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 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

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.

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

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

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.

When you begin teaching students animal classification, use this activities to help students start thinking about and analyzing the similarities and differences between animals. Pass out the 12 organism picture cards. Without any prior instruction, have the students place the organisms into different groups that make sense to them. After they have placed the organisms into groups, they will complete the classification reflection in which they will answer questions about how they sorted the or

Throughout the Living and Growing Together Unit, the student will choose a specific plant to research. This journal begins with a place to write the name and draw or find a picture of the plant that the student chose. After each lesson in which we discuss organisms need energy, water, stable internal conditions, a living space, organisms interact with each other, organisms have a particular life cycle, the student will research how each topic applies and relates specifically to the plant that h

Oh no! All of the candy corn have fallen apart! Can you help to put them back together? The Candy Corn Count and Match Up Game is a great way for students to practice matching the standard number (Arabic numerals) and the written number word to the correct amount of objects.

The Armadillo from Amarillo: Me on the Map Lesson Plan uses the story The Armadillo from Amarillo to help students identify their location in the world in relation to the rest of the world and observe the small to big sequence of placement of their home, city, state, country, world, planet, universe. It answers the essential question: where in the world are we? The lesson features an activity/visual that the students make to give them a perspective of the size of their home, city, state, country

These Band Aide cards have words on them. All of these words have the letters ou or ow in them. Some of these words are band aid words that have the /ou/ sound in them. However, some of the words do not follow our rule because they do not have the /ou/ sound in them. We will call these words the outlaws. Read the words to hear if they have the /ou/ sound in them or not. If a word does not have the /ou/ sound in it, we will put the outlaw word in jail. If the word is a band aid word having the

This resource was designed to be used as supplement material for the McGraw Hill Wonder's literacy curriculum Unit 4, Week 4 in order to practice and utilize the comprehension strategy of asking and answering questions, as well as the comprehension skill of identifying cause and effect relationships. This resource includes a blank/generic cause and effect graphic organizer. After reading the leveled reader "Stargazing" (level 40, 780), the students are to complete a cause and effect graphic org

This resource was designed to be used as supplement material for the McGraw Hill Wonder's literacy curriculum Unit 2, Week 2 in order to practice and utilize the comprehension strategy of determining the theme or lesson, as well as the comprehension skill of asking and answering questions. After reading “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” the students are to incorporate the lesson that they learned from the drama into a letter to the grasshopper giving him advice of what he should have done differen

Use this pre-assessment to find out what your students already know about comparing fractions and decimals. This pre-assessment asks the students to use < , > , = to compare fractions with like and unlike numerators and denominators, solve a word problem involving fraction comparison, order decimals from least to greatest, place a decimal on a number line, and match amounts expressed in unit form to its equivalent fraction and decimal form.

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.

At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to name angles, identify the parts of an angle, create angles, classify angles, and identify angles in shapes. This lesson plan includes objectives, essential questions, standards, evaluation methods, materials needed, and the procedural steps for the attention getter, summary directive, group instruction/demonstration, guided practice, independent practice, assessment, and closure. This lesson plan includes several hands on activities that

This Old Glory: Honoring the Star Spangled Banner Music Center is designed to be used with the Old Glory: Honoring the Star Spangled Banner Lesson. 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. We will discuss why we sing the National Anthem and why it is important. The students will find all of the words in the song that refer to the American Flag, identify the phrases that repeat, and noti

Throughout the Living and Growing Together Unit, the student will choose a specific animal to research. This journal begins with a place to write the name and draw or find a picture of the animal that the student chose as well as what type of animal it is (mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, or insect) . After each lesson in which we discuss organisms need energy, water, stable internal conditions, a living space, organisms interact with each other, organisms have a particular life cycle, t

Cut out and laminate these puzzle pieces to use as a game for students to reinforce and practice the concept that multiplication is repeated addition. The students will match together arrays, multiplication sentences, and repeated addition sentences that all represent the same amount.