Teaching Gracefully

If you are reading Mr. Popper's Penguins as a book study, use this powerpoint to teach your students vocabulary words that come from the book. There are 37 words that are probably unfamiliar to the students. This powerpoint introduces each word on a slide, gives the definition of the word, an example sentence that uses the word in correct context, and a picture that portrays the word for visual learners and to help the students remember the meaning of the word.

By the end of this lesson, the students should be able to associate the sound /ou/ with the ou and ow spelling patterns, identify the /ou/ sound and the ou and ow letter patterns in written and spoken words, segment sounds to spell words with the vowel diphthong /ou/ with the spellings ou and ow, and blend, read, sort, and build words with the vowel diphthong /ou/with the spellings ou and ow. This lesson plan includes objectives, essential questions, standards, evaluation methods, mater

The goal of the American Symbols Unit is that through this unit, the student will recognize and appreciate the common American symbols that represent or stand for the unique characteristics of freedom, unity, and Christian principles that make America special and contribute to the national identity, and will identify and value the traditional practices that honor and foster patriotism in the United States. This scope and sequence includes a unit goal, the big idea, standards, unit objectives, an

As you are teaching about the different types of clouds (Cirrus, Stratus, Cumulus, Cumulonimbus, Altostratus, Cirrocumulus, Nimbostratus) use this note page to help students be more engaged and interactive through the lesson by recording a picture, description of the attributes, and a forecast of the weather that each type of cloud will bring.

Use this to help students practice or as an assessment when teaching students about placing decimals on number lines, comparing decimals, and ordering decimals. Students are asked to complete the given number line with decimals, choose which decimal correctly identifies the given point on a number line, place specific decimals on a given number line, compare decimals and explain their reasoning, order decimals from least to greatest and greatest to least, and apply these concepts to solving rea

This powerpoint is an awesome visual aide and tool to use to make teaching about dialogue more fun and engaging. This powerpoint begins with a comic strip in order that you can introduce the concept of dialogue and what it means. The powerpoint then converts the dialogue in speech bubbles into proper english conventions of dialogue using correct quotation marks, commas, and punctuation. Then this example is used to teach the students the rules for using dialogue in their own writing. Finally

Use this powerpoint as an effective visual aide to teach the students to be able to describe, name, draw, and identify points, lines, rays and line segments. This powerpoint shows the lesson difference and the relationship between points, lines, rays, and line segments. This powerpoint gives an effective visual to explain the definitions, characteristics, and properties of points, lines, rays, and line segments as well as how to name each.

In this Living and Growing Together Unit, the student will use scientific skills and processes to recognize that the function of the characteristics of all living things are facilitated by the form and the working of the parts of well-designed animals and plants which have been created in a certain way to meet their needs in order to live and survive in a particular environment. This bundle includes the unit scope and sequence which outlines a unit goal, the big idea, standards, unit objectives,

In this unit, student will scientific skills and processes to recognize and appreciate the interconnected relationship between the many components of the weather system, which affect and cause the predictable behavior and the changes of weather patterns. This bundle includes the scope and sequence of the unit, 9 lesson plan, 2 powerpoint presentations, 2 exit slips/ticket out the doors, a unit test, and a couple of other activities.

By the end of this unit, the students will extend their conceptual understanding of fractions by arriving at the conclusion that fraction comparisons are valid only when the fractions refer to the same whole in the same units by comparing and ordering fractions with like as well as unlike numerators and denominators based on the magnitudes that they represent, in order to solve story problems involving fractions and creating written explanations to justify the answer, proven through visual model

Use this resource as a helpful tool when teaching students how to compare and order fractions with unlike denominators. This resource provides objectives as well as logical and sequential lesson steps for the mathematical procedure of how to compare and order fractions with unlike denominators by making equivalent fractions using least common multiples in language that you and your students can understand. This resource includes working through an example of each type of problem.

Use this worksheet as part of the Sound is Vibration Lesson. Students will explore what they see, hear, and feel from the sounds made from humming, animal sounds, rubber bands, and a drum. This exploration should lead them to the conclusion that movement or buzzing is involved in each. Sound is made by vibrations.

Use this powerpoint to teach students how to recognize and generate equivalent fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 by using grids and compare fractions with denominators 10 and 100. The powerpoint starts with having the students review how to compare fractions with unlike denominators by creating equivalent fractions with like denominators. Then it moves to an attention getter of having the students look at pictures that the students see different things while looking at the same picture.

The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics is designed to be used with the Honoring the Star Spangled Banner Music Center. In this center, the students will learn more about the American flag and the ways that we honor it by reflecting on the lyrics to the National Anthem. Use these lyrics to help the students find all of the words in the song that refer to the American Flag, identify the phrases that repeat, and notice the American Principles that are found in the lyrics.

At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to create an array to represent groups of objects, identify the rows and columns in the array, construct repeating addition and multiplication number sentences to represent arrays, use the multiplication strategies of repeated addition and arrays to model various situations, and solve multiplication number sentences by using multiplication strategies such as repeating addition and skip counting. This lesson plan includes objectives, essentia

This lesson plan is designed to be the introduction of the American Symbols Unit. The purpose of this lesson is to answer the question what are symbols? At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to identify symbols/logos that they see daily and understand what they represent, find symbols in the classroom, and define what a symbol is by recognizing that symbols are pictures/illustrations that we can see (concrete) that stand for or represent something that we cannot see (abstract id

After learning the characteristics that all living things are able to do in one way or another (movement, respiration, sensitivity, grow, respire, excrete, nutrition), the students are to use the MRS. GREN acronym criteria for classification, and observe the 5 objects to complete the table in order to identify whether each object is living or nonliving. The students are to put a checkmark in the space provided if the object does the activity and an “x” in the space provided if the object does no

The Old Glory: Honoring the Star Spangled Banner through Centers is designed to be used as part of the American Symbols Unit. After this lesson, the students should understand what it means to honor and respect the American flag and why it is important, identify and understand the many ways we honor and respect the flag, appreciate the importance of respecting the flag with proper etiquette and will understand the rules for how to respect the flag, correctly recite the pledge of allegiance, unde

By the end of this engaging Digestive System lesson plan, designed for third graders, the students will be able to correctly label the six parts of the digestive system, accurately explain the pathway and process of the digestive track, and express the importance of eating healthy food. This lesson plans contains objectives, essential questions, standards, evaluation methods, materials needed, and the procedures. The outline of the lesson plan is made up of an attention getter, summary directi

By the end of this lesson, the students should be able to label the charge of an object by looking at the protons and electrons of the object, identify how objects with the same and opposite charges will react, discover the affects of static electricity, and explain the how static electricity is formed through the movement of electrons. This lesson plan includes objectives, essential questions, standards, evaluation methods, materials needed, and the procedural steps for the attention getter, su