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This is a 10-lesson, 82-page Grade 3 Life Science Unit on Plant and Animal Adaptations published by Quality Curriculum and is based on the NYC Scope and Sequence, including the topic’s essential question, Key Ideas, New York State Performance Indicators, CCSS Connections, science activities, graphic organizers, information sheets, worksheets, answer keys and online resources. The document was uploaded as a zip file.

This unit, "Solving Real-World Problems Through Technology and Teamwork," equips students in grades 3–8 with essential 21st-century skills—collaboration, problem-solving, critical thinking, and digital literacy—while integrating technology, SEL, and digital citizenship across ELA, Social Studies, and Science standards. Designed for both high-tech and low-tech classrooms, the resource includes project-based lessons, differentiated supports, offline handouts, and adaptation notes for various gra

This is a 38-page Grade 3 Physical Science Unit on Matter published by Quality Curriculum and is based on the NYC Scope and Sequence. It addresses the topic’s essential question, its key idea, NGSS Cross-Cutting Concepts, and CCSS Connections via four recommended science videos, ten science activities, six graphic organizers, two assessments, two answer keys, two informational handouts and two lesson plans with introductions, guided and independent practice, and closure.

This convenient teacher resource consists of two multiple-choice and four short-response questions per each chapter of Eleanor Cameron’s account of the adventure experienced by David Topman and Charles Masterson. Every chapter includes an answer key and a list of six vocabulary words with pronunciations and relevant definitions as well.

This is a 50-page complete Grade 3 Physical Science Unit on Energy published by Quality Curriculum and is based on the NYC Scope and Sequence, including the topic’s essential question, MST Standards Key Ideas, NGSS Cross-Cutting Concepts, CCSS Connections, science activities, graphic organizers, a number of answer keys and seven lesson plans; each with an introduction, guided and independent practice, and closure.

This is a 68-page Grade 3 Physical Science Unit on Simple Machines published by Quality Curriculum and is based on the NYC Scope and Sequence, including the topic’s essential question, Key Idea, New York State Performance Indicators, CCSS Connections, science activities, graphic organizers, pre-test, post-test, worksheets, informational sheets, answer keys, online resources and four fully written lesson plans; each with an introduction, guided and independent practice, and closure. The document

Included in this 40-page publication from QualityCurriculum are activities and worksheets that encourage students to make careful observations to discern patterns and structure. Learners will be asked to identify the name of and describe three-dimensional shapes presented in a variety of ways (with different sizes and orientations) including cubes, prisms, spheres, cones, cylinders and pyramids. Some of the tasks will ask students to describe their physical world using geometric vocabulary and

This PDF resource from Quality Curriculum is designed to accompany our NYC Grade Three Science Unit. It is a 40-item Pretest and 40-item Post-test addressing all four topic areas as described in the New York City Department of Education Science Scope & Sequence (matter, energy, simple machines, and plant and animal adaptations) and includes the corresponding answer keys.

This resource was custom designed in response to a request for Friday Assessments that would correspond with Joanne Warner’s 5thGradeWeeklyLanguageReview. Per specifications, these multiple choice (fill in the bubble) Friday Assessments include “none of the above,” “all of the above,” and “check all that apply” type test items as well items for which there is only one correct response. The Friday Assessments vary in length from 13 to 20 items each.

This is a 10-lesson (including investigations and activities), 43-page Grade 4 Physical Science Unit on Electricity and Magnetism published by Quality Curriculum and is based on the NYC Scope and Sequence, including the topic’s essential question, Key Ideas, New York State Performance Indicators, CCSS Connections, science activities, graphic organizers, information sheets, worksheets, answer keys and online resources. The document was uploaded as a zip file.

This 36-page publication from QualityCurriculum is designed to help young students become mathematically proficient at using charts, verbal descriptions, tables and graphs to represent important features and relationships related to graphical data, relying on the use of concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve problems. More specifically, students are asked to draw picture graphs and bar graphs with single-unit scale to represent data sets with up to four categories.

This 26-page American Education Reaches Out Time, Continuity, and Change Kindergarten Social Studies Unit contains six lessons addressing the AERO Common Core Plus standards, though the sixth lesson can be repeated an endless number of times by changing the literature used as the focus of the lesson each time. The lessons are: 1. What Is “The Past?”; 2. Recognizing the Past; 3. Can We Change “The Past?”; 4. Student Biographical Timeline; 5. Why Study the Past?; and 6. Identifying Stories About t

These clever 6" rulers were designed by a teacher whose students were initially experiencing difficulty conceptualizing halves and fourths when first learning to measure lengths using customary/household units. In place of plain hatch marks, each inch is divided into whole-, half-, and quarter-inch rectangles. To avoid the confusion a lot of elementary school students experience when using standard rulers, the beginning of the first inch coincides with the starting end of the ruler, and because

Included in this 42-page publication from QualityCurriculum are activities and worksheets that encourage students to make careful observations to discern patterns and structure. Learners will be asked to identify the name of and describe basic two-dimensional shapes presented in a variety of ways (different sizes and orientations) including squares, triangles, circles, rectangles, and hexagons. The last two pages offer a number of suggestions for child-centered activities where learners can be

This document from Quality Curriculum replaces one formerly available on a different website, and defines the meaning of proposition and support, followed by an illustrative example.

This short booklet is designed to help educators equip their learners with the ability to apply a range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. The strategies provided for include drawing on prior experience, interacting with other readers and writers, knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, word identification strategies, and understanding textual features. It consists of four graphic organizers pre-formatted for teacher convenience. These activity sheets

This middle-grade novel unit is intended to help instructors assess the comprehension of their learners and to encourage them to think deeply about Kaya of the Ocean by Gloria L. Huang. The questions focus on key themes such as identity, anxiety, family and cultural heritage, and is designed to support classroom discussion and reflection. The 25-page resource consists of a series of (14) questions aligned with the novel that help students engage actively with the text and deepen their underst

This supplemental Kindergarten resource from Quality Curriculum presents a lesson on asking and answering questions about a selection or text, and includes a lesson on question words along with a corresponding worksheet and answer key. It can be used as an introductory or practice lesson for Common Core State Standard RL.K.1.

This teacher resource for the book: Somebody on This Bus Is Going to Be Famous, by J.B. Cheaney, consists of multiple choice comprehension quizzes for each chapter and a final book quiz. The quizzes require students to recall details from the chapters and to also respond to higher-level/critical-thinking questions involving main idea, plot, drawing conclusions, inference, predicting, theme, and understanding vocabulary. The resource includes an Answer Key for each quiz.

This is the first lesson from the first unit of what will ultimately be a three-unit kindergarten teaching/teacher resource. The title of this first unit is "Trees Through the Seasons." The unit's objective is for students to observe, compare, and describe the physical properties of trees and their structures throughout the seasons as part of a process in which they develop a beginning awareness of: (1) trees in their environment, (2) the characteristics of trees, (3) the life cycle of trees,