Rack Your Brain

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Scenario: “You and your friends are lost. What started out as a short hike in the forest has turned into a nightmare. Darkness has descended and a snowstorm is stirring. The temperature has dwindled to dangerous degrees. No one was prepared for such conditions as these. Luckily, you found shelter in an old cabin where you stay the night. However, the days pass and the storm rages on. With no snow equipment or warm clo

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms! Students will be working together to solve a mystery! Scenario: “You and a group of friends have been invited to attend a masquerade party to celebrate Mardi Gras. Upon arrival, you see people wearing colored masks to participate in the festivities. Barely recognizable, you try to find some others you may know. Throughout the evening, you socialize, play some games, make new friends, and eat a delicious dinner. However

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Scenario: “In 1587, colonist John White landed in Roanoke and was named governor of the settlement. Shortly after, he left the New World and traveled back to England to retrieve more supplies. However, due to the Anglo-Spanish War, Governor White and his crew were delayed in returning to Roanoke until 1590. You are a passenger aboard Hopewell, one of the two ships returning with supplies. Upon arrival, you find the se

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Scenario: “On the night of April 14, 1912, as the SS Californian was approaching a large ice field, Captain Stanley Lord decided to stop the ship and wait out the night. Wireless operator, Cyril Evans, tapped a message warning other nearby ships about the dangerous icebergs. This message was received by the RMS Titanic wireless operator Jack Phillips, but he was busy clearing a backlog of messages. Ten minutes later,

Engage your students with this editable, digital breakout using Google Forms!  Scenario: "It is officially Spring Break! You and your friends are walking home from school when a gust of wind whistles by. It lifts all the flowers from a Magnolia tree, blowing them into the air leaving the rest of the tree bare. A beautiful display of pink flowers float all around expected to fall and blanket the soft ground. However, the flowers don’t descend, but seem to flutter in another direction. Intrigued b

This is a fun game to see how much your students know about these two new saints: Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis. There are 49 prompts. (100 slides altogether) You can use this resource however you want, but in my classroom I put students into groups of 4. Each group comes up with the team name. Going around to each group in order, read one prompt to a group. They can discuss for 20 seconds. If they get it correct, they get a point. They have the possibility of getting a 2nd point if the

This is a research informational writing project to go along with Benchmark Advance Unit 6: Up Against the Wild. The slides are editable. This resource includes: -Google Slides that guides the students through the research and writing process. -12 news articles about survival -6 informational articles about survival Post the slides on Google Classroom for each student to receive their own copy. The students type their answers/notes into the slides. The structure of this informational writing pro

Steps to Canonized Sainthood This resource is a Google Slides describing the steps that lead to a canonization. You will receive an editable copy of these slides.

This resource is a 58 page Google Slides. Only 51 of the rules are included here. The resource is editable if you would like to add or delete any. I have categorized the rules into categories: 1) General Etiquette and Advice 2) Hygiene Etiquette 3) Social Etiquette 4) Dining Etiquette

This is a choice board to go along with Benchmark Advance Unit 3: The U.S. Constitution: Then and Now. Post it on Google Classroom for each student to receive their own copy. The students type their answers into the slides they choose to complete. I use this during my independent reading groups/centers. Students pick one activity to complete for the 3 weeks it takes to cover the unit. This resource is editable.

This is a choice board to go along with Benchmark Advance Unit 5: Technology's Impact on Society. Post it on Google Classroom for each student to receive their own copy. The students type their answers into the slides. I use this during my independent reading groups/centers. There are 3 levels of questions based on depth of knowledge. Students are to answer these questions based on a NON-FICTION book they are reading independently. Level Orange - lowest depth of knowledge - recall and concepts.

This is a choice board to go along with Benchmark Advance Unit 2: Developing Characters' Relationships. Post it on Google Classroom for each student to receive their own copy. The students type their answers into the slides. I use this during my independent reading groups/centers. Students pick questions to answer as they are reading any fiction chapter book. This choice board can work with any fiction book. This resource is editable. IMPORTANT: To edit the questions on slide 4, click on slide

Challenge your students with this digital Super Bowl 2021 math! Compare the quarterbacks Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes and two wide receivers Mike Evans and Tyreek Hill. I allow my students to use a calculator on some of the problems. Convert decimals to percents. Round decimals to the nearest tenths and hundredths place. Determine win to loss ratio.