Real World Classroom

A complete unit appropriate for students 3rd -5th grade. Includes three experiments, vocabulary work, links to engage videos, a synthesis project, rubric, quiz, readings, and teacher instructions. In this unit students will learn about force, understanding pushes, pulls, gravity, and friction. Students will get the chance to do three experiments and learn about the scientific method. As well students will get practice using readings to get information. This unit takes about 3 weeks to compl

I love teaching using short stories for literary analysis, because it takes less class time and they often have far more opportunities for analysis. This tool helps guide students from the obvious to the hidden. All the short stories are avaible for free on Common Lit. In this activity, students will start with comprehension, listing and labelling the events, move to figurative language and visualization, and finally discovering the theme through character response to challenges. There is a teac

Have you ever had a research project you wish you had never started? Getting students to stay focused and find and store information is difficult! This packet contains activities that walk students through a brainstorming process, create a driving question and research questions, evaluate sites, and take and store information. This represents many years of practice and includes question starters, Depth and Complexity ideas, and tools for website evaluation. This is just the research guide. I

I love teaching using short stories for literary analysis, because it takes less class time and they often have far more opportunities for analysis. This tool helps guide students from the obvious to the hidden. All the short stories are avaible for free on Common Lit. In this activity, students will start with comprehension, listing and labelling the events, move to figurative language and visualization, and finally more to expressing their own opinions. There is a teacher's guide attached

This is a great project for students to work on individually or as a group. Students choose a drug, research, and then create a product to display their learning. Rubric for grading.