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Are you looking for a way to help your students practice adding or multiplying with decimals that is engaging, creative, and just plain fun? Perfect for December, January, February, or the winter months, this Gingerbread math craftivity gives students an exciting way to practice adding and multiplying with decimals (5.NBT.B.7)The task:Chocolate Chip and Joanna Gumdrop help gingerbread families fix up their gingerbread houses to be the house they always dreamed of. The Gingy family has asked

Do you like student centered learning? Are you tired of boring history projects that students aren't engaged in? I speak from experience when I say that your students will enjoy learning about California's early explorers through project based learning. Students will choose one of three projects to showcase their learning: living history presentation, gameboard, or an illustrative timeline. Included are four explorer information articles (Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Sir Francis Drake, Sebastian C

Looking for a way to put the learning into the hands of your students? Students will learn about the Spanish explorers that came to the Americas and as they read the informational passages of each, they will collect information to make a set of explorer trading cards. Using this information, students will then decide which explorer to portray in a living history museum. In addition to discussing the history of their explorer, they will have to take a stance regarding the impact they had on the N

Looking for ways to engage your students in digital project based learning. This resource transforms your students into interpretive park rangers who will be asked to conduct research about Historic Jamestowne on their virtual field trip. They will stand at places of significance within the site, conducting their research as they go and becoming familiar with the people and history of Jamestowne in the process. In the end, they will be given the opportunity to investigate a topic for further stu

Classroom transformations make learning engaging and memorable. Get your students excited about math with the Gingerbread Fixer Upper budgeting activity. Select your grade level and give your students a project based learning experience. Can they stay within budget and use their addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills to transform the Gingy's home into the gingerbread house of their dreams? The classroom transformation kit includes table numbers, tickets, and everything you need to make

Looking to spice up your book reports? Hosting a Book Character Tea Party is just the solution. Your students will love reading when they know that they will get to become their character. Students read their book, as usual, take notes on their book, as usual, but the excitement comes on the day of the classroom transformation when ALL the characters from your students books walk out from the pages and come to life ready to mingle and socialize with one another. This print and go resource has

Do you use the depth and complexity icons in your teaching? Are you looking for a quick and easy way to make frames for ANY content? This EDITABLE frame with icons allows you to take any lesson and increase the rigor through the depth and complexity icons. Included is: - Editable frame - Resizeable depth and complexity icons - Directions This product allows you to make your own frames to fit your personal classroom needs, or frames for purchase on Teachers Pay Teachers when credit is given. At

How does the weight of matter change when it is combined? Mix up some gingerbread to explore. Begin by observing an anchoring phenomenon: ice melting and a snowflake forming. Students will then investigate matter, mass, mixtures vs. solutions, physical and chemical changes by mixing together separate ingredients to make gingerbread. As a class, they will weigh each ingredient individually and find the total sum weight of the ingredients. Then, after combining the ingredients into a mixture, they

Trying to teach narrative writing concepts? Looking for a way to teach high level concepts about plot and character development that is engaging and educational? This lesson is the perfect way to do that. Tried and tested in fourth and fifth grade, but perfect for middle and high school classrooms as well, students will develop a common vocabulary to discuss narrative stories all while developing their own. This seven day lesson plan walks your students through Finding Nemo while learning about:

Nothing gets my students more excited about writing than a writing project. Your students will love creating the main character of their Thanksgiving narrative, and writing a story that includes rising action, and a character that finds acceptance among ALL the other "normal" turkeys on the farm. The task:It's nearing Thanksgiving and all the turkeys on the farm are unwittingly stuffing their faces and getting fat. The farmer couldn't be happier. But wait, there is hope. One turkey on the farm i

Have you ever noticed that MOST snowflakes have six sides? My students did too and wanted to investigate why. In this activity, you and your students will observe the same anchoring phenomenon as my students. As they watch snowflakes form, they will make observations in their observe, think and wonder chart. Then, they will read an informational passage about the reasoning behind why snowflakes form in this way. They will answer comprehension questions focused on content specific vocabulary and

Are you looking for a relevant way for your students to practice division through distance learning? In the midst of school closures around the world, many people watched as Americans panic bought toilet paper leaving store shelves closed. Whether it is a virus, hurricane, or winter storm that threatens to cut off resources to individuals, knowing what you need and how much are all related to math. Or, perhaps our students will just need to know how to determine which brand is the best to buy. H

This bundle includes the Thanksgiving Narrative writing as well as the Editable Thanksgiving Turkey Math Practice. Bring in holiday fun to writing and math practice this November. The Turkey Narrative has a been a real winner in my classroom. Students develop a plot and character through this multi-day writing activity. Extend the turkey festivities into other areas such as math with the editable turkey craftivity. You decide the content and students will practice skills while putting togethe

This beginner Scratch guide will lead your students through planning and coding any explanation through Scratch. Perfect for small group instruction, centers, or whole group instruction, the individual student cards are designed to be used by students and walk them through the process of choosing a setting, sprite, and coding dialogue to explain a concept. Whether you're learning math, social studies, science, or even retelling a story, your students can use coding skills which is extremely eng

Deciding which operation to use in a word problem can be a challenge. It's not just about tuning into KEY words, but also being able to understand the context of the problem. In this editable activity, you and your students can examine math operation words that YOU are encountering in your learning. Whereas this master was made for fifth grade with fraction problems in mind, it works for any grade level. Just edit it to meet your needs. Included is: -Editable student direction slide. -Editable

Conducting research to help close gaps in student performance, I read a great deal of research on how to best teach word problems with my students. The research showed that explicitly teaching word problem types and the drawings that accompany them, in addition to teaching reading skills with story problems are better at increasing student performance on word problems than teaching keyword identification. These numberless word problems focus your students on the task of identifying the various

Are you using STEM in your classroom? Do have some amazing ideas, but want your students to focus on the engineering and design process while doing so? These STEM Think Sheets follow the engineering and design process and walk your students through a more reflective process while they are doing STEM activities in class. There are three versions (without lines, with lines, with smaller lines) that can be used for ANY STEM activity in your classroom. Help your students think like engineers as they

This menu offers a non-traditional approach to book reports that uses the multiple intelligences learning profiles as a basis for activities. Not only do I offer a sample menu, but a frame to guide you in making your own tailored to the learning styles and interests, as well as grade level, of your class.

Wanting to increase math discussion in your classroom? Whether working in whole group, small group, or individually, asking challenging questions that encourage our students to struggle and explain their thinking will improve their math reasoning skills and competency in math discourse. These 28 cards can be used as you facilitate discussion, either from you or by distributing the cards to students so they can ask questions of their peers about their work. You can also hand them out to small gr

Wanting to use Scratch with your students but not sure where to start. This FREE beginners guide includes step by step directions for creating a FREE student account, as well as student login cards to keep track of student created user names and passwords. More will be coming, so FOLLOW me by clicking the star underneath my store name to be kept in the loop of new ideas, products and MORE! Don't forget to rate this free product! If you like this, you might also like: STEM Think Sheets