Sumer Ramsey

This viewing guide is designed for the students to answer questions as they watch Episode 1 of Liberty's Kids program, titled "The Boston Tea Party." Using this viewing guide, students will be asked to activate prior knowledge, fill in the blanks as they watch the video, and then later think about what they have learned or want to learn. The viewing guide is designed to be printed on one sheet, using the front and the back. Answer key is included. Episodes of Liberty's Kids can be found free

This viewing guide is designed for the students to answer questions as they watch Episode 2 of Liberty's Kids program, titled "The Intolerable Acts." Using this viewing guide, students will be asked to activate prior knowledge, fill in the blanks as they watch the video, and then later think about what they have learned or want to learn. The viewing guide is designed to be printed on one sheet, using the front and the back. Answer key is included. Episodes of Liberty's Kids can be found free o

This viewing guide is designed for the students to answer questions as they watch Episode 3 of Liberty's Kids program, titled "United We Stand" about the First Continental Congress. Using this viewing guide, students will be asked to activate prior knowledge, fill in the blanks as they watch the video, and then later think about what they have learned or want to learn. The viewing guide is designed to be printed on one sheet, using the front and the back. Answer key is included. Episodes of Lib

At my school, we spent a lot of time learning about the benefits of the seven transactional stategies. One of these strategies is using Prior Knowledge. Before reading out of the textbook, I would go through each lesson and pick out some main points on the topic covered. Then I would add a small phrase to one of the middle boxes of the Anticipation Guide, sometimes tweaking it a bit to make it untrue (change numbers, definitions, people, etc.). Then, before the students read the lesson, they

This is a fifteen question quiz over Adaptations. It covers behavioral and structural adaptations, as well as adaptations in different climates. In questions one through ten, students will decide if each example is a behavioral or structural adaptation. Questions eleven through fourteen are multiple choice, dealing with adaptations in very hot, very cold, or underwater conditions. Question fifteen is also multiple choice, but students must read a graph to answer the question. An answer key

Free for a limited time! This Moon Journal was written including a parent letter with information about Indiana fifth grade science standard 5.2.4, but it can be used anywhere with just a little tweaking. Please read the parent letter carefully. I wrote it specific to my classroom, but I have uploaded the Microsoft Word file so that it can be quickly changed to meet your needs. Every year I do a four week moon journal where each night the students record the time they searched, what directio

Free for a limited time! Whenever possible in science, I try to take abstract ideas and relate them to things that the students already have quite a bit of experience with. When studying body cells, along with their structure and organelles, I like to compare them to the blueprint of a school. This is a lesson plan that shows how a student can color a map or blueprint of their school to represent each of the major structures/organelles within a body cell. This plan gives a brief discription