Core Rigor

Core Rigor has created ready to use word cards (word wall, vocabulary pocket chart, flashcards etc.) of recommended words for vocabulary acquisition within Common Core State Standards. Explanation of tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 words is included. This is a good foundation for adding Common Core rigor to any grade 1 word wall. A great resource for beginning teachers, teachers who are new to Common Core State Standards, as well as teachers well versed in Common Core. This simple classroom enhanceme

This package is everything you need to teach, review, and test propaganda techniques in literature, writing, campaigning, and advertising with no prep. It includes the techniques of bandwagon, testimonial, snob appeal, plain folks, patriotism, evidence claims, glittering generalization, transfer, slogan, wit and humor, name calling, big lie, and scapegoat' each with a pop culture example. There is a mid-chapter review, an end of chapter review, a commercial clip site to view and classify as a cl

This product is everything you need to deliver mastery in Next Generation Science 5-ESS1: Earth's Place in the Universe. It has 32 no prep pages and 2 labs. It includes related vocabulary, the Milky Way, the Solar System, star magnitude and corresponding lab using flashlights, Earth's location in the Solar System, orbit of the Earth around the Sun and its effects, orbit of moon around earth and its effects, shadows with corresponding 2 day graphing lab, and reading the appearance of certain sta

Number Talks for grades 3-5 contains 170 bundled exercises for daily computation and/or problem solving practice to develop and refine accuracy, efficiency, flexibility, and procedural knowledge while building math stamina. Explaination of the purpose, the teacher's role, the student's role,and directions for conducting the number talks is included. Number Talks provide daily insight for students, peers and the classroom teacher in discovering ways to work with numbers and solv

Core Rigor has created ready to use word cards (word wall, vocabulary pocket chart, flashcards etc.) of recommended words for vocabulary acquisition within Common Core State Standards. Explanation of tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 words is included. This is a good foundation for adding Common Core rigor to any grade 2 word wall. A great resource for beginning teachers, teachers who are new to Common Core State Standards, as well as teachers well versed in Common Core. This simple classroom enhanceme

Core Rigor has created ready to use word cards (word wall, vocabulary pocket chart, flashcards etc.) of recommended words for vocabulary acquisition within Common Core State Standards. Explanation of tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 words is included. This is a good foundation for adding Common Core rigor to any grade 3 word wall. A great resource for beginning teachers, teachers who are new to Common Core State Standards, as well as teachers well versed in Common Core. This simple classroom enhanceme

Core Rigor has created ready to use word cards (word wall, vocabulary pocket chart, flashcards etc.) of recommended words for vocabulary acquisition within Common Core State Standards. Explanation of tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 words is included. This is a good foundation for adding Common Core rigor to any grade 4 word wall. A great resource for beginning teachers, teachers who are new to Common Core State Standards, as well as teachers well versed in Common Core. This simple classroom enhanceme

Core rigor had created ready to use word cards (word wall, vocabulary pocket chart, flashcards etc.) of recommended words for vocabulary acquisition within Common Core State Standards. Explanation of tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 words is included. This is a good foundation for adding Common Core Rigor to any Grade 5 vocabulary study. A great resource for beginning teachers, teachers who are new to Common Core State Standards, as well as those well versed in CCSS. This simple classroom enhancement

This product is everything you need to deliver mastery in Next Generation Science 5-ESS2: Earth's Systems. It has 36 no prep pages. It includes the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere with easy to prepare corresponding labs for each sphere. Effects of how changes in one sphere causes reactions in the others is presented with concrete examples. Finally, the distribution of water on the earth and its effects is examined in detail. It is the perfect companion unit to the Core Rigor pr

Core Rigor has created ready to use word cards (word wall, vocabulary pocket chart, flashcards etc.) of recommended words for vocabulary acquisition within Common Core State Standards. Explanation of tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 words is included. This is a good foundation for adding common core rigor to any kindergarten word wall. A great resource for beginning teachers, teachers who are new to Common Core State Standards, as well as teachers well versed in Common Core. This simple classroom enha

This is a difficult concept for students who have just completed second grade and entered third grade. This packet drills down to the essential concepts of heredity without the complications of genetic mechanisms or human examples as written into the standard itself. Explanations of parent/offspring, inherited/acquired traits and effects of the environment on organisms are explored. Three classroom activities are included: 1. Analyzing traits to match parent to offspring, 2.Classifying inherited

Graphic organizer for organizing thoughts and research when developing argumentative writing.

This is a comprehensive unit on 4th grade NGSS standards for Energy. It begins by classifying and defining types of kinetic and potential energy. Kinetic energy is further explored in "hands on" activities that allow students to experience properties of light energy through bending light, magnifying light, viewing light through a prism, and polarized light. Exploration of potential energy culminates with an energy transformation lab in which students build circuits. Materials needed for entire u

This unit consists of 5 lessons, 5 simple labs with everday materials, and 5 science notebook activities to go with each lesson. The lesson, lab, and notebook activity can be done all in one day or separated into 15 days depending on how much time you have for science. All of the standards for New Generation Grade 5 Matter and Its Interactions are covered (5-PS1-1 through 5-PS1-4) in the 5 sections.

Number talks Intro: Computational fluency is a must for mastery of Common Core State Standards for math during the primary years. This concept is not just the memorizing of facts, but computational fluency that allows students to compose and decompose numbers, as well as develop comprehensive knowledge of the base ten number system. This toolkit contains everything you need to conduct daily number talks, prepare numeracy math centers and games, as well as individual student sets of patterns an

5-LS1 From Molecules to Organisms; Structures and Processes is the most compact of the grade 5 NGSS standards, for it essentially serves as a preview of the more complex 5-LS2, Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy and Dynamics. It is based on photosynthesis and how light energy, carbon dioxide and water provide the basic building blocks for all life. Students are challenged to support arguments of how plant matter is generated from air and water (not soil) through models and/or data. Two activities

This comprehensive unit begins with definitions, mediums and characteristics of waves. Four groups of waves emerge to explore: transverse, longitudinal, mechanical and electromagnetic. Amplitude and wavelength are modeled with activities requiring simple materials such as rope, tape and slinkies. Students recall that light waves are transmitted into the eye for images to be decoded. From there the unit explores information transmission by sending digital signals through infrared light, microwave

This product has everything you need to provide mastery in New Generation Science Grade 5: Earth and Human Activity. Problems introduced include: population growth, shrinking resource supplies, greenhouse gases, acid rain, deforestation, intensive farming, misuse of fertilizers, and pesticides. Solutions presented include: organic farming, biological pest control, alternative energy sources,and conservation. A research activity (2-4 days) is provided to allow students to work in groups to presen

This package is a comprehensive unit to cover these standards. It explores the internal and external structures of plants that facilitate growth, survival, behavior, and reproduction and follows with a lab exploring stems, flowers, roots, seeds and leaves. The same treatment is given to animal structures and then structures and purposes of both plants and animals are compared and contrasted through graphic organization, followed by a writing assignment. Information processing in animals is thoro

This unit consists of 5 lessons, 5 simple labs and 5 science notebook activities to go with each lesson. The lesson, lab, and notebook activity can be done all in one day or separated into 15 days depending on how much time you have for science. The culminating activity reflects the standard itself, an argumentative writing assignment supporting that gravitational forces exerted by earth on objects is directed down. Students may use science notebooks, other print and digital resources, and the a