Lessons for Learning

If you are tired of assigning final unit tests in math, this Area and Perimeter project is perfect for you! This no-prep, project-based learning task will require students to use their math and critical thinking skills to create an Area and Perimeter Zoo. Students will select animals they want, consider spacing (area) requirements, create spaces that are suitable for each exhibit and calculate the area and perimeter of each space. They will also create an advertisement for their zoo when it is

This Back to School Bundle includes everything you need for your First Week of School Lesson Plans! This is perfect for Grades 4-8 and is a COMPLETE, done-for-you set of activities, lessons, crafts and expectations for your first week back to school. It has everything you need to build classroom community, set expectations, get to know your students, and start the year off on the right foot. With detailed daily lesson plans, editable Google Slides & worksheets (not the titles, but the instru

This self love activity is perfect for all elementary & middle school students. It can be used as a Valentine's Day craft or activity or for social-emotional learning, mental health and confidence building. It is a no-prep, printable resource that can be used year after year and will make a beautiful bulletin board display in February and throughout the year. Students will fill the hearts out with things they love about themselves and then colour and cut them out and glue them to the envelope

This full-year reading comprehension bundle is perfect for guiding your reading lessons & assessments throughout the school year. Each monthly unit comes with 4 thematic, engaging readings (a mix of fiction and nonfiction), a set of comprehension questions and an instructional slideshow with mini-lessons for you to teach from. The instructional slideshow is perfect for whole-group lessons and scaffolding learning, but can also be used in small groups. These have been aligned with the Grade

This assignment is perfect for Grade 4 - 8 students who are working on paragraph writing or multi-paragraph writing. "If I Built a School" by Chris Van Dusen is the inspiration behind this creative writing assignment and students will use his story as a mentor text to writing about their own dream school. The organizers provided will take students through the full writing process, including brainstorming, organizing ideas, editing and revising and publishing. A sample, mentor paragraph is used i

These holiday writing activities are perfect for engaging your students during December. If you are looking for meaningful work to assign that your kids will *actually* complete, these December crafts include activities like creating a festive drink & cup design, designing a holiday sweater, recreating a book cover/movie cover, and creating a holiday gift guide. You can use the longer-form options in upper grades and the craftivity options for bulletin board displays and younger grade level

This water bottle sticker decorating activity is the perfect was to increase student engagement and create a lasting understanding of character traits and making inferences. Have your students use the class read aloud novel, literature circle novel, or independent reading novel to complete this assignment. The first page of the document will help students understand how to analyze a character, assign character traits, and make inferences based on the evidence provided to them in the novel. They

This reading comprehension unit is perfect for your Grade 5 and 6 students during October (can be used anytime, but passages are mystery-themed). Each passage includes questions that touch on various reading comprehension strategies and skills (e.g., predicting, questioning, summarizing, evaluating evidence, making judgements, making connections, inferencing) and lesson slides for you to use as mini-lessons throughout the unit. You can use the 4 passages for whole-group lessons, small-group

This mini research project will have students researching a cause and creating a "marketing" campaign to raise awareness for it. This real-world application will engage students as they dive into the world of modern marketing: researching a cause, creating slogans, designing merchandise, choosing an influencer/celebrity to help market their campaign and writing a final paragraph summarizing their findings. This is a printable, no-prep resource that provides students with all the templates t

This St. Patrick's Day Craft is a perfect, no-prep social-emotional learning and writing activity for elementary students. This can be used in March or anytime throughout the year to help your students practice gratitude. This printable resource and craftivity can be used year after year and will create a beautiful (and meaningful) St Patricks Day bulletin board display in March or anytime of the year. Students will fill the "gratitude charms" out with things they grateful for. Then, they will c

This is the perfect no-prep nonfiction reading comprehension activity to start in your classroom. Conduct "seminars" in your class by creating small groups and assigning students articles (or any nonfiction text of your choosing) and roles each week. Students will rotate through roles that focus on different reading comprehension strategies like summarizing, questioning, researching, making connections, and visualizing while also working on their oral communication and speaking skills during the

These cute, retro pastel End of Year Awards are perfect for an end-of-year celebration with your class. There are 57 different awards (32 general & 25 "most likely to" options that you can mix and match to make sure you find the perfect option for each student. There is an AUTOFILL PDF to save you time (fill in the planning page & the names will automatically populate on the certificates for you) and a PowerPoint version that allows you to edit the award names if you need something even mor

This assignment is perfect for Grade 4 - 8 students learning descriptive writing. Students will write about a dream place or somewhere familiar that brings them joy, using a variety of different descriptive writing strategies. This is a printable and digital, no-prep resource that provides students with mentor paragraphs that can be used as mini-lessons and organizers that help scaffold the learning for sensory details, figurative language, adjectives/adverbs, writing leads & endings, etc. Al

This December reading comprehension unit is perfect for your Grade 5 and 6 students. Each reading comprehension passage includes questions that touch on various reading comprehension strategies and skills (e.g., visualizing, summarizing, literary devices, point of view, etc.,) and lesson slides for you to use as mini-lessons throughout the unit. You can use the 4 passages for whole-group lessons, small-group lessons, independent practice, or assessments. **Expectations covered follow the

This reading comprehension unit is perfect for your Grade 5 and 6 students during November (2 passages are themed on Remembrance Day & Indigenous Veterans Day). Each passage includes questions that touch on various reading comprehension strategies and skills (e.g., prior knowledge, inferencing, diversity, literary devices, text forms, questioning, connections and perspectives) and lesson slides for you to use as mini-lessons throughout the unit. You can use the 4 passages for whole-group le

Tired of assigning slideshow presentations to assess oral communication? This Mini Debate lesson plan & resource is low-prep and helps your students build speaking, listening, and critical thinking skills in a format they will actually *beg* you to do again and again. This class debate unit is easy to implement, follow and assess - with clear instructions and checklists/rubrics included. Perfect for Grades 5-8 (middle school) and will get even your most disengaged students talking.What's Includ

This September reading comprehension unit is perfect for your Grade 5 and 6 students. Each reading comprehension passage includes questions that touch on various reading comprehension strategies and skills (e.g., text forms - narrative, opinion, text patterns - cause & effect, activating prior knowledge, RACE responses, etc.,) and lesson slides for you to use as mini-lessons throughout the unit. You can use the 4 passages for whole-group lessons, small-group lessons, independent practice

This assignment is perfect for Grade 5 - 8 students learning informative/informational writing. Students will experience a real-world application to their learning by creating a newspaper article on a topic of their choosing. This is a printable and digital, no-prep resource that provides students with mentor paragraphs for mini-lessons and organizers to help scaffold topics like writing captivating hooks, creating catchy headlines and including transitions in their writing. This assignment c

This back-to-school activity is a perfect, no-prep get-to-know-you and writing activity for elementary students. This printable "all about me" craft includes a number of options (simple, no-cut pages or longer tasks) - making it perfect to use with any class. It also comes with done-for-you bulletin board letters. Students fill in the photographs with images of things that represent themselves in some way. They could be pictures of themselves, activities/hobbies they have, symbols, or even words

This February reading comprehension unit is perfect for your Grade 5 and 6 students. Each reading comprehension passage includes questions that touch on various reading comprehension strategies and skills (e.g., analyzing, summarizing, purpose for text, point of view, etc.,) and lesson slides for you to use as mini-lessons throughout the unit. You can use the 4 passages for whole-group lessons, small-group lessons, independent practice, or assessments. The readings included cover topics on