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Students ABSOLUTELY LOVE this project! Want to motivate your students to read a new genre AND practice their speaking skills? This project requires students to read a "just-right" biography, compose a speech highlighting what s/he has learned, and pull it all together with the MOST ADORABLE renditions of their chosen subject. Students WILLINGLY get up to speak in front of the class at the end of this project! Contains two possible rubrics. Check out Poetry Notes and Lessons for the Writer's N

Enjoy this quick activity that instructs your students to view a page of angles and cut, sort, and paste them under the appropriate headings. Students share their knowledge of right, acute, and obtuse angles. No protractors are necessary- all angles are easily identifiable with the naked eye!

Teach your students about the basic principles of flight! This product contains reading and writing activities about the following topics: - Bernoulli's Principle - forces (lift, thrust, drag, and weight) - why humans can't fly, but other animals can - FIB activity - a foldable template for the four forces - design a human flying machine - procedural writing activity

This is a quick review to see how your students comprehend the physical and emotional changes associated with puberty. Student require scissors and glue, and cut out the strips with changes printed on them, sort them in a Venn diagram, and glue them in the appropriate circle. Great as a review or assessment. Pairs wonderfully with the Puberty PowerPoint found here: Check out the Puberty PowerPoint!

Help your students to analyze the similarities and differences between these two forms of media that represent the same story. Included in this product are: - a Venn diagram graphic organizer - a chart of sentence starters to help compare and contrast the two forms of media - a final copy writing sheet with movie graphics Enjoy! Please follow my store for more great products:)

Help your students learn to craft strong leads when writing fiction. This product contains all the tools you need to help them create great hooks to draw their readers in. Included in this product are: - four posters naming the type of lead - four real-life examples of each type of lead - a writer's notebook note (two to a page for less photocopying) - a writer's notebook practice page (also two to a page) - a cut, sort, and paste activity with a recording sheet to identify all four types

Do you love watching the Amazing Race? Now your students can do their very own Amazing MATH Race! This is Year 3 of a three year cycle of races. Designed to be used with all the upper elementary classes at once, the race can be adapted to be used with one grade level or even just one class. Included in this product are: - teacher instructions - materials list - 10 math race challenging problems - answers for each station - "passports" for each team If used in rotation for the three year cycle,

Students love a good scavenger hunt! This product contains 16 cards which present division questions with 3 digit dividends and 1 digit divisors. Post the 16 cards around your classroom or in the halls of your school. Students begin at the START card, and if they complete the questions correctly, they will complete the task at the END card. Just download, print, cut, and go!

Use this quick scavenger hunt activity to keep your students active and engaged while completing multiplication practice of whole numbers by decimals numbers (up to the thousandths place). Students read the equations on the first card, solve it, then proceed to the card which has the solution written at the top. From there they will get another equation to complete, and so on. Sixteen problems are included. Set it up in the classroom or around the school and watch them have FUN practicing thei

This set of task cards contains three levels (easy, mid, high) of addition cards which contain the answers hidden in QR codes. If you have no QR scanners available, an answer key is provided. Included in this product are: -8 2-digit addition questions with no regrouping -8 2-digit addition questions with regrouping only in the ones place -8 2-digit addition questions with regrouping in both the ones and tens places and result in three digit sums -answer key -recording sheet - instructions on ho

Students love a good scavenger hunt! This product contains 16 cards which present multiplication questions with 3 digit and 1 digit factors. Post the 16 cards around your classroom or in the halls of your school. Students begin at the START card, and if they complete the questions correctly, they will complete the task at the END card. Just download, print, cut, and go!

* Updated in 2023 to add FOUR MORE BIOS! These 20 bios will help your students learn more about African Canadians who have made huge contributions in their field. Your students will need access to a QR code scanner and will be guided to videos and webpages that provide more information on each person. These can be used as individual research sheets, daily reading activities, background information for presentations, podcasts, etc. The options are limitless! Among the bios included are: -Donov

Do your students sometimes struggle to get started when beginning a new writing piece? Look no further! This product combine mystery writing, graphic organizers for story planning, and dice rolling to create the outline for their writing. Students love the wacky combinations of crimes, alibis, settings, victims, and criminals. Includes: Teacher instructions Dice rolling recording sheet Multiple options selection shet Graphic organizer for story planning

Do you love watching the Amazing Race? Now your students can do their very own Amazing MATH Race! This is Year 2 of a three year cycle of races. Designed to be used with all the upper elementary classes at once, the race can be adapted to be used with one grade level or even just one class. Included in this product are: - teacher instructions - materials list - 10 math race challenging problems - answers for each station - "passports" for each team If used in rotation for the three year cycl

This package is ready to go! Included in it are 4 printable activities and answer sheets. Student will practice the following skills: - identifying the number represented in the ten frame - fill in the blank ten frame to match the number printed beside it - read the first ten frame and fill in a second ten frame to make 10 - read the 10 frame and determine and record the numeral needed to make 10 Enjoy! For more get products, Check out Ten Frames QR Code Scavenger Hunt! Check out Dice Detec

Here is a great way to bring together all the ways of representing numbers that you have been teaching your students. In this package, you will find 25 different gameboards with pictures of dice, tally marks, starts, numerals, and ten frames. You will get calling cards for each representation, along with an instruction sheet. Check out 10 Frames- 4 Printable Activities Check out 10 Frames QR Code Scavenger Hunt Check out Dice Detectives- Adding Dice! Check out Playing With Patterning!

Similar to a tic-tac-toe grid, this chart provides nine differentiated long division questions for your students. It is often used as an end of unit assessment, a math center activity, a game board for a pair of students, or as ongoing extra practice. Students love being able to select the questions with their "just-right" numbers to show what they have learned. Check out Multiplication Choice Chart! Check out Area and Perimeter Choice Chart!

Looking for a fun way to get your students to practice division? This game has students practicing their long division skills using a one digit divisor and a thee or four digit dividends, resulting in quotients with no remainders. This product includes: -instructions -gameboard -answer sheet -questions sheet

Similar to a tic-tac-toe grid, this chart provides nine differentiated are and perimeter questions for your students. It is often used as an end of unit assessment, a math center activity, a game board for a pair of students, or as ongoing extra practice. Students love being able to select the questions with their "just-right" numbers to show what they have learned.

Here is everything you need to teach a unit on poetry during your writer's workshop time. Each page has a two notes specially sized to fit a typical notebook page. Less copying and wasted paper! Use these notes to introduce a variety of poetic tools/devices and use them as a springboard for their own writing. Included in the 14 page document are: Haiku Tanka Limericks Cinquian 3 Word Model Poems 4 Line Reaction Model Poems Onomatopoeia Metaphor Simile Check out Biography Bottle Buddy project