Markers in Boxes Remix is a remixed version of the original Illustrative Mathematics activity. I've added an additional set of problems for practice or extension of the concepts covered.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Multi-day hands on lesson to teach strategies for comparing sets: matching, counting, equal shares
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This game will give students an opportunity to review two-digit addition. Students will either work with a partner or indpendently to go to different desks where a new math problem will be solved. They will record answers on the provided answer sheet, or can just number their paper in a notebook and write problems and answers by the correct number.
Material Type: Assessment
This water cycle lesson includes a 3-day module on the water cycle with formative assessments (warm-ups & exit tickets), flashcards, and a project. The project helps students recognize local water cycle stages that happen in/around their home, community, or state. The project also challenges students to collaboratively create their own water cycle diagram. The Google Slides format allows educators to copy and modify the materials to fit their needs and can be accessed here: http://bit.ly/localwatercycle.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is a math lesson plan and exit ticket for 4th-grade symmetry. Students should be familiar with symmetry before beginning this lesson.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Short and simple Powerpoint lesson to present students with the basic ideas about germs.
Material Type: Lesson
Students will use distance and perimeter on the coordinate place to determine which fence company offers the best price for fencing a yard. Depending on the level of the class, students can use the Pythagorean Theorem or the distance formula.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Formative Assessment, Homework/Assignment
Students will use distance and perimeter on the coordinate plane to determine which fence company offers the best price for fencing a yard. Depending on the level of the class, students can use the Pythagorean Theorem or the distance formula.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Formative Assessment, Homework/Assignment
Students will practice measuring the diameter and radius of various circular objects. Next, they will discover the ratio of pi to about 3. Then, using the number 3.14 for Pi, students will find the area of the various circular objects.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
Students will be able to recognize basic greetings, date, age, and birthdates by reading a letter from a pen pal and answering comprehension questions.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This resource is meant to supplement lessons on completing the square (quadratic equations) in order to find the vertex of a quadratic function and write the function in vertex form. The practice problems provide scaffolding to allow students to slowly build up to fully using the process of completing the square.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This resource is part of Tools4NCTeachers. This packet contains exit tickets for standards NBT.1 and NBT.7. Exit tickets are written responses to questions posed at the end of a lesson. They are brief assessments which allow the teacher to determine student understanding of the concepts and skills taught that day. At the beginning of the school year, it may be necessary to display a blank copy of the exit ticket on the board and read aloud to students. As teacher reads, students work independently on their own copy of the exit ticket.
Material Type: Assessment, Formative Assessment, Self Assessment
The message or lesson I must learn from the story: Theme Theme is what the story teaches you
Material Type: Reading, Vocabulary
This activity introduces the novel The Book Thief by having students explore the text features of the novel before reading it. There are two versions to support varying levels.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This guide prepares students to write an argumentative letter on a social justice issue of their choice. It includes a review of argumentative structure and resources to assist them in finding an informational article on an issue they would like to address.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Vocabulary
This anticipatory guide is an introduction for any units that have a thematic focus on displacement and community. Students respond with their initial positions on the statements. Evidence is based on personal experience at the beginning. They return at the end of the unit to the statements and provide evidence from the texts in the unit to support their responses.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Students analyze the argumentative structure employed by Robert Lake (Medicine Grizzlybear) in his essay "Indian Father's Plea." There are three versions with varying levels of support.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This activity gives students the opportunity to look closely at the connotation in Countee Cullen's poem "Any Human to Another." There are three versions with varying levels of support.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
In this activity, students look closely at persuasive imagery in Nadine Gordimer's "A Chip of Glass Ruby." There are three versions with varying levels of support for students.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
