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.

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.

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 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 activity is put together is such a way that it could be 3 in 1. Each TEKS is grouped and can be used separately for a mini review or all the cards in one large review. This card sort set reviews all of the 5th grade TEKS 5.10 ABC. 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 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 5th grade TEKS 5.11. 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 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 5th grade TEKS 5.13 AB. 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 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 5th grade TEKS 5.12 ABC. 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 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 5th grade TEKS 5.9. 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. There are 30 cards in the set and 10 terms that you match to a description and a picture.

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.

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 5th grade TEKS 5.7 AB. 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.