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 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

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

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

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 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

Ease your mind in covering 4th grade NGSS standards for Earth and Human Activity. The broad standard had been unpacked to reveal all sub-categories of instruction and high stakes testing. The unit begins with introducing non-renewable energy sources of fossil fuel and fissile materials. Students are challenged to understand the environmental effects of taking these fuels from the earth. Included is a mining activity using chocolate chip cookies, which demonstrates the destruction left behind whe

This comprehensive unit thoroughly explores weathering, erosion and deposition by water, ice, wind, living organisms, gravity, temperature and human activity. Phenomena such as sink holes, caverns, etc. that occur as as result of erosion and deposition are presented. Students are then guided through the Theory of Plate Tectonics and the evidence left on the Earth's Crust with the use of both pictures and map models. The unit culminates with an exploration of topographic maps. Three labs are incl

When it comes to Social Studies, we all struggle with having enough time to get it all in, while maintaining the rigor and relevance of the lessons that we are teaching. This is especially true at the beginning of school with the first unit to be taught. I developed this unit, incorporating Common Core Strategies as well as 21st Century Learning Skills. It begins with Land Bridge Theory, follows native American migration, and covers explorers: Eriksson, Columbus, Cabot, de Soto, Magellan, Huds

This planning template will immerse students in all aspects of Common Core State Standards for literacy including reading, writing, listening and speaking on a daily basis. They build stamina, not only in sustained reading, but also in digging for meaning in complex texts. There are 9 pages of material, which include full explanation of components, lesson plan templates for both emergent and post emergent readers as well as samples of each. The materials generated by the students become working

We have all experienced it, an assignment that was based on material so difficult, that it required us to "buckle down" and use everything we knew to do to digest the meaning of a difficult text. This is exactly what Common Core State Standards is requiring of students to become college and career ready. These close reading and writing tools will immerse students in all aspects of Common Core State Standards for literacy; including reading, wrting, listening, and speaking on a daily basis. These

After years of immersion into Writer’s Workshop and 6+1 Traits of Writing, some of us are suddenly faced with a writing test consisting only of 30 minutes for producing a reflective narrative. I developed this writing template for my students to have genuine practice in such a test setting. It is not intended to replace instruction in quality writing techniques. But rather, a way to provide periodic practice in the 30 minute writing process in which previously learned skills can be organized and

This is a perfect unit for November (Veterans Day), May (Memorial Day) or anytime poetry needs to be “beefed up” in the classroom. “Poetic Justice: Poems That Move A Nation” gives you the dual opportunity to immerse you and your students into both the rigor of Common Core State Standards and 21st Century Learning Skills. Depending on the skill level of your students; the assignments lend themselves to all methods of instructional grouping including whole group, small group, pairs or individual.