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

Enjoy having a lesson already tiered for all of the various stages of development in your classroom. Activities and worksheets included!! Everything you will need to provide a differentiated lesson!

Students will be able to choose from a variety activities that incorporate the various levels of Blooms as well as the Multiple Intelligences. This could be used as classwork, homework, or as an assessment.

Kids love the book, so why not give them fun activities to do that goes with the book and that meets their unique needs. This menu has nine different activities that are leveled. The entire class will be working on the same skills but on their level. What a great and easy way to differentiate!!

Here is your writing plan for descriptive writing all in one slideshow! Take your students through the writing process by modeling first and then providing a copy for each student to create his or her own descriptive writing. If you are using Google Classroom, open this lesson in Google Slides, share it to everyone in your class (you can select ANYONE WITH THE LINK), and add it as a class assignment. Be sure to select MAKE A COPY FOR EACH STUDENT. Enjoy!

Here is an interactive activity that can be used for whole group reading and/or independent work. The flyer can be used to teach text features and functional text. The students can be given a copy of the activity in which they can type their answers.

Are you trying to find ways to tie in social studies with reading? Here is a poem that you can use when teaching economics. It also has a follow-up activity that can be done whole group or given to students individually.