons (specifically quadrilaterals and triangles). This is a fun activity that my students LOVE because it incorporates art. I also usually play the "Herbology" scene in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (found on youtube or bring in your own DVD) to introduce it. 5th Grade Math Standards Covered: 5.G.B
Engage your students in a laugh-out-loud graphing adventure with this exciting partner activity!Students will work together to create and decode mysterious pictures using only coordinates. One student will be the "Crafty Creator", plotting points on a coordinate plane to make a secret picture. The other student, the "Code Breaker", will use the provided ordered pairs to recreate the image on a blank grid, not knowing what the final product will be! ️ ️ Here's what you'll get:Teacher-Approved
Blast off into a delicious math review! In this engaging Project Based Learning (PBL) activity, your 5th-grade students will become the owners of a futuristic Galaxy Drive-In! They'll use their number sense and operations skills to manage inventory, calculate costs, and ensure their drive-in is a cosmic success! This project is perfectly aligned with Ohio Math Standards 5.NBT.A.1, 5.NBT.B.5, 5.NBT.B.6, 5.NF.B.4, and 5.MD.A.1, making review fun and meaningful. What's Included:Detailed Teacher Gui
Before Thanksgiving break, kids get ansty! Get them out of their seats with this math activity that requires them to use: -group work (recommended to work with students of similar math abilities) -critical thinking -logical reasoning -real-life application (how to manage money shopping for Thanksgiving dinner) -multiplication of decimals (or repeated addition of decimals depending upon how far you've taught in your pacing calendar) Provided: -shopping lists (tiered to 5 levels of difficulty) -in
This activity could be used as a station or as a review activity after teaching about categorizing and classifying 2-d shapes based upon specific attributes and characteristics. Game pieces and individual game boards are provided. If you would like to purchase the bundle that includes all five stations ( Base Ten War, Volume Creation, Long Division Station,and Operations With Fractions), you may do so here.
Bring the wild world of animals to your geometry lessons with GeomeZoo! This engaging, zoo-themed resource is designed to help your 5th-grade students master the Ohio Math Standards 5.G.3: Understand that attributes belonging to a category of two-dimensional figures also belong to all subcategories of that category. and 5.G.4: Classify two-dimensional figures in 1 a hierarchy based on properties. 2 Unleash the Learning with GeomeZoo! Students will:Explore the Family Tree of Shapes: Just like
This 40-60 minute lesson addresses the Ohio 5th Grade Social Studies Government Standard of "Understand that data can be displayed graphically to effectively and efficiently communicate information" Included are: -Suggested directions -Links to articles -Slide for example data -Data to be used to create graphs -Worksheet to create bar, line and circle graphs -Script/Summarizer template -Graph Answer keys
This product has 3 levels of activities for students who need a review of finding volume of rectangular prisms in a real-world setting. It focuses on the method of multiplying length x width x height. Below Level activity: Find the volume of various gift boxes On level activity and Challenge activity: Create a gingerbread village using specifications of length, width and height
This activity can be used as a station or as a review after learning about relationships between digits in the base ten system. It focuses on X10, x100, x1000 the value and 1/10 the value, 1/100 the value and 1/1000 the value. Base 10 relationship question cards are provided. If you would like to purchase the bundle that includes all five stations ( Volume Creation, Geometry Guess Who, Long Division Station,and Operations With Fractions), you may do so here.
Get ready to embark on a thrilling adventure to the North Pole with Traveling Back to the North Pole: A Dividing Decimals Board Game! This engaging game is designed to help students review and reinforce their skills in dividing decimals, specifically aligned with the 5th-grade standard 5.NBT.7. Game Overview: In this Christmassy board game, players will navigate their way through a forest filled with arctic animals as they divide decimals in various contexts. The first player to reach the North
This Halloween-themed bingo activity is a fun and engaging way for 5th-grade students to review or introduce the standard, word, and expanded forms of decimals to the thousandths. Students will love the spooky theme and the thrill of winning a bingo! Key Features:Comprehensive Review: Includes an introduction or review of standard, word, and expanded forms of decimals.Flexible Gameplay: Students can fill their cards in any order, making the game more engaging and challenging.Interactive Spinner:
This is an activity that could be used as a station, math center or review activity. It focuses on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators. Number cards and operation cards, score keeping card and "Show Your Work" page are provided. An extension for performing operations with mixed numbers is also included if you wanted to turn this into two separate stations. If you would like to purchase the bundle that includes all five stations ( B
Unravel the Past: The Mysterious Code of the Ancients - A 5th Grade Math PBL Adventure!Embark on an Exciting Mathematical Expedition!Are you ready to transform your 5th-grade math classroom into a thrilling archaeological dig? "The Mysterious Code of the Ancients" is a captivating Project-Based Learning (PBL) activity that immerses students in a world of ancient mysteries and mathematical challenges. This engaging project seamlessly integrates key 5th-grade Common Core Math standards, making lea
This activity is a fun Christmas activity that encompasses the 5th grade standards of function tables, writing algebraic equations and plotting coordinates/ordered pairs on a coordinate grid. I have my students get checked after each page before they move on.
This activity can be used a station OR a review activity. It focuses on team work and solving long division problems. It includes 3 long division problems (along with their answer keys for answers rounded to the nearest thousandth) are provided. If you would like to purchase the bundle that includes all five stations ( Base Ten War, Geometry Guess Who, Hands-On Volume Creation, and Operations With Fractions), you may do so here.
Full time teacher of 4th and 5th graders since 2007.
High School dance team coach from 2007-2017, then 2021-present.
Awards & shining teacher moments
2016 Teacher of the Year at Fairborn Intermediate School
My own education history
Wright State University:
Bachelors Degree in Education 2005
Masters Degree in Middle Childhood Education 2007
University of Dayton:
Continued Education to attain Generalist Endorsement (Science and Social Studies) 2012
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