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This is a performance task aligned with the common core standards: 6.NS.5, 6.NS.6, 6.NS.7, 6.NS.8, 6.G3. It focuses on students plotting points, answering questions about quadrants, reflecting those points along the x and y axis, creating a polygon, naming the polygon, finding perimeter and area of their polygon and explaining the use of absolute value in calculating distances. There are 21 questions and an answer key included.

This is a Ratios and Proportions Booklet that I created as an independent study for a couple of my high kiddos. It could be used as an entire class to work through together or as a mini project. It covers the common core ratios/proportions standards for sixth grade. It also integrates other subjects in to help them research and use technology as well. It is great for higher level thinking! The students create a product, advertise it and use ratios and proportions to deal with packaging, pri

Alignment: 6th grade Common Core Standard, 6.RP.2, 6.RP.3d and 6.RP.3b, 6.RP.3. These are cards with funny story problems related to monsters! There are 9 task cards that can be used in many different ways. I list ideas such as Scoot, Centers/Stations, Move Around the World etc. This activity gets the kids up and moving, while making them think critically, use proportions and solve problems dealing mainly with measurement, but some unit rate as well! What a fun activity to compliment the

Scoot is a popular activity used to review, assess, and keep kids moving! This activity bundle includes 16 scoot task cards, directions for the game, an answer document for students to fill in the answers and graph, and it also includes an answer key. This bundle aligns to the sxith grade common core standards dealing with ratio tables (function tables), writing an equation, finding ordered pairs and graphing. (6.RP.30

This is a project that focusing on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions and mixed numbers. It also focuses on an understanding of area, surface area, area and perimeter concepts aligned with the common core. There a "I can" statements at the top that align with the common core for 6th grade math, as well as some repeats from common core 5th grade math. This unit has 12 story problems that focus on a blueprint of a house, where students must find the area of rectangles and

This study goes with the nonfiction book Lincoln Photobiography. I used this with an advanced 5th grade reading class, but could be used with 6-8 grade levels. There is a vocab quiz and a worksheet dealing with fact and opinion and cause and effect. There is a also a tic tac toe style project my kids had to complete instead of a final project. There are examples of some the styled fun type of reports that they could complete. I also included a sample rubric card for each that helped me to g

This is a collection of items I used when teaching the Elements of Fiction to fifth and sixth graders. This bundle includes mini quizzes, pretests, tests, powerpoint assignments and a rubric. I have included items for both fifth and sixth grade, but they can be edited or adapted to different books or levels.

A spiral review is a continuous review that spirals over the curriculum at hand. This particular review covers all standards in every domain of the sixth grade math common core curriculum. Each page has 10 problems that span over all domains. How I use this in my classroom: 1) Test Review: I use this as our standardized test prep. I time them and have them work quickly and efficiently through the problems and then we go over them for review. 2) I use this as scoot in my classroom where I c

This is an activity that aligns with the sixth grade common core standards dealing with proportions and ratios. These are story problems that relate to Alice and Wonderland and her eat me cakes and drink me drinks. All questions require proportions to show equivalant ratios and to find missing answers. Included with this activity, I have added a few extras I do to make it more fun!

This is a bundle of worksheets and activities that align with the common core standards for grade 5 Place Value. Each of these activities and worksheets have I can statements at the top based on the common core standards. Their are some activities using base ten blocks, as well as a game and worksheets.

This bundle consists of vocabulary words to study when reading the book and the page number they are found on, as well as vocabulary test over those words. There is also a comprehension book over the test included. This a bundle that focuses on deep thinking skills! It is not your average vocabulary test! I used this unit with a gifted sixth grade class, but it could be adapted.

These are sheets that are aligned with the sixth grade common core standards for math and are used to check proficiency. They are separated into how I split my math units, but are completely customizable. They include the common core math standards for 6th grade as well as some of the old Ohio math standards (for our crosswalk). These can be taken off if needed. Each standard is put into a kid friendly I can statement and has a place to mark the date the student has mastered it and a place to co

This is a Easter Expressions bundle that aligns with the 6th grade common core standards (6.EE.1, 6.EE.2, 6.EE.3, 6.EE.4, and 6.EE.6. These are task cards that can be used for stations, scoot or footloose. There are 12 task cards that have Easter rhyming story problems on them, there are 6 additional task cards that are computation, solving, or drill questions dealing with these standards. These are themed for Easter and are a review over those 4 standards in the algebra domain. An answer sh

This is a test I used with Gifted 5th graders who read the book the Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. It could be used for any level, but is challenging! It covers reading standards such as plot and setting as well as figurative language (which there is a ton of in the book!)

This is an field trip and activity I do, that has minimal cost, but great punch! It focuses on the sixth grade ratios and proportions strand of the common core, especially unit rates. I do this activity after introducing unit rates. The students then take a field trip to a local grocery store and do a small scavenger hunt with unit rates, find unit rates, and discuss unit rates. They also get to purchase items if they want, and the following day their is an activity that goes along with find

This 5th grade reading achievement unit includes a notes sheet for vocabulary words and techniques that can be found on the Achievement test. There are 3 vocab quizzes with examples that go with the vocabulary. These are aligned with the Ohio Standards as well as some of the Common Core 5th grade standards. There will also be a Powerpoint uploaded as well that goes over the vocabulary for this unit. It is a SEPARATE PURCHASE.

My checkpoints are mini formative assessments that allow you to see if the students understand a concept. There are I can statements at the top and also a place to mark whether the student is proficient or not. The I can statements and standards focus on common core standards as well as some other background standards not specifically listed. These are completely editable so you can make delete any additional items you do not wish to include. These checkpoints focus on the common core standar

This is a bundle of worksheets that align with the common core standards for 6th grade math rational numbers, integers, and comparing and ordering. Each worksheet has the I can statements at the top that shows the focus of the worksheet. These worksheets include rational numbers, integers, comparing and ordering on a number line, using inequalities with rational numbers and absolute value. There are even interactive games listed for rational numbers and integers.

This is a unit of homework/activities that deal with the common core standards on division for Grade 5. Each worksheet has the I can statements at the top (standards). There is an activity using the book Esio Trot as well as story problems for the division strands.

This is a test prep practice that I use with my 6th graders. It covers the common core standards for 6th grade math. Each Rock it Out Review has 20 boxes with different quick questions that align with the standards. I give my students 5 minutes to complete the 20 boxes to see how many they complete in that time and who has the most correct. (Similar to a timed test). It could also be used as quick seat work before a lesson. It is cumulative and each review is different. All 5 domains are co