William Luders

The students will cut out the "ingredients" of photosynthesis, the products of photosynthesis, as well as plus signs and an equal sign. This is a great activity for helping students learn about how carbon dioxide and water and combined and changed with the help of chlorophyll energized by sunlight, to create a food source, sugar (glucose), and a "waste" product, oxygen. They can glue these down on strips of paper, or keep them in a baggie to use for study.

This is a very challenging/high level critical thinking assessment or check for understanding. It shows one whole as a full thousands block, with the hundreds square representing one tenth, and the tens rod representing one hundredth, and the ones block representing one thousandth. If the students understand this, they will more fully understand the concept of base-10 as it goes to the right of the decimal point. Great for group collaboration or think-pair-share!

Needed: Clean egg cartons and a zip bag with a handful of the children's favorite breakfast cereal. Instructions are included. This is a great manipulative activity, perfect for getting the concept of division into the minds of your students. Cocoa Puffs, Trix, or Fruit Loops work well.

What better way to estimate then to be given the EXACT answers to a set of paired numbers to be added or subtracted? Estimation is not about steps. It is about using whatever mental mean necessary to find a close answer quickly. ESTIMATION: AN EASY WAY TO FIND AN ANSWER THAT IS CLOSE. This matching worksheet gives 9 pairs of numbers from 3 to 6 digits which are either added or subtracted. The exact sums and differences are on the other side. Estimation strategies will make this simple for your

This is a basic decimal assessment for grades 4 to 6. It assesses identification, reading, rounding, and comparing decimal numbers to the thousandths. Great evaluation tool. Use as a pretest/posttest. Great for a cooperative learning activity. IDEA: Have students take, check quickly, and if two students disagree, have them pair up to see who had missed the item.

This brings thinking higher on the Bloom's Taxonomy, as multiple ways of thinking are required. Achievement tests will often give models and ask for equivalent fraction, or give fractions and ask for an equivalent model to be chosen. Each question is multiple choice and gives one of each...model to model, fraction to fraction, model to fraction, and fraction to model.

Assesses information about the 8 planets in our solar system. Higher order thinking skills are needed, and the students will need to know the order of the planets from the sun out, the size of the planets from largest to smallest (or vice versa), and which are the gas giants and which are the terrestrial planets. Pluto is not considered a planet, because of its declassification more than 10 years ago. Great for a quiz or a class activity. Great for collaborative work. Beats just telling stude

This is an easy to check assessment or check for understanding. It covers basic multiplication computation using 2 digits multiplied by 1 digit, including estimation skills. Great for think-pair-share, graded assessment, or exit pass. Multiple choice with a small "bubble" area makes quick visual checking a breeze!

Ten question grade 4 to 6 probability questions. Probability expressed as numbers 0 to 1, including fractions, as well as everyday terms such as impossible, unlikely, or certain. A great way to assess understanding, and would make a great anticipation pretest. Allow them to answer before the lesson, give the lesson, and hand back, allowing them to see the correct answer. Collaboration is always a great tool for improved learning, and small groups could work this together or a think-pair-share s

What better way to estimate then to be given the EXACT answers to a set of paired numbers to be added or subtracted? Estimation is not about steps. It is about using whatever mental mean necessary to find a close answer quickly. ESTIMATION: AN EASY WAY TO FIND AN ANSWER THAT IS CLOSE. This matching worksheet gives 9 pairs of numbers from 3 to 6 digits which are either added or subtracted. The exact sums and differences are on the other side. Estimation strategies will make this simple for your

This is a 20 question assessment, all multiple choice, involving the basic concept of multiplication. Not intended to be a computation assessment, this question set assures understanding of what multiplication actually is. Included is a bubble sheet with a cut/punch out key for easy scoring. Great for collaboration, pretesting, and assessing understanding.

This is a great independent activity...great for centers because it does not require a great deal of explanation. Just shade in and name the phase! Also a great day starter of bell ringer.

What better way to estimate then to be given the EXACT answers to a set of paired numbers to be added or subtracted? Estimation is not about steps. It is about using whatever mental mean necessary to find a close answer quickly. ESTIMATION: AN EASY WAY TO FIND AN ANSWER THAT IS CLOSE. This matching worksheet gives 9 pairs of numbers from 3 to 6 digits which are either added or subtracted. The exact sums and differences are on the other side. Estimation strategies will make this simple for your

What better way to estimate then to be given the EXACT answers to a set of paired numbers to be added or subtracted? Estimation is not about steps. It is about using whatever mental mean necessary to find a close answer quickly. ESTIMATION: AN EASY WAY TO FIND AN ANSWER THAT IS CLOSE. This matching worksheet gives 9 pairs of numbers from 3 to 6 digits which are either added or subtracted. The exact sums and differences are on the other side. Estimation strategies will make this simple for your

This is a decimal concepts review in Number and Number Sense. It requires some higher-order thinking skills, and contains some of the questions that are asked on most high-stakes tests. Great for grades 4 to 6, it requires skills in all formats of writing decimal numbers, rounding, comparing, identifying, and converting decimals. Great for think-pair-share activities and collaborative groups. Also can be used as a review or a test practice sheet.

Simple child-friendly definitions for basic scientific method vocabulary. Can be used for anticipation activities, pre/post test, quiz, or group learning activity. Great for collaborative work, as students can break into groups and discuss their answers together.

The students will work 9 2 by 2 multiplication problems and find their answers from an ordered list of numbers below that have a different 3-letter word associated with each. Most if the answers will not be used, as there are 24 possible answers and only 9 actual ones. This is a great practice activity. If mistakes are made, it would be obvious, since the incorrect product would probably not be listed. This will help students to self-correct. A bit more fun than simply assigning a bunch of p

This covers division with 2 and 3 digit dividends and a single digit divisor. The first questions provide the traditional algorithm bracket, while the latter part does not. The latter part also has some practical division problems, and some higher-order thinking estimation questions, very similar to those often found on achievement tests. Great for tests, quizzes, collaborative work, and data collection.

A great learning tool. Very effective for independent work with little direct interaction with the teacher. This contains draw-to-learn, specific instructions, and quick assessments. It can be used as a cold introduction to both structural and behavioral adaptations for intermediate elementary science. This was a huge success in my classroom. Great activity for a substitute teacher.

What better way to estimate then to be given the EXACT answers to a set of paired numbers to be added or subtracted? Estimation is not about steps. It is about using whatever mental mean necessary to find a close answer quickly. ESTIMATION: AN EASY WAY TO FIND AN ANSWER THAT IS CLOSE. This matching worksheet gives 9 pairs of numbers from 3 to 6 digits which are either added or subtracted. The exact sums and differences are on the other side. Estimation strategies will make this simple for your