Digging into Sixth

Use this exit tickets in your classroom to assess levels of understanding with students! At the end of the lesson, place an exit question on the board. The students copy down the question and answer it. Students can select the emoji that they feel most accurately depicts the level of understanding that they have about the lesson. Then, have the students place their tickets into baskets with the appropriate emoji label. It is so easy to differentiate or enrich based on the groupings in the bask

ACE It! is a text citing strategy that can be used in any content area. This resource includes: -Anchor Chart with the steps of the strategy -Guided Practice with middle school level passage about elections -Additional Practice with three different passages I have aligned this resource with the 2016 election, so it would be best used in ELA or Social Studies. However, the strategy spans disciplines and grade levels. All of the passages have answer keys!

Bring vocabulary into your Social Studies classroom with cards specific to 6th grade Social Studies! Includes: - Title page/label - 7 categories & labels (Geography, China, Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, Government, Economics) - 29 slides (58 cards) with content-specific vocabulary and a picture describing the word - 4 different ways to incorporate these cards into your instruction! Use it as a Word Wall, as definition cards, as a way to play Memory, Headbands, or Who am I?, and as a card sort in

Use this anchor chart in your classroom to assess levels of understanding with students! Students can select the emoji that they feel most accurately depicts the level of understanding that they have about the lesson - daily, weekly, unit-wise, etc. To be used with Digging Into Sixth's Exit Tickets that have the same emoji Level of Understanding Scale.

Incorporate tactile learning into your Ancient China or Chinese New Year unit! This literacy-based lesson involves students creating their very own stamp after reading an article about the evolution of Chinese writing over time. A creative project that will have even your most reluctantly excited students exclaiming "This was fun!"