Learning Simplified

I use this activity to teach my students how to add money, as well as, how to figure out how much two items will cost at a restaurant. Included are differentiated visual menus, picture cards of each food on the menu and differentiated money addition boards and how much change will I get back boards to be filled in for practice. This file includes the following: McDonald's Visual Menuspage 1: real restaurant prices (based on large sized food items and Illinois prices)page 2: prices are all based

This is visual directions I made for my students who are non-readers and need visual step-by-step directions to be successful. This is the visual directions I created for an edible sensory science experiment I made with my students with autism.

This is visual directions I made for my students who are non-readers and need visual step-by-step directions to be successful. This is a sensory science experiment called Elephants Toothpaste I made with my students with autism.

I use this activity to teach my students how to add money, as well as, how to figure out how much two items will cost at a restaurant. Included are differentiated visual menus, picture cards of each food on the menu and differentiated money addition boards and how much change will I get back boards to be filled in for practice. This file includes the following: Wendy's Visual Menus page 1: real restaurant prices (based on large sized food items and Illinois prices)page 2: prices are all based on

These are visual behavior expectations for circle time I made for an Early Childhood Program.

This is visual directions I made for my students who are non-readers and need visual step-by-step directions to be successful. This is a sensory science experiment I call Citric Fizz I made with my students with autism.

This is visual directions I made for my students who are non-readers and need visual step-by-step directions to be successful. This is a sensory science experiment I call Chalk Foam I made with my students with autism.

This is a wait strip I created for my students with Autism who benefit from visually seeing time decrease till they are done with an activity. I print these on card stock and laminate. On the wait strip, I put velcro in the boxes numbered 1 - 5 on the front, a velcro strip across the back of the strip and velcro on the back of the green numbered squares. To use: start with all the numbers on the front from 5 on the left to 1 on the right next to the all done picture. As a minute or task (can

This is a good listening reward strip I created for my students with Autism who had a difficult knowing if what he was doing was perceived as good listening by his teachers and peers. He benefited from visually seeing when he was doing good listening during an activity. The immediate visual response from an adult letting him know that he was doing good listening enabled him associate what he was doing with how adults perceive his actions. I print these on card stock and laminate. On the good

This is a visual poster that I hang in my room that I can point to as a remind for students who blurt out.

pages 1-45: (set to be used with a projectable screen or interactive board) each slide has one addition problem with sums up to 10. (every number combination included, 45 problems in total)each slide has a number line from 1-10each slide has animation to demonstrate the counting on strategy by making jumps on the number line from the 1st number (designated by a green dot) to the 2nd number (designated by a red dot)each slide has animation to reveal the answer after counting on the number linepag

This is a cut and glue activity I created for a student to correctly sequence the life cycle stages of a turtle.

This is a sorting activity I created for one of my students to decide if a picture is a mammal or an amphibian.

I made these talking tickets for a kindergartner who was always blurting out. I would give him a designated amount of tickets each day to use. When you wanted to ask a question or tell me something unrelated to what we were doing, I would ask him if you wanted to use one of his tickets. Initially he went through his tickets very quickly, but soon started to learn what was worthy of using a ticket for and what he didn't want to waste a ticket on to say. The amount of times he blurted out sign

This is a art project I did with my students this winter. It includes visual directions and the printable template to paint the hot chocolate paint on and add mini marshmallows on top for fun.

This is a visual sequence schedule I created for one of my students in kindergarten. I print this board on card stock and laminate it so I can put velcro on it for the pictures. I put velcro strips next to "To Do" and "All Done" lines. The teacher sets up the board for the seat work activity they were doing that day by putting the needed steps in order on the To Do line. As the student completes them, they move the picture from the To Do line to the All Done line.

This is a cut and glue activity I created for a student to correctly sequence the life cycle stages of a goldfish.

This is a cut and glue activity I created for a student to correctly sequence the life cycle stages of a frog.

This is a cut and glue activity I created for a student to correctly sequence the life cycle stages of a chicken.

This is a cut and glue activity I created for a student to correctly sequence the life cycle stages of a butterfly.