Students will delve into Emily Dickinson's, "The Moon," to find different types of figurative language. Developing writers will love sharpening their reading comprehension skills with this poetry analysis activity.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This list of games for Spanish class includes several games that can be modified depending on the vocabulary unit you are teaching. Games encourage listening comprehension, speaking practice, or both.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this lesson, students are introduced to equivalent fractions using fraction strips. This lesson focuses on 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/8.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Taking inspiration from the printed fabrics used in the Pratt Family Album Quilt, each student will create their own printing block and five prints. They will then swap prints with other students. After swapping prints, each student will assemble a quilt that is unique and personal.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Tens and Ones
Material Type: Assessment
This task encourages students to develop some flexibility regarding how composite rectangular prisms can be decomposed to determine their volume. This task brings together students' knowledge of Operations and Algebraic Thinking and the measurement strand of the Measurement and Data domain. Students are required to analyze the thinking of another student, therefore they must work backwards to understand each approach.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Explore the basics of air pressure in this interactive tutorial.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will use their knowledge of genres of literature to create posters for disply in the library or classroom to use as a reference.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This resource provides activities for teaching students how to respect personal space.
Material Type: Reading
This is an informational e-book I wrote about pelicans in one of the classes for my master's degree. It has questions and information you can click on to work on comprehension questions.
Material Type: Reading
A reflection sheet that allows readers in elementary to reflect without writing everything out. They can choose the box and color it in and write only a few words. The resource can be modified to fit the particular student.
Material Type: Self Assessment, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Students explore place value and comparing numbers with this interactive. There are two birthday cakes with candles, students must use arrows to even out the candles until each cake has the same number.
Material Type: Interactive
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about place value problems involving money.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
Students match text features to there definitions. Students will then use the provided text features book to cut out and paste examples of text features in non-fiction works as well as describe how the text feature supports their reading.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this Khan Academy interactive, students will solve addition word problems using objects to represent the problem, when solving "add to - result unknown" problems.
Material Type: Interactive
In this unit, students will become familiar with fables and trickster tales from different cultural traditions and will see how stories change when transferred orally between generations and cultures. They will learn how both types of folktales employ various animals in different ways to portray human strengths and weaknesses and to pass down wisdom from one generation to the next. Use the following lessons to introduce students to world folklore and to explore how folktales convey the perspectives of different world cultures.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Students learn information about children with special needs.
Material Type: Reading
This site is a series of video lectures and interactive exercises for teaching basic mathematics skills to first graders. It has separate addition and subtraction skills reviews numbers up to 10, 20, and 100; a section on telling time and reading clocks as well as course material on measurement and geometry.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lecture
This is a fun interactive game for students to practice thier basic multiplication fact fluency.
Material Type: Interactive
This resource is an anchor chart for the standard 3.MD.8. It includes the definition of perimeter, how to find perimeter when all side lengths are given, and how to find the missing side length when the perimeter of rectangles and other polygons are given. This resource could be added to a digital learning wall for students to refer back to throughout the school year as needed. (Padlet, Google Slides, Etc.)
Material Type: Formative Assessment
