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Integrating art with social studies is the objective of this project. Students will be using the material presented in social studies books about The Trail of Tears, illustrations of what the journey might have looked like, and maps to create a "triptych", or a three-paneled illustration of one concept. The middle panel is usually the largest and is surrounded by two smaller related illustrations, one on each side of the middle panel, although there are triptychs of equal-sized panels. The eq

Are you looking for a fun, creative, and informative way to assess your students at the end of an ecosystems unit? This is a great authentic assessment project to do just that. Students will be able to select an ecosystem and plants/animals about which they are interested in learning more, and they can also use their creative skills to draw the ecosystems, plants, and animals as well as abiotic factors of their chosen ecosystem. Materials - the teacher will need at least six 4" x 6" index c

Are you looking for a fun way to review weather concepts? Weather Jeopardy! is a PowerPoint created in the traditional Jeopardy! style. The material aligns with North Carolina Essential Standards but would certainly be useful for any science teacher in any state. I have used this product with my own 5th grade students in the past, and they love playing the game!

This project is designed for students to select a country of South America of their choosing and research various aspects of that country, such as the government, the people, the culture, etc. A page explaining basic references is also included along with a rubric for the project. This is a project about South America but could easily be modified to be about any country, any continent, or any state. It could also be adapted to be used for a science concept or a piece of literature.

This is a great activity to use when teaching about biomes, ecosystems, food chains/food webs, etc. It sounds difficult but isn't, and my 5th grade students enjoy doing this activity every year. This would be appropriate for students up to 7th or 8th grade, and it would also be a good activity for an older special needs student, depending upon his/her abilities. The activity includes directions, a sheet to print out for the students to draw their biotic and abiotic factors, sample illustration

This is a PowerPoint showing various animals utilizing their camouflage capabilities. There are two slides for each animal. The first slide asks the viewer to find the animal, and the second slide shows the animal as circled with its name.

This is an activity labsheet to use when teaching about the rock cycle. It uses crayons to model the three kinds of rocks along with the processes that create each kind of rock. The labsheet begins by describing weathering and erosion using the crayons. Next, it describes sediments layering on top of each other and being pressed together to form sedimentary rock, more pressure (creating heat) to form metamorphic rock, and finally melting the rock in an aluminum pie pan over a hot plate to form

This is an activity worksheet/labsheet to use when teaching science process skills. It is for use when teaching about "predicting". The teacher passes out a small cup of M & Ms. The instructions are on the labsheet. The student may eat the M & Ms after completing the activity worksheet/labsheet. Of course, it is important that the teacher checks to determine if anyone in the class has a food allergy to chocolate or other ingredients in the candy. This activity could also be modified to use

If you've ever had to remind your students over and over again what the routines or procedures are for the morning, here's the answer! The Morning Routine Flow Map instructs students with words and pictures as to what to do in the morning before school begins. The Flow Map includes arrows for the flow map component and is a Word document so that adjusting it to suit your students' age/developmental levels and your procedures can be easily done. I print out the sheets, glue them to sheets of

If you're looking for a way to celebrate the 100th day of school and you teach older children, here is a math Tic Tac Toe project that is customizable and geared toward 4th-7th graders. Just about all components are included in the project, from measurement to numbers and operations to probability to time. A grading sheet is included. One note - there is an activity in the Tic Tac Toe that mentions for the student to measure his/her own steps and determine how many steps it is to places of in

To evaluate if your students understand the theme of "Movement" from the Five Themes of Geography, this task taps into your students' creative side. A product is created, and the students draw illustrations of either transportation or communication in the US from before 1800 to today and the future. The future, of course, is speculative, but again taps into students' creativity. A rubric is included as well. This file is in Microsoft Word 2010 so that teachers can modify it in any way they wish

Are your students having difficulties with remembering what a "perpendicular line" is or what "regular" means as it applies to a geometric figure? This picture book project asks students to find examples of geometry in everyday life, thus helping them to make the connection between geometric concepts in the classroom and geometric concepts in the real world. Students may use the Internet, magazines, books, or their own drawings to create the book. Books can be printed out with clip art picture

Kids enjoy learning about stars and constellations; who doesn't like looking up into the night sky and gazing at the wonders of the heavens? This task allows students to choose a constellation and learn more about it. There are over 70 constellations from which to choose, so there shouldn't be too many tasks that are similar. The task includes an explanation sheet and a rubric with which to grade the task. I am posting it as a Word document so it can be modified to suit your own classroom's ne

This bookmark can be used to help students remember certain strategies become more successful in math. For those of you who utilize the Response to Intervention program, this bookmark can be used for the "math reasoning" intervention as a learning strategy. I have printed out a bookmark for every one of my students so they can refer to it in class or at home. It can be printed out on white cardstock and cut apart for student use. Only one side of the card prints at a time, but the card can be

You're getting ready for the 5th Grade Science EOG and you know you need to review for it, but the students are just so burned out. (And to tell the truth, you're a little burned out as well) Instead of more drill and kill worksheets, try a fun review that takes place outside and also reviews the students on forces and motion concepts using common objects. This is a two-part review. The first part involves students running around a track of a pre-determined distance. They are able to calculate t

This is an activity worksheet/labsheet to use when teaching science process skills. It is for use when teaching about "observation". The teacher passes out an Oreo cookie or something similar to each student. The instructions are on the labsheet, but the teacher should emphasize that observations must be able to be proven, not opinions. The student may eat the cookie after completing the activity worksheet/labsheet. Of course, it is important that the teacher checks to determine if anyone in

My students had a bit of difficulty visualizing the biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem; any ecosystem, really. They knew what "living" factors were, but the "non-living" factors stumped them. I created this task for them to do in class to help further clarify the difference between the two. It is a fun way to use formative assessment to determine if your students "get" the concept or not.

Kids love to learn about animals, and this project allows them to select an animal about which they've always wanted to learn. Children will be creating their own book about an animal of their choice. Instructions are provided for creating the book along with a research sheet children can use to write down their notes and references. Teachers can choose to have their students create the book entirely at school or allow them to make it at home, so the time required to create the project can v

Learning to multiply by two- and three-digit numbers can be difficult and rather boring for students. Pick Five! is a game involving five index cards, a place to show multiplication steps, and it has that certain element of chance which makes multiplication a bit more fun! Students will play the game in pairs. Each pair will receive five index cards on which they will write five random digits from 1 to 9. (I made the cards for my students in advance of playing the game so that they could ac

This is a base-ten hands-on activity that correlates with Common Core math standards. Students will complete the activity in cooperative groups. Each student will be given a bag of items. The items can be cotton balls, toothpicks, clothespins, math manipulatives of any kinds, etc., and the bags will have varying amounts in them. Students will count the items, records the amount on their sheet, and draw the amount using base-ten representations. Good luck!