Sumer Ramsey

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

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