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These 15 estimation and rounding word problem task cards will build not only your students’ word problem solving skills, but also their addition, subtraction, rounding and estimation skills. Each card requires students to read the word problem and either add or subtract and round to estimate the correct answer. This pack includes: • 15 Word Problem Task Cards that require rounding and estimation • Student Response Sheet • Answer Key :) Skills covered in the task cards include: • Word Proble

Building critical thinking and logical reasoning skills is such an important part of preparing our students for the real world. Unfortunately, due to time and testing constraints, teaching these skills is often put on the back burner. This pack will help make it easier to implement this kind of thinking into your classroom. It includes activities that require verbal reasoning, mathematical thinking, and non-verbal logic. It requires students to think critically about spatial relationships, fi

Problem-based learning activities, like this one, encourage critical thinking and problem-solving, promote depth and complexity, and create an opportunity for students to make real-world connections, thus making learning more meaningful (and interesting). In this activity, students will have to apply their understanding of area and perimeter to design a zoo (meeting specific criteria).

Need a little something to pump some fun into your unit on animal adaptations and habitats? This activity should do just the trick! Your students are sure to enjoy this Roll an Animal Stations Activity! They may even forget that they’re actually learning and reflecting upon what they know about animals and how they survive in their habitats :) In this activity, students will visit 10 stations to create a new animal. The roll of a die at each station will determine each student’s new anima

Your students will have so much fun with these sound stations that you’ll have to remind them that they’re actually learning and conducting experiments :) The stations were designed to allow students to gain hands-on experience with sound and how it travels. The 7 experiments are simple, but effective, and require only a few materials, most of which you’ll probably already have in your classroom. This pack includes: • 7 Station Identification Cards (Number, Title, and Materials) • 7 Station D

Kids of all ages will love these brainteasers! The file includes 40 brainteaser/riddle cards and 40 corresponding answer cards. Lots of ways to use these cards! Perfect for an early-finisher task, rainy-day recess activity, morning brain starter, late bus time filler, etc. Have a little fun while you make ‘em think! These 40 riddles and brain teasers task cards will surely incite a lot of brainwork and laughter! Enjoy! :)

This resource includes: o Station Synopses and Pictures (for helpful set-up of stations) o Materials List o 7 Station Identification Cards (with Title and Materials Labeled) o 7 Station Direction Cards o Student Observation Chart These stations were designed to provide quick, simple activities that would help students gain first-hand experience seeing both kinetic and potential energy. Station 1/Racers – Students will “race” a matchbox car down a ramp into an empty bowl or milk carton. When

Need a different way to incorporate writing review into your lessons? These 6 writing stations allow students to practice and enhance their skills at identifying descriptive sentences, fragments, and run-ons, as well as practice with writing for clarity and variety. The pack includes 24 pages of station plans, activities, keys, charts, etc.

This Eight Parts of Speech learning pack will allow plenty of opportunity for your students to practice recognizing and using the parts of speech correctly. Begin with the PowerPoint and Tiered Graphic Organizer that requires students to record the name, definition, and example for all eight parts. The graphic organizer is provided with 2 levels (to meet the needs of your students) and an answer key. The Sort, I Spy activity, and Game will all provided support for the review and practice stu

These 32 task cards are a great resource for Virginia Studies! They cover every important Virginian and Virginia Document in the order they are listed in the Virginia Standards of Learning Curriculum Framework. This pack includes: 1. directions for use 2. 32 famous Virginians and Virginia Documents task cards *each task card presents 3 or 4 facts about a famous Virginian or Virginia Document 3. student-response sheet 4. answer key :) 5. research activity graphic organizer

This pack includes: • 22 task cards *Each task card has a sentence or two with a word missing (a homophone). Students will have to choose (between the two homophone options provided on each card) the correct answer for the blank. • Cover Card • Answer Key Card :) • Student Response sheet This is a print-and-go activity! Woohoo! • Simply print the cards (on cardstock), laminate, and cut apart • Print and copy the student response sheet Some uses for

These menus are versatile enough to be used in almost any classroom! They will help engage and motivate students by allowing them the opportunity to choose how to show what they’ve learned. The file includes directions, 3 choice menus (vocabulary, reading, and spelling), and a rubric that can be used to score the reading projects. **This file is the “Literacy Choice” part of another bundle entitled “Providing Choice for Literacy and Writing.” If you’re interested in having both the writing

This pack was created and utilized to enhance students' understanding of independent, dependent, and constant variables, along with qualitative and quantitative data collection. The pack includes: *2 notes pages about the types of variables and data - these pages will provide the background information your students will need to complete the activities in this pack *8 scientific investigation scenario task cards - students will read these cards and hunt for the variables and data collected i

Function tables use input and output numbers that follow a pattern or rule. Students will need to utilize the information given in each table to determine the missing number(s) and identify the rule each table follows. Once they’ve had a chance to practice, students can show what they know about number patterns by completing the Number Sentences Independent Practice assignment. Includes: 23 Function Table Cards (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) 1 Fun

Are you ready for the Hour of Code? This lesson was designed as an introduction to computer coding. It is a paper/pencil activity that will teach students that coding works by establishing a set of specific instructions in order to complete a desired task, in this case, getting the puppy dog back to its home :) The lesson includes a KWL chart, 2 grids, directions for both the student and teacher, and links to a few really good video clips that explain a little more about computer programming

Perfect as a reading center! These student-centered response activities allow the students to work independently in order to show what they learned from recently read text. Students will use skills such as recognizing fact/opinion, identifying main idea, supporting details, text features, and organizational patterns, making text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-self comparisons, creating charts and graphs, understanding context clues to learn new vocabulary, and analyzing passages. Each

This pack was created to assist students with the understanding of scientific tools and what they measure. The pack includes: Graphic Organizer: • The completed graphic organizer can be projected or displayed for students to view and gather the necessary information needed to fill in their empty organizers. It is provided as a starting point for teacher/student. Sort: • To use, simply print the sorting cards on cardstock and laminate for durability.

This pack would be a great addition to any unit on the Civil War. It incorporates a variety of learning activities for various levels. The following activities are included in the packet: anticipation guide, active questioning, choice menu, product rubric, forced analogies, analyzing primary sources, cooperative learning, Socratic seminar, webquest, and a review game. Twenty-seven pages of lessons and activities!

Use these activities to help review basic grammar, usage, and mechanics editing skills. The file includes 15 multiple choice cards and 2 corresponding activities. These are ideal for writing station activities, tutoring, practice at home, early-finisher tasks, etc. All answer keys are included. Topics covered in these activities include: o apostrophes to show ownership o apostrophes to create contractions o commas to separate items in a series o commas to separate city and state o commas to s

Logic Puzzles are a great way to motivate your students to utilize thier critical thinking and problem-solving skills. They make perfect center activities, early-finisher tasks, or rainy-day recess fillers :) This pack inludes 12 logic puzzles of various styles and challenge levels. All answer keys are included. Please note that this is a combo pack. Each pack is also sold separately in my store if you wish to only purchase one. Thank you!