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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

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.

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

Math teachers in North Carolina of grades 5-8 are required to teach their students how to express their answers in open- or gridded responses boxes for their End-of-Grade tests. This activity helps students to not only practice their skills at dividing by one-digit numbers but to also practice how to enter answers in the gridded-response boxes. Can be used for any other state, too, but is geared toward North Carolina. Enjoy!

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

If you're tired of using the same old project ideas year after year, this project uses materials that most students have around the house and is colorful and different. This project also allows students to choose a state in the United States to delve more deeply into through research. Students will be creating a cube (a box) of a state of their choice, or the teacher might assign the states to the students to prevent students from doing the same states. The teacher can decide to allow students t

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

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