Simplify Teaching for Learning

A tool to get students talking about important information that can help make it a great year!

Great tool for documenting, tracking, and teaching proper laboratory behavior.

Practice the use of and understanding of vocabulary using this crossword puzzle. Words included are: advantageous variation, biosphere, community, disadvantageous variation, environment, human impact, natural disasters, natural selection, survival, and variation.

Teaching Cell Theory? This activity allows students to discuss and think critically as they match the scientists to thier contribution to cell theory. Once they have correctly matched the cards they will complete a timeline and answer some questions pertaining to cell theory.

This has been the easiest way for me to keep up with being sure all students receive the work they had missed when absent. Under the sign I have a file folder labeled for each class period. In the folder I place the work with the student's name on it after I have handed the work out to the class.

Welcome your students back to school with a fun ice breaker activity. You will receive a set of 6 questions to go with the 6 numbers on the dice patterns also provided. You will also get a documentation sheet students can fill out while they play and learn new things about their classmates!

Looking Back At My __th Grade Year Poster Print on 8.5 x 11 paper and have kids complete the sentence stems and make it bright and colorful!

In this activity students will differentiate between inherited and acquired traits using a T-chart. This activity can be used as an at home practice, a small group activity, a bell ringer activity, or a center activity in the classroom.

In this activity students will label and explain hoe electrical energy moves through a closed circuit. This can be used as an at home activity, small group activity, centers activity or a bell ringer activity.

In this activity students will complete a tree map deciphering advantages and disadvantages and examples of renewable and nonrenewable resources. This activity could be used as at home practice, centers, bell ringers, and small group work.

In this activity students will label the parts of a plant and also label the function of each structure. This activity can be used as an at home practice, in class small group activity, centers activity, or even a bell ringer.

In this activity students will separate pictures of conductors and insulators into a T-chart. Great for discussion in small groups, homework, review, or assessing student understanding.

In this activity students will match a vocabulary term to its definition and a picture example. There is a total of 15 cards or 5 sets of 3.

Get your students thinking and talking! Assign to pairs or groups of students to discuss and answer questions. Make each student or group one copy of the student questions for them to document their discussions. Mix groups and compare discussions and thoughts.

Get your students thinking and talking! Assign to pairs or groups of students to discuss and answer questions. Make each student or group one copy of the student questions for them to document their discussions. Mix groups and compare discussions and thoughts. Begin your unit or wrap it up....

Journaling for kids that includes activities on what the student is good at, what they could improve on, thinking about who can help them to be come better, being thankful and grateful, right brained/left brained, what makes them happy, how to be positive, friendship, setting goals, considering the people who are important in their life, listening to others, and teamwork. My school had morning time in homeroom where we do these types of activities periodically.

This printable mini-lesson has a wonderful range of activities for students. They will be reading, completing a flow chart based on the information read, and complete a writing activity. There is a regular activity and a modified activity that has specific information underlined to help students that need a little extra. This is a great set of activities to support reading and writing in the science classroom.

This activity has been created but not all activities have been tested in this format. I have used all of these activities in my classroom as I taught lessons but not in this exact format. Activities include: Measuring Mass Reading Temperature Force and Motion Chemical Change Surface Tension Comparing Gravity on Different Planets Density These activities could easily take more than one school day and therefore you may want to have specified groups complete specified activities then share in disc

Print them, laminate them, mix them up, and place them in a baggie! The original printed copy is the key. This card sort set reviews all of the 8th grade TEKS 13 A. Students can play a matching game by taking turns, use as an end of unit review, as a group activity in the classroom, or even a practice assignment at home.

Print the cards and diagram to label, label them all, place the labeling cards in a baggie, clip the baggie to the pyramid diagram. A key is provided at the end of the document! This card sort set reviews all of the 7th grade TEKS 7.12 A. Students work alone or in pairs or small groups, this activity can be used as an end of unit review, as a center activity, or even a practice assignment at home.