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This graphic organizer is designed to help students find the moral of a fable, folktale, or myth. Students will analyze characters and the challenges they face to help conceptualize the lesson or moral of the story.

This is a great project to end your Simple Machines Unit! Students design and build an arcade game using one or more simple machines. This product comes with scaffold planning pages with options for students to choose from, steps fore each stage of the design process, reflection page, and a writing activity for students to present next to their machine. Once all students are finished, you will have a cardboard arcade ready for a neighboring classroom or school visit! Students will love this high

This brochure is designed to have students choose a machine to research. They then use resources to find how their machine works, what simple machines it uses, how life would be different without it, interesting facts, and a glossary. Use this as a summative assessment for your unit or as an ongoing project for higher level learners or early finishers! You can also integrate this science resource into your reading block to work on non-fiction text features.

These cards are perfect to accompany your Go Math! curriculum in your classroom. These cards match the pre-made vocabulary cards in the student workbook and are designed to be a visual anchor in the classroom. Use these to create a math vocabulary word wall. The colors of the cards also coordinate with the color of the student work books and Go Math! critical area. Enjoy!

This is a fun activity to supplement your Volcano unit. Students will use the website provided to research a volcano around the World of their choosing. Students will then record their research and the handout provided. The website easily displays information for students and provides a link to a photo of the volcano and interesting facts. Students loved this activity and learning that not all volcanoes look or are built the same. My students wanted to research more volcanoes even after this act

This is a great pre-assessment for a simple machines unit. Student's are to design a device that will lift an elephant out of it's cage. You can use this to preasses what machines students already know by what they use in their drawings (lever, incline plane, pulley, ect.). At the end of your unit, give this same assignment to students again and see how their drawings are different. This also works great to show students their first drawings and have them reflect on what they have learned about

Provide your students with a higher level task by comparing two machines found in their everyday routine. This graphic organizer also has question stems for lower level learners and a word box to help students write a short paragraph comparing and contrasting the two machines they chose.

This planner is designed to help students through the writing process. Each step of the writing process is easily chunked to help support all student's writing levels. This resource also includes two pages dedicated to Author's Craft and helps students to easily apply these tools into their writing. This is a great resource to use when planning a narrative writing unit or as a daily writing task. Page 1: Character Page 2: Story Events Page 3-4: Author's Craft Page 5-6: Rough Draft Page 7: R

This document includes a step by step process needed to plan your Skype interview in your classroom. This download comes complete with anchor charts, communication samples, and sample student assignment. Everything you will need to ensure your first Skype experience is successful!