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ESL Getting to Know You Activities for Back to School - ESL Games - First day
These "getting to know you" activities were created with ELL Newcomers in mind to lower the affective filter, take off any pressure to have to speak and to allow connections to be made amongst the teacher and peers. 5 different activities are included with a quick direction sheet and the materials needed to complete the activity. The best part is how much you will be able to learn about your newcomer students without them even having to say a word!Let's Connect!Looking for more support?Click her
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K - 6th
Native American Tribes Research Project
This Native American Research Project is a great way to differentiate students learning based off of readiness levels, and interest. This Research Project gives students the ability to independently do their own research, while still being apart of a collaborative group.
How it works:
-Split students up into groups of five, and assign each group a separate tribe to research.
-Within each gruel assign each student a job (i.e. Anthropologist 1, Anthropologist 2, Geographer, Archeologist, or Hist
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3rd - 6th
Games Around the World
Connect children to their peers around the world through versions of traditional games like tag, hopscotch, tic-tac-toe, and dominoes. This fun and engaging product includes 35 games from 23 different countries* for students to explore and compare all year long. Each game card includes clear instructions to prepare and play the game, its country of origin, and printables when necessary.Also included...a world map for locating the country of the game they will be playinga summary list for the ma
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1st - 4th
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Perspective Taking Comic Strip Distance Learning Growing Bundle!!
This Growing Bundle has my best selling comic strip conversations interactive activities. They are designed for distance learning and engaging children. Interactive comic strips are great for perspective taking, inferencing, and story analysis. Guided questions included!It works similarly to a wordless picture book, but a wordless video! Watch together, then have the child retell. Type their words onto the comic strip and watch the magic happen.Share your screen with your student and view the cu
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1st - 12th
A Virtual Field Trip to Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Building background for students before reading a novel is one important scaffolding measure that teachers can take. Before starting A Thousand Splendid Suns, send your students on a virtual field trip to Afghanistan!WHY THIS ACTIVITY IS SO IMPORTANT:Besides building background knowledge for students, helping kids see a place in the world different from home and negatively pictured in the media is helpful for expanding their world view. This product features video by Afghani filmmakers, the be
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: A Thousand Splendid Suns: COMPLETE NOVEL UNIT
Global Awareness STEM Challenges | STEM Activities
Expose your students to the world around them through these STEM challenges These STEM activities will teach students about diverse people doing every day jobs such as artists and architects from around the world. These STEM activities are perfect preschool centers or Kindergarten centers. The art center resource is great way to add rigor to your art projects. Students will be challenged to build famous landmarks and homes around the world. We will also teach them about different cultures and
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PreK - 6th
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Cinco de Mayo Activities - May Digital Escape Room - Mexico Celebration
Cinco de Mayo is an annual celebration held on May 5, commemorating the anniversary of Mexico's victory in a battle with France. This fun digital escape room is a great way to learn more about Mexican culture. Students learn Spanish vocabulary, facts about Mexico, and more.While attending a Cinco de Mayo celebration, you've lost your piñata. You purchased the piñata to break open with your friends. To get your piñata returned, you have to solve puzzles and problems to break open the locks. Digit
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2nd - 5th
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Read Across America with Diverse Books
During Read Across America, this is a time to explore books from across America that shows our diversity as a country. In this product it includes 10 books with different activities. Books included are:-The Word Collector (explaining powerful words)-Those Shoes (wants vs. needs)-What If... (creating something from everyday objects)-The Most Magnificent Thing (inventing one thing or coming up with one goal)-Stella Brings The Family (labeling your own family)-All Are Welcomed (writing about when y
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K - 3rd
Project Based Learning - Native Americans | PBL | Build | Plans | Rubric
Exploring Native American soon? This project-based learning unit is filled with engaging activities and facts. The aim is to encourage students to explore the topic for an extended period.This unit is ideal for Native American Heritage month (November) or any time of the year. This PBL was “piloted” on a kindergarten class, but could be modified for pre-K level. It contains the following activities:KWL chart, Pocket chart picturesDrumbeats (syllables)
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K - 1st
Pride Month & LGBTQIA+ History & Culture: Digital Choice Board Activity
Whether you're celebrating Pride Month in June or are incorporating more LGBTQIA+ voices and experiences to diversify your curriculum, this digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25 different resources across the categories of: stories, poetry, art & music, books and culture.The goal of a choice board is to primarily provide choice to students - an opportunity to self-navigate their interests and explore new ideas. This activity can be used as a bell ringer, a we
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Digital Choice Board Activity Bundle: Monthly Celebrations
Newcomer ESL Resources
Years ago, I had an incredible opportunity to teach in Australia. After a few months of relief/supply/substitute teaching, I stumbled across a remarkable English language school network in the western part of Melbourne (Western English Language Schools). This government school taught English and Math to new arrivals to the country (immigrants and refugees) for 3-12 months (in small class sizes) before transferring them to state/public schools. I view it like a program that eases these children i
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K - 4th
Digital Choice Board Activity: Graduation & Coming of Age Theme
Making the transition out of high school and into the real world is a scary one, and it's likely your students haven't really had the time to process this or even think about what's going to happen at the end of the school year. If you have a class of graduating seniors that need something to do before the big graduation day, this choice board is the perfect activity to meaningly fill in some gaps!This digital choice board activity will help students gain exposure to 25 different supplementary
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Grades:
11th - 12th
Digital Choice Board Activity: The American Dream (for high school ELA)
The American Dream is a topic driving so much high school ELA curriculum, but sometimes can feel boring to students. If you're going to teach it why not use a juicy essential question? Using the Essential Question: Is the American Dream more likely to inspire or destroy? students will explore a variety of sources in search of the answer. This is the kind of activity that gives you the quick, bell-work, short, supplemental activities that you need for literacy, writing, and critical thinking
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8th - 11th
Year 6 History Project | Year 6 Australian Curriculum | HASS
This engaging project has Year 6 students using inquiry skills to research in HASS, Australian federation, life in 20th century Australia and an Iconic figure. Now suitable for home and distance learning with Google slides option. It has been designed to tie assessment with the Australian Curriculum Year 6, although it could meet Year 5 standards or for any class completing research on Australia.This resource includes: Printable student outline for projectSome key websites to help students start
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5th - 6th
Also included in: Year 6 HASS Australian Curriculum Bundle | Year 6 HASS
Broadway Musical Unit Study Guide For Rent HIV AIDS Struggle Poverty La Boehme
Part of a Bundle Rent, winner of the 1996 Pulitzer prize in Letters, Drama & Music demonstrates the consequences of the HIV/Aids epidemic of the 1990's. However, this lesson and study guide focuses on its origin, playwright & composer, songs, history of the Broadway musical and a mini-lesson the Tony Awards. This lesson suitable for an arts integration in an AP language arts or Honors social studies or drama class. Note: This lesson is most appropriate for senior high school. The le
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10th - 12th
4th Grade Wonders 2014-17 McGrawhill Vocabulary Tests Units 1-3 for weeks 1-5
This includes one vocabulary test for each week in units 1-3. There are 15 tests and answer key is included. The test has a vocabulary definition match portion and fill in the blank cloze story using the vocabulary words for the week. These are also sold by unit and as a bundle with Units 1-6 McGrawhill 2017
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4th
Distance Learning | Unlock the Box: STEM Around the World
Unlock the Box: STEM Around the World is designed to teach global awareness through STEM build challenges, and inspire teamwork activities for your little engineers! Students will use their passport and travel journal as they travel around the world with Beetrice and use clues from her travel postcards to help unlock the mystery package. This product is a growing bundle meaning that I am in the process of adding lesson plans, images of the design challenges, and more travel destinations. Current
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PreK - 3rd
Readers Theater Little Girl and Winter Whirlwinds Bulgaria Folktale
Part of a Bundle Need something for after winter break? Something to celebrate spring? Low prep and easy to read or present! This Bulgarian folktale adapted into a reader's theater script with roles for 25+ students is suitable for upper elementary gifted or middle school students studying fairy tales, L. Arts or Drama class. This piece could be a one or three-day study depending upon how much effort a teacher wants to expend. Need something for a substitute that lasts several days? Pick up
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4th - 7th
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Drama Reader’s Theater Inca Short Story The Magic Lake Folktale Peru Moral Story
Part of a Readers Theater Bundle The Inca folktale The Magic Lake is a dramatization of a Native American short story with roles for 20+ students and suitable for Social Studies studying indigenous people or South America, a Drama, Language Arts or reading classes. Students have fun while they strengthen their reading (fluency), speaking (diction) and listening skills (restating) while learning to work cooperatively. This product was created specifically for the classroom. This folk tale is ver
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Folk and Fairy Tales Readers Theater Scripts and Units Grades 4 to 7
40 Analogy Task Cards - Varied Practice
Improve your critical thinking skills with our Analogy Task Cards - Varied Practice. This set includes 40 task cards with three distinct question types, providing varied practice and ample opportunities to master analogies. Analogies are a common component of standardized tests, and mastering them can help you excel academically and professionally. WHAT’S INCLUDED:60 Printable Task Cards Color60 Printable Task Cards Black LineAnswer keyOur task cards are perfect for individual or group practice,
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1st - 4th
Interview a Veteran for Veterans Day, Memorial Day, DISTANCE LEARNING
Want your students to understand the importance of showing our veterans the appreciation and respect that they so greatly deserve? Interviewing a veteran about his/her experiences in military service is one of the best ways to cultivate within our students this sense of appreciation and respect for our veterans. Included in this interview form are twenty questions, as well as a page of helpful tips to consider when conducting an interview with a veteran.Your students may use this interview for
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3rd - 8th
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Digital Choice Board Activity: Great Leaders and Leadership | ELA Inquiry Lesson
If you've ever struggled to engage your secondary ELA students in critical thinking and discussion during a novel unit, you're not alone. Using the Essential Question: What does it take to be a great leader? students will explore a variety of sources in search of the answer. This is the kind of activity that gives you the quick, bell-work, short, supplemental activities that you need for literacy, writing, and critical thinking during any novel unit or lit circle unit that covers this topic. Thi
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Australia Aboriginal Flags activities BUNDLE | representing First Australians
With more than 30 different activities for kids, this Australian Aboriginal Flag activity BUNDLE will help you to create activities promoting a sense of community partnership a public commitment toward Reconciliation Australia. This packet contains activities to learn about the meaning and history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags through hands-on experience. WHAT'S INSIDE:+ 1 picture of the Australian flag, Aboriginal flag and Torres Strait flag flying together.+ 3 sets of 6-pi
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PreK - 6th
Storytelling Japan Student Created Pictures Drama Unit Kamishibai Drawing
IMPROVED! Dive into the world of Kamishibai storytelling with DramaMommaaSpeaks' captivating unit, where students embark on a journey of imagination and creativity, exploring the art of storytelling like never before. This 8 day low prep unit is focused on storytelling using a Japanese form of storytelling called Kamishibai as its springboard for inspiration. This unit is successful with fourth through seventh grade students and classes in language arts, reading, drama, world history, social s
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5th - 7th
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