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This fifteen page Earth Science unit for third graders includes six, some of which are multi-day, comprehensive lessons that address the following standards as part of Ohio Revised Science Standards (2010): -- Earth's nonliving resources have specific properties -- Earth's resources can be used for energy -- Some of Earth's resources are limited. Students are encouraged to integrate all disciplines (reading, writing, math, science, social studies) as part of some STEM activities. Each lesson p

This packet of FOURTEEN lesson plans with step-by-step directions as well as a student activity packet is perfect for your third grade students! The social studies standards (Ohio) covered include: -- Communities may include diverse cultural groups. -- Evidence of human modification of the environment can be observed in the local community. --Daily life is influenced by the agricultural, industry, and natural resources in local communities. --Systems of transportation and communication move

This packet of seven lesson plans with step-by-step directions as well as a student activity packet is perfect for your third grade students! The social studies standards (Ohio) covered include: -- The structures of local communities may different from one community to another. -- Governments have the authority to make and enforce laws. --Individuals make the community a better place by solving problems in a way the promotes the common good. --Members of the local communities have social and

This packet of six lesson plans with step-by-step directions as well as a student activity packet is perfect for your third grade students! The social studies standards (Ohio) covered include: -- Primary sources, such as artifacts, maps, and photographs can be used to show changes over time. --Events in local history can be shown on timelines organized by years, decades, and centuries. -- Local communities change over time. In the student activity packet, students will complete graphic organ

This standards-based unit includes *7* multi-day lessons, including several STEM lessons, aligned to Ohio's third grade Academic Content Standards, Revised (2010) for Life Science. Standards addressed: -- Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environment. -- Individuals of the same kind differ in their traits and sometimes the differences give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing. -- Offspring resemble their paren

Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum! Teaching economics with this unit is so much fun! This k-3 economics unit uses common fairy tales to teach students such topics as: *good and services *producers and consumers *wants and needs *scarcity *opportunity costs *trade and entrepreneurship Includes are suggested texts in multiple versions and related activities. Your students will be expert economic advisors in no time with these books and activities!

This packet of 10 lessons comes complete with activities for goods and services, producers and consumers, opportunity costs, how incentives effect consumer choices, and using line graphs to display changes in data over time. Standards Include: -- identifying producers and consumers -- identifying a market as a place where buyers and sellers exchange goods and services -- making decisions -- weighing opportunity costs when making decisions -- creating budgets -- how positive and negative incenti

This packet of 5 activities will introduce your student to persuasive and friendly letter writing. It includes a list of mentor texts for persuasive writing and letter writing activities to meet ELA Common Core Standards. Teachers and students can work collaborativly to produce writings in the persuasive and friendly letter formats. This packet of activities works well with my other unit titled "Convince Me If You CAN-dy!" As always, I appreciate your feedback and any suggestions or comments

This physical science unit contains six comprehensive STEM lessons for matter and energy aligned to Ohio's Revised Science Standards (2010) grade 3, extension activities to consider for each lesson, and a post-assessment. Many of the activities are intended for multi-day instruction. The hands-on activities include experiments and demonstrations about: -- all objects are composed of matter -- matter and it's observable properties -- molecules are the tiniest form of matter -- how heating and c

This *FREE* Common-Core Aligned packet for writing a personal narrative comes loaded with mentor text suggestions, a pre-writing planning page for brainstorming, definition of personal narrative mini-poster, and two different final draft pages for writing about a time when you showed compassion to others or when others helped you.

Here are five activity cards, complete with shopping lists, for winter and snow themed STEM stations.

This life comprehensive life science unit covers all the Ohio Academic Content Standards 2012 for the state of Ohio Second Grade, as well as many others. The lessons include: -preassessment activity -living and non-living things sorts -how living things change their environments -science demonstrations and observation records -extinct animals reading passage with comprehension questions -comparing and contrasting animals of the past and present day animals -post assessment

This packet for personal narrative writing is Common Core aligned for 3rd grade, and comes with the following: --A list of appropriate Mentor Texts to demonstrate good writing -- Definition Mini-Poster for display --Feature List for this genre' --Questions to guide young writers -- Two different graphic organizers for generating ideas and brainstorming --Multiple options of writing paper for final drafts, including color and black & white

This multi-day unit focuses on the economics learning standards from Ohio Grade 2 Academic Content stadards, including: --Most people around the world work in jobs in which they produce specific goods and services. -- People earn money by working. --Resources can be used in various ways. --People use money to buy and sell goods and services. --Information displayed on bar graphs can be used to compare quantities. This packet includes 8 lessons, blackline masters, and a post-assessment. Lessons

This multi-day packets includes a list of mentor texts, six writing activities with a focus on opinion writing, a graphic organizer, and writing paper ("Handwriting Without Tears" format). Common Core Standards taught include, but are not limited to: W.3.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons. W.3.1a Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons. W.3.1b Provide reasons

This multi-day unit is designed to meet all your learning needs for Ohio Grade 2 Academic Learning Standards for Physical Science- forces & motions. Included in this 26-page unit is a pre-assessment, eleven hands-on lesson plans, and a post-assessment. Assessments include multiple-choice, short answer, and extended response questions.

This multi-day unit is tied to second grade social studies standards for Ohio, but could be used in other places as well. :)

This packet of 8 lessons, most of which are multi-day, is based on the Ohio New Learning Standards (2010) for 1st grade science, including physical, life, and earth & space sciences. Students will work collaboratively or independently on actives that incorporate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Each lesson contains state standards (Ohio, 2010), a list of materials needed, step-by-step directions, an assessment option, and a short bibliography related to the standard(s) being

This unit is tied to the Ohio Academic Content Standards, Revised 2012. The activities includes demonstrations and experiments to better understand how water, weather, and atmosphere are related to our world.

This game will give students a fun way to practice 3-digit subtraction with regrouing. There are twenty-four game cards, you could play two different ways-- either as a whole class "Scoot" game or an individually-paced "I-Spy" game.