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Have students use this prompt to generate a brochure to advertise a tourist attraction for a planet or other celestial body. Some ideas are given and they will need to do some research or reading to learn about the atmosphere, weather patterns or climate of their chosen planet. I have seen lots of creative ideas over the years after giving this assignment! Check out the other Space materials in my TPT store if you need more resources.

A straightforward test you can use for the end of a unit on Space for Canadian outcomes for Grade 6. Comes as an editable word document. Goes well with after the Space Multimedia Research assignment or the Space Presentation that are also posted in my TPT store.

This editable word document offers a breakdown of outcomes for the Canadian Grade 6 Curriculum outcomes that you can use to put your students on the task of making an multimedia presentation. Student groups are divided into groups called Astronauts (Space Exploration), Astronomers (Positions of celestial bodies), and Astrologers (Constellations). This questions are open ended to guide them to essential learnings about Space. My students have always liked doing this project! As it makes them

This is the complete PowerPoint that I used to teach the unit "Space" with my grade 6 students. It contains information on everything from the solar system, constellations, modern and ancient beliefs, the moon, seasons, tides, space exploration, and much more! There are links and tons of resources embedded. Contains 97 slides in all!!! The thumbnails don't do it justice. Neither does the Preview! This was designed to work with Mouse Mischief for MS PowerPoint which is not longer available, as a

Celebreate 100th Day with these Hunger Game inspired activities that match with upper elementary curriculum and create a way to celebrate with a more mature flare. Requires a few materials that can be easily found in most schools! Have fun!

Have your students use this learning journey to map out their progress throughout the term and share their knowledge with their families on conference day/night. My students had lots of fun completing this. The map I used was relevant to their province, but you could certainly use the idea to add a page of your own! This is an editable word file, but a pdf version is also available for in my store.

Use this Interactive PowerPoint as a adaptable game for any topic of study. Divide you class in teams, teams select a groundhog when they answer correctly. If the groundhog doesn't see his shadow, points are awarded. If he does, the team earns 0pts for that turn. Can be adapted for younger participants, by changing point totals.

Student love the humorous captions in the Book of Awesome! Read some selections from the book aloud to your class and then spend some time developing their ability to "shadow write", that is, model the voice of Pasricha to create their own captions for things they think are awesome. We used this template to publish a finished version of our work and I gave each student a copy at the end of the year. It will help them borrow the creative voice of a engaging author to develop their own understandi

Use this Powerpoint to accompany Daniel's Story by Carol Matas. I usually do this story as a read aloud during our studies of the Holocaust and the students enjoy viewing the images I've collected that illustrate various aspects of the novel. The novel is broken into parts and so is the slideshow, so you and your class and follow along. Photos collected include the Hilter Youth, appropriate images from concentration camps (no nudity or extreme violence), passports, badges, and transports to hel

Designed to be used by student with the Mental Math Strategy and Student Quiz Powerpoint that is posted as a purchase only item

A complete, year long mental math program that makes integrating mental math into your daily routine for just 5 minutes or less each day easy. A complete list of all strategies can be found near the beginning and shows a broad range of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division mental math strategies along with computational estimation for each operation. You can proceed in order or choose a strategy to reinforce independantly. This powerpoint file contains nearly 400 slides that directl