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8th grade Winter fractions simulations
Winter Break Simulation | Last Day Before Winter Break Activity
This no-prep, game-based Winter Break Simulation will be a fun activity for the last day of school before students go on break! In this winter break activity with printable and digital options, students will work on their budgeting, problem-solving, and executive functioning skills to plan out a winter break trip for themselves and their friends! Simulations can be such fun and meaningful activities, but they often take a lot of work and preparation to set up, which is why we did all of the work
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Winter Activities and Printables Bundle for Teachers | Winter Break
Project Based Learning | Football Math and Reading - FUN for Super Bowl 2024
Get your students excited about the upcoming Super Bowl with this fun and engaging football-themed project! In this activity, students will imagine being a FOOTBALL MANAGER and will use close reading skills and creative thinking to design their own DREAM TEAM and practice real-world math skills. Go to new depths of learning with this Project-Based Learning activity. This differentiated resource uses elements of the Design Process as well as Depth and Complexity, so that students can further enha
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5th - 8th
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The Ultimate Basketball Learning Activity & Game - Data Management & Probability
DATA MANAGEMENT AND BASKETBALL!Can be used as a performance task for Data Management and Number Sense and Numeration! Want an exciting and fun activity to get students interested in Data Management? This is the resource for you! Combining competitive gameplay, exciting research, and fun this activity is a surefire way to get your class interested in Data Management. You'll create player profiles and using experimental probability determine the outcome of basketball games played between your
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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March Madness Activities | Project Based Learning | BASKETBALL Math and Reading
Get your students excited about the upcoming MARCH MADNESS BASKETBALL SEASON with this fun and engaging basketball-themed project!In this activity, students will imagine being a BASKETBALL COACH and will use close reading skills and creative thinking to design their own DREAM TEAM and practice real-world math skills.Go to new depths of learning with this Project-Based Learning activity. This differentiated resource uses elements of the Design Process as well as Depth and Complexity so that stude
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5th - 8th
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Math Escape Room Bundle
For one price get all FOUR of my escape rooms, and more as I continue to add them! These activities are a great way to review fraction and mixed number operations, the order of operations, and customary and metric measurement conversions. These can be used with many grade levels but align with 4th-7th grade math standards. Included is:-Order of Operations Escape Room-Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying and Dividing Fractions Escape Room -Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, and Dividing Mixed Numbers
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4th - 8th
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The Elf Escape: Help Buddy Save Christmas
You must get through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly, twirly gum drops, and then through the Lincoln Tunnel and into New York. The race is on. The Kringle 3000 is on the fritz and there is no time left to fix it. You and your team must help Buddy find the elements to bring Christmas cheer to an all-new level. The final puzzle will face you against the fake Santa and you must destroy the Throne of Lies...AKA The Beef and Cheese Throne. If you can destroy it an
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6th - 12th, Staff
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Drift into Winter REVERSE Escape Room: Break IN to ANY Lesson or Content Area!
Ready to "Fall" in love with a game-changing new pedagogy? Put the power of gamification to work for this seasonally spirited REVERSE escape room activity, guaranteed to add life and energy to ANY content area or grade level. Turn *any* (yes, any) existing lesson plan into an asynchronous puzzle solving challenge with a wintery twist. Introduce course routines, cool tech tools, and classroom procedures to turn your unit into an exploration that your students will love.
In this REVERSE Escape Ro
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5th - 12th
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Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies, Episode 3 (percents)
Choose Your Own Math-venture is a mathematical gamebook where students are faced with a zombie attack, solving equations using percents within an engaging adventure story. As students read, they face decisions that will change the path of the story. Correctly solving equations using their understanding of percents will help them make the best choices. This series of student-selected adventuring can be used to improve engagement, assess understanding, and/or support instruction as a center activi
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies (percents)
Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies, Episode 2 (percents)
Choose Your Own Math-venture is a mathematical gamebook where students are faced with a zombie attack, solving equations using percents within an engaging adventure story. As students read, they face decisions that will change the path of the story. Correctly solving equations using their understanding of percents will help them make the best choices. This series of student-selected adventuring can be used to improve engagement, assess understanding, and/or support instruction as a center activi
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies (percents)
Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies, Episode 1 (percents)
Choose Your Own Math-venture is a mathematical gamebook where students are faced with a zombie attack, solving equations using percents within an engaging adventure story. As students read, they face decisions that will change the path of the story. Correctly solving equations using their understanding of percents will help them make the best choices. This series of student-selected adventuring can be used to improve engagement, assess understanding, and/or support instruction as a center activi
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Choose Your Own Math-venture: Zombies (percents)
Using Proportions to Estimate Fish Populations Simulation: Capture - Recapture
Show your students how proportional thinking is used by scientists to estimate wildlife populations using a capture - recapture process. In cooperative groups, students will use a lake (paper bag) full of fish (beans) to capture, tag, recapture, and record their findings. They will use their data to write proportions and estimate the total number of fish in the lake. Students will use easy-to-follow instructions on an editable Google Slides presentation and record their data and work on an in
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6th - 9th
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Compare and Order Numbers Activity
This activity is designed to be used weekly (all year) to reinforce comparing and ordering numbers, and the numbers get more complex as the year progresses. The students will start with just positive integers, and end with ordering all forms of numbers on a single number line. To use this activity, you will need to hang a taught piece of string or yarn somewhere in your room that is easily accessible to all students upon their entry to the room. Each student will be given a number and needs t
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5th - 9th
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Buying a Home: Everyday Life Skills Math Series: Booklet
It is everyone’s dream to some day own their own home. This activity is designed for middle school, junior high school, and beyond to introduce or review basic mathematical theory while preparing each student for Real World experiences. The “Buying a Home” packet will explain the terms and concepts that each student will face when looking to purchase a home. Terms such as mortgage, closing costs, adjustable rate mortgage (ARM), and others will be discussed throughout each activity. Activitie
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
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EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING SLIDES OT: Simulated Grocery Store Shopping Life Skills
Virtual Trip to the Grocery Store Executive Functioning Activities Slides: These slides work on a TON of life and EF skills. UTILIZE IN EDITABLE POWERPOINT MODE. Students must organize items, follow lists, manage time, engage in money management skills, scanning and problem solve GREAT for practicing/improving mouse/track pad skills by dragging and dropping images PERFECT for Occupational Therapy session, life skills classes, Speech Therapy Classes, General and Special Education General Class.
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Conversions - Human Number Line Activity
This activity is designed to be used a fun review for converting between fractions, decimals, and percents.. As students enter the room, you will tape a number to their back (they will not look at it).
They can only as "yes" or "no" questions until they determine the value of their number. Once they do that, they will then go to the front of the room to create a human number line based on how their number compares to the rest of the class.
STAAR, TEKS, Number line, Conversion, Compare,
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5th - 9th
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Winter Holiday BUNDLE: Reverse Escape Room, Essay Writing, & Peer Review Games!
Happy Holidays!Looking to change the game on your December instruction? This three product bundle contains everything you’ll need to turn content from ANY unit into a holiday-themed series of student-centered activities (saving you 25% vs. purchasing each product separately), and it includes: Drift into Winter REVERSE Escape Room: Break IN to ANY Lesson or Content Area!The #QRBreakIN pedagogy transforms any course content into a “REVERSE” Escape Room for 2-3 days of small group centers activity.
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5th - 12th
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Conceptual Understanding for Operations: Rectangular Models
This PowerPoint includes animations for operations of whole numbers, decimals fractions and place value with rectangular models. You can demonstrate to students side-by-side the procedural and conceptual steps to add, subtract, multiply and divide rational numbers. To properly show animation, present to Presentation View. This item is designed to make teachers' explanation of operations meaningful and connect different levels of rigor. Topics include: place value, adding whole numbers, subt
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1st - 9th, Adult Education
Fraction Division using String!
After a discussion of reciprocals, students work in cooperative groups to prove the fraction division algorithm by folding lengths of string into fractional parts. After practicing by dividing a whole number length of string, they divide a fractional string length into smaller fractional parts.
Aha Moment: When finished, students will have proven why the abstract concept of fraction division is equal to multiplying by the reciprocal of the second fraction.
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5th - 8th
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Changing Mixed to Improper
The two slides on this PPT are animated to show the check mark method of changing a mixed number into an improper fraction.
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4th - 9th
Holiday Genetics Lab
This is a festive spin on a classic lab. Students will use pennies to determine the alleles for different traits of a holiday character. This product includes the option to do either a snowman or reindeer or both and is editable! I usually give my students the option to draw their creations for extra credit to add a little creativity.
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8th - 12th
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HS-LS3-3
Activity: Stimulus/Response
Students use this interactive activity to learn about internal/external stimuli by measuring their heart rates
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6th - 8th
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Water Jug Bomb Defusal - A "Ratios" Ticking Clock Scenario
Water Jug Bomb Defusal is a great task to get students thinking and working in math teams to solve a fun problem. See how many solutions your students can come up with. My own students really enjoyed this task. An explosive (and positively cinematic!) good time for a Thinking Classroom. Enjoy!
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6th - 8th
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Using Visuals to Model Fraction Operations
This PPT helps kids make sense of fraction operations by using visuals to illustrate them. The PPT can be customized to meet your needs, as you can click and drag whole bars or individual pieces.
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5th - 8th
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