CleverCommonCore

This product takes your students step by step through the research process. It gives your students the choice of 10 different spiders to research and investigate. It provides all the links for each spider’s research. It has a journal for students to complete and fill in as they research their spider. It provides an example paper that students can learn from. It has sentence stems that help students set up their research paper. It has a resource page and a rubric for grading. It provides extensio

This product is created in GOOGLE SLIDES I use this product at the end of my plant life cycle unit. My students make a sketch of their plant and are able to pretend to be scientist who has just discovered a brand new plant. They can role play being a biologist. They use what they know about plant life cycles to create the life cycle of their own plant.

This product is a great companion to any book or novel you are using in your classroom. It provides your student’s with the opportunity to move beyond the basic answers, such as mean or tall.  The slideshow allows your student’s to analyze why a character behaves the way they did.  Once you have made a copy of this product. You will be able to assign it digitally to your students.

Are you looking for a beginning of the school year activity or a meaningful way to begin teaching character traits, this activity will be perfect for either scenario. I used this activity in my own classroom to begin teaching character traits. By having students analyze themselves, they were able in turn to analyze characters.