Key's Kids

This amazing project-based learning experience will take your student on a journey across North Carolina learning about the significant historical events and geographical terrain. It involves research, reading information texts, critical thinking, and writing. It allows the student to be creative and choose routes, locations, lodging, activities, and restaurants. It culminates with a presentation on their trip for their classmates, parents, etc. This PBL can be easily accommodated for learni

This Power Point (easily made into a google slide) will lead students through a query using research, science, art, geography, and their own creativity to problem solve and present "The Ideal Plant" for our planet to their peers. A rubric is included.

This high-interest, two-page menu offers students choices while integrating core subjects across the curriculum all relating back to the study of ancient China. The menu cross references Bloom's Taxonomy and Gardener's Multiple Intelligences to offer a varied and challenging menu for students. You choose how it will be used, for example students can choose to complete one task from each row and column, etc. Concepts: Culture, Learning from the Past, Inventions Essential Questions: 1. Who were t

Students will use both printed and online informational text sources to plan a road trip across any state (staying within a budget), paying special attention to historical and geographically interesting locations. They will research, plan their route, organize their information (my kids used either notebooks or a google spreadsheet), calculate costs of food, gas, lodging, etc. Finally, the students will create an imaginary journal of their trip and create a way to share their road trip with ot

This amazing project-based learning experience will take your student on a journey across North Carolina learning about the significant historical events and geographical terrain. It involves reading, writing, and lots of math (with optional challenge activities). It allows the student to choose routes, locations, lodging, activities, and restaurants. It culminates with a presentation on their trip for their classmates, parents, etc. This PBL can be easily accommodated for learning differenc

This project was designed for gifted third-grade students, but can easily be used with third through fifth graders. It encompasses design, adding fractions to make a whole, word problems, analyzing a short gardening poem, art, and practical life skills all themed around setting up a home garden (or container on the patio).

This PowerPoint will takes the participant through choosing appropriate units and making conversions It also provides an interesting and challenging activity for measuring and understanding length, capacity, and weight. Answers are provided on the last slide - you can delete the last slide if you'd like, but I find it helpful during this time of distance learning.

This menu gives students three verbal/linguistic, three visual/spatial, and three logical/mathematical choices to complete in a tic - tac - toe style for the novel, Save Me A Seat, by Sarah Weeks and Gita Viradarajan. They are encouraged to choose one choice from each row and one choice from each column.

This hand puppet lesson promotes creativity, writing skills, math extensions, and art. Students are led through a process to create a puppet and ends with a puppet show. High interest, written for remote learning with my gifted second and third grade students.

This math puzzle/riddle reviews the multiplication, addition, and subtraction of decimals. My fifth graders love corny jokes and this puzzle will make math so much fun!