Lancasters Learners

60 pages of Loyalist and Patriots! Facts and graphic organizers, writing, and so much more! So many GREAT ways to use this information! * Divide your class into Patriots and Loyalists. Have each group use the information included in this packet to make posters or individual reports on the people that made the American Revolution what it was. The Patriots in this packet are: The Loyalists are: Abigail Adams Banastre Tarleton Betsy Ross

This packet includes: * Posters showing what a friendly letter should include * Examples of friendly letters * Practice worksheets for your students * A letter for your students to edit (which could be used for assessment)

Begin teaching how the Earth's surface is shaped by introducing the layers of the earth. This is a great way to lead into your lessons on volcanoes, earthquakes, uplift, weathering and erosion. This packet includes: * Two worksheets for students to label the layers of the earth * Two posters of facts on the layers of the earth * A matching game that would be great to use in a center to reinforce these concepts.

This 24 page lesson includes: 8 fact sheets about the Native Americans in the Eastern Woodlands, The Great Plains, The Southwest Desert, The Northwest Coast. Vocabulary words and a vocabulary worksheet. 4 work mats for students to fill with information about the tribes of each area. 4 pages of study cards so students can review the important facts. Enjoy!

This18 pages unit includes Potential hazards and safety procedures when around chemicals, electricity, or water. Chemicals: * Poster detailing hazards at home with household cleaners, hazards at school with weapons, wet areas, and laboratories and hazards on the playground with poor equipment, lack of maintenance, etc. Activity: Using magazine clippings of various cleaning supplies to learn of their potential hazards. Drawing a map of their school for potential hazards. Describing playground h

Social Studies : Standard 1 Describe and explain the growth and development of the early American colonies. Ten early explorers are spotlighted in this fact filled packet: Leif Erikson, Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain, Jacques Cartier, Francisco Vaquez, Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, Hernando Cortez, Marquette and Joliet and Hernando de Soto. A report form with various activities for your students to research their explorer is included. A "Go Fish" type card game is included to help

Looking for something fun to support your Industrial Revolution unit? You'll like these DOUBLE TAKES. Printed on both sides of the paper you will have FACTS ON ONE SIDE and an ACTIVITY ON THE OTHER. These can be used to review before testing or as an introduction to the unit. Inventors included in this packet are: * Samuel Slater - built the first cotton spinning mill * Mill Girls - worked in the factories * Thomas Edison - invented the light bulb and phonograph * Garrett Morgan - perf

This Literature Study uses the picture book titled, "The Santa Trap" by Jonathan Emmett and Poly Bernatene. Some of the skills include: * Vocabulary * Character Study * Comprehension * Sequence of Events * Cause & Effect * Onomatopoeia * Summarizing

This will help you teach appositives in a fun way! * Poster defining appositives * 20 card matching game * 20 bookmarks

After reading Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt's book titled, "You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy?" ($4.99 US) ISBN 978-0-545-45355-4 you will be delighted with the writing activities, both expository and persuasive, that are available for your students. This kit includes 7 writing activities some about the book and some about your student's own experiences with the dentist and losing a tooth.

Want to purchase all seven Healthy Self lessons for a discounted price? Save $7.00 when you purchase this package of all seven of the health standards. This package includes: * Disease prevention * Human Development * Consumer Health * Grief, Loss and Stress * Nutrition and Fitness * Potential Hazards * Substance Abuse Prevention There are worksheets, games, bookmarks, cootie catchers,and all kinds of fun activities to make learning these concepts so much fun! Enjoy!

This is a great resource to use when teaching traffic signs and their meanings, school communities including the job of the principal, secretaries, custodians, special teachers, etc. and the importance of wearing seat belts and sitting in the backseat when traveling in a car.

This file contains posters with rules for making nouns plural. There are nouns ending with diagraphs: SS, CH, SH, X , nouns ending in "f" and nouns ending in "o". Sorting activities, worksheets for practice and cut out fans for students to keep track of these nouns.

Need help teaching Matter? Here are some fun labs to do with your students that they will enjoy as well as games to reinforce those important concepts. This file includes: *Posters *Vocabulary matching game *"I Have Who Has" game *Physical changes in matter experiments *Chemical changes in matter experiment *A lab recording sheet Enjoy! ~Joanne Follow my blog http://5thgradepatriots.blogspot.com/

This magnet unit includes seven posters explaining north and south poles of magnets, magnetic fields, permanent and temporary magnets, and how we use magnets in our daily lives. It also includes three simple experiments you can do with your students they include; making a compass, finding the iron in your cereal, and seeing magnetic fields. There is also a list of ways we use magnets in our daily lives along with a writing activity. And finally a vocabulary worksheet and a magnet word searc

Let's have fun with rotational symmetry! *Poster describing rotational symmetry * Two worksheets for students to complete * Pattern and directions to make a pinwheel (rotational symmetry)

This ten page until defines viruses and how they are transmitted. Students are walked through "A Virus Story" which they create and learn about viruses along the way. The unit also demonstrates decision-making and refusal skills for HIV prevention. A board game is included for students to reinforce these refusal skills.

Looking for a fun back to school activity? These visors are my students favorite!! They look so cute walking out the door on the first day or school (or the first week) wearing their cool school visors!! Just choose the visor you want them to decorate then have them cut them out and put a "String Elastic" through the holes. This elastic makes it easier for students to remove the visor without having to retie it. Be prepared to take your students pictures, they will look so cute you will

This packet has six printables and seven activities. The activities go with each lesson taught. Some of the activities are: *deciding what would be the best action in various situations *how to fix mistakes we make *web of positive reinforcements *good choices and bad choices writing assignment *a maze of good choices *coloring a smokers mouth and body to show what effects smoking has on a body.

Information about the earth's faults and earthquakes. Includes activities to cut and past horizontal as well as vertical fault blocks. Two posters with information included.