Trailside Teaching

This product contains instructions and research links for students to write a journal from the perspective of a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They describe life on the expedition, report on plants and animals discovered, and write a short biography about Sacajawea. This product also contains a grading rubric for the journals. It is a great project to include US History, creative writing, and science.

This activity prompts students to apply what they have learned about context clues to create context clues for a challenging word or vocabulary word. Classmate will then "solve" each other's clues. Included in this file are: instructions, context clues creation workpage, context clues sentence cards, recording sheet, and rubric. I have also included a list of "mystery" words, though this product could be used with any vocabulary list.

This packet reviews the following math skills: addition, area and perimeter, multiplying single by multi-digit numbers, fractions and multiplying fractions, and basic reasoning. The following ELA skills are included: author's purpose writing with persuasive, informational, explaining, entertaining, and descriptive writing; main idea and supporting details; acrostic poetry. There are also opportunities for creative illustrations to keep students engaged and make this a fun review packet.

In this active geography game, one student is "on the spot" while the others are actors. Print the slides 6 to a page and laminate - these are the activity/location cards. The "on the spot" has to find the location on a world map while the reast of the students act out the activity charades-style. Once the location is found, another student is called to be "on the spot" for a new activty/location card. Perfect for an energetic class!

This is a beginning Russian language resource to help students start to decode basic words in the Russian alphabet. A soundclip is included with each slide to help the student check their reading.

Print the cards and cut them out. This game can be played two ways - In the first way, one player hums while the others guess the song or sing the next lines. In the second method of play, one player draws pictures for the others to guess the song by title. The person who guesses correctly first keeps the cards, and whoever has the most cards at the end wins.

This simple worksheet prompts students to identify elements of a story that can be used for any book or movie. Great for a quick activity with minimal prep, just print and read or watch.

This form will help students write out a sincere apology letter, identifying the problem behavior, explaining how it hurt others, and planning better choices in the future.

This is a movie-watching guide for the 1957 movie of the book Johnny Tremain. Great way to introduce or wrap up a unit on the American Revolution.

This is a 20 question reading comprehension quiz to follow reading and discussion of the book Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan.