Intermediate Creations

The Next Generation Science Standards challenges us to teach student how the earth records its past. Sure, there's lots of information on fossils, but what about analyzing tree rings and ice cores?! I start this lesson by talking about how humans (and the time before humans) did not record information about what was happening in the earth...but the cool thing is...the earth was recording it! These lessons last about a week in a 45-minute long class each day. Students will learn about how sc

Your students can learn how to invest and check the stock market using real-life data! Start the year with a lesson that teaches students what is a stock and how the market works. Then spend a math class each month checking your stocks. Your students will work on skills including multiplication and addition of decimals (money) and analyzing data with their portfolios and researching companies. This is designed to be for grades 3-5, but of course can be used for older grades. Included in the d

This simulation is about coal mining, but does so much more than just having students take the chocolate chips out of a cookie! Students have the opportunity to: 1. Build background knowledge of coal mining 2. Create a coal mining company and work with financial decisions 3. Go coal mining (yes, with chocolate chip cookies!), but coal companies will have events occur to them during and after the simulation (when they sell their coal) 4. Learn about strip/surface mining and reflect 5. Listen to a

This unit outline contains an 8 day literature group discussion guide complete with chapters students should read, vocabulary, and discussion points. The document also includes homework, homework tracker for students, vocabulary quadrants, and a final test. Literacy skills focused on in final test include: metacognition, fact versus opinion, and inferring.

The Next Generation Science Standards encourages teachers to use unique ways to teach students about animal adaptations, including how an animal's senses help it survive and grow. This is an organized document to help guide you through centers (usually lasting about 3 class sessions, 30-40 minutes each) in which students learn about the animal senses and do small explorations to understand the unique senses. A great resource for this lesson is: Animal Senses by Pamela Hickman

This is a 14 day organized unit to read the novel, Schooled, by Gordon Korman in literature groups. The outline contains: -Organized homework (chapters to read and quick reflections) -Discussion points per meeting -Vocabulary for discussion and quadrants -Review for final test -Final test with a focus on comprehension and optional literature skills (characterization, summarizing, QAR, cause and effect, visualization, inferring, and point of view)

This document contains many things to help you guide a literature group in the amazing novel, Out of My Mind, by Sharon Draper. Use this outline to: -Assign homework for a 14 day unit -Have discussion points -Learn vocabulary (quadrants for students) -Give reflections for each night of reading The final test includes skills: -Visualizing -Drawing Conclusions vs. Making Inferences -Character Traits -Inferring -QAR (4 types of questions) -Plot Map (finding climax)

This unit outline contains an 8 day literature group discussion guide complete with chapters students should read, vocabulary, and discussion points. The document also includes homework, homework tracker for students, vocabulary quadrants, and a final test. Literacy skills focused on in final test include: metacognition, fact versus opinion, and inferring.

This unit contains an outline for a 14 day unit for the novel Dexter the Tough by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Also included are discussion points for literature groups, vocabulary, homework, and a final test (with a review). The final test focuses on the literacy skills: characterization, summarizing QAR (4 Types of Questions), cause & effect, and visualizing.

This document contains discussion points, vocabulary, homework, and a final test for the novel, Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff. Final test has options to test on literacy skills such as characterization, summarizing, and cause and effect. The outline is organized for an 11 day unit, meeting in a small literature group for about 30 minutes each day.

This document contains many things to help you guide a literature group in the novel, Rules by Cynthia Lord. Use this outline to: -Assign homework for a 14 day unit -Have discussion points for each day -Learn vocabulary (quadrants for students) -Give reflections for each night of reading The final test includes skills: -Visualizing -Drawing Conclusions vs. Making Inferences -Character Traits -Inferring -QAR (4 types of questions) -Plot Map (finding climax)

This unit outline contains an 8 day literature group discussion guide complete with chapters students should read, vocabulary, and discussion points. The document also includes homework, homework tracker for students, vocabulary quadrants, and a final test. Literacy skills focused on in final test include: metacognition, fact versus opinion, and inferring.

This document contains discussion points, vocabulary, homework, and a final test for the novel, George Washington's Socks by Elvira Woodruff. Final test has options to test on literacy skills such as characterization, summarizing, and cause and effect. The outline is organized for an 11 day unit, meeting in a small literature group for about 30 minutes each day.

Buy one and use it for several classrooms! This download contains FIVE themes with the 6 transdisciplinary themes for the PYP for the International Baccalaureate program, plus a few extras for fun! The posters are set to print on 8.5 x 11 paper. Download the preview to see a thumbnail of each of the 5 themed posters!

This download contains 7 printable books, each focusing on an animal species and how it teaches its young to help it survive. Reading level for the books are end of kindergarten to second grade. These are great for guided reading groups or inquiry-based learning units! Included is a reflection sheet in 3 ways (dotted line, line, no line) for students to respond. Animals included are: MeerkatsAfrican LionsBottlenose DolphinsChimpanzeesOrangutansWeddell SealsOrca Whales

Enhance your International Baccalaureate PYP classroom with key concepts in polka dot style.Many teachers find it's so helpful to have the key concepts posted for both teachers and students to see them on a daily basis and include them in common language and conversation. These are 8.5 x 11 anchor charts that can be printed on a color copy machine or printer.

The document includes printable (on 8.5x11 paper) prayers on chevron backgrounds. The prayers included are: -Act of Contrition -Act of Hope -Act of Love -Angel of God -Doxology (Glory Be) -Prayer of St. Francis -Hail Mary -St. Theresa's Prayer

All IB PYP classrooms should have Learner Profile anchor charts up in the classroom. It's a great way to remind students and teacher to add the vocabulary into the everyday language of the classroom and conversations. Having these simple 8.5 x 11 (print in landscape) is a great and easy way to spark conversation. The downloaded PDF contains all 10 Learner Profile definitions with a polka dot theme.

This unit contains an outline for a 14 day unit for the novel There’s A Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Louis Sachar. Also included are discussion points for literature groups, vocabulary, homework, and a final test (with a review). The final test focuses on the literacy skills: characterization, summarizing QAR (4 Types of Questions), cause & effect, and visualizing.

INTEGRATE READING & INFERRING SKILLS WITH SCIENCE! Students choose an animal and read a question about one of its adaptations. Students then have 4 clues to help them answer the question. 17 animals are in this document! It's enough to meet interests of all the students. Animals are: bald eagles, giraffes, koalas, orangutans, desert tortoise, raccoons, zebras, cheetahs, three-toed sloth, mallard ducks, fawns, seals, rabbits, red eyed tree frogs, bottlenose dolphins, giant pandas, and desert