Doug Hinkle

Seven of Shakespeare's most popular plays edited down for upper elementary and middle school students. These scripts are ready for performance, with an estimated run time of 40-60 minutes. A glossary is included for student or teacher use. I have personally used each of these scripts with my fifth graders over the past 15 years, and find them to bring a great deal of excitement to the study of the Bard's works. The titles included are: Macbeth, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth

Here are posters of all of the algorithms that are used in Everyday Math for 5th grade. These can be printed out on poster size paper, or on regular sized paper and displayed around the room. They can also be posted on class websites for review. The algorithms included are: Column Addition Lattice Multiplication Partial Products Partial Quotients Partial Sums (decimals) Partial Sums Trade First Subtraction Partial Differences

This is a Document Based Question (DBQ) in which students study first person accounts of the event and try to determine what happened based on those Primary Sources. Multiple loyalist/British and patriot/colonist sources are provided, along with a sample student essay.

Here is a hands-on experiment on probability using color tiles that requires students to design a method for solving a specified problem, collecting the data, analyzing and interpreting the results and presenting their findings.

Post this step-by-step explanation of Column Addition to help your students remember the steps for this EDM Algorithm. My fifth graders find it to be very beneficial as a reference.