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Your students are going to love this hands-on activity over genetics, heredity, and traits!! Perfect for upper elementary and middle school students! Fun activity to introduce or reinforce concepts! Perfect to use for open house presentation or class display of taught standards. Instructions to start: ** Teacher reviews anchor chart terms and meanings with the class. Part 1: Students flip 2 coins to determine traits inherited (one coin represents mom and one coin represents dad). They circle t

Engage your students with SCOOT. Get rid of the boring worksheets!! SCOOT gets your students out of their seats and stimulates body-brain movement. I have created an editable template in PowerPoint that allows the teacher to add any questions to the task cards. Students will be able to practice, review, and reinforce skills and concepts using "any subject" and "any topic". You decide which questions OR directions are most important to the topic, tap the word “Enter”, and type in your own cont

Accountability slips for students who didn't turn in their homework ...and... students who didn't turn in their classwork. Students fill out the form and you can keep the record as documentation or send it home for the parent to sign and return with the completed work. You get to edit 3 sections: "Your name" at the top, "I understand by not turning in my homework......." and " Future Consequences". Don't forget to click the green * at the top of my home page!! Remember to rate the product, s

This resource includes 10 activities for team building, ice breakers, or beginning of the year activities. Activities can be printed out or posted on promethean board. All activities include reflection questions for students or learning communities!! Activities are also wonderful for time fillers before or after classroom academics. The community building activities include: Crayon for 2 (cooperation) Zoo animals (community building) J.O.Y. (listening) Group Story Telling (Inclusion) Name Ga

Awards that highlight "Life Skills"... "Editable"... and perfect for end of year award ceremony or class recognition. Includes 12 awards in black and white or print in COLOR. Click on "Student Name", "Teacher Name" and "Enter Date" to add your own text. You must have Power Point to open and edit the file. I have used these certificates in elementary school and middle school. You will adore these certificates in both the black and white and COLOR copies. Note: Use card stock to help with dur

Practice Cell Organelles and their functions in a fun and interactive way. "I have..Who has...?" will get students out of their seats! Great enrichment tool for upper elementary grades and right on target/grade level for middle school students. Begin the game with "I have Organelles" and circle back around to end with "Who has the cell structures that carry out specific jobs in cells" Includes: Organelles Cell Wall Vacuole Lysosomes Nucleus Cell Membrane Golgi Apparatus Endoplasmic Reticulu

Print, Copy, and Use with ANY Science Experiment!! This lab report comes in 2 lab report versions and an "EDITABLE" rubric to go with the lab report. The first lab report includes explanations, on the lab report. Including: problem (question), hypothesis, materials, procedures, observations/results, and conclusion. The second version has the same headings, but doesn't have explanations. This copy is great if you have your own anchor charts! The rubric has editable content to match the l

Fun...interactive..collaborative....study option!! Students use the job cards to direct them in creating a board game with their group. As they are creating... they are studying! When they finish creating, they get to play everyone's games!! I've also included a self evaluation and group evaluation sheet to keep students on track and guide their behaviors. Day 1 (approx. 50-60 minutes): 1. Print “Job Cards” and “Evaluation Sheet” on white or colored paper. 2. Cut out the “Job Cards”. 4.

Students practice making arrays, groupings, word problems, and fact family triangles!!!! When they are finished, they have fun.. interactive... swirly cards to practice multiplication alone or with a partner. (For fun: allow partners to play a game of War with their cards). Instructions: -Make copies of pages for each student, as you introduce the factors to the class -On the 0’s cards: Students create their own random-personalized picture -On the 1’s- 6’s cards: S

Independent ... or...Group Activity. Great way to help students take ownership of their learning! They write a sentence from their understanding of the definition and they create a picture to help them remember the meaning of the word. Directions: Teacher fills in the Vocabulary or Key Term words and gives one sheet to each student or group. The puzzle pieces are filled in and cut out. Students can work on putting the pieces back together independently or with a group. Remember to follo

Engage your students with SCOOT. SCOOT gets your students moving and stimulates body-brain movement. You could also hang one sheet of questions on each of the four walls and have students "write the walls". I have included 24 cards that cover common nouns and pronouns. There are 4 editable cards that allow the teacher to add their own tasks. Students will be able to practice, review, and reinforce skills by finding common nouns and pronouns (it, you, I, me, his, my, them, we, he, us, our, &

Use the "Practice Sheets" for an independent activity, group activity or assessment. Print, copy, and cut the "Flow Chart" sheet. I use colored card stock for durability. The "Flow Chart" will be the students favorite activity, if you make it FUN:) Use the "Flow Chart" for independent, partner, or whole group (race and make it a game) practice. To make it a game: Have students practice on their own. Then, have them turn the cards upside down and shuffle them around on the table. The teacher