Cactus's Corner

This activity is meant to reinforce the feudal system in the middle ages by watching Disney's Robin Hood. To begin, during the movie, students will look at the key characters and use their critical thinking skills to determine what roll each character would play within the feudal system. Next, students will follow up with some basic comprehensive questions of the movie, as well as compare and contrast how the feudal system in the movie compares to what they have learned from the real feudal

This simple worksheet provides students notes to help them understand how to find the area and circumference of a circle. It also includes a review over parts of a circle and how to find the radius and diameter.

This simple note sheet is for students to relate positive and negative numbers to real life scenarios. They will start by identify positive and negative situations to every day activities. Then they will identify the integer or value that represents a given situation.

In this activity students will research a Mesoamerican Culture from the past. Cultures include Aztecs, Incas, Mayans, Anasazi, Mound Builders, and Inuits. The document will give students a guideline of what they need to research for each culture as well as several resources they can use. I had students create a power point and present their findings, however, research projects can vary.

This simple note worksheet allows students to work through the process of finding radius and diameter when given area and circumference.

Did you know "The Lion King" is based on the Medieval African Ruler Sundiata Kieta? Use this activity to reinforce the skill of comparing and contrasting, while incorporating the Disney Classic "The Lion King." In this activity, students will read the story "Sundiata: The Hungering Lion" Retold by Kenny Mann. (This article is not included for copyright purposes.) While they read (or after the reading), they should complete the right side of the T-Chart. After they read they will watch the Dis

Want students to learn about Ancient Greek Philosophies, but also use their critical thinking skills? In this activity students will read theories presented by Ancient Greek philosophers, but in a modern context. Students will either agree or disagree with their theories and state their opinions why. *Added excitement, present each topic and have students go head to head to support their opinions.

Want a way to make students who are studying their benchmark fractions into a fun and engaging activity, well look no further! This activity includes 25 printable slides that can be cut into 100 playing cards. Each slide includes an equivalent model, fraction, decimal, and percent. These playing cards are great for both individual practice as well as group games including matching challenges, memory game or even Spoons!! Included benchmark fractions: HalvesThirdsFourthsFifthsTenths

Reinforce math vocabulary while using deduction skills to solve for the mystery number 1-100! In this activity there are 25 Mystery Numbers to solve for.  Each slide includes 6 clues to help students along the way.  Clues can be used in any order, but typically clues 1-4 eliminates the most numbers. Math Vocabulary Focus:Prime, Composite, Even, Odd, Greater Than, Less Than, Factor, Multiple, Divisible by, Tens Place, Ones PlaceOther Words for Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, DivisionProduc

Test Your Luck is a simple activity to encourage engagement when practicing problems or reviewing for upcoming tests or quizzes independently or in pairs. The concept is simple; for each question answered correctly, students may come up and put their initials on one of the numbers. This can be fast paced or slow paced, depending on your preference and your group dynamic. At the end of class, the teacher will spin a spinner (or ask Siri to pick a number) between 1 and the number chosen. If the s

This simple worksheet walks students through the process on how to find the area of a shaded region when given two different shapes. This activity reviews area of circles, rectangles, triangles and squares.

In this review or practice worksheet, students will create a two-way table. They will then use this data to find relative frequencies based on the rows and the columns. They will conclude by answering simple questions based on the data they collected.

This simple note sheet walks students through the process of dividing numbers that include decimals. Each problem will have students move the decimal in both the divisor and dividend to find the quotient. Problems also include adding zeros as opposed to leaving the problem with a reminder; however, you can edit that portion out if you would like students to use remainders.

This basic note sheet will walk through the distributive property with and without variables. It also includes 4 questions involving distributing and combining like terms.

In this writing activity, students will read several scenarios that people in Early India had to deal with and write how they would feel or react. Scenarios include: Caste System (Untouchable), Arranged Marriages, Reincarnation (Karma), and Buddha and Human Suffering I use this as an introduction to the unit so that kids can compare their response to how the Early Indians reacted.

If you're wanting to announce your pregnancy, but review real math content at the same time, here you go! The review in this activity is converting benchmark fractions to percent's. However, feel free to change the review to whatever you want as it is editable! Just remember, whatever you change it to will need to mimic the answers in the riddle. The riddle is "Why is the teacher leaving in May?" and the answer is "She's having a baby", but again, feel free to edit to fit your needs!

The Renaissance was a time of innovation and inventions. For this project, students are encouraged to use their own creativity to make an invention of some kind using the materials listed and to justify how it can be used in every day society. I typically use this as an introduction to the unit and then have kids present their inventions to the class at the end of the unit. Project can be done in class or taken home to allow further creativity! My students absolutely love this as it allows the

Students will read descriptions about 8 Egyptian gods and match them based on the images provided. Students will rely on using the clues in the descriptions and the pictures in order to make a correct match.

Introduction Activity Before kids explore the amazing world of Ancient Egypt, have kids come up with their own ideas of what this civilization was like by looking at real maps, artifacts, etc. Students will be asked to infer what life was like in terms of Geography, Language, Daily Life, Artifacts, Religion, and Ancient Ruins. Includes: Powerpoint of slides-Studens can flip through and view PDF of Slides-Students can scroll through and view Worksheet-Students can write down their inferences

Calling all teachers who are looking for a fun and engaging way to practice and/or review adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing positive and negative numbers. Students will have 16 problems to complete. (Four of each operation!) Once solved, they will check their answer by selecting one of two choices. If their answer is not available, this allows self reflection as they can go back and check their work! Each answer choice will have a coloring or drawing option that when completed, cre