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This resource teaches students to think of division as place value, as indicated by the common core curriculum. There are 4 problems that have 2 formats: place value chart and long division. You can teach both methods side by side to help students develop a deeper understanding of this concept. The preview provides instructions on how to teach the place value method to your students.

A Common Core aligned novel study of Roald Dahl's The Witches, chapter by chapter. The standards are included for grades 3,4 and 5. Rigorous activities fit the new curriculum. Graphic organizers and thinking activities keep students engaged in the reading. This 16 page long novel study is graphically appealing as well as engaging. Most standards are 3rd grade standards.

These mini labs were created out of the need to teach customary and metric units of capacity in an investigative setting. Each lab was assigned to half the class for the first day and then flip flopped for the second day. By using a hands-on approach, students in my class understood how much each measure actually contains. They walked away from the investigations with a mental image that made this type of learning concrete. Remember that you cannot teach size with paper and pencil! The lab uses

Many school systems are requiring teachers to post daily common core statements in their classrooms. This daily guide for Envisions 2012 will help you make it! You can print and post, copy to a board, project from the computer daily...the options are endless. The key to effectiveness is time saving strategies. This 60 page document will get you through the first 8 topics in the Envisions Math program. Topics 9-16 are also available!

This set of I Can I Will Statements accompanies the Envisions 2012 text. It consists of topics 9-16 and helps you teach with confidence. This is a quick and easy reference for both you and your students!

This product uses pattern blocks to explore angle measures. Students use the pattern blocks to compose parts of a circle. The idea that students will walk away with are that there is 360 in a circle and pattern blocks can be used to make parts of that circle. The extension at the end helps students explore fractions or parts of the circle.

This novel study focuses on 3rd grade standards. It is 11 pages in length and is organized by chapter. Skills activities include characterization, cause/effect, vocabulary, context clues, referencing illustrations and text and thinking about changes in character. It will engage your students at a different level. I am planning on adding standards in the near future. Skills are located at the top of each page.

This project is designed to meet the needs of AIG (gifted) students for the area of ELA. It is a couple of months in length and will challenge students to take an era in NC History and synthesize and analyze people, events, conflicts, inventions/technology, transportation, change/growth, government, and agriculture and industries. This outline for the project will guide your students through the thinking process during research. There are planning pages that help students plan a virtual museum o

This 7 page novel study includes deeper level thinking activities related to the theme, Courage. It is fully integrated using reading, writing, math and art skills. Making a graph of students own fears will keep them fully engaged! This novel study developed from my own classroom and was very successful!

This guide is helpful in small groups to think through the parts of a mystery. Judy Moody's puzzles and mysteries get you to think about the power of observation. The unit is a section by section study and helps students think back over what they have read.

This reader's theatre summarizes the Boer War as told in The History of the World, Volume 4. It engages the student at his/her level. The skit hits the highlights of events that took place during the Boer War: ideas of both the Boers and the British, the discovery of diamonds and Gold in Africa, the creating of new colonies in Africa and the take over of the British. Students connect to the reading and then can move to the text with ease.

This resource accompanies the North Carolina Powerpoint and Wax Museum Project. It is a great resource to post on Edmodo for student use. It is in the order of the timeline and includes photos, information and links that lead to information about the era, narrowing it to NC. A grading rubric is included for the research portion of the project. A free resource and paid resource are available. The North Carolina Wax Museum Powerpoint is free and there is a North Carolina Wax museum Resource which

When teaching 4th grade math, there are few resources that actually dig deep into problem solving. This resource challenges students to use `previous skills such as multiplication with arrays to understand how those concepts relate to future skills: area and perimeter. Students will be given a perimeter and must find the sides a and b. This would be fantastic for partner work!

Students will be able to find fractions of a whole using counters, place value on a chart and long division. This multiple representation will deepen students understanding of fractions and show how fractions and division are directly related. Students will be able to make connections by finding fractional parts in many different ways. The first page of this resource is an instructional page. Students should be introduced to dividing using the place value chart and long division before doing th

This sort aligns perfectly with lesson 9 Mollusks in the Zoology 3: Swimming Creatures Science Textbook. Facts about Mollusks, Bivalves and Gastropods are practiced by cutting and sorting facts learned in this lesson. This is a fun way to learn or review information about Mollusks.

Students will love practicing the conversions between percents, decimals and fractions using this picture reveal.

This 20 problem activity can help a teacher review 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication by engaging students. This self-checking activity helps students see if they are correct without the teacher.

This readers' theatre retells the story of Louis XIV helping save the colony in New France. It was adapted from the story in the textbook, The Story of the World Vol. 3: Early Modern Times. Lesson 15 is broken into 3 sections. This is the second section of lesson 15. Students will be engaged by reading/acting out the parts that accompany the story. This script may be used as an introduction or review of the information.

These multiplication cards are made to cut out and fold in the middle. Students can learn their multiplication tables by flipping them over and seeing what a visual representation looks like. Instruct students to not cut down the middle of the cards. More fact cards are available.

These multiplication cards show a visual representation of what the ones would look like in rows. Students cut and fold the cards to have a front (multiplication fact) and a back (rows of dots show the multiplication fact). Teachers may make these and laminate for class sets. Other multiplication cards are available in other facts: 2-12.