Simple Touches

This can be used as a planning sheet for a personal timeline project, or as a graphic organizer for any timeline of events. Options with sequence reminders included as well.

This is a simple rubric to send home with criteria and examples for a solar system model. It is also used for grading the final product.

Use this as a guideline to send home with students to complete a personal timeline (recommended one week to complete project). Then, use it to compute and record score. My students always love this project! We set up the posters as a "gallery" and let the class admire everyone's work.

Goes with 4th grade Texas History Unit 3 Includes: -Choice Board -Research Questions -Grading Rubric

Students are guided through the Scientific Process with included steps to create paper and a wooden figure out of recycled materials. All you need for these two labs are: toilet paper water bottles strainers bowls wax paper sawdust liquid glue I've done this lab with Kindergarteners, but with simplified, oral questions. The questions on the lab sheets were designed for 3rd-5th grade.

I've had trouble finding materials where students must find the measure of an angle given a pictorial protractor when the rays don't match the guideline on the protractor. This activity helps students practice identifying the type of angle, and then calculating/drawing the angle based on the ray measurements. I hope you find it helpful!

This is a two day activity that guides students in setting up the basics of a business plan in a free enterprise system. On the second day, the teacher assigns each group a scenario based on their business that will affect the availability or demand for their good/service. Students then have to adjust their plan to accommodate the new information.

This unit is based on the 3rd grade TEKS for Science, SS, ELAR, Math, and Reading using a space theme. It includes an activity menu based on focus areas of student interest. The unit can last between one and five weeks, depending on your curriculum and pacing. It has 25 activity options and includes the full Solar System project rubric (also available separately). This also makes a great EOY review for 3rd or 4th grade.

This package includes a timeline template, questions, and event list for the following American heroes: Harriett Tubman Ruby Bridges Hector Garcia Carmen Lomas Garza Helen Keller Todd Beamer "The Four Chaplains" James Lovell Ellen Ochoa Danny Olivas Kadir Nelson Tomie dePaola Bill Martin Jr. Laura Ingalls Wilder

This is a rubric and directions for students to create a visual presentation based on research on a Native Texas Tribe. TEKS-aligned Goes with TRS 4th Grade Social Studies Unit 3 Includes: Rubric instructions for students questions to consider in project and paper TEKS: 4.1D, 4.9A, 4.10A, 4.14A, 4.21A, 4.21B, 4.22D, ELPS.c.1C, ELPS.c.5B

Length- inches, feet, yards and centimeters, meters Elapsed time- analog clocks Mass- grams and ounces Volume- metric and standard TEKS aligned: 4.8A and 4.8B This is a great hands-on, lab-based exploration of the customary and metric units for measurement. Materials needed for this activity: (basic school supplies) -balance/scale with gram weights and ounce weights or settings -inch and centimeter rulers, yardstick and meter stick

I've used this simple flow chart for the past few years to help teach 4th graders how to classify quadrilaterals. It works well, and they can eventually go through it without the visual.

This study guide was designed for test prep for CSCOPE SS Unit 7, though it covers a universal range of SS concepts for those teaching about communities in the past and present.

This a rubric to use for assigning and grading a report on influential African Americans.

This unit can be used for differentiation and GT enrichment. It includes an activity menu with 25 different options. There are five each for Reading, ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies. They are based around the Science Unit of Investigating the Natural World. The activities can be used to last between 1 week through 5 weeks, depending on your curriculum schedule. Most activities can be conducted with basic classroom supplies. Templates are included for Science investigations and book studi

Students will practice the basic concept of balancing a budget by rolling dice and either adding or subtracting a given amount of money from their balance. This is a great station activity.

This can be used as an assessment, or as a study guide for a unit assessment. It aligns with the TRS sample assessments for 3rd grade Social Studies.

This is a letter to send home to parents with the information about your Valentine's Day party. It includes a detachable response form. I suggest attaching a list of first names of students for the purpose of exchanging Valentines. (Please note: thumbnail formatting will correct when downloaded)

Graphic organizers with key questions about changes to the environment and how they affect the organisms that live there.

Invite your parents and students to participate in a cultural potluck! Includes information to send home and a section to reply with permission for participation. (Formatting in thumbnail will correct when downloaded.)