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Answer 44 task-card questions about the setting, characters, plot, and theme of Hatchet using academic vocabulary terms (infer, characterize, interpret, conclude, analyze, etc.), played via ZAP, SCOOT, or SCATTER game formats, or answer the same style of questions in a Jeopardy-style PowerPoint or Google Slides game…
Students complete a range of geography projects and pull-out activities: mapping, timelines, biography projects, cultural food projects, board games, geography bingo, and presentations.
Match domino tiles whose terms/statements/questions on light reflection and refraction correspond to each other (e.g. matching a term to its definition or a diagram feature to its label), following standard dominoes play rules (draw 7 tiles, match ends, first to empty hand wins).
Play a 5-part self-checking digital game: review citing-evidence steps, use an embedded text to answer questions, and build a paragraph using citation skills.
Listen as the teacher reads a definition from a 35-term calling card, find the matching term on their own bingo card, and mark it; first to mark 5 in a row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) calls BINGO and reads back their marked terms to verify.
Answer trivia questions about digital citizenship and cyberbullying (e.g. social media age restrictions, what counts as cyberbullying, digital footprint, data mining) to claim tic-tac-toe squares, playing in teams or as a class.
A physical education game packet of 10 net/racket/striking games (each named after a popular streaming show), each with a lesson plan, gym layout visual, and supplemental materials, to build net-game skills, teamwork, and striking with an implement.
A teacher's personal collection of ten favorite back-to-school ice breaker activities for middle school, designed to help students get comfortable with classmates and the teacher at the start of the year.
8th Grade End of Year ELA Review Worksheets & Games Prepare your students for high school success with this rigorous and engaging Grade 8 End-of-Year ELA Review Packet ! This comprehensive middle school ELA resource helps eighth graders strengthen analytical reading, argument writing, MLA citation, allegory analysis…
A multi-activity worksheet packet reviewing multiplication/division facts, factors, multiples, prime factorization, and LCM/GCF for older students who still need fact fluency practice.
In pairs or small teams, students secretly place six markers ('bases') on six different countries on their own map, then take turns naming an country and asking whether the opposing team has a base there, recording hits (√) and misses (x) on a score sheet across up to five rounds plus a tournament bracket (semi-finals/finals).
Mark vocabulary terms on a bingo card as the teacher reads definitions aloud; first to get four in a row wins.
Choose/research 8 potential 'dream jobs' from a provided list (or their own ideas), look up average salaries and required education, then play a relay-style charades game ('Guess the Occupation') using occupation flash cards.
Read teacher-directed lesson content and complete accompanying activities/games (e.g., a Constitutional Convention timeline matching exercise) for each section of the Constitution.
Play the printed Snakes and Ladders board game, answering the question printed on each numbered square when landed on (e.g., name a famous Chilean person, describe two important historical events, identify the currency and describe the economy, describe a place worth visiting in Chile).
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 access an external Google Slides link, review 4 steps for citing evidence, use those steps with an embedded text to answer self-checking questions about point of view, and use their analysis of text structure to build a paragraph.
Free download Review vocabulary term/definition cards, then click coordinate squares to flip pairs of cards and find matches; unmatched pairs flip back over.
In pairs, roll two dice (one for a row, one for a column, like Battleship coordinates), read and answer the self-care discussion prompt at the intersection, mark the square with an X, and try to get Bingo or Blackout; rolling a 6 lets the player choose any square.
Photocopy-master activity book of PE/physical-education activities to foster an active lifestyle for students ages 11-13, for use in whole-class, small-group, or individual PE settings.
Students access an external Google Slides link, review 4 steps for citing evidence, use those steps with an embedded nonfiction text to answer self-checking questions about point of view, and use their analysis of text structure to build a paragraph.
Complete phonogram review sheets requiring phonetic reading and syllable-division marking (e.g. 'a…a…at…satʹis•fy'), play Silent E matching games and homophone matching games, and read phonics poems.
Rotate through 5 stations: solve algebra word problems (depreciation, hourly cost, sequential totals, simple equation solving); play an input/output expression-guessing partner game at two difficulty levels; build a growing pattern with manipulatives and derive a pattern rule/expression; solve one-step equations and…
In pairs or small teams, students secretly place six markers ('bases') on six different state capitals on their own map, then take turns naming an capital city and asking whether the opposing team has a base there, recording hits (√) and misses (x) on a score sheet across up to five rounds plus a tournament bracket…