Jackie Ricks

Bring history to life with Tribal Trading Game-- an interactive simulation using Google Slides that immerses students in the economic and cultural dynamics of Utah’s historic Native American tribes! Designed for tech savvy upper elementary to high school students, this engaging activity lets players represent one of five tribes (Shoshone, Goshute, Ute, Paiute, Navajo) as they navigate the challenges of survival, resource management, and trade. Learning Intentions and Success CriteriaI am learnin

Bring history to life with this engaging, hands-on simulation that immerses students in the journey of the Latter-day Saints as they migrate west to Utah. In The Saint’s Trail, students take on the role of a pioneer family preparing for the trek, carefully selecting supplies for their wagon before facing a series of historical events, dilemmas, and challenges along the trail. Will they survive the journey to the Great Basin? Students will pack a wagon, keep a journal, and react to situations alo

In this game, students will each represent a European country seeking new maritime routes from the 1400s to 1700s--Britain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. While completing tasks that represent country's interests, they will collect resources and draw routes on their maps, in order to comprehend the rationale for expansion and start to visualize the effects of exploration, from the spread of disease, to violence, to the exchange of resources. By playing the game and collecting resource

Ideas for gameplay: 1. As a getting to know you game at the beginning of the year or term. 2. As a review of common people or places in your content area. 3. Vocabulary review (Use images for words) Look in my store for the cool Powerpoint animated gameplay. This template supports up to 36 people, places, or terms on one slide.

Can be used with several lesson plans. I used it while teaching A Long Walk to Water.

In this game, students will each represent a European country seeking new maritime routes from the 1400s to 1700s--Britain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. While completing tasks that represent country's interests, they will collect resources and draw routes on their maps, in order to comprehend the rationale for expansion and start to visualize the effects of exploration, from the spread of disease, to violence, to the exchange of resources. By playing the game and collecting resourc

Students will build a village into a bustling industrial hub in this simulation of the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution. In 17 easy to follow rounds, students will drag and drop clipart to help them visualize growth due to factories, railroads, and mining. This file includes 5 critical thinking questions at the end to prompt student written reflection or discussion. Companion video of an example product

Sourcing Monday, writing Tuesday, content Wednesday, and vocabulary Thursday meant to go along with the Utah State 7th grade standards for Utah Studies. There are a couple of weeks missing because of our school schedule, but this is a high quality starter pack. These are all in independent Google Doc files. Contact me with purchase, if you'd like access to the Google File in order to copy/edit your own files.

Based on Jim Knight's strategies for Instructional Coaching Cycles, this template will help you as a coach manage your strategic plan, teacher goals, and rationales for working together to improve teaching practices.

Ideas for gameplay: 1.As a getting to know you game at the beginning of the year or term. 2. As a review of common people or places in your content area. 3. Vocabulary review (Use images for words) Digital Guess Who game that includes animations to hide incorrect guesses. Look in my store for the Google Slides version. This pptx file won't convert to Google Slides and maintain its animations. This template supports up to 36 people, places, or terms.

Ever seen a gingerbread house that requires a special building permit to build? Ever wonder how much it would cost to build such a treasure? Break the story problem down for your students in a fun way. Real life research skills built in--researching the average wage of a worker to calculate labor costs, researching a recipe for frosting, and researching the process of why and how to obtain a building permit. Bonus cross curricular connections (Art and Writing): Have your students draw what they

This is a hyperdoc activity exploring the message and themes of the poem "Crayons and Paper" by Tom Flannery. Students will read the poem, answer comprehension questions, watch a short YouTube video highlighting Sudanese children's drawings of conflict set to the music of "Crayons and Paper," read an article on genocide, and write a word splash summary of what they've learned.

Want to help your struggling readers, or English Language Learners? Add icons to your slideshows, assignments, and handouts to help them know what you expect. Increase your teacher clarity by adding images to your presentations and watch students begin to comply without you even having to tell them what to do. Copy and paste from this slideshow to make your life easier!

Enlarge these posters in your classroom to emphasize the benefits and characteristics of classroom discussions. Or, print and put in student binders. Convert to images to put in Canvas or Google Classroom.

Don't waste precious class time making students take notes on defining propaganda. Give them this succinct handout instead and raise the rigor by having students practice identifying propaganda in real life.

This is a hyperdoc lab that will help students learn to Compare the total weight of an object to the weight of its individual parts after being disassembled.Students will need an apple, scale, and legos, or other building type blocks. I had Zoobs.

Use as an introductory lesson to history class to teach students to think like a historian and to get to know them better. They will look at change/continuity, turning points, thinking through others' eyes, what questions we ask about the past, and a fun slide at the end.

Great interactive jigsaw activity for Utah Studies. Or, purchase and replace with short text and slide titles and use for other content. Would work especially well for foreign language reading and retell practice.

Students will watch a video, read an article, and explore different caves to  Identify the objects, processes, or forces that weather and erode the earth’s surface. Students will be able to Describe how geological features are changed through erosion.

4 major themes from The Hate U Give defined on bookmarks to be printed and used while students read the book.