Engaging Upper Elementary

Title: Fraction - Printable Anchor Charts (Basics, Comparing, Operations) Engage your upper elementary students with these colorful anchor charts that reviews different concepts relating to fractions. These anchor charts include the concepts of equivalent fractions, simplifying, comparing, and all four fraction operations. Important vocabulary, models, and processes are highlighted along with examples for each concept. These anchor charts can be displayed digitally or printed (full color or ink

Title: Simplifying Expressions Order of Operations - Printable Anchor Charts Engage your upper elementary students with these colorful anchor charts that reviews the order of operations used to simplify numerical expressions. The order is highlighted along with solved examples showing the process of simplifying those expressions. Includes two options, one with exponents included and one without. These anchor charts can be displayed digitally or printed (full color or ink saving). This printable

Title: Volume Zoo Hands-On Project This interdisciplinary hands-on project is a great way to engage your upper elementary students in practicing calculating volume of rectangular prisms and irregular figures. By having students focus on the task of planning for a new animal exhibit at the local zoo, and complete all of the tasks associated with that, students will practice many skills. They will love to show off all of their hard work with the final product - a 3-D box animal with a combined vol

Title: Coordinate Plane Battleship Game - 4 QuadrantsThis partner game is a great way to engage your upper elementary students through an exciting game of battleship. They will use their knowledge of graphing on the coordinate plane to practice naming and locating ordered pairs in ALL FOUR quadrants. This game can be printed for single use or made into game folders (see photos) and laminated for multiple uses with expo markers. Your students will love to compete against their classmates to sink

Title: Perimeter and Area Riddle Task Cards - Print and Digital Your upper elementary students will practice calculating perimeter and area of rectangles with these self-checking task cards. Problems include calculation of perimeter of polygons, area of rectangles, missing sides, as well as single and multi-step word problems. Each task card answer reveals a letter that is part of one of the riddles on the student recording page. These task cards are available as printable task cards as well as

Students will get plenty of practice converting measurement within the metric and customary measurement systems with this fun math twist on a MadLibs style activity! They will be extremely engaged knowing that their work will lead to a unique silly story that they can share with their classmates! Students will solve measurement conversions including single and multi-step word problems. Then match their work to the answers on the second page. Once a match is made, students choose a word that matc

Students will get plenty of practice adding and subtracting decimal numbers with this fun math twist on a MadLibs style activity! They will be extremely engaged knowing that their work will lead to a unique silly story that they can share with their classmates! Students will add and subtract decimal numbers using models and the standard algorithm, as well as both single and multi-step word problems. Then match their work to the answers on the second page. Once a match is made, students choose a

Students will get plenty of practice classifying 2D figures using their attributes with this fun math twist on a MadLibs style activity! They will be extremely engaged knowing that their work will lead to a unique silly story that they can share with their classmates! Students will classify shapes using multiple hierarchies and graphic organizers, as well as identifying shapes based on their properties. Then match their work to the answers on the second page. Once a match is made, students choos

Students will get plenty of practice calculating perimeter and area with this fun math twist on a MadLibs style activity! They will be extremely engaged knowing that their work will lead to a unique silly story that they can share with their classmates! Students will solve for the perimeter of polygons, the area of rectangles, and missing side lengths using models and single and multi-step problems. Then match their work to the answers on the second page. Once a match is made, students choose a

Title: Simplify Numerical Expressions - Order of Operations Digital Partner Game - Humans vs. Zombies Your upper elementary students will enjoy simplifying numerical expressions using the order of operations with this self-checking partner game for google sheets. These expressions have up to two levels of grouping and do not contain exponents. In the game Humans vs Zombies, students take on the role of either a human trying to save humanity or a zombie trying to attack. They answer questions to

Title: Unit Fractions Divided by Whole Numbers Riddle Task Cards - Print and Digital Activity Your upper elementary students will practice dividing unit fractions by whole numbers (and whole numbers by unit fractions) with these self-checking task cards. Each task card answer reveals a letter that is part of one of the riddles on the student recording page. These task cards are available as printable task cards as well as a digital google form. This activity is perfect for independent practice,

Title: 5th Grade Math Skill Practice Worksheets - Math Gone Mad! - Growing Bundle These are a GROWING BUNDLE of 5th grade math worksheets. These practice sheets are no-prep, and focus on a range of 5th grade skills. Your upper elementary students will love that each practice culminates in a unique MadLibs style silly story! They will be extremely engaged knowing that their work will lead to a unique silly story that they can share with their classmates! All worksheets include standard algorithm

Students will get plenty of practice with multiplying numbers with this fun math twist on the MadLibs style game! They will solve for products of up to 3-digit numbers multiplied by 2-digit numbers, as well as single and multi-step word problems. Then match their work to the answers on the second page. Once a match is made, students choose a word that matches the part of speech associated with that answer box. After all questions have been answered, students transfer their parts of speech to the

Students will get plenty of practice with dividing numbers with this fun math twist on the MadLibs style game! They will solve for quotients of up to 4-digit dividends divided by 2-digit divisors, as well as single and multi-step word problems. Then match their work to the answers on the second page. Once a match is made, students choose a word that matches the part of speech associated with that answer box. After all questions have been answered, students transfer their parts of speech to the s

Engage your upper elementary students with this colorful anchor chart that reviews the process of plotting decimals on a number line. Important vocabulary is highlighted along with examples of each term, and a closer look at how each point on a number line can be expanded by adding another place value to the decimal number. This anchor chart can be printed as a poster or printed individually for student notebooks. This anchor chart is included in the Decimals On a Number Line Activity! If you l

Engage your upper elementary students with this colorful anchor chart that reviews the process of plotting fractions on a number line. Important vocabulary is highlighted along with examples of each term. This anchor chart can be printed as a poster or printed individually for student notebooks. This anchor chart is included in the Fractions On a Number Line Activity! If you like this product, check out others at my store by clicking HERE. Feel free to reach out to me a engagingupperelementary

Title: Fractions on a Number Line Activity This number line activity is a great way to engage your upper elementary students through comparing and ordering fractions by placing them on a number line. Students will work together to place fraction number cards (proper fractions, improper fractions, mixed numbers, and models) accurately on a clothesline number line by comparing them to each other and benchmark numbers on the number line. What's included: 30 Fraction CardsPrintable Number Line for

Title: Decimals on a Number Line Activity This number line activity is a great way to engage your upper elementary students through ordering decimals and placing them on a number line. Students will work together to place decimal number cards (to the thousandths place) accurately on a clothesline number line by comparing them to each other and benchmark numbers on the number line. What's included: 30 Decimal Number CardsPrintable Number Line for students to plot on.Printable Anchor Chart - Dec

This self-checking scavenger hunt is a great way to get students up and moving while practicing simplifying fractions to simplest form! Each card has 2 parts: an answer in the circle (top right corner) and a problem, the answer does not match the problem on the card. This resource includes: Proper fraction cards to simplify (20 problems)Improper fraction cards (6 problems) *optional to include Student recording pageAnswer KeyTeacher instruction page**This set of scavenger hunt cards can be use

Your upper elementary students will get plenty of practice identifying the parts of the coordinate plane and plotting ordered pairs in the first quadrant with this activity bundle. This growing bundle includes both printable and digital activities that range from printable anchor charts and vocabulary practice to cut and paste matching and partner games. All of these activities will give your students plenty of practice opportunities for graphing coordinates in quadrant one of the coordinate pla