Winged One

This is a great tool! It can be used as a Class Opener, Transition Piece, Bell Ringer, or Time Filler. The questions are designed to make kids think. You can have students write down their thoughts before discussing their ideas with a partner, small group, or with the class as a whole. This PDF file can be played on your computer and displayed on a Smart Board. Includes 44 different questions, which can be used daily throughout a quarter or once a week as part of a rotation of activities.

Guide your students through thinking through different perspectives using photographs. First, have students notice details about each photograph: What do you notice about this photograph? What details do you see? Where do you think the photograph was taken? What makes you think that? Then, have students discuss the pictures from different perspectives as listed with the photograph. You can use the cooperative learning strategy “Jigsaw” to complete this discussion. Have small groups disc

Connect symbolism with individual student interests with this "Design a T-Shirt" package. Students will identify things that represent them, and will then design a symbolic t-shirt. These would be great as a bulletin board display for back to school or any time of the school year! Includes: Planning page Design a t-shirt page Write to describe your symbolic t-shirt page Symbolism in color page (color and black line) Bonus "Design a T-Shirt" pages for use at other points in the year: Design a

A set of 24 icebreaker questions to use anytime during the school year. Questions can be copied, cut out, and placed in a basket/bowl for students to draw from ~ or can be copied onto sticky notes, then covered with another sticky note and hung on the board for students to choose from at random. A color copy and a grayscale copied are both included. A student chooses a question, answers it, then asks another student in class to answer the same question. Great fun for the class! *********