Teaching Gracefully

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 graphic organizer to help the students to compare how humans/animals, insects and plants all perform the functions of structure/support, respiration, reproduction, and circulation, but they all perform them in different ways with different structures. This can be used as an assessment piece, or as a graphic organizer to help them to take notes during a lesson or while they are reading from a text.

After teaching the students about the forms that water can take, the students are given an opportunity to show what they learned by drawing a picture of how the water molecules look and act in a solid, liquid, and gas; as well as matching the correct form of water to a given description of the properties and characteristics.

Use this to see what your students remember about the different types of clouds. Students are to use word box below (with the name of different type of clouds) to complete each sentence with the correct type of cloud to match the description. Then they are to draw a picture of each type of cloud.

After teaching the difference between and the stages involved in complete and incomplete metamorphosis, make the content more meaningful by having the students research three insects to determine whether they go through a complete or incomplete metamorphosis. For each insect the student chooses to research, he or she will record the name of the insect, identify if it goes through complete or incomplete metamorphosis, explain how they know, and draw the life cycle. Have the students share their

Use this Book of Fractions to teach and help students practice fractional concepts. This Book of fractions enables students to locate and identify fractional parts, write and read fractions, construct fractions that represent a part of a whole shape, and create a part of a whole by coloring a shape that corresponds with a given fraction. The students will use markers, crayons, or colored pencils to color in equal parts on both the rectangles and the circles to represent halves, thirds, fourth

In the Physical Properties of Matter Exploration, the students will explore the properties of matter of color, mass, volume, temperature, texture, state of matter, shape, size, luster, magnetism, and conductivity through the use of the senses and hands on activities by circulating through 11 stations. This resource includes directions for teacher set up, the materials that are needed, the procedural steps for the exploration, and a student recording page to write about and document their experi

After teaching the process of photosynthesis, see what your students learned by having them explain and draw a picture of the process of photosynthesis. There are a list of words that the students are to use as many as they can in their explanation. This is a fun activity for the students to do, but you as the teacher can also very easily see any misconceptions or misunderstandings through this activity.