In this game activity students practice comparing shapes and naming something that is alike or different about them.
This three-act math task utilizes videos and questioning to help students explore elapsed time.
This website is a compilation of fantastic resources for any reading teacher. This page on the website provides a brief overview of before, during, and after reading strategies, as well as links with detailed information about a variety of strategies and downloadable resources for the classroom. They also provide recommended additional reading for interested viewers.
Studied students stupefy! Students learn about alliteration by listening to an alliterative read-aloud and apply the knowledge they gain to the creation of their own poem and illustration.
In this video an educator from the Hogle Zoo helps us understand more about beavers, the structure and function of their habitat, and more.
In this informational text, elementary school readers learn about the difference between weather and climate and about components of the climate system. The text can be used to practice visualizing and other comprehension strategies. Available in K-2 and 3-5 grade bands and as an illustrated book as well as a text document, the story appears in the online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle.
This article provides an overview of icebergs' formation and characteristics and the hazards associated with icebergs.
This is a lesson plan with a curriculum that helps teachers accomplish their responsibilities for transition planning in the classroom. There are several tools that are available to teachers, and combined into this lesson plan, to help support teachers, and in turn students throughout the transition plan.
This lesson is to help students create their own digital story.
Students will create a personal narraitve by generating ideas for writing from their personal experiences, write details of their experience in an organized manner, and revise their draft to add details. They can then present their story in a variety of ways.
Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.
In this keyboarding lesson, students use Typesy to practice typing the following basic symbols: !@#$%^&*(). Students set a goal and consider the importance of keyboarding. Then, students record their WPM.
This Math Fun Fact focuses on proof by induction.
Math Fun Facts were developed as warm-up activities. They are mathematical tidbits meant to arouse curiosity and fascination with the subject. Fun Facts give students a glimpse that mathematics is full of interesting ideas, patterns, and new modes of thinking.
Students will explore the difference between wants and needs as they decide what they will be taking to Grandma's house.
In the early republic, Congress was a colorful, exciting, unpredictable, and contentious branch of the United States government. The members constantly quarreled but often deliberated and compromised through persuasive oratory and rational conversation. Congress was divided by party and sectionalism, but was guided through these difficulties by legislative statesmen. The Congress continued to function as the undisputed law making body of the people of the United States. Even during some of its most tumultuous years, from 1789 until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860, the Congress effectively governed the nation.
Share some great Google Sites practices with your students through this amazing post from Control Alt Achieve.
This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.
This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.
Website that has current news that is sorted by political ideology. Good to use for current event research. You can search a specific current political news story and be able to see how news outlets on the Left, Center, Right describe that topic.
In the video Abuelo Park, Abrielle is frustrated that there is no nice place to play or to take her grandfather in his wheelchair. She makes a plan, enlists the help of her neighbors and turns an empty lot into a beautiful park-making a difference in the whole community and launching a career as a landscape architect.