Use this lab to build a connecting terrarium and aquarium with your students using pop bottles. This reinforces measurement, metrics, ecology, abiotic and biotic factors, water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles, and more! Students will love to watch their biospheres throughout the year as they learn what is required to sustain life.
This is a research project that allows students to guide their own learning about ten types/forms of energy. It includes a rubric for their presentation and note template for students to complete throughout all presentations! This project is a student favorite and lasts about a week.
Use this resource to bring engineering to life as students sketch, plan, budget for, and build the perfect leprechaun trap! Be sure to ask students what they want to buy from your store, how much it costs, and which coins they will need to purchase those items. This project was a lot of fun for my class.
Use this presentation to review polygons: quadrilaterals, and triangles with individual students, parterns, small group, or your whole class. There are ten questions with answers and a bonus.
Here are some ideas and printouts for classroom rewards that don't cost you money! Simply print them as posters for students to point to, or smaller handouts for students to choose as part of your classroom management system.
Assessment of wave interaction, mechanical waves, and wave characteristics. Answers for matching: DHCFLAKJ
Answers for pictures: reflection, refraction, transverse wave
Create a timeline of the events leading up to the formation of the United States with your entire class, small groups, or individual projects. This timeline could also be used as an outline for higher education essays.
Use this resource to sketch the phases of the moon throughout the month. Then review with questions about shading, where the terms waxing, waning, gibbous, etc. come from.
Here are a few songs I came up with to help students remember land features, the 7 continents, and the 4 main oceans. I find that anytime I can add music to our curriculum, the students soak it up!
I use this during when my students are working on stories or journals to help them add depth to their characters. It is great for a realistic fiction unit!
Use this presentation to review angles with individual students, parterns, small group, or your whole class. There are ten questions with answers and a bonus.
Use this presentation to review standard and metric measurements with individual students, parterns, small group, or your whole class. There are ten questions with answers and a bonus.