Order of Operations – 5 Real-Life BEDMAS Scenarios
Give students word-problem practice applying order of operations (BEDMAS) to everyday real-life money and quantity scenarios.
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Give students word-problem practice applying order of operations (BEDMAS) to everyday real-life money and quantity scenarios.
Students play a dominoes-style game, matching cards where one card's term/definition connects to an adjoining card's term/definition (e.g., 'male reproductive organ' -> 'pollen grain'; 'contain chlorophyll' -> 'transport food'), covering plant part functions (roots, root hairs, phloem, xylem, stomata, palisade cells, carpel…
Students answer short fact/trivia questions printed on cards (fill-in-the-blank, true/false, and short-answer format, e.g. 'Animals that eat meat are called ____'), with the correct answer printed on a matching card beneath/alongside each question, suitable for flashcard-style review or class games.
A step-by-step guide teaching students to brainstorm, organize, and write across multiple genres (friendly and business letters, book reports, formal reports, essays, poetry, short stories), covering the writing process from idea generation through proofreading and sentence-level style.
Give middle school students self-checking practice translating real-world word problems into algebraic expressions, using a digital pixel-art reveal to make the practice self-checking and engaging.
A BINGO-style review game for reinforcing vocabulary and definitions related to cells and cell organelles.
Complete 22 worksheet activities across 5 scripted 45-minute daily lessons: My Year in Review (reflective essay writing); Friendship Letters (argument writing with rebuttal); Summer Reading Adventure (theme, POV & word choice); Word Detectives (connotation, figures of speech, analogies); Dreams for Seventh Grade…
Click a digital link (no login required) to access the escape room, read each of 20 winter-story fraction word problems, type the answer into a text box to unlock the next part of the story, and progress through 4 themed scenarios to a final celebration screen; alternatively complete the included printable worksheet or task…
Provides multi-step word problems that give students practice with factors, multiples, unit price/rate comparison, and decimal operations in a real-world budgeting context, offered in both a 4th of July and a Canada Day version.
Students match domino tiles pairing plant/photosynthesis vocabulary terms with their functions or definitions.
An SEL resource of journaling and discussion prompts to help students who struggle with anxiety reflect, identify triggers, and build coping strategies, for individual check-ins or group/push-in lessons.
Guided notes and practice teaching students to determine whether two ratios form a proportion and to solve for a missing value in a proportion, including a set of real-world unit-rate word problems.
A Poetry Month research and writing activity in which students research an assigned poet and write a short biography summary.
Follow worked examples, then solve guided-practice fraction addition/subtraction problems (including mixed numbers and word problems) using the least common denominator.
Review ecology and ecosystems vocabulary/concepts through a BINGO game with call-out term definitions.
Using a smartphone/tablet/Chromebook QR-code reader, visit six stations to unscramble vocabulary, write a short story continuation, answer short-answer questions on biotic/abiotic factors and sustainable ecosystems, answer video-comprehension questions on marine pollution, play a linked online ecology game, and submit answers…
Follow a themed daily activity each weekday: Breathe Monday (a guided breathing technique), Move Tuesday (a yoga sequence), Express Wednesday (a reflective drawing/writing prompt), Pause Thursday (a body-awareness practice), and Imagine Friday (a guided imagery 'journey'); examples include 'Deep Belly Breath', 'Chair Yoga…
Teach and practice adding and subtracting decimals, including in word-problem contexts, via guided notes followed by independent practice.
Working in teams, students turn over pairs of face-down cards and try to match a question card with its correct answer card; a teacher answer sheet confirms correct pairs.
A creative writing activity where students write a limerick about the end of the school year and summer vacation.
Rotate through 5 stations: solve area/volume word problems and write an original one; measure real boxes to calculate volume (and bonus surface area); design a backyard and calculate area/cost of different zones plus fencing perimeter; find area and perimeter of compound shapes (with an online game extension); and…
Practice adding and subtracting decimals through real-world word problems (money, distance, weight, liquid volume), with a companion digital self-checking activity.
Students/teams answer pictorial and text-based quiz questions across multiple game-style rounds (a plant-knowledge round, a lightning round revealing a plant part/process, a cryptic-clues round, and memory-test rounds), plus individual rounds (a memory test on garden plant positions, an unscramble round on lab equipment…
A step-by-step narrative writing practice unit that scaffolds students through analyzing a sample narrative, planning, drafting, self-editing, and timed writing practice to prepare for state writing tests (e.g. STAAR, FSA).