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How the Eyes Work NGSS 4-PS4-2 This is my first NGSS science unit and my students really enjoyed it! I hope you can use it! This is a unit you can use to help you teach your students about the human eye and how it works. Included are the following activities: • 3 Safeshare video links that show students how the eye works. • 2 interactive website links that you can use with your students to help them learn how the eye works. • Black and white picture of the eye with labels that students can

This is a fun and simple mini lesson on main idea and details with PIZZA. I just love it and the students get very creative with their pizza designs. This would be a great way to review or teach the skill of finding the main idea of an article and the details that support it. This product contains a lesson and activity on finding the main idea and details of a short article on pizza, and they create a pizza! It contains that following: Main Idea and Details Graphic Organizer Pizza Main Idea

4.RL.1 Assessments or Practice What is this product... • This product contains 8 pages of assessments or extra practice that you can use to help your students with the standard 4.RL.1. • All the text contained in this product is complex at the 4th grade level lexile band or slightly above. • All questions have been written at DOK levels of 1, 2, and 3. • Practice includes vocabulary, referring to text details, explicit and inferred information, finding the correct text evidence to support an

Book Club is an independent reading activity that motivates students to take charge of their independent learning. It can replace centers for guided reading, it gives students choice and keeps them motivated, and it is a challenge. It can be used with any fictional text. It also supports CCSS in reading and writing for 4th-8th grade. I developed this last year (2013-2014 school year) after completing literature circles for numerous years. I tried it with my students and they asked for more.

4.NBT.1 Practice, Homework, and Activities contains practice sheets, homework sheets that are similar to the practice sheets, and activity mats that you can use to teach the standard. ***************************************************************************** What’s Included: • 3 activity mats that help students recognize how the place value system is organized, and how a digit in one column is 1o times greater than the place on its right. 3 blank activity mats for you to write in your own n

This unit contains material you can use to help you review, assess, or teach how to find whole number quotients of whole numbers up to 4 digit dividends and 2 digit divisors using strategies based on relating multiplication to division, place value, distributive property, area models, and partial quotients. It covers 5th Grade Common Core standard 5NBT6. It contains the following material: 2 pages on relating multiplication to division with inverse operations. 2 pages on decomposing numbers an

This product contains material you can use to teach, review, or assess your students with their understanding of scaling of fractions. It includes the following material… 2 pages of determining if an inequality is true or false based on scaling rules. 2 pages of determining if an expression would yield a product greater or less than a given number. 4 pages of problems involving scaling, solving problems, and explanation. 3 page Fraction Sort cards…teachers can use this as practice when teaching

This pack contains 7 assessments for 5NBT1-7 which covers the following material. (See list below) If you don’t want to use them as assessments they could also be task cards, a mini assessment, extra practice, or even homework. Features… -16 usable pages with 6 questions on each page for a total of 96 questions -Different question types such as multiple choice, vocabulary, and constructed response -Answer key -Other suggestions for use Math assessments cover the following… Understand the pla

This product contains material you can use to teach, review, or assess your students with their understanding of solving problems involving 5NF3, relating division to fractions and mixed numbers. It includes the following material… 3 pages of writing fractions as division expressions and writing division expressions as fractions. 2 pages of word problems involving division of whole numbers leading to answers in the form of fractions. (Students create models to show answers.) 2 pages of word p

This as a set of math assessments for 4.NBT.1, 4.NBT.2, 4.NBT.3, 4.NBT.4, 4.NBT.5, and 4.NBT.6 which support CCSS for 4th grade. This is my first in a series of 4th grade math assessments. I made these for 5th grade last year, and my students were very successful. These will be used in my 4th grade classroom this year. (2014-2015) It includes the following... • 6 Assessments for the 6 standards of Numbers and Base Ten for 4th grade. • 12 questions for each assessment. • Various question typ

This pack contains 5 assessments for 5MD1-5 which covers the following material. (See list below) If you don’t want to use them as assessments they could also be task cards, a mini assessment, extra practice, scoot activity, or even homework. Features… -8 usable pages with 6 questions on each page for a total of 48 questions -Different question types such as multiple choice, vocabulary, and constructed response -Answer key and how I use them in my classroom Math Assessments cover the followin

Math Vocabulary Activities for 5th Grade Common Core Math Purpose: This product is meant to expose and enhance vocabulary instruction for 5th grade Common Core math in various ways. Research shows that students gain knowledge of vocabulary through multiple exposures of words and varied instructional strategies such as compare and contrast. This product contains 6 different activities which can be used in various ways and assessments. It contains the following material… -132 words from all 5 Do

This product contains material you can use to teach, review, or assess your students with their understanding of multiplication of fractions. (CCSS 5NF4) It includes the following material… 2 pages of multiplying a fraction by a whole number or fraction by a fraction. 1 page of creating pictorial models to find fractions of whole numbers. 2 pages on finding the area of a rectangle through an equation and creating an area model which shows Area = Length x Width. (fraction x fraction) 2 pages of

This product contains material you can use to teach, review, or assess your students with their understanding of solving word problems involving adding/subtracting fractions referring to the same whole and mixed numbers with different denominators. It also involves using number sense of fractions to estimate mentally when adding and subtracting fractions. It includes the following material… 4 pages of word problems with 3 problems on each page involving addition and subtraction of fractions and

This pack contains 3 assessments for 5G1-5G4 which covers the following material. (See list below) If you don’t want to use them as assessments they could also be task cards, a mini assessment, extra practice, scoot activity, or even homework. Features… -6 usable pages with 6 questions on each page for a total of 36 questions -Different question types such as multiple choice, vocabulary, and constructed response -Answer key and how I use them in my classroom 12 questions for 5G1-5G2. I combined

The math pages included are practice pages after a skill has been taught or for students to use during a lesson. This covers CCSS 4MD1 and 4MD2. The following items are included. In all there are 22 pages and 70 center cards. There are worksheets along with activities that involve the metric and customary system. (Flip Chart and more) 1. 3 pages –sort the item to the correct unit of metric measurement 2. 2 pages-measurement conversion flip chart activity 3. 3 pages-conversion tables 4. 8 pages

Genre Sort and Search Flip Book Lesson and Activities for Fiction and Non-Fiction Included in this package are the following genre activities… • 1 fiction sort and search flip book with genre labels…16 genres • 1 non-fiction sort and search flip book with genre labels…15 genres • 4 foldables that define fiction, nonfiction, text features found in fiction, and text features found in non-fiction for an interactive notebook • Text Features Match Up activity which could also be added to an inter

Math Roll and Write Mega Pack is a fun math fluency pack that gets students rolling dice and computing numbers. There are 27 different sheets to choose from which cover place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and decimals. It includes various levels for different student abilities which makes it great if you need to differentiate. It could be used in a 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade classroom. I used it with my 4th and 5th grade students at a center, and they loved it! This

This includes worksheet pages and activities you can use to help you teach Common Core standard 4NF7. It includes the following items: 1. 2 worksheets - comparing decimals with symbols. 2. 1 worksheet – comparing decimals on a number line. 3. 2 worksheets – ordering numbers from least to greatest and greatest to least. 4. 2 activities – decimal number sort, cut, sort and glue activity. 5. 1 worksheet – find the true comparison number sentences. 6. 2 worksheets – 4 word problems involving compa

This is a fun activity in which students read a story or novel, summarize what they read, and create a candy corn craft that can be hung in your classroom as garland for a fall decoration. It's fun and also educational and makes a great decoration for September, October, or November. It is also aligned to Reading Literature and Writing Common Core standards for 4th, 5th and 6th grade. It includes the following... Directions and Steps to complete the activity spread out over 5 days. Sweet Summa