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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

For this activity you must have Joy Masoff's book "Oh Yikes! History's Grossest Wackiest Moments". This is a great book filled with articles related to real historical events, but written in a way that is fun and very kid friendly. For this activity, students will learn about Nutty Napoleon. They will read the article and answer the comprehension questions. The focus is not only reading comprehension, but having students utilizing text features. I typically post this document on google classr

This simple resource was created to help students build vocabulary by having them research a word. The research includes the following: Parts of Speech (Verb, Adjective, or a Noun)MeaningDefinitionAntonymsSynonymsImage Representing the WordGreat Bell Work Activity!

For this activity you must have Joy Masoff's book "Oh Yikes! History's Grossest Wackiest Moments". This is a great book filled with articles related to real historical events, but written in a way that is fun and very kid friendly. For this activity, students will learn about Horrible Henry the Eighth. They will read the article and answer the comprehension questions. The focus is not only reading comprehension, but having students utilizing text features. I typically post this document o

This simple note sheet takes kids through four simple steps of adding or subtracting decimals. It also includes 10 practice problems for the students to complete.

This simple note sheet introduces area and provides definitions and area formulas of the following polygons: ParallelogramRectangleSquareTriangleTrapezoid