Conceptual Minds

Teaching students how to follow directions on a coordinate plane? Have them practice their skills on this fun "surprise" family trip! Students' don't know where they're headed, and in order to find out, they must follow the directions! Enjoy! Check out these related resources: Battleship Game Graphing PracticeGraphing Ordered Pairs PracticeCoordinate Plane Travel Plans

Need to keep classroom jobs "cool" in your 5th grade classroom? Check out this digital download that includes 30 classroom jobs. Simply laminate and stick them to your bulletin board! I would draw sticks on Monday and let my students choose their new job for the week. Enjoy!

Check out this Weather Unit for Kindergarten! It covers all Next Generation Science Standards for Weather in Kindergarten. Resources include: Planning and Responding to Severe Weather Coloring Sheets, Severe Weather Posters, Severe Weather Sorting Activity, and a Weather Tracker and Observation Sheet. This could easily be a week long unit, and it's all planned for you! Enjoy!

Help your kinders learn the difference between normal and severe weather, all while practicing their cutting, gluing, and categorizing skills! This activity aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards. The sort includes normal weather such as rain, sun, snow and clouds. It also includes severe weather such as a flood, blizzard, thunderstorm and tornado. Looking for a Kindergarten Weather Bundle? Check it out!

Have you ever considered not taking a day off because creating sub plans seem more difficult than coming in to teach? Same! I've done the work for you in this bundle. It includes a sub plan template for you to fill out for your sub, a sub slide deck for you to project on the board to walk the sub through the day, and four fully prepped work time activities that are aligned with CCSS and NGSS. Simply print the copies, and enjoy your day off. Enjoy!

Teaching students how to craft an opinion essay is hard enough, much less coming up with those teaching resources on your own time as well! This Opinion Writing Bundle comes with seven resources: An Opinion Writing Outline/Graphic Organizer, Supporting Reasons Practice, Opinion Writing Topic Choice Board, and an Opinion Writing Rubric. I've also created posters that helped my students: Citing Evidence Sentence Starters, Writing Transition Word Wall Poster, and Opinion Writing Do's and Don'ts. I

Check out day #2 of my Motion and Stability Kindergarten bundle. This can be an independent activity for students to differentiate between pushing and pulling. It will also help them begin to form ideas for their experiment on day #3. Enjoy!

Looking for a bundle that encompasses operations and algebraic thinking practice for your fifth grade students? Look no further! I've created an entire unit worth of practice ahead of time for you! You teach the lesson, and simply post the work time to your google classroom. One less thing on your to do list, and might I say, easy grading! Enjoy!

Give your writers easy access to a list of transition words with this word wall! One expectation of opinion, informative, and narrative writers is to use effective transitions. It's our job to teach them how we can implement them. Enjoy! Check out this related resource: Citing Evidence Sentence Starters

One way for students to learn how to produce and or choose supporting reasons for an opinion is by seeing correct and incorrect examples. This multiple choice activity asks students to choose the best three reasons that support the opinion. You can assign this as group work as well, so students can hear what their peers have to say. If you looking for an Opinion Writing Bundle, I have one for you! Enjoy!

At the end of the year, fifth graders are simply too cool for school. So, a fifth grade memory book has to match the cool energy! Check out this fifth grade memory book. It's the perfect end of year activity for students to reflect on their fifth grade year.

This digital download activity will help you students begin to make observations of the sun moon and sky and eventually make predictions based on those observations. This work time is all about allowing students to think and ask questions as they draw and color what we see in the sky during the day and at night.

Help your kinders learn the important of forecasting and responding to severe weather by using these coloring sheets! You could choose a certain type of severe weather for a small lesson and then pair the coloring sheet with it for work time. Enjoy! Check out these related resources: Severe Weather Sorting ActivitySevere Weather PostersWeather Tracker and Observation Sheet

This editable google slide mini lesson will help you students begin to make observations of the sun moon and sky and eventually make predictions based on those observations. This mini-lesson is all about observing and talking about pictures of the sun, moon and sky. Enjoy! *Please note: This listing does not include the work time activity mentioned in the work time slide of Powerpoint.

Need a topic to help buffer your social studies plans? Check out this United States Quiz! It's great for sub plans, an activity, or a test/quiz. Kids love the challenge! Also, check out this 50 States Matching Game! Enjoy!

This activity pairs with The Next Generation Science Standards 5-ESS2-1. Students will love learning about Earth's Systems by reading and sorting through this resource! It includes a reading sheet, two pages of words to sort, and four spheres to sort the words into. They'll learn what each sphere contains, and will help them move towards understanding how Earth's Four Spheres interact.

BINGO! What a fun way to practice simplifying fractions! Students learn through engaging activities.. especially ones that might have a prize involved! Grab this game and put it to use in your math classroom. Enjoy!

Push your students to think outside the box by doing this Finish the Picture activity! The download comes with 20 different templates. These would be great for a morning work activity on Friday, or for a lesson activity in STEM! Enjoy!

Grab this mini-lesson work time bundle to help teach your students about Earth's place in the universe. The mini-lesson includes an editable google slide deck that will help you students begin to make observations of the sun moon and sky and eventually make predictions based on those observations. The mini-lesson is all about observing and talking about pictures of the sun, moon and sky. The work time digital download activity will help you students begin to make observations of the sun moon an

This Opinion Writing Rubric is designed for fifth grade students to understand how their work will be assessed. The first step in student success is for them to understand how to be successful, which is why we as educators want to present them with rubrics or outlines they understand. If you're in need of an Opinion Writing Bundle, I have one for you! Enjoy!