Ms. Differentiation

Do you need a new and exciting way to teach comparing fractions to your students? Well, the Fractions Clothesline is the way to go! It gets the students actively involved in comparing, ordering, and analyzing fractions. This activity can be used as early as 2nd grade!

This is a great activity to do after you have introduced China to your class. It contains a pre-assessment as well as a cool group activity that will give students a different method of showing what they know. The lesson also includes extension ideas for gifted/high ability students. There is one activity sheet that goes with it, and it is included.

This menu is designed to provide anchor activities following a class project on Life Cycles. One of the easiest class projects to conduct is one on the life cycle of a beetle. You can buy about 100 mealworms from your local pet store for under $2.00. They feed on oatmeal. The students can watch them go through the same stages that a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly. This menu is set up by Bloom's Taxonomy. In each activity box, you will see one of the following letters: E (Ev