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 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.