Chalk Duster

During College Week, or any time you'd like to get your kids excited about College, play a round of College Bingo! Download includes several different Bingo cards and the calling cards. Schools are from all over the US, with several from Texas.

This cool little checklist allows students to collaborate with one another while acting as an editor. Students can either put this in their journal/folder as a reference or you can make copies and they can turn it in each time they edit a paper. Please note - I also have this in word so if you purchase the PDF and would also like the word version, please send me your email address.

Students journey through the carbon cycle as a carbon molecule, recording each stop on the recording sheet. When time is up, students will create a story that describes the path they took. The cards should be printed on card stock and laminated for durability.

Fractions can be tricky, allowing students an easy way to visualize the fractions will help them with determine greater than / less than / equal to. These strips can be printed on card stock and students can use them throughout the year as needed. A copy can also be sent home.

"I Have, Who Has?" is a fun vocabulary review game. This particular version reviews words associated with the water cycle, tools, and changes to the Earth's surface. Once the students are familiar with the game, they can play it in small groups. You'll want to print 2 copies - one as the answer key and one to cut up to play the game.

Baseball Time! can be used to review any concept - from math facts to an entire science unit! Students can work together to answer questions, promoting teamwork while learning from one another. This game can be used with preK kids all the way up to high school kids!

Students can work independently or in groups to identify blends, digraphs, dipthongs, silent-e words, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and so much more, while reading a paragraph, poem, short story...anything!

The 3 activities included in this mini-lesson are great for the K-2 kids to experience buoyancy, camouflage, and blubber. They will learn the importance of these 3 things to the survival of ocean life while having fun at the same time! The blubber activity is fun for Open House too!

Use this mini-dictionary/word-wall in your students writing folders so that they can refer to it during when writing. Students can add additional words to it throughout the year.

For your sports themed year, these are positive notes home to let parents know their child made "all star" choices that day.

In today's world, the students are faced with many strategies for solving problems. This handout can be used for student journals, parent hand-out, or blown up into a poster for the classroom. Using this strategy, students use halves and doubles to solve multiplication problems that are at least 2 digit by 2 digit.

When you are focused on one specific trait, these mini rubrics are a great tool for teachers and students to have handy.

Download all 5 lotus maps to use in any classroom setting. These are great graphic organizers for vocabulary, chapter/unit reviews, stud tools...etc. You could also enlarge them as a poster to create class lotus maps! I also have them in word so if you purchase the pdf and would also like the editable word version, please feel free to contact me.

Vocabulary includes word, definition, and picture for the following science terms: Motion, Force, Inertia, Spring Scale, Gravity, Friction, Electrical Energy, Conductors, Insulators, Mass, Volume, Solubility, States of Matter (Solid, Liquid, and Gas), Density, Thermal Energy, Magnetism, Light Energy, Sound Energy, Mechanical Energy, Circuit, Complete Circuit, Incomplete Circuit

This guide can be used for any subject when collaboratively planning. It's a fantastic tool for teams to use to get everyone talking about what went well and what needs work. Certainly helps keep everyone on the same page!

Looking for an alternative to those regular boring rectangular flash cards? Need to find a way to help your students understand that 4+3=7 therefor 7-4=3? The triangle flash cards will help! Print them on card stock, laminate, and put them on a ring for kids to practice in the classroom or send them home at the beginning of each new school year!

This is a great tool that can be used for a variety of purposes. I choose to use it as a teacher table assessment to see where my students are currently performing. Each tasks encourages students to use manipulatives. While it is set up for bears, you could use any manipulative. Tasks include patterns, one step story problems, skip counting, challenge ideas...etc.

"I Have, Who Has?" is a fun vocabulary review game. This particular version reviews words associated with the Solar System. Once the students are familiar with the game, they can play it in small groups.

In today's math world, our students are given a plethora of strategies for solving math problems. This lesson provides students with an alternate algorithm for solving division problems using the skills they have already learned in multiplication.

Each of the six traits are described, one per page, in language easy for elementary students to understand. Posters could be laminated and hung in the classroom and/or enlarged for use during mini-lessons.