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If you have a Harry Potter themed classroom- or even just really like Harry Potter- display your classroom expectations with these Educational Decrees! There are several pre-made decrees, along with a template you can use to make your own. If you download and enjoy, please make sure to leave a review!

Intended as an activity for Halloween - or just to introduce your students to the Age of Exploration and subsequent colonization - your product includes the link to a Canva slideshow that allows you or your students to click through 6 rooms in a Haunted House, each of which including a short synopsis of how a European country colonized as well as three clickable links hidden within the slide that lead to pages giving a brief account of how the image relates to one of the horrors of colonization!

Intended as an activity for Halloween (or just any time you're in the market for a ghost story!), this is a short story written to give students insight into the Oregon Trail. Your download will include a file with the story as well as a link to a Canva slideshow with slides for each section of the story (broken down for students that may need the story scaffolded) + speaker notes to tell the story if you are projecting the slides for your students. The story is intended for middle/high school a

This template can help keep your students organized while taking effective notes! Each Cornell Notes Organizer has text boxes that can be edited by the student when they save the file to their devices, or you can choose to print them! They look good printed in color or in greyscale, so don't worry about using up all your color ink. :) If you don't like the colors I used (huge Harry Potter fan, here), feel free to send me a message with your preferred colors and I'll make a new listing with upda

This template can help keep your students organized while giving them the responsibility and ownership of keeping a record of their own learning! Bellringers and Exit Tickets are side-by-side so that students (and teachers) can see where they started and where they ended in the lesson. Each organizer has text boxes that can be edited by the student when they save the file to their devices, or you can choose to print them! They look good printed in color or in greyscale, so don't worry about usin

Use this template all week to display your Standards-Based Agenda! The PowerPoint includes the following: Cover A Slide for your Unit StandardsA Slide for Weekly RemindersSlide with Clickable Links for Each Day5 Days with Learning Target, Success Criteria, Bellringer, Lesson, Assignment, and ClosingChecklist SlideMy district requires that we post our Standard, Learning Target, Success Criteria, Bellringer, Mini-Lesson, Work Session, and Closing on Canvas each day. This template allows you not on

This is a great template for your opening slide! You can get your students ready for each day and all you need to do is click the text box for each element. If you don't like the colors I used (huge Harry Potter fan, here), feel free to send me a message with your preferred colors and I'll make a new listing with updated colors for you! I would love to create something for you that others might love!

Graphic Organizers can be an essential piece of student understanding. They help visualize information which in turn aids students in processing and retaining it! This is especially important when your students are reading a piece of text on their own and trying to figure out what the author is arguing! This set is intended to help educators point their students toward the best Graphic Organizer to use for a given reading, but they can really be used at any level for any number of things! It als

If you're looking for an amazing handout for your start-of-year open house and you LOVE Harry Potter, you need this Marauder's Map themed Brochure template! It will give your students and their adults a perfect glimpse into your routines and procedures, just make sure you solemnly swear you're up to no good! Please leave an awesome review for this free resource if you download- I appreciate you!

This freebie is a .PPT single slide to introduce a Galleon Challenge to your class! It's designed to work as a PBIS incentive that will get your students not only working toward their personal goals, but toward a class goal as well! I'm using this for high school aged students but it can be adapted to an elementary setting by setting a goal for the class rather than having a competition between classes. If you're interested, check back for a tracking chart and other downloadables for this awesom