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Students assemble a 1-folder lapbook base and complete about 10 foldable/cut-and-glue booklets (Map, Warfare, Philosophers, Religion & Mythology, Homes, Life in Ancient Greece, Summaries of Grecian Literature, Olympic Games, and two Amazing Facts booklets) by researching and writing about each topic using the provided…
Working in a literature-circle group, read an assigned/selected historical fiction novel, complete a notetaking guide, spoke diagram, plot diagram, character chart, sensory description chart, and other-literary-elements chart; build a storyboard; track daily accountability for homework/classwork; complete a…
Students assemble a 3-folder lapbook base and complete more than 20 individual foldable/cut-and-glue booklets (including Map, Warfare, Slavery, Philosophers, Science, School, Religion, Who's Who mythology, Women, Homes, Home Life, Clothing, Food, Art, Music, Olympics, Timeline, Literature, Parthenon, and Vocabulary)…
Practice hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling on a shading worksheet, then apply shading and creative imagery within one of eight bottle-shaped drawing templates.
A full print-and-teach novel unit for 'Tuck Everlasting' (Natalie Babbitt), combining pre-reading discussion, chapter comprehension questions, figurative language instruction, projects, quizzes, a review game, and tests, aligned to Common Core.
Teacher instructions for guiding students to build two Scratch coding games (a Goalie Game and a Catch It Game) that teach computational thinking concepts.
Rotate through stations (10-15 minutes each): read provided background readings (e.g. on the Elizabethan Age, religion, education, British peerage) and fill in blanks on a notes worksheet, compare a historical map of Shakespeare's London to a modern map and discuss differences in groups, and play a 'Who Said It?'…
Students complete a range of geography projects and pull-out activities: mapping, timelines, biography projects, cultural food projects, board games, geography bingo, and presentations.
A planning and assessment presentation supporting a video game coding project, providing a two-week work schedule and detailed 4-level rubrics for coding and design.
View included pictures of Día de los Muertos and Shradh ceremonies, participate in a teacher-led discussion comparing the two traditions, create a Day of the Dead mask using included cut-out templates and craft materials, read an informational passage about Día de los Muertos, answer reading comprehension questions, and write a short…
Watch instructional videos and complete accompanying video worksheets, participate in a hands-on "Penny Wise" budgeting simulation activity (adapted from a Bean Salary game), and compile the pieces into a personal budget project; a paperless Google Slides copy of the project is also provided via a linked Google Drive…
Read historical background on the founding of D.C. and the evolution of the National Mall plan (L'Enfant plan, McMillan Commission); use the two identical sets of 27 monument/memorial/museum photo cards to play a memory-matching game, sort cards by category (museums/monuments/statues), build a lapbook, or create a…
Teach children (ages 8-14) a core programming concept (arrays/lists (storing and using multiple data items)) using the visual programming language Scratch 3.0, as part of the "Professor Cody Teaches Kids to Code" series produced by Edulito, a UK-based educational publisher.
For each of the 10 amendments: copy the original amendment text, explain its meaning in their own words, explain why it matters, and create a visual representation (drawing, word cloud, or found image), citing sources; for Amendments 1 and 5, address each of their 5 sub-clauses separately; find and summarize a current U.S. news article…
Students first review construction vocabulary practice cards (terms like bricklayer, crane, dump truck, hard hat, excavator), then play a hangman-style game in class by guessing letters of construction terms/words via mouse clicks on the projected slides; the teacher's figure is 'hanged' one body part at a time for…
Create two original minimalist pieces using negative space to depict a profile's accessories without the face itself (one of the student's own profile, one of a superhero/fictional character requiring teacher approval); pick two of the four named artists and recreate one famous work from each; write two one-page…
Give students a clear layout for organizing six events along a horizontal timeline. Boxes alternate above and below the line, leaving room for a date and a short description of each event. Replace the sample years and placeholder text with the sequence you want students to study. For a different level of writing support, the differentiated timeline templates provide other layouts.
Students take part in daily lessons and guided notes, read original leveled science passages, complete practice worksheets and vocabulary activities, conduct labs/quick investigations and an open-ended STEM engineering challenge per unit, complete exit tickets, quizzes, performance tasks and unit tests, and finish…
Read an independently selected historical fiction novel, then complete a spoke diagram, plot diagram, character chart, sensory description chart, and other-literary-elements chart; create a storyboard; and present findings in small groups.
One partner ('the expression machine') secretly selects an algebraic expression from a leveled table; the other partner supplies an input number, and the first partner mentally evaluates and states the output; the guessing partner must deduce which expression was chosen from the outputs given, then roles switch.
Students complete everyday writing activities and special writing projects, use poetry forms for content writing, and apply the Four Square method to content-area writing tasks.
Students review construction vocabulary practice cards, then play a click-based memory-matching game: click grid coordinates to flip cards and find matching pairs, continuing until all cards are matched.
Read mentor text passages (from the novel and its graphic novel adaptation) as writers, analyze the author's craft techniques using graphic organizers, sentence frames, and word banks, then apply those techniques to their own writing-in-progress; longer mini-units guide students through revision workshops on science fiction writing and…
Students assemble a 3-file-folder lapbook base, then cut out, fold/assemble, and complete a series of numbered booklets (e.g. Causes Of The War, John Locke, No Taxation Without Representation, British Taxes, Boston Massacre, Committees Of Correspondence, The Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts, Lost Territory, Who They…