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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.

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.

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

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.

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

This product is a simple worksheet practicing long division of decimals (no remainder) using the grid method. Included in this worksheet is a review of their multiples. This product includes: Worksheet with an example and five practice problemsModified version of the worksheet aboveAnswer Key

In this activity students will read through the code of chivalry that knights from the middle ages had to follow. They will then follow the listed requirements to compare the code to modern times and then give their opinion about whether the code is still followed today or not.

This simple note sheet walks students through the process of what combining like terms means by using visuals as well as color coding to help them process which terms are alike and which terms are not.

In this activity, students will practice their rounding skills in a fun, interactive way. Students will roll dice to create their numbers as well as what place value they will round to. This activity incorporates rounding from the ones to the thousands place. If you do not have the dice available, don't hesitate to use digital sources!

These notes provide step by step instructions on how to divide decimals with no remainders. It includes basic problems and more challenging problems where students will need to add zeros to find the final quotient. This product includes: Worksheet w/ Notes and PracticeAnswer Key

This activity encourages students to research two of the most popular religions and then create an essay explaining what each religion has in comment and areas where they differ from one another. The activities include two graphic organizers. The first is a t-chart where students can research both religions and see side by side whether they have something in common or whether their beliefs are completely different. The second graphic organizer is used to help organize their essay. It provide

This activity is geared towards middle school students (grades 5 - 8th) and includes 3 different fables that focus on various literary themes. Two themes are provided for each fable. Students are asked to read the fable, which is broken down into 8 sections, and identify which piece of text evidence supports which given theme. Once the theme is chosen, students will have to defend their text evidence by providing an explanation. This is also a great way for students to build up to writing usin

In this activity, students will develop their own rule when multiplying and dividing numbers by a power of ten. They will compare the number of zeros in the multiple of ten being multiplied to the direction and number of places the decimal has moved in the final answer.

This simple note sheet breaks down how to Multiply proper fractions, fractions by whole numbers and Mixed Fractions. It also includes how to convert from Mixed to Improper and Improper to mixed.