Magical Mindsets

Introduce testing for physical properties of matter in a fun and engaging way! Use the slides as a display and have students complete the tasks in their notebook OR share with students in your Learning Management System and have them fill in the slides. I recommend always having the first slide on the board so they can reference the photos, especially if they have not tried a candy before. Step One: Chose a mystery candy. Keep it a secret from your students! Step Two: Go through each property

This evidence and reasons sort is meant to go along with a read aloud of the book The Terrible Things by Eve Bunting. In our plans, we taught this in a historical fiction unit about World War 2 in which the students had to write a Literary Essay at the end of the unit. This could be used as an SEL lesson though along with a writing/reading lesson on claims, reasons, and evidence.

Trying to teach the components of opinion writing but want to lower the cognitive load of students trying to write their own sentences? Try launching an opinion unit with this sort. You could also use this in a science unit to introduce the components of CER, but might have to adjust between the language of "reasons" or big ideas and "reasoning" or thoughts about evidence in our own words. There is a bonus slide that students can then use to make their own claims about the best restaurant.

Use these three problems as an exit ticket or formative assessment or simply as an activity in centers or when you have an unexpected day of online learning or a substitute. Although these are 5th grade standards, this could be used for extension or intervention with the 4th or 6th grade. Note: Consider teaching students how to take a screen shot of their notebook OR an online modeling platform and how to insert it on a slide BEFORE using this assignment.

Do you use or want to use a House System and need a quick and easy way to sort your students into their Houses? This slide deck is for you! Be sure to put in present mode and have students chose a number from 1-20 (or from 21-40 if you have more students). Everything is linked to sort them for you. I recommend using all the numbers on the fist slide, then move onto the next. You can move things around as necessary...the links will remain with the button and if you move the buttons to a differen

Ever needed a quick activity to leave with a sub or did you suddenly have an online learning day you had not planned for? Here is a quick math activity for 5th or 6th graders.

Students will drag and drop both the labels and the description of each component of a simple plant system. Use this as a review of systems, a pre-assessment, or even a quick low maintenance activity for a substitute. Pro-tip: Be sure you students know how to use the "crosshairs" to drag and drop a text box.

Need a quick, real world problem to get your students applying multiplying fractions and whole numbers? This activity is for you! Use this to practice application of the skill, review for an assessment, or extend for some students. As with any digital resource that can be loaded on Google Classroom, I find it is important to ask students to add a photo of their work for ease of feedback and grading, but do what works for you! Note: There is no answer key included as some of the questions are op

Having students reason about what type of operation is happening in a story context is often a great way to pull all the skills from a few units together, to review, or even launch some preparation for unpacking story problems.

Use this digital drag and drop volume sort when first making the transition from adding up volume to using the formulas. If students cannot see enough detail on photos to sort, demonstrate how to resize the picture before dragging and dropping. Options for extension: Can students sort the prisms without counting each cube? Or can they sort them when they realize one dimension only? For example, a cube with a width of square units CANNOT go into the Volume of 20 category because 20 isn't a multi

The beginning of school can be overwhelming for even the veteran teachers. If this is your first year or your 15th, use this checklist as a reminder for what routines and procedures to teach at the beginning of the year as well as a resource bank of ideas. Each year I update it based on what I felt worked or what I noticed was missing.