This is a worksheet that allows students to explore and explain the effects of greenhouse gasses that pair with the (free!) PHET Greenhouse Effect simulation. Students will analyze and examine the movements of waves and photons, as well as the effects of absorbant layers in the atmosphere. This assignment/activity ends with students using the data they collected to explain the consequences (positive and negative) of greenhouse gasses in a CER format. The PHET simulation is linked in the Google
This time card template will help you teach students how to fill out a time card. It includes targeted employment vocabulary such as employee, in, out, total hours, and signature. This is perfect for life skills or beginner vocational training.
This awesome scaffold packet helps teach the steps of calculating the tax on a receipt. Pair this with a menu so students can choose items to buy, calculate the tax, calculate the total, determine which costs more and determine if they have enough money!
Do your students struggle to include all of the pieces of CER writing? Have you noticed that your students rush through writing, and wish there was a way to slow them down and have them check their work? This CER checklist can be used as a writing scaffold or as a revising checklist! It is in an editable Google Doc format. The Google Doc includes a general checklist that you can put on the board and also smaller checklists that can be printed for students to have on the desk with them.
Take the first step to teaching perimeter by having students find the matching sides of various rectangles. Worksheet begins with visual prompting on all four sides of the rectangle with various shapes. Prompting then fades to one then no sides with symbols on them.
Here is a FREE quick and easy to use rubric to score HW assignments AND short response answers. This rubric is designed for science classes, but can easily be adapted to any subject! The rubric also includes CER outlining for short answer responses. Download in an editable Word Document format to make it your own! ENJOY!!!!
Track the growth of your plants from seeds to seedlings! This 8 week packet helps students collect observational data as well as chart plant growth! Also download the FREE growth chart to help track your plants growth!
This awesome scaffold packet helps teach the steps of calculating the tip on a receipt. Pair this with a menu so students can choose items to buy, calculate the tip, calculate the total, determine which costs more and determine if they have enough money!
Track the growth of your plants from seeds to seedlings! This 8 week visual packet helps students collect observational data as well as chart plant growth! Also download the FREE growth chart to help track your plants growth!
This activity can help students examine their strengths and weaknesses. This is a great introduction to talks about disabilities as well as an ongoing self-assessment for students to focus on increasing their strengths. This includes the strengths vs weaknesses chart, specific strengths and/or weaknesses to sort and a page defining each strength and weakness.
This assignment is a class debate where students will use their skills of making claims, finding evidence and using reasoning to answer the question, "Which type of cell is the best?". This version also includes that students look at the Gizmo (from explorelearning.com) "Cell Types" to collect data to strengthen their evidence bases. This is a word document, meaning you can edit it! Included: project overview, debate/research prep, a scaffold for how to make arguments in CER format, grading rub
This is the next level of learning how to calculate the perimeter of a square/rectangle. The worksheet set walks students through how to add all of the sides together, while still maintaining the guided visuals to match sides.
This assignment pad scaffold can help high school or middle school students track their homework in different subjects. Perfect for Special Education case managers or individuals who tutor middle school or high school students.
This sheet tracks the date, class grade, missing assignments, assigned homework, and if the student check the teachers website/google classroom.
Enjoy!
This resource is an outline to help students read through a case study. This questioning could be used with any case study for any unit. In my classroom, I used this assignment to look at the usage of antibiotics with the case studies from the following website: https://www.testtargettreat.com/en/home/educational-resources/case-studies.html This resource ALSO includes a CER response asking students to determine if their patient needs antibiotics and why. This is in a word document format; eas
Help your students keep track of their missing assignments by using this sheet! This sheet tracks the date, subject, missing assignment and the date completed.
This single subject homework tracking sheet can help any student track the homework they have for the week, as well as reflect about how they did on their homework.
This is an awesome scaffold for you students to work on different word definitions, idioms, and writing journal responses!
WOTD: word of the day
IOTD: idiom of the day
JOTD: journal of the day