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The day before "the big test" can be stressful and I usually do this activity with my students to get them to relax a little. The story is fun and the attached questions provide some higher level questions for even the best of readers.

Motivate your students by doing this lesson at the beginning of the year or before a major assessment. Using YouTube and a clip from "Facing the Giants," students analyze the meaning of the clip and apply it to their lives. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSM1mvMypWU or YouTube Facing the Giants Death Crawl

Vocab matching quiz with word bank using the following words: antagonist, protagonist, setting, character, conflict, climax, resolution, foreshadowing, theme. Answer Key is provided.

Editable to have your teacher names in place of the ones on each slide. Students find out who, where and what in a clue-style game of who dunnit? All slides are a mix of PEMDAS with questions with either fractions OR decimals. Evaluate each expression. Use the clue to cross out the players, the location, and the crime committed.The one remaining from each column is the correct solution.Answer is: Mr. Pava in the gym making paper airplanes from student's classwork. Answer Key provided on last s

Make this fun recipe in your math class to review multiplying and dividing fractions. My students had a lot of fun and were really engaged in this math lesson!

Students move around the classroom in this activity to apply what they've learned about perimeter, area and circumference. This is a nice formative assessment and the kids are actively engaged at the same time.

Have students go on a scavenger hunt in their home and classroom to find different metric labels and where they are used. Students then have to create an original display of their labels. Jacob's ladders, hockey rinks, NASCAR tracks, robots, tv stations, news reports are just some that have been created from this!

Complete this interactive set of slides as a class and then set the kids off on a scavenger hunt to find the mystery items from around their home. Answer Key included.

Interactive practice on finding distance on a coordinate plane and plotting polygons on a coordinate plane. Three slides...one with distance practice, two for plotting polygons. Nice interactive exit ticket!

Great fun trying to create the most unique Mr. Potato Head by completing a relay race. After students complete each relay sheet, the teacher checks the answers and gives them directions about which body part to add.

Great review game before a test on China and India.

Using the given website on the worksheet, have your students complete a webquest on the general knowledge associated with World War 2.

Students can have fun writing ratios by using smarties to compare colors.

Students can use whiteboards/ paper to complete the questions. Each round has 3 levels of points.  Level 1 problems are worth 1 points, level 2 problems worth 2 points, level 3 problems are worth 3 points.  Problems get more challenging as you move to higher point levels.  Answers are revealed for each problem and students self-award points if they got their problem correctly.This is a game of strategy and skill to earn the most points by completing the level the student is most comfortable with

Use these notes to help your students learn how to complete frequency tables. Use with data distribution notes after completing line plots and you've got many lessons rolled into one.

Have the students review what they learned in a Soil and Water Unit by having them complete a project based on choice. Students have to complete one soil project, one water project, and one vocabulary project. Great way to see what students have learned over this unit.

Guided notes to help students learn about the statistical data using mean, meadian, mode and range. Scaffolded with a model and then a problem to do work independently on.

See how your students do with some of the basic vocabulary from a middle school unit on India.

Use the samples provided to show your students the difference between a writing piece and a Six Traits writing piece. Students will use close reading to identify the ways that they can enhance their writing by using the six traits.

General statistics quiz on all things dealing with sixth grade stats. Students have to label different types of stats (box plot, histogram, etc.), identify which vocabulary word the clues define, and use their knowledge of the statistics unit to have a better understanding of what each type of statistical data was used for. Because there was so much vocabulary associated with the stats unit, I did a vocab quiz at the same time, they were learning the class material to help them gain a better u