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DESCRIPTION Here is a colorful and informative graphic organizer for the 4 layers of a rainforest. For each of the four layers (Forest Floor, Understory, Canopy, and Emergent Layer) there is a vegetation section telling what grows in the layer, an animal section telling what inhabits in the layer, and a general description of the layer. Create this flipbook all in one day, or complete it over a span of days or weeks. For my unit with my own kids, we did a week on rainforest animals, a week on ra

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to introduce fractions to an elementary class. It includes 10 lessons, hands-on activities, interactive worksheets, warm-ups, review, a unit test, a cover page, and answer keys. The lessons increase in difficulty, starting with only 1/2’s and 1/3’s, and working up to 1/12’s. Kids will learn to write fractions, color shapes to match written fractions, and become familiar with equivalent fractions through several different hands-on activities. The activities are

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to teach how to tell time on an analog clock to an elementary class. It includes 12 lessons, hands-on activities, interactive worksheets, warm-ups, review, a unit test, a cover page, and answer keys. The lessons increase in difficulty, starting with whole hours, then 5-minute increments, half hours, quarter hours, and finally 1-minute increments. Students review counting by 5’s to learn how to tell time for 5-minute increments and then apply a variation of thi

DESCRIPTION Here is a fact-filled and fun graphic organizer/flipbook to learn the major differences between reptiles and amphibians. Easily compare the skin, eggs, respiration, and babies of reptiles and amphibians with side by side facts and pictures. It is easy to make and a great tool to use for studying about these animals. My own kids loved this hands-on activity and your student’s are sure to love it too! MATERIALS NEEDED: Scissors, stapler, crayons/markers/colored pencils, glue (optional)

DESCRIPTION Here is a fact-filled and fun graphic organizer/flipbook to learn about the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Compare and contrast the North and South Poles easily with this engaging activity! Students will learn about the weather, landscape, geography, animals, people, and seasons of each of these frozen places. You will even learn some history! Did you know that Antarctica has the most volcanoes out of any place on Earth? Did you know that the Arctic has 4 million inhabitants? Your stu

DESCRIPTION Create this fun, hands-on, and informative flipbook to teach about hibernation! Students will learn how hibernation is different from regular sleep and how animals prepare for it. Students will learn specific hibernation facts about each of the 7 animals pictured in the activity (bat, frog, bear, chipmunk, poorwill, snake, bear, and groundhog). Did you know that a groundhog’s teeth will stop growing while they hibernate? Or that some bats will double their weight in order to get read

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to teach how to count money (US currency) to an elementary class. It includes 11 lessons, hands-on activities, interactive worksheets, warm-ups, review, a unit test, a cover page, and answer keys. The lessons increase in difficulty, starting with working only with pennies and nickels, then adding in dimes, quarters, and dollars. Students review counting by 5’s and 10’s to learn to count nickels and dimes. There is practice with grouping nickels into pairs and

DESCRIPTION Here is a review and assessment for a unit on “Telling Time”. The review and assessments both cover full hours, half hours, quarter hours, 5 minute increments, and 1 minute increments. For the review, kids will be asked to match an analog clock to a digital time, write in the times of analog clocks, and draw in the hour and minute hands to match the digital times shown. They will also be asked questions about the meaning of AM and PM, how many minutes are in an hour, and how many hou

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to teach 2D & 3D shapes to an elementary class. It includes 12 lessons, many hands-on activities, review, a unit test, reference sheets, a cover page, and answer keys. Topics taught with the 2D shapes include naming the shapes (circle, oval, semicircle, triangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, rectangle, square, rhombus/diamond, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, and decagon), recognizing the number of sides, types of angles in the 2D s

Here is a bundle perfect for any unit on reptiles and amphibians! This bundle includes 4 hands-on activities. There are 2 life cycle activities -- a Sea Turtle Life Cycle Accordion Book and a Frog Life Cycle Accordion Book. Both of these have informative blurbs about each stage of life of these well-known creatures. There is also a graphic organizer which does a great job identifying the similarities and differences of reptiles and amphibians. This organizer would work for any age from Pre-K all

DESCRIPTION Here is a fun and informative graphic organizer to teach about 10 different types of fossils and what they have taught us about the world we live in! Each fossil has an educational blurb included with its picture. For example, kids will learn that because of coral fossils found on mountaintops, we know at one time in Earth’s history there used to be oceans where mountains now exist. Or that the tropical flower fossils found in very cold regions today allow us to know that the Earth’s

DESCRIPTION Create this flipbook as a fun way to teach the history behind this incredible US National Memorial! Kids will learn about the 4 Key Chapters of United States History that each president on Mount Rushmore represents and consequently the reason each president was chosen. There are also fun facts about the making of Mount Rushmore. Did you know that a full upper body was planned for each president, but due to lack of funding the end result was only there faces? Did you know that the nos

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to introduce and teach addition and subtraction equations and word problems to your elementary class. Students will be introduced to solving for a missing number in equations by coloring groups of items two different colors. For example, in Lesson 1 kids are given a nest with 6 blue or red eggs. Students are told there is 1 blue egg and must figure out the number of red eggs in the nest. After they color 1 egg blue, it is easy to color and count that there are

DESCRIPTION Here is a fact-filled and fun graphic organizer/flipbook to learn the wide variety of differences in birds relating to flight, migration, size, diet, color, habitat, and dependency of their babies. Each trait category is broken into opposites such as “big” vs. “small” for size, “hot” vs. “cold” for habitat, and “precocial” vs. “altricial” for their chicks’ dependency, etc. Each opposite category then has a bird example with an informational blurb. My own kids loved this hands-on acti