Miz Lemonade

This is a beginners unit that introduces elementary students to chemistry basics. It covers atoms, elements, molecules, the periodic table, and Mendeleev. This unit uses backwards learning in that the students do the fun activities and then use critical thinking skills to relate their learning back to chemistry fundamentals. I used this unit with my fourth and fifth grade Gifted and Talented students and they loved it. Their learning was much deeper due to the activities which include block

An activity to teach how to identify a primary source or a secondary source and the difference between them. Includes 24 source cards such as journal entry, pottery, marriage license, and movies. Suggested ways to sort cards - written, audio, video, artifact or object or "more than one". Suggested topics for discussions, two vocabulary cards and a handout with guiding questions.

This unit allows students to study animal characteristics and habitats but have a little fun at the end by creating their own imaginary animal! This unit includes 5 lessons that take 5-8 days to complete. Students will study animal characteristics and habitats by playing an original matching game with 36 color pieces, making a clay animal and habitat box, and completing a language arts (noun, verb, adjective), science, and math worksheet. Each worksheet comes in three versions for low, middle

This packet includes 5 lesson plans about quilts. Lessons cover The Quilt, The Quilt Story, The Patchwork Quilt, and Tar Beach. Six worksheets cover writing and drawing reflections, designing and coloring a quilt square, sewing with plastic canvas, making and writing about a memory bracelet, and exploring different types of fabric and patterns. In addition, lesson introductions for the students can be found on Youtube's Miz Lemonade Channel. Packet includes 3 poster pages - math patterning ex

Blueberries for Sal and Snow Bear are made for compare and contrast activities. In both books the characters are lost and in danger. One takes place in the hot summer. The other takes place in the cold artic. These activities cover literacy, math, and centers. Packet Includes: Addition and subtraction pages that use play-doh “blueberries” to complete A number sort using pictures from the books A set of sorting cards that can be used to sort: fruits, home items, and animals A cut and glue pi

This unit is based on two books - The Flying Dragon Room by Audrey Wood and The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer. It contains, vocabulary cards, a venn diagram with cards, color sorting cards and mats, writing activity, and a non-fiction, easy reader book. It covers herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, habitats (jungle, desert, tundra, wetland, ocean, forest), mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. The non-fiction book has additional facts in speech balloons from the animals. Miz Lemonade Dragons and

This is a Power Point that I used at the Arkansas Gifted and Talented Conference. It gives the ten creative strengths that I look for when teaching K-2 enrichment and an idea lesson to go with each one. It also lists the common core standards for each lesson.

A Power Point presentation given at the Arkansas Gifted and Talented Educators Conference. Up to date research on play and creativity as well as many lesson ideas with creative objectives, social objectives, and content objectives. All lessons are based on books and creative play.

Describes how to plan enrichment lessons for K-2 that encourage creativity. Includes the first lesson on "originality"

Power Point from AGATE 2015. Book and lesson ideas.