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To support students understand how they play into the larger system around them, this hierarchy map allows students to identify descriptions of themselves, their city, their state, and ultimately their country. This can be used in a variety of ways to support students micro and macro understandings. Applications include citizenship and responsibilities, geography, laws, people, and ultimately the world that we live in. Have fun!
To facilitate the math questions that often stump students with simple semantics and trick components, this step by step tutorial can support students breaking down what exactly the question is asking. Going through a variety of prompts pushing students to break down word problems or simple operation questions, this reference sheet offers a great support for differentiation and scaffolding. It can either be blown up for a poster, modeled regularly, or printed for each student. Best of luck! :)
Support your students breaking down word problems and testing jargon with this simple and color coded poster. Presented ina variety of formats to best meet your needs and your students' needs, this poster termplates lists most of the words that are associated with each of the four operations found in math word problems including multiplication, division, addition and subtraction. This can be used for differentiation purposes, a bulletin board, anchor chart, flipbooks and so much more!
Check out this simple and student-friendly rubric which is meant to be used to evaluate student math journals. The rubric is broken into four categories, of which students can score between a 1 and a 4. Each score for each section includes explicit description of what you need to obtain that score. A guide on the bottom shows how to calculate up to a percentage grade. This is meant to be provided to the students, so they know what is expected of them with the journals, and then used to grade at the end of the quarter, or semester, or year. Sections included cover topics of Organization, accuracy, elements, and illustrations. Best wishes!
Check out this great flow template that begins with the top section of a main idea, leading to two supporting details, which then requires two examples of textual evidence for each. Presented in a fun, color-coded and easily organized way, this is a great way to ensure students are grounding their analysis in the text and being purposeful about their reading and writing. It is also presented in three different formats to best meet the needs of your students, including a blank box for each, one with lines, and one with bullets.
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Check out this awesome fun and creative way to display comprehension of the main idea and supporting details. This graphic organizer pushes students to display their understanding in a visual manner. Starting at the center of the circle, students will write the main idea and then will build a foundation around it writing the supporting details in the rings around it. This can easily be differentiated to include visuals instead. the bottom of the page has a space for students to write a reflection based on the top. All included with clear directions for students at the top.
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If you've been wondering how to make Magic School Bus videos a bit more meaningful and purposeful, check out this simple worksheet to supplement watching the videos. Very simply, the first half prompts students to describe how the characters used their observation skills. The second half incorporates five additional questions that ask for specific observations of the characters using their five sense. This is a great addition when a substitute is present or just to enhance interaction with the video. It doubles as a nice Lesson Plan bonus :)
Check out this simple timeline continuum that includes three major turning points as settlers came to Louisiana. Included in each of these benchmarks, there is a spot for the year of settlement, the explorers included and any additional notes. This is meant to supplement your instruction on the settlement of Louisiana and your pre-existing instruction. It serves as a great differentiator and accommodation. It can also serve as an assessment, guided notes, homework, study guide and more!
This simple and clear guided notes template can serves as a great way to organize information as it relates to the various cultures present in Louisiana. Broken into three categories of Cajun, Creole and Native Americans, this graphic organizer looks into elements of food, music, story-telling, and holidays. The bottom portion of this outline includes an answer key (which can be removed for differentiation) and a more detailed supplement to the norms of each culture. An answer key is included for your convenience. This is supplemented well by my other products on Louisiana Cultures Exit Ticket Assessment as well as Louisiana Cultures Group Projects!
Transfer the learning and ownership over curriculum to your students, with this highly engaging and exciting group project. Emebedded in the student expectations page is a timeline for production, directions, assigned group, and a clear rubric including components of quality, accuracy, presentation, collaboration, and organization. In this self-directed research group project, students will use the resources availabel to them in your classroom such as magazines, articles, textbooks, computers, etc. to develop a presentation in a format of their choosing such as a powerpoint, brochure, rap, play, poster, etc. The topics included are Cajuns, Creoles, Aative Americans, and the French. The expectation is that they cover food, music, norms, way of life, etc. Three exemplars are included for distribution to students if necessary of a different community so students can relate. This ties nicely to my Louisiana Cultures Exit Ticket Assessment as well as my Louisiana Cultures Guided Notes.
Check out this simple 5-question assessment that can easily be adapted as a quiz, test, independent work, exit ticket, or a study guide. Covering the topic of the different cultures that exist in Louisiana, this worksheet supplements the lessons you already have in your classroom, on Louisiana Cultures as well as some of my other products on the topic such as Louisiana Cultures Guided Notes, and Louisiana Cultures Group Project. These topics include Cajun, Creole, Jambalaya, Crawfish, Gumbo, Zydeco and more! An answer key has been included for your convenience!
Check out this awesome electrical energy task card! Included with clear directions for students and teachers as well as supporting documents and worksheets, this mini investigation allows students to discover concepts of flow of electrons, conductors, insulators, circuits and so much more! You will need some aluminum or tin foil, a battery, and a bulb to make this work. The task card includes clear step by steps for students to follow in order to be successful. Students will love exploring the components of a circuit, and the spots to connect to on their bulbs.
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Check out this fun system that can take your classroom culture to the next level. Holding students accountable in the classroom and ensuring participating, is so important. Providing wait time and secondary wait time pushes students to think and talk. This sytem provides an out, or life line if students don't know the answer. They can either phone a friend, get help from a group, or get support for the teacher. These cards are phsyical and are distributed to each students (3 total) per month. They can be rewarded if they don't use their cards, but alos feel safe not knowing the answer. Directions and templates are included, but please adjust accordingly to fit into your other classroom systems and procedures! Have fun!
What a better gift to give to a traveling student than a fun game that opens their eyes to the world around them. Check out this simple and fun license plate bingo with multiple different implementation possibilities. This is a great send off at the end of the year or during those long holidays that so many students hit the road. You will find a neatly organized template with all 50 license plate pictures. Below them is a blank space that can either be used to write the date or time the license plate was seen or simply writing the name of the state when it was spotted. Students will love tracking what they find will keep their eyes peeled as they try to fill up their board!
Check out this fun and naturally engaging worksheet to promote students' understanding of graphing. Using something as personal as we can get, this activity uses the number of letters in each student's name. With four bars, students will find three finds to create a bar representing their name. The x-axis and y-axis have already been clearly labelled. Three reflective questions have then been included at the bottom to push students to reflect on their learned material. Have fun!
Check out this great template that supports students as develop their skills and understanding of lattice multiplication. This six questions worksheet includes a template for each problem that sets up multiplication problems of 2 digit by 1 digit questions. This can be used for a test, quiz, homework, group work, independent work and so much more. It also serves as a great tool for struggling learners and differentiation. An answer key has been included for your convenience!
Check out this interactive labelling activity in which students label the each state in the United States. A word bank (with all the state names) is listed at the bottom, but this can be cut off if you wish to not include it. An answer key is included for your convenience. This can easily be adapted for state abbreviations. A clear box is labelling each state which makes scoring and grading simple. This can be used as a project, assessment, worksheet, homework, group work and so much more!
Check out this simple and clear worksheet on the planets, their order, and their descriptions. This can easily be adapted as guided notes, a worksheet, homework, small group work, independent work or as an assessment. Included in this template is a visual at the top with blank spots ot be labelled and then an organized table below that correlates with its numbers to the pictures. Each planet blank has a space for a description of that planet. An answer key is included for your convenience!
As students develop their competencies as they pertain to Invitation Letters, this assessment will check their understandings, of the key components of such letters. The assessment starts with directions, to students know what to do, to be successful, followed by a short paragraph explaining the conditions of the event. The bottom portion of the assessment includes prompts for students to dive into the story and draw out the important components that need to be included in an invitation. This can easily serve as a worksheet for independent work, small group, whole group, homework or as a quiz, test, or exit ticket.
This very simple 5-question exit ticket provides a quick snapshot of students' understanding of States of Matter. Pre-populated to be in half sheets, this quick assessment covers topics of mixtures and solutions, and physical change and chemical change at the very basic level. An answer key is included for your convenience.