During the fall, students and their families are beginning to visit different farms in the area. They go to the Pumpkin Patch to find the perfect pumpkin to turn into a jack-o-lantern! This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to learn the about the life cycle of a pumpkin through investigation and exploration.
Material Type: Assessment, Diagram/Illustration
Resources needed: 1:1 devices; access to print and digital materials, sites; posterboard, paper markers; iPad for Chatterpix; paper, pencils;
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Self Assessment, Vocabulary
After launching the unit on animals in winter by speaking with an expert, students choose an animal/topic to research. Students then decide which idea from the choice board to pursue to share their learning.
Material Type: Formative Assessment, Self Assessment
This lesson will be completed once students have read the script of the play A Raisin in the Sun and watched the film adaptation. Students will complete a learning menu that includes an appetizer, entree, and dessert. All students will complete the same appetizer and entree but will then have a choice for their dessert.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This culminating performance task is to be completed once students have finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry. All students must complete the white square labeled number 5. Students will then pick one blue square and one yellow sqare to complete.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
This lesson will be completed once students have read the script of the play The Monsters are Due on Maple Street and watched the film adaptation on The Twilight Zone. Students will complete a learning menu that includes an appetizer, entree, and dessert. All students will complete the same starter and main course but will then have a choice for their dessert.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This choice board will work best after teaching all of the NBT standards as it includes choices for multiplying whole numbers, dividing whole numbers, adding and subtracting decimals, and dividing decimals.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This mini choice board was used as a center in my math class. I used slidesmania to display the options in a fun way.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will choose any activity of their choice from their Choice Board. All of these activities releate to Greek Myths that we have read in class. They teach the students allusions and how to determine the meaning of unknown vocabulary words found in context.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will learn about and track the phases of the moon
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will explore animal habitats
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will choose a famous African American from history by researching grade-level articles, resources, and biographies. They will explore the life and legacy of their person and create a biography tab book documenting their important events.
Material Type: Lesson
Students will have a choice in their level of engagement with holidays around the world.
Material Type: Lesson
Function end of unit review function board.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will complete a Functions Choice Board they will have two options from each section. What is a function, graphing linear functions and Graphing Quadratic.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Every year in October, there is Fire Safety Week! Students will research and learn about Fire Safety.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will get a hands-on experience with surface area using 3D pens and VR glasses.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
The resource is a mutli-day hyperdoc to use as a whole unit of study on Saving the Sea Turtles. The unit includes ideas for incorporating opinion writing on why/how we can help and save the sea turtles. The unit includes making sea turtle bracelets to sell to benefit the North Carolina ea Turtle Aquarium.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment
Complete the “Butterfly Experience” together to observe the life cycle of a butterflyEngage students by completing theButterfly Choice Board
Material Type: Lesson
