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Our mission is to connect quality educational resources to all teachers in order to facilitate learning, increase engagement, provide differentiation, increase rigor and promote high expectations.
How to Annotate a Text (Step by Step)
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How to Annotate a Text (Step by Step)

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Check out this awesome educational reference guide for how to annotate a text step by step. This can facilitate the teacher and their method of annotating and can just as easily support students learning how to annotate a text on their own. At the bottom of the step by step guide that walks students on what to do and how to do it, a checklist is included that can be checked as each step is completed.
Plant and Animal Adaptations Research Project
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Plant and Animal Adaptations Research Project

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Check out this fun and engaging project that allows student to develop their understanding of adaptations. This project requires a tool for research such as a computer. Embedded with directions, this project allows students to work individually or collaboratively as they identify a plant or animal to research and understand. Looking specifically at adaptations, students will seek to understand how their adaptation helps them. Included is a reference sheet students will create based on their identified animal or plant as well as a tracking form for students to fill out based on their peers research.
Friendly Letter Writing Template
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Friendly Letter Writing Template

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Check out this simple graphic organizer that students can use to organize their thoughts and support their plan for writing a friendly letter. Housed in clearly labeled progressive boxes, this template supports students as they write, to ensure they hold themselves accountable for the important components of what is included in a friendly letter. This offers great support for students who struggle, students with special needs, as well as a support system for independent workers.
Differentiated Note Taking Template (Version 1)
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Differentiated Note Taking Template (Version 1)

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Check out this graphic organizer that students of any age can use to facilitate their note taking. This skill is one that students often lack direct instruction on, and this clear and student-friendly format is mimicked after the Cornell note-taking format. Separated into clear sections for topic, notes, questions and summary, this worksheet will push students to being extremely purposeful with their note-taking while streamlining their thoughts. This template also comes in different formats to best meet the needs of your students. Be sure to check out our alternative versions as well!
Peer Evaluation Rubric for Group Work
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Peer Evaluation Rubric for Group Work

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Add a level of accountability to your group work by simply infusing this student friendly assessment each time. With up to five peers, (or four if you want to including students reflecting on themselves) students will evaluate their peers in four key areas. Each area has a 1, 2, and 3 totaling a possibility of a max of 12 for each partner. These areas include participation, behavior, on task, and work. This is a great way for the students to feel responsible for their actions as well as for the teacher to gain insight into each student's contribution.
Acrostic Poem Template Differentiated Variety Pack
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Acrostic Poem Template Differentiated Variety Pack

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Check out this differentiated pack of templates that are to be used for acrostic poems. Presented in a fun and student-friendly design, each of the pages comes with a different amount of lines. These allows for different words to be used, implementation with different grades, or simply differentiation. Be creative and take your lesson on poems to a new level!
Equivalent Fractions with Pizza Worksheet (2nd Edition)
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Equivalent Fractions with Pizza Worksheet (2nd Edition)

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Take your equivalent fractions lesson plan to the next level with this naturally engaging worksheet! Bringing in the visual of pizza, students will identify the numerator and denominator of pizza slices with coverings. They will then compare that fraction to another visual that they have also labeled with a numerator and denominator. This can be easily used as a test, quiz, homework, independent worksheet and so much more!
Weekly "I can..." Objectives Differentiated Template
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Weekly "I can..." Objectives Differentiated Template

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Check out this awesome template that can easily be infused in your classroom to promote critical thinking, goal setting, and reflection. This can easily be adapted for any subject, grade, age, or ability. Students set their own goal for each day. At the end of the day they either reflect based on the three emojis or on the higher level templates by elaborating with an explanation. John Hatties has ample research out there that points to the importance of students knowing where they are coming from and where they are going. This is great way to transfer accountability and responsibility to the students! Let us know how your implementation goes!
Logic Puzzles Variety Pack
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Logic Puzzles Variety Pack

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Check out this fun and engaging packet of four different logic puzzles that students can apply critical thinking skills with to solve. Each question comes with a prompt, a table, and clues to figure out who did what. This is a great way to promote engagement, challenge students, develop critical thinking, and push gifted students. It is also ideal for early finishers! An answer key has been included for your convenience!
States of Matter Assessment
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States of Matter Assessment

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Check out this three part assessment that covers topics of states of matter. One part has students drawing a model of the atom proximity for each state, another sections has a matching portion with different vocabulary words and the third part has comparing various states with one another. This can easily be used as a quiz, test, homework, guided notes, independent work and so much more. You can also check out my multiple choice option in my store as well. An answer key has been included for your convenience!
Student Assessment Tracker Template
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Student Assessment Tracker Template

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Check out this awesome tracking form that transfers the accountability and ownership over grades to the student. This can either be housed by them or keep with you, but the intention is that students record their scores for each assessment throughout the current grading period. Up top, they will list the name of the assessment and their grade. At the bottom, they will add a point on their line graph to track change over time. This is a great way to promote ownership, leadership, responsibility and so much more. It also serves as great documentation come parent teacher conferences time! Be sure to check out our other tracking forms, such as our Monthly Behavior Tracking Form!
Types of Energy Worksheet
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Types of Energy Worksheet

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Check out this 19 questions worksheet that covers the vocabulary related to energy. Some of this vocabulary includes potential and kinetic as well as heat, light, sound, thermal, wind and much more. It is broken into three parts, each of which have a separate word bank. These can easily be blanked out for differentiation purposes. It can be adapted as a quiz, test, homework, independent work, or group work. An answer key has been included for your convenience!
Student Proposed Business Plan Project (Differentiated)
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Student Proposed Business Plan Project (Differentiated)

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Check out this awesome cooperative learning activity. Within this differentiated lesson, students will develop a business plan based on a need in their world, will identify components such as the consumer, the production, cost, supply and demand, need and want and more. The template comes in three varieties so you can meet the needs of all students and multiple grade levels. A one-pager is included clearly articulating how to implement this in your classroom. From brainstorm, to implemetation to presentations, this week long project will challenge your student to problem solve, think critically, collaborate, synergize, and be creative, all while applying economic concepts and business thoughts. Have fun!
Three Column Chart Template Graphic Organizer Variety Pack
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Three Column Chart Template Graphic Organizer Variety Pack

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Check out this variety pack that includes 10 different three column charts that are pre-labelled with some of the most common graphic organizers you would need in your class. Some of these include: (questions, answers, evidence), (What I know, What I don't know, What I wish I knew), (tool, function, drawing), and much more. Each page is presented in both bullet format and lined format. There is also a blank one for you to edit as you need. These can be applied again and again and implemented in a variety of ways. Be sure to check out my other graphic organizers as well!
Types of Rocks Assessment
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Types of Rocks Assessment

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This 13-question assessment can offer valuable insight into students' understanding of rocks including the properties of metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous. Questions posed include their origins, how they are formed, what they look like and more. There is a word bank to facilitate spelling but it is just of the three types of rocks. At the bottom there are bonus questions prompting for specific examples of each. This can easily be differentiated as a classwork assignmet, independent work, a quiz or a test. An answer key has been included for your convenience!
Shark Tank Inspired Invention and Advertisement Creation Challenge Project
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Shark Tank Inspired Invention and Advertisement Creation Challenge Project

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Check out this incredible project that is inspired by Shark Tank. Included in this large packet, you will find directions for the teacher, directions for the students, challenge sheet with an explanation hook, templates for each stage of the invention and advertisement process and a clear rubric to convey expectation. Presented in a fun and student-friendly format, students will create an invention, whether real or not, will discuss the need for the invention and then create an advertisement to hook buyers. It is intended to take five days, with clear expectations for each day, as each lesson scaffolds on the next. Students will love applying their learned concepts of supply and demand, needs and wants, and helping people make their lives easier through their inventions. One of our favorites :)
Blank Line Graph Template
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Blank Line Graph Template

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Check out this simple and organized template that has a labelled and specific sections for a line graph. This outline is ideal for supporting students' understanding of graphing, for use with differentiation, or for modification for struggling students. Also, when used in science or social studies, when the lesson isn't on graphing, this can cut out a lot of wasted time. Presented in a simple and student-friendly way, the possibilities for implementation are endless!
Brainstorming Graphic Organizer Template (Differentiated)
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Brainstorming Graphic Organizer Template (Differentiated)

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Check out this fun and simple graphic organizer that students can use to brainstorm a number of things. This clear and focused form allows students to develop their skills in narrowing the focus, being creative, organizing their thoughts, and so much more. This comes in a variety of formats to be applied with different grade levels, different students, and whatever else differentiation purposes you need. Be sure to check out our other graphic organizers as well!
Multiplication and Division Practice Worksheet (0s-12s)
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Multiplication and Division Practice Worksheet (0s-12s)

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Check out this simple 42 quesiton worksheet that presents a variety of multiplication and division questions. Numbers are all whole and range between zero and twelve. This is simple but engaging as students need to switch their thinking but also build their understanding of the relationship between the two. This is a great resource for students to practice or be assessed. It works as a quiz, homework, or independent work. An answer key has been included for your convenience.
Place Value Mat Template
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Place Value Mat Template

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Print out this simple place value mat, laminate it and/or put it in a plastic sleeve for students to visually sort their numbers into the correlating place value. This can be used for base-ten blocks, counters, or numerical expressions. This is a great template to build cardinality, number sense, fluency and place value understanding.