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Students learn important social studies and history skills with this engaging online exploration guided by a comprehensive packet. You will receive a MS Word file that you can customize to your curriculum. The file includes embedded links to support content-area vocabulary building and differentiation! This version is designed as part of a middle school course in ancient civilizations in the Middle East and Mediterranean, but can be adapted for use with contemporary world geography, and more! S

Instructions, rationale, and starter words designed with parents in mind to help with learning at home. Whether engaging in remote learning, homeschooling, or just enrichment time, this provides a great jumping off point. Created with the help of an experienced early childhood specialist to insure developmental appropriateness for pre-k and up! Document contains over 40 specific nouns/names to get your started! If some don't apply to your household, they may give you ideas for others. Enjoy!

A twist on the traditional reading log, this form prompts students to rate the books they read. They are asked to explain their rating in review form to help their peers choose good reads in the future. The form is meant to be checked by a teacher, and then added to an easily-accessible binder for other students to consult, or for the teacher to use when a student says "I don't know what to read next". The idea is for this task to become more authentic, and to provide a positive nudge of motivat

We all strive to help students make their best possible choices, and when they don't we want them to learn from their mistakes. In order to learn they must be able to clear their minds and reflect, which can be inhibited if they don't think the process that got them to the point of being redirected by an adult was clear and fair. This poster not only provides a framework for teachers to use (or adapt as they see fit using this easy edited document file), but is great reference for students. NOTE

The Giver – Exploring an Ethical Dilemma Posed to the Reader by making connections and comparisons to Star Trek. Students are engaged in examining ethical dilemmas around choosing to dissent, question authority, and potentially interfere with another society or group's rules and development. This sheet gives instructions to teachers and students for how to draw thematic connections to an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation, leading to journal entries and a "fishbowl" discussion. This is

This is a Word file (so you can edit/adjust as needed) containing a "reverse engineering" template for peer (or self) review of a 5-paragraph (you can change the number as needed) persuasive/thesis essay. It begins by hooking the student with the idea that they are deconstructing an essay after it's written to see how it works... much like science-fiction and spy tales talk about groups capturing technology of others and taking it apart to see how it works! It is compatible with a variety of t

This is a 3-column (plus summary box) note-taking template designed to be used with an inquiry project that is developed around a problem/essential question. Great tool for research projects, claim/evidence essay writing, etc!

This should be purchased with my Editing Symbols Quiz. A preview file can be found along with that item.

A "matching-column" style quiz of common editing marks and symbols. Answer key available in my store as an additional file. Be sure to check-out the preview file.

This is a lesson to start/launch a unit based on Lois Lowry's The Giver. Students are asked to activate prior knowledge and explore what is meant by the theme "utopia". The lesson sets students up for success in exploring how this story explores the pros and cons of a supposedly utopian society.

A fairly comprehensive list of the editing marks a middle schooler is likely to need for understanding peer and teacher reviews.

A project-based learning unit plan to guide students through an exploration of contemporary European geography.

A higher-order thinking investigation that helps students make use of the wide array of GIS (Massachusetts) data available online. UPDATE: Note that the http://www.caliper.com/massstats3/ has been updated, and the interface made easier to use. This assignment file has not yet been adjusted to reflect these changes (I'm working on it), but it can be updated by you as you are purchasing a Word file (not a static PDF).

A form for students to brainstorm characteristics and physical attributes of fictional characters during pre-writing for stories.

A chart-style rubric to help you create (or modify this one) your own to evaluate student's character sketches.

This is a worksheet that can be used to support a fantasy short story unit (potentially leading up to literature circles with novels) combined with reading strategy reinforcement. Students are required to use three-column notes to indicate their thinking, quote the text, and share which reading strategy they used with the aforementioned. This is also a great resource to use to monitor comprehension, increase accountability for reading assigned stories, etc. I use it with table groups in which

Mini-unit with connections in mathematics to a larger novel unit studying The Giver, by Lois Lowry. Please note that this is not a mathematics stand-alone unit.

Students will learn about settlement patterns, why people live where they do, and how that relates to various resources. This version is best suited for a contemporary world geography course. If you'd like something that might be better for a world history or ancient civilizations course, please look for the more recent version in my store. Thank you.

A spelling log form for creating individualized spelling lists, and potentially custom/individualized spelling quizzes, study tools, etc.

Instructions and recording template for middle school independent reading. You will get a file that is fully adaptable and modifiable to fit your needs.