Neat Sheets

Ever get tired of running records? This custom Google Sheet will make data entry exciting! The Sheet is designed to track running records for one teacher up to an entire elementary school - and it's easy to use! *Note: The independent reading levels are the work of the Teacher's College Reading & Writing Project, and can be found for free here. This Sheet is a tool that enables you to track your students' independent reading levels more efficiently. Summary of this sheet’s [pretty neat] features

Ever get tired of tracking running records? This custom Google Sheet is designed to track running records for an entire elementary school - and it's easy to use! Summary of this sheet’s [pretty neat] features:One tab for each grade level. Up to 200 students can be entered per grade level.Each year's students stay together on the same tab from K-5 so teachers can easily see their progress from year to year.Running records can be entered three times per school year for each grade level.When data i

OverviewStudents will understand how to read a population pyramid by creating one! This activity includes two templates to help your students create their own population pyramids, as well as population data for four countries from the U.S. Census Bureau's International Database. The activity includes blank cards if you or your students would like to create additional or specific population pyramids. Instructions are included to help navigate the U.S. Census Bureau's website in order to obtain th

Challenge your students to create an object out of building blocks that will slide down a zip line! This is a great STEM challenge for intermediate/middle-level students to begin thinking about the engineering process, and to create scale drawings of their creations. I have used this challenge with my 6th grade engineering students, and it was one of their favorite challenges we completed during the quarter. The activity includes: a lesson plan with a list of possible objectives, required mate

This argumentative writing activity (CER = Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) is centered on an interesting question: Why is Bill Gates so interested in toilets?The (shortened) backstory is that 2.6 billion people in the world don't have sanitary toilets, which leads to contamination, illness, and malnutrition. Bill Gates launched a challenge to reinvent the toilet for cities and villages that don't have modern plumbing systems. Links to several videos are included to share with your students. Click

This study set coordinates 3 resources/tools to help your students learn the countries of the world (see my note below):1. Quizlet Study Sets I created a study set for each continent. If you're not familiar with Quizlet, it is a great website that allows you or your students to create digital notecards. Quizlet uses the notecards to generate games/activities to give your students practice. I highly recommend playing Quizlet Live with your classes. Anyway, the images in these study sets come f

OverviewStudents will understand how distortion affects maps by watching two videos, then cutting out four map projections and trying to fold them into a globe. The map projections with the least distortion will have the smallest gaps when folded into a sphere, while map projections with a lot of distortion will have large gaps. Students conclude the activity by responding to a few questions. ActivityStudents will watch two videos explaining the basic problem with maps. The instruction page incl