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This fun lesson allows students to read about 7 important women of the Revolutionary war including Martha Washington, Betsy Ross, and more. The lesson has a link to a youtube introductory video about the topic, lesson sequence, and graphic organizer.

This is a great introduction lesson to teaching about the 13 colonies in the 17th century. The lesson includes a map which students can color to distinguish the three regions, a table where students can take notes in about each of the industries and climate, as well as a link to a cute youtube music video.

This lesson is an interactive lesson on the maximum, minimum, mean, mode, median, and range. It has students filling in fun information about themselves and interviewing others to find out their information. It walks students through a data collection process, a finding the mode, median, maximum, etc. part, and it has students make a graph of the found data. Since this is for 5th grade or above students, students should already know how to make a bar graph (thus that is not included).

This is a unit plan I generated for my 8th grade students when I was student teaching. The plan has poetry definitions, actual poems, a you tube video, and brainstorming techniques, and also differentiation ideas.

This includes a description of the importance of a student led conference as well as a checklist of materials, and questions to guide the student led conference. You can have your students write down prepared responses to these questions or you can have them simply answer them orally. Pick and choose which questions are right for your students are simply use all of them. The outline for the conference includes an organization section, a writing section, a classroom behavior section, and an overa

Readers Theater is a great way to engage all learners! Use this worksheet to keep students engaged in reading while working with others. It provides roles and prompted questions!

Creating a fun, friendly, trusting dynamic in every classroom is an essential part of a successful classroom. I have provided 6 easy and reliable ice breaker activities that will help your students bond and create a great classroom culture.

This informative power point describes the main contributing factors that influenced the Renaissance. Factors such as the bubonic plague, the growth of cities and art, humanism, and the printing press. Also, wrap the class up with a classroom guess the artist to the art activity.

This is a worksheet for 4th-6th grade students that includes 8 math work problems allowing students to practice adding and subtracting using decimals.

Lesson includes the following: -Article about two brothers from New York who played violin in the subways and went on to play on Americas Got Talent. -warm up- think - pair -share questions -link to NPR listening clip about the band Nuttin' But Strings -follow up questions as reading comprehension \

Have you ever had a student who just makes poor choices? Well maybe it is time to have that student reflect on these choices and do some old school writing. These paragraphs give students a chance to reflect on their behavior AND practice their writing.

This writing calendar includes a writing prompt for every day of the month. Topics range from days in history, memories, weekly goals, fall, family members, and even super heroes! I use this in my own 5th grade classroom as apart of our morning routine and give student around 5 minutes daily to write a hefty paragraph. I have used this with middle school and ELL students as well.

This fun activity allows students to become a Master color namer for a day. Students get in groups and choose a category that they will be color naming for (house paint, markers, t-shirts) and then they get to work! It is a great activity for students to get creative and do something they are not used to doing.

Students who will access this worksheet should be on a unit working with Place Value. Some items you can be teaching in correlation with this lesson is: -How to use a place value chart -Finding the value of digits in a whole number -How to represent fractions with denominators of 10, 100, or 1,000 as decimals.

This mini lesson is a two part lesson on self identity and using adjectives to describe who we are. The lesson provides an example of each me poem or question.

This is a great introduction lesson to teaching about the 13 colonies in the 17th century. The lesson includes a map which students can color to distinguish the three regions, a table where students can take notes in about each of the industries and climate, as well as a link to a cute youtube music video.

This lesson is a great introduction to public speaking for a middle school or high school humanities class. It discusses the historic roots of public speaking including the Ancient Greeks use. It also provides interactive activites such as a videos and quote analysis.

This would be a great professional development tool for fluency and ESL students. Decoding is the ability of the reader to accurately read the words in the text. *Orthograpic cues refers to the stressing of what is important. Graphophonic connections help CLD students make connections to the sounds of their native language and recognize similarities between words and syllables in the English language. For example in Spanish “Te gusta leche?” o “Te gusta leche”. You can disucss the intonation o

History about the Persian Empire and the Achaemenid Empire: Cyrus the Achaemenid. Geography and important knowledge about accomplishments, religion, and historic people that influenced the era.

Have you ever had a student who just makes poor choices? Well maybe it is time to have that student reflect on these choices and do some old school writing. These paragraphs give students a chance to reflect on their behavior AND practice their writing.