Educating the Future

This project is to help students learn how to construct, analyze, and identify 3D shapes. The students are told that they are the architects/engineers and they need to create buildings for their city. The documents that are included are the following: Entry document I wonder page... Building the City plans Chart to record the faces, vertices, edges Page to record the shapes used and how many of each shape was used. I know page...

Pumpkin-Halloween Pumpkin writing paper. Cute pumpkin boarder and many lines for your student to write on.

Students will learn the life cycle of a pumpkin by reading books, re-creating the lifecycle, and labeling the different parts of the pumpkin life cycle. Extentions to the lesson is included.

This is an excel spreadsheet activity. It can be done as a whole class or in groups. Students take a poll on who likes what Thanksgiving foods, as the number is put in beside the word and picture it graphs the answers. Not only do you get a chart with the favorite Thanksgiving foods you also get a graph that corresponds to the graph.

Ocean Stations Directions There are 11 different activities: Pearl in the Oysters Water Color Whale Jellyfish Rainbow Fish Crab Rice Starfish Sand Shark Turtle Seahorse Coral Shark Writing

Living vs. Nonliving experiment Have the students observe a gummy worm and an earthworm. They will then record their observations on this experiment sheet.

Bat Research paper includes: Bat diagram Bat research paper with places to fill in bat facts, bat diet, bat habitat, bat behavior.

This is a Smartboard Lesson! I used this on our pumpkin day. The students got to sample each of the different pumpkin products. Then they got to put thier vote on which one they liked the best. I then used this to answer math problems such as which item was the favorite of the class? How many students liked pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread? etc.

Here is a great way to extend you addition lesson as well as meet all of the students needs. This choice board offers a variety of differentiated ways that students can show their knowledge about addition.

This is a math place value menu board. This gives the students choice in showing their knowledge about place value. These activities require minimal prep work.

Seasons flow chart! Draw and describe the four seasons. Answer a few questions about the seasons and why we have seasons.

This is a page where your learners can record their findings as they compare an apple and a pumpkin. Kindergarden and 1st can draw or write the differences. 2nd and 3rd grade can write about the similarities and the differences.

Build a monster by using a key. Roll a money die and for whatever number you land you, you get to add that part to your monster. Add up how much your monster is worth at the end of the project!

Powerpoint Game Show This powerpoint reviews the phases of the moon, comets, and asteroids.

This is just a list of Halloween links that I have collected over time. It ranges from Halloween math games, creating pumpkins online, logic puzzles, sequencing, and much more.

Build a monster by using a key. Roll a money die and for whatever number you land you, you get to add that part to your monster. Add up how much your monster is worth at the end of the project!

Identify and describe coins.

This is a short assessment or lesson over place value. The students will show the expanded form, word form, base 10, etc.

Winter writing paper

These are "job coins" that I use with my students during group work. Print and then laminate the job title and description together. These jobs will make small group work run more smoothly. Jobs: Question leader, task manager, recorder, presenter, supplies manager, noise manager Teal back ground