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Enjoy these free posters highlighting African American authors and illustrators with their works! Included are picture books up to middle grade: Kwame Alexander Varian Johnson Christopher Paul Curtis Rachel Renee Russell Jason Reynolds Sharon Draper A.G. Ford Vashti Harrison Christian Robinson Jerry Pinckney Jacqueline Woodson For best quality, print as 8.5x11" posters.

Celebrate February with 10 literature-based design and coding challenges! Using 5 February-themed picture books, students will use either a printed or electronic card to complete two related challenges for each book, one coding and one STEM/design challenge. These literature challenge cards can be used in school with makerspace items, at home for virtual learning, or would be a great choice for asynchronous learning! Each card is available as a clickable Google slide, Seesaw activity, or printab

Ring in the new year with 10 literature-based design and coding challenges! Using 5 January-themed picture books, students will use either a printed or electronic card to complete two related challenges for each book, one coding and one STEM/design challenge. These literature challenge cards can be used in school with makerspace items, at home for virtual learning, or would be a great choice for asynchronous learning! Each card is available as a clickable Google slide, Seesaw activity, or printa

Get ready for the holiday season with 10 literature-based design and coding challenges! Using 5 winter-, Hanukkah- and Christmas-themed picture books, students will use either a printed or electronic card to complete two related challenges for each book, one coding and one STEM/design challenge. These literature challenge cards can be used in school with makerspace items, at home for virtual learning, or would be a great choice for asynchronous learning! Each card is available as a clickable Goo

Welcome fall and the month of November with 10 literature-based design and coding challenges! Using 5 November- and Thanksgiving-themed picture books, students will use either a printed or electronic card to complete two related challenges for each book, one coding and one STEM/design challenge. These literature challenge cards can be used in school with makerspace items, at home for virtual learning, or would be a great choice for asynchronous learning! Each card is available as a clickable G

Have students choose from a choice board of Halloween-themed makerspace activities! Happy Halloween!

Learn about conditional programming while drawing a cute jack-o-lantern! Teach If/Then conditional thinking by introducing simple If/Then statements that lead to students creating a jack-o-lantern.

Celebrate Valentine's Day with a fun literature-based breakout box focused on fiction genres! While reading and solving Cam Jansen and the Valentine Baby Mystery, students will use clues and review fiction genres to find three lock combinations and unlock the box as they solve pieces of the mystery along with Cam and Eric! Skills reviewed include: -Mystery genre vocabulary words such as suspect, witness, and evidence -Characteristics of realistic fiction, science fiction, mystery, and fantasy -F

Introduce simple skills on Google Docs and Google Slides while introducing fiction genres to your students! Students will learn the characteristics of the realistic fiction, science fiction, mystery, fantasy, and historical fiction genres, and will complete assignments about each genre on Google Docs and Google Slides. Some of the skills practiced include: -Inserting images and backgrounds on Google Slides -Creating in Google Draw -Inserting text boxes -Changing text color -Animating images -F

Practice sequencing, commands, debugging, and properties all with a Halloween twist! There are three activities included: -Haunted House Sequencing: Use arrow commands to guide Monster through the haunted house -Trick or Treat Debugging: Fix the errors in Monster's code to help him have a safe trick-or-treating! -Code a Costume Properties: Use the listed properties to draw Monster's Halloween costume! All activities are UNPLUGGED: They are fully printable and require no technology to complete. E

Use Ozobot color coding to review or learn the 6 steps of the research process! Guide Ozobot through the steps of a simple research project by using color codes to go through planning, finding sources, using all the information and putting it together, and evaluating the product as he answers the question "How do I make hot cocoa?" *Note: Ozobots and black, green, red, and blue markers are required for this lesson!

Students will learn or review elements of a historical fiction story, as well as practice coding skills, with this literacy-integrated Ozobot track! Ozobot LOVES to read historical fiction, but hates any other genre of reading. He is traveling through his bookshelf and wants to pause at any historical fiction books, but speed quickly by anything that wouldn't be found in a historical fiction book. Students will color codes in front of each element to instruct Ozobot to either pause or go fast pa

Host your own Mock Geisel Awards in 2020! The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award (yes, named for that Seuss!) is given each year to the "most distinguished American book for beginning readers". Who better to judge that award than your own beginning readers?! Have your readers preview one or all of this year's Geisel contenders and send in their judgment through Google Forms so they practice computer skills and typing! After reading a contender, students can find the form through a shared link and fill o

Have kindergarteners and first graders practice the difference between an author and illustrator by playing both roles in this writing center freebie! Students can complete both roles themselves, or switch with a partner to emphasize the difference between authors and illustrators.

Put your students' library catalog skills to the test! Students will solve puzzles using your school's library and online catalog to figure out 3 codes. They will use these codes to unlock a box and find the Stone Key from Johnathan Rand's Mayhem on Mackinac Island! Skills practiced include: Analyzing a catalog record for author's name, call number, and availabilityChecking your school library's online catalog for call numbers, book records, and sections of the libraryFinding call numbers in th

FREEBIE! Use these bookmarks to allow students to share star reviews and notes about books in the library. A great conversation starter, recommendation/book talk tool, and way to get students invested in using the library!

Use this four-lesson plan to introduce the concept of book talks for students in grades 4 through 7, culminating in a videotaped book talk to be shared with peers. Includes brainstorming sheet, script template, and checklist for grading.

Here it is: Unit 3- The Human Geography of the United States! This packet includes student activities, writing, and reading passages that all correspond to 4th Grade MC3 Unit 3. Each lesson comes with at least 5 pages of independent learning practice. These lessons are: 1. Questions Geographers Ask about Human Geography- An introduction to the themes of movement and human/environment interaction, including reading special purpose maps 2. Movement- Push and Pull Factors: A study of movement withi

This student packet contains 4-7 pages for each lesson on: 1. Where is the United States located?: A look at continents, North America, the equator, the prime meridian, and latitude and longitude 2. Physical Characteristics of the United States: mountains, deserts, rivers, lakes 3. Human Characteristics of the United States: positive and negative consequences of human characteristics, relation to natural characteristics, cities, and highways 4. Using Special Purpose Maps to Learn about the Unit

This complete independent work packet was written as a companion piece for the 4th Grade MC3 Unit 1: Foundations of Social Studies, but it gives a thorough introduction or review of each of the four social studies disciplines that can be adapted to any classroom! Included are reviews, reading passages, comprehensive thinking skills, worksheets, and vocabulary pages on the following subjects: -History: Using primary and secondary sources to decipher what, who, when, why, and how something happ