Dance for Differentiation

Use a think dots template to encourage learner choice when designing activities and assignments. Consider integrating different multiple intelligences or approaches to learning in each think dots section. Have the learners roll a dice to choose their activity or product for an assignment. This also works well as a game board review activity at the end of a unit!

Use this Snack Shop activity as an introduction to basic economics and personal finance on inventory and taking customer orders or as a fun review activity for a math unit on money! This Snack Shop activity can also be used in special education as a job skills training activity.

Use these progress monitoring forms to collect student data on telling time to the hour and half hour. Page 1 is telling time by the hour with a digital clock and an analog clock. Page 2 is telling time to the half hour with a digital clock and an analog clock.

Use this Spatial Concepts progress monitoring data sheet for gathering data on learner progress in math! This includes two half-sheet progress monitoring forms. Use with two small cups and a math manipulative (teddy bear, dino, etc) to demonstrate each concept and pair with the prompt "Where is the ____?".

These functional math checklists (1 for Time Skills, 1 for Number Skills, and 1 for Money Skills) are designed to use for progress monitoring to determine appropriate IEP goals to write for learners with exceptionalities.

This differentiated Think Dots template can be used for any lesson or unit. Think Dots is a specific differentiation technique that incorporates Gardner's Multiple Intelligences in each of the tasks for each side of the dice.

This math progress monitoring checklist is designed to use as a data collection sheet for assessing numbers 1-100 for each child in your class.

These sorting mats can be laminated and used for math centers or for fine motor tasks!

These snack bag tags can easily be stapled or taped to a pretzel snack bag for testing encouragement!

This Ordinal Numbers 1-20 math center is designed for K-2 to support a child's understanding of this concept. An Ordinal Numbers math mat is included to increase active engagement during the playing of the Who Has game.

These SEL math journal prompts are designed using the CASEL SEL Competencies. Each question supports student understanding of math concepts with SEL integration to support learner SEL development. Cut & glue into student composition books to create SEL Math Journals!

These Heart Addition Math Mats can be used with candy hearts to practice addition computations for the month of February!

This French Fries Math Center is differentiated by content and can easily be integrated into any early childhood classroom. Use the "French fries" to count by 1's, skip count, add, or subtract!

These general response cards are a simple differentiation tool that can be used to support diverse learners for any lesson that you are teaching! Ask a question in either multiple-choice format or true/false format and the students can use these response cards to respond! Print on colored paper, cut, and glue back-to-back so that each child has a personal response card.

This differentiation tool contains 5 editable tic-tac-toe choice boards for your reading center, math center, science center, listening center, and/or computer center in your classroom! Design tic-tac-toe choice boards that fit the needs of your diverse learners!

This general Think Dots game is a differentiated tool that supports the learning process for diverse learners. Use with any lesson topic or unit topic! Based on Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory!

Use this multiplication array method mat as a way to differentiate the process of your instruction when teaching multiplication facts to your learners! Print and laminate for your learners to practice using tally marks to count their "groups of" to learn multiplication facts.

Two Stars and a Wish is a self-evaluation tool that is used for elementary and middle school learners to evaluation their work after they have completed a product. The "Two Stars" stands for two ways that they were "a star"/completed excellent work on their product. The "Wish" is for one way that they "wish" they could adjust their work in the future. Cut the sheet in half for a half sheet per learner.

This one-to-one correspondence mat is useful for math centers and math lessons when teaching 1-to-1 to young learners. Any manipulative or a unifix cube may be placed in each box to represent the total of the given number.

Use this information hand-out to send home with your K-2nd learners after they create an abacus during STEM with popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, and beads!