Check out this awesome electrical energy mini investigation! Included you will find clear directions for students and teacher. An objective is embedded as well as supplemental worksheets to track the students learning. You will need some basic components such as wiring, battery, light bulb, and then a variety of materials to be tested for conductibility such as nails, rubber, plastic, aluminum foil, combs, staples, paperclips, etc. This activity engages students in understanding which materials are conductors and which ones are insulators. They will develop their understanding of the material that allow for the flow of electrons and will love doing it! Be sure to check out our other Science Task Cards as well such as our Light The Bulb Task Card Activity.

Check out this five prompt geomtry challenge. It can be used for a group or be done independently. Each of the challenges push students to create a quesiton of their own based on the topic provided which include polygons, triangles, 3-dimensional shapes and more. The prompt tells students the questions are to be test-type questions but adapt as needed. The idea is that students think through creating problems as well as the answer key to the topics they have learned. This serves as a great review come testing time!

Check out this multi-purpose event invite that is meant to save you time and streamline just one more component of your classroom. This isa great form for birthdays, holiday parties and much more as it allows for great flexibility of implementation. With key components being listed up top, and a cut away template for the bottom being returned, this form can be applied in a multitude of ways. Good luck and have fun!

Facilitate your parent teacher conferences with this 8-question template. This is a great way to guide your conversations, push them to a deeper level, hold all parties accountable and making this time meaningful. Questions include things about students feeling about school, their favorite friends, difficulties in school, how can teachers help and much more. This is a great form of documentation for both you and the parents.

This clear and well-organized template is meant to be used to keep track of discussions during parent teacher conferences. Separated into eight sections, the template is color-coded to differentiate the next steps and who is responsible for them as well as various components such as strengths and focuses, scores and goals, concerns, and next steps. This provides clear direction moving forward for all parties involved and serves as great data for records!

Check out this simple graphic organizer used to track weekly reading at home. Broken down by the day, this template includes a space for the title of the book, pages read, and the time spent each day. At the end of the week, the parent signs and returns the bottom portion to validate and verify the effort put in at home. Students who read at least 20-30 minutes a night outperform their peers in class and on tests. This is a great way to hold students and parents accountable. It is presented in a very student friendly fashion that is direct, clear, and will definitely help with documentation, intervention, and a data point for conversation. Be sure to check out our other templates for reading as well!

Check out this fun and engaging pennant creation activity! With a clear outline, students record some of the most important things about them. Their favorite food, any pets, their favorite subject and their goals and aspirations are all included in a well organized manner. Students can color it as they please and then cut it out. There are string holes that are marked to turn this simple template into a classroom decoration where students feel valued and a part of their classroom community. This is a great beginning of the year activity to both decorate your classroom and allow the students to feel valued. Have fun!

Check out this awesome variety pack of pennants that can be customized in any way you choose. You will find six templates that all have a spot for holes for string to run through, and are all meant to be cut to be a perfect triangle. There is a place at the top for students to write their name but each of the six have different formats. This is a great beginning of the year activity or a way to allow students to co-create their own classroom environment. Students can write about themselves, respond to a prompt, write a short answer, draw a representation, record their learning and so much more! Have fun!

Add a level of accountability and tracking to your student conferences on their reading progress. This is a great way of maintaining focus with your students as you check-in on what they are reading, the content of it, and therefore their comprehension, fluency and vocabulary knowledge. Take what is often informal, to a great way of progress monitoring and tracking with this simple and well-organized template. Included are three columns for each date that cover the strengths, area of focus, and next steps. Also check out our Student Writing Conference Log!

Add a level of accountability and tracking to your student conferences on their writing progress. This is a great way of maintaining focus with your students as you check-in on what they are writing and how they are doing with any given assignment including their grammar, spelling, prompt completion and much more. Take what is often informal, to a great way of progress monitoring and tracking with this simple and well-organized template. Included are three columns for each date that cover the strengths, area of focus, and next steps. Also check out our Student Reading Conference Log!

Check out this awesome list of suggestions to support students with timed writing. Whether it be state testing, timed writing, or curriculum-based writing expectations, this reference guide include ten key points with explanations. This is a great way to support struggling students, introduce timed writing, or serve as a poster for reference. Whether this be printed and given to each student or enlarged as a poster, these key points will take your students to the next level.

We all know that sometimes our students just feel like they need to tell you everything. Sometimes it is not about who they say it to, but rather, that they say it and they know someone is listening. Many teachers have a Teddy Bear somewhere in the back of their classroom that they allow students to tattle to so they are heard but it doesn't interrupt the teachers flow. This form is a great way to take that conversation to the next level. Allowing students to write about their feelings, what happened, and how they are going to solve it, promotes leadership, independence, problem-solving skills as well as communication skills. This is a great way to take your class to the next level while maintaining your focus on instruction!

Check out this simple and color-coded graphic organizer for Danielson's Evaluation rubric. Breaking down the four major components into its various components, this guide simplifies the rhetoric and expectations for each possible rubric components. This serves as a great reminder, reference, and support tool as you navigate the rubric, its language and its expectations.

Check out this awesome differentiated anchor chart that comes in a very of formats for varied implementation. This clearly organized and student-friendly graphic organizer clearly defines the number of sides, name of the polygon, he representation and the description of shapes with anywhere from 3 sides up to 6 sides. This color-coded template comes in six different formats that omit different amounts of columns for use as worksheets, assessments, differentiation, posters, anchor charts, reference sheets and more!

Aligned to EngageNY and Eureka Math, this blown up poster is set to be printed on six pages, cut out, and glued together. This large poster offers a great supplement to the expectations of problem solving in these two math curriculums. Following three simple steps of read (the question), Write (out solving the question) and Draw (a model to solve) pushes for critical thinking and problem solving when looking at word problems.

Check out this simple and color-coded reference guide that can improve your students writing and take it to the next level! Separated into five categories including comparing, contrasting, ordering, listing, and finding the relationship, these guide facilitates the use of higher level vocabulary in writing and speaking. It can either be printed as a poster, printed and taped into books or used as a tool for differentiation. This will be sure to facilitate the higher level vocabulary with improved transitions for all students!

Check out this interactive activity in which the five stages of an election are described on pieces. Students will need to cut these out and put them in order. This can be done on a sentence strip, on a piece of paper or simple laminated and placed in order temporarily. This is a great way to introduce, reinforce or review the critical steps of an election such as the primaries, election day, and inauguration.

Develop students’ understanding of multiplication through this input and output function table. Included there are 7 function tables in which students can apply the identified multiplication operation to each of the factors. This can be used as an assessment, worksheet, homework or independent activity. An answer key has also been included.

Included in this assessment, you will find 10 questions that check students’ understanding of changes to Earth’s surface. Questions include content related to weathering, erosion, and depostion. This can be used as an assessment, a quiz, an independent assignment and everything in between. An answer key has been included for your convenience.

Check out this easy to navigate assessment that checks students’ understanding of possessive nouns. There is a set of directions and 10 questions in which students will have to write in the correct possessive noun based on the sentence. An answer key has been included for your convenience.