Targeted Learning

This lesson is set up to review the following standard: 6.NS Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions. This is part of a series of lessons reflecting areas where students and teachers should spend a large majority of their time in order to meet the expectations of the Standards. It may also be helpful as a review. The power point is helpful because it visually displaces the meta cognition behind the word problem and purposefully

Layers of the Earth || Notebook Dividers with Assessment This notebook organizer is designed to help students organize their notes and activities surrounding the layers of the earth. This activity is used organize the unit on the lithosphere. It should be printed on colored paper and glued on either side of one page in their notebook. The outer edge becomes a notebook “tab” to mark the starting point in their notebook of this unit. Want to create your own notebook dividers? I’ve included an edit

Using the Compare & Contrast strategy in this lesson plan allows students to see similarities and differences in rate problems which has been proven to be the single MOST effective way to raise achievement Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock (2001). This strategy evokes human’s nature ability to make comparisons. By implementing this strategy you lead students through the process by investigating each type of math problem separately identifying the similarities and differences in

Matter: Properties and Change || Melting or Dissolving Card Sort is a card sort game or formative probe to elicit student cognition and misconceptions surrounding the physical changes of matter, specifically between melting and dissolving. I use these cards in small group or for a quick opener to discuss and clarify the difference between these two physical changes. There are many ways that this game could be administered to students, here are a few ways I use the cards: 1)  Small group card