Commas and Cultures

Bring life and engagement to your Northern Lights and Minnesota Studies and History curriculum this year by using interactive, challenging, and creative activities, instruction, and assessments in your class! This resource bundle aligns with Minnesota's 6th grade social studies standards and the Northern Lights textbook curriculum created by the Minnesota Historical Society. NOTE: This GROWING BUNDLE will be added to and updated until complete, with the price increasing as each item is adde

OH NO! While studying the many regions of the Earth and considering a takeover, mad scientist Dr. Spidey A. Spooky mixed together some volatile solutions, causing the thematic region maps to be all mixed up! Can your students help by answering questions about the six types of thematic maps and using their creative thinking skills to solve the FINAL CLUE? Hurry! Because of Dr. Spooky's crazy mistake, time may be running out for the world as we know it! This ESCAPE ROOM was such a blast for my mid

Engage all learners with this fun grammar escape room that will have your students practicing and using all parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, including the option to use verbals (gerunds, infinitives, and participles), along with types of nouns and verbs and the specific adjectives (articles). This resource is perfect for independent, partner, or group work and can be used a a pre-assessment, review activity, or post-assessment! Students m

This resource includes everything you need to teach, reteach, and/or review grammar and writing basics for any secondary students (grades 6-12)! The full year curriculum is divided into four manageable chunks: parts of speech, sentence structure, comma rules, and proofreading/mechanics. Each chunk is further divided to make teaching grammar an organized, fluid system in your classroom or school. This full year grammar curriculum was created and used alongside middle and high school learne

This resource is a challenging ESCAPE ROOM for upper elementary and middle school students to practice their grammar skills, specifically identifying and using different types of verbs: action, linking, and helping. This resource can be fully digital or without technology, and the station-like format allows for student movement as well. With technology, students punch in the code through Google Forms that require the correct code before a group can move on to the next puzzle. In groups, you wi

This editable Google Doc changed the way I teach and collaborate! If you aren't the only teacher of your material and/or subject, this product is the best way to collaborate and communicate effectively. Both you and other teachers you share the unit plan with can edit the document with all Google sharing capabilities, like commenting -- this one is a game-changer. My coworkers and I use the comment feature to quickly communicate and reflect on how well a daily lesson or activity worked, ask que

Review the importance of reading and following directions using this fun quiz. The quiz includes a blank for the student's name, directions, and ten questions. The directions prompt students to read all of the questions before completing the quiz, and question 10 prompts students only to fill out questions 9 and 10. Find out which students read the directions, leading to a great conversation about the importance of reading and following directions on quizzes, homework assignments, etc... This c

This resource is a challenging ESCAPE ROOM for upper elementary and middle school students to practice their grammar skills, specifically identifying and using different types of nouns: common, proper, pronoun, collective, compound, concrete, abstract, countable, and uncountable. This resource can be fully digital or without technology, and the station-like format allows for student movement as well. With technology, students punch in the code through Google Forms that require the correct code

This resource is a challenging ESCAPE ROOM for middle and high school students to practice their grammar skills, specifically parts of speech and sentence structure. This resource can be fully digital or without technology, and the station-like format allows for student movement as well. With technology, students punch in the code through Google Forms that require the correct code before a group can move on to the next puzzle. In groups, you will hear students demonstrating their learning aloud,

The file currently contains writing prompts and activities and deeper learning tasks that extend learning and support chapters 1-20 in the Northern Lights. There are 1-3 writing, creative, and deeper thinking activities per chapter, created to support your students' learning and engagement with Minnesota History. Each resource is aligned to the Minnesota Social Studies Standards for 6th Grade and fits directly with the content of each chapter. *UPDATE: Ch. 16-20 resources were added April 9, 20

Use this bundle of vocabulary review game stations to challenge students to demonstrate their knowledge of your current word lists. Use any word lists to complete these stations and help students achieve mastery in their vocab use. Use as many or as few of these stations together to engage students in practice with their new vocabulary individually or in groups, moving from station-to-station at their own pace! The stations include the following: Vocabuland - a free download of a classic game b

This exhaustive unit contains EVERYTHING you need to teach the Holocaust while integrating reading, research, and writing! Reframe the way you teach the Holocaust in English and/or Social Studies while creating advanced readers, thinkers, speakers, and listeners! The design of the unit could be used in one subject or taught across the curriculum in both a reading or literature course and history or social studies. The materials and lesson plans are a fit for any level of students in grades 7-12.

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This Book Club or Literature Circle Unit can be used with ANY texts, fiction, nonfiction, middle school, or high school! This product contains information for creating the book club groups, developing student-led small or large-group discussions and student-paced reading schedules, writing dialectical journals, annotating with Notice & Note Signpost sticky notes in the text, and ending the unit with student analysis & persuasive speeches. This product contains: Student packet (print or sha

Engage all students in learning or reviewing the basics of grammar and parts of speech with this resource from the Get It Write Grammar curriculum that was created for secondary students and aligns with the Common Core ELA standards for grades 6-12. Teach the basics, review and assess student learning, and celebrate learning through fun digital or paper escape rooms and other review activities included. This curriculum is FULLY EDITABLE so that you can personalize or modify it as you'd like to

Use this Fall-themed activity at any time during your Minnesota Studies course to review student learning and class instruction about the Early Dakota people. Questions are created from the reading in Chapter 3 of the Northern Lights textbook. Students answer the questions, filling the answers into the blanks to solve a short code. After completing the puzzle, students have officially made it to the new farming & hunting location with the Early Dakota people! The activity includes teacher set

Engage all learners with this fun grammar escape room that will have your students practicing 50+ sets of homophones and frequently confused words! This resource is perfect for independent, partner, or group work and can be used a a pre-assessment, review activity, or post-assessment! Students move through each puzzle (up to 16 different puzzles!), entering the codes either onto the puzzle itself or onto a completed student puzzle tracker handout. NOTE: This is the only escape room in my co

Setting goals from week one promotes student responsibility and ownership of their learning. This worksheet prompts students to do some goal setting and think through who and what they might need to succeed. While I use this resource in my classroom at the beginning of the year to include in student portfolios, you could use it at the beginning of a new quarter, semester, trimester as well! This resource includes four boxes to prompt students to think about who they are as a learner, along with

Escape Rooms are an exciting, innovative ways for students to practice and demonstrate learning. They can be used them as pre-assessments, formative assessments, or just a fun way to review before standardized testing! This GROWING bundle contains all of the Escape Rooms that I've created as a part of the "Get It Write" Grammar Curriculum, including the following:Parts of Speech Escape RoomHomophones & Frequently Confused Words Escape RoomParts of Speech & Sentence Structure Combo Escape RoomNou

Engage all students in learning or reviewing the basics of grammar through this proofreading and writing mechanics resource from the Get It Write Grammar curriculum that was created for secondary students and aligns with the Common Core ELA standards for grades 6-12. Teach the basics, review and assess student learning, and celebrate learning through fun review activities and tools included. This curriculum is FULLY EDITABLE so that you can personalize or modify it as you'd like to best fit the