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

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

This Power Point presentation explains Differentiated Instruction by using an analogy comparing what a teacher does to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of the students in the classroom to what a gardener does tending his crops in a garden. The presentation discusses how both the teacher and the gardener modifies the content, the process, and the product to attend to student and crop differences to help all grow, succeed, and flourish. The power point provides strategies for modifyin

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.

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

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

Use this powerpoint to teach students how to compare fractions with like denominators. This powerpoint begins with a few slides to be used as an attention getter as well as to explain when comparing fractions, the wholes need to be the same size. The powerpoint then moves to how to the concrete by showing how to compare fractions visually by drawing models and partitioning the whole into the same size parts. Then it moves to the abstract by generalizing a rule to be used when comparing any fr

By the end of this lesson plan the students should be able to isolate and pronounce the initial and middle /a/ phoneme in spoken words and pictures, segment the sounds in words and pictures in order to find the /a/ phoneme, and identify the /a/ sound through dictation and hand signals in spoken words and pictures. This lesson plan includes objectives, essential questions, standards, evaluation methods, materials needed, and the procedural steps for the attention getter, summary directive, group

Use this powerpoint to teach prefixes in a fun, creative, and engaging way. This power explains what a prefix is, what a root word is, asks students to find the root words in words with prefixes, and explains the common prefixes of -pre, -un, -re, -mis, and -im. This powerpoint uses words with the prefixes of -pre, -un, -re, -mis, and -im in sentences and asks the students to define the new word based on the root word and their knowledge of what the prefix means. This powerpoint has animation

Use this Power Point to teach how to find the value of pennies, nickels, and dimes by using a hundreds chart. This Power Point has animations that will help visual learns gain a conceptual understanding of the value of pennies, nickels, and dimes and give them a strategy that they can use to count change.

The Abraham Lincoln powerpoint is designed to be used as part of the 9th lesson in the American Symbols Unit. This powerpoint describes who Abraham Lincoln is, his background, his contributions during his presidency, interesting facts about him, and how the Lincoln Memorial and the penny honor him. This powerpoint is a great visual aide as you study Abraham Lincoln because of the many pictures.

The Great Seal Bundle is designed to be used as part of the American Symbols Unit. In this lesson, the students will learn all about the Coat of Arms of the Unites States. At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to identify elements of the American patriotic symbols in the Great Seal of the United States, identify where the number 13 shows up on the Great Seal, and articulate how the design of the Great Seal represents the unity of the United States. This Bundle includes the les