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Editable "Starbucks Mode" Google slide, with moving Starbucks Cup 'sticker'. Great for independent work blocks!

Used as part of our Urbanization unit for Grade 6 Social Studies. After examining some of the causes & impacts of urbanization, students need to collaboratively design a sustainable city of the future. Students love this project as it has such real-world application! Completed across 3 weeks, this is best run in groups of four (although I have done a simplified version as an individual project in the past). "Your sustainable city must include plans to produce energy, provide inhabitants with

Looking for an assignment to work with a novel students are reading? Looking for an engaging way for students to dive into genre? What is it that makes your novel fit into a certain genre? This assignment will help students consider the literary elements in their novel that connect to that genre. They will create a fake Instagram account on a Google Slides Template that belongs to one of their characters, identifying 2 plot events, 2 settings, and 2 character traits that help make it clear to th

You are now an urban planner. Based on your knowledge of how cities have developed in the past and the present, how will you plan for the future? We used this assignment to wrap up our unit on urbanization. Can be completed individually or in partners (see Social Studies City of the Future Project (Urbanization) for group option). Can be used as a distance learning assignment, or in class. Students have to design a map of their city, write a paragraph explaining how their city with grow ( & s

Google Slides Worksheet encouraging students to reflect on their mental health. Print off for students to complete and colour by hand, or make a copy and have them complete on their computers. - How do they deal with having an 'empty cup'? - What they need to hear? - How you will know they need help? - What fills their cup? - What empties their cup?

Having issues with your students 'telling, not showing' in their writing? Are the struggling to set the scene and bring the reader into the moment? Use this graphic organizer to help students think a little deeper about a small moment in their story or writing. How can they add sensory details to help set the scene for the reader. Helps students elaborate on one moment or action in order to turn that moment into a full paragraph, by considering what they (or the character) will see, smell, feel,

Looking for a quick, fun activity for your students to think about word choice? Print or share these templates with your students. They pick an overused, boring word (e.g. nice, said, good, bad), and have to come up with synonyms that they could use instead. They then get to colour or decorate their page as they wish. I had each student take a different word, share their completed page with me, before compiling them all so we had a full word bank. Themes: Mario, Tetris, Pacman, Minecraft. Can b

Model developing a growth mindset by asking for student's to evaluate your teaching and instruction. Great for end of term or end of year in order to improve your practice and make changes moving forward! Editable Google Doc file, so you can insert your own name, or change your rating scale (currently set to 'Innovating', 'Accomplishing', 'Developing', & 'Beginning'. Asks for details on what they enjoyed, and what could be improved, in the areas of Instruction, Marking & Feedback, Content/Co

Working on direct and indirect characterization? Need an assignment to accompany their novel? Have your students create a fake instagram account using this Google Slides template for any character in their novel. Works for any novel or genre. Students have to identify quotes and find an image to demonstrate and explain: - 2 x direct characterization - 2 x indirect characterization A fun & creative assignment. Editable to adjust as needed.