ETC

This is a combination of two things: a powerpoint presentation on the Mayas and Chicen Itza (which can be purchased separately for $4) and an accompanying worksheet. The ppt has original photos of the city along with brief descriptions of the key structures. The worksheet is a simple ten question guide to use in order to highlight key points for the students.

Students who are learning new vocabulary are making associations. This is how they make sense of words in their surroundings...by connecting them to schemata. This activity is created to ask students to group words, identify the word that doesn't belong and explain why. It turns this important mental activity into a written activity, requiring students to use metacognition. The topics vary from geography to Spanish numbers to cognates and beyond.

Here is a worksheet you can use to have your students practice formatting a variety of sources uses MLA guidelines.

Here is a packet of winter holiday word problems practicing fractions, decimals and percentages.

Many of my students live in communities struggling with violence. I created a homework assignment requiring them to survey people in their community and analyze the results about the problem.