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Close reading simulations for Montessori
Pioneer Unit / Oregon Trail Game
Do you love the game Oregon Trail? This unit includes a whole class version of the game!
This is a Problem Based Learning Unit all about the pioneers of our great nation. I created this unit for my second graders, but you could use it for older children too. This unit is very detailed. It integrates ELA skills, social studies, history, and provides the opportunity for creativity as well as FUN!
The children get to "go along" in the journey. This unit has three parts. Check out the Preview Fil
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2nd - 5th
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The Great Gatsby: Chapter 8 & 9 - Gatsby's Funeral & Close Reading {EDITABLE}
If you're teaching The Great Gatsby, you might need a few extra ideas to get you through chapters 8 and 9. How about some small group close reading and throwing a funeral for Gatsby? This product includes a wide variety of lessons to help students through close reading and literary analysis, including a writing project where students compose either an elegy or eulogy for Gatsby. These lessons and activities are COMPLETELY EDITABLE on Google Drive and can be used to supplement your current plan
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Great Gatsby: Activity, Lesson & Assessment Bundle
Dust Bowl Mystery: Inquiry-Based Intro. to Great Depression!
The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl have fascinated kids and adults for years. Use this mystery to harness that fascination and engage students in an inquiry-based investigation that they will remember all year long!This lesson is SO FUN when used as an introduction to a unit about The Great Depression. I let them try to solve the mystery first and THEN tell them that our next unit will be about The Great Depression. It's the perfect way to get them asking questions and build genuine curiosit
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4th - 8th
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The Most Dangerous Game Mock Trial
After being hunted for three days by General Zaroff, Sanger Rainsford is now on trial and being charged for Zaroff's murder. Was Rainsford truly acting in self-defense, or did he willfully and intentionally kill General Zaroff and feed him to his hounds? Your students will RAVE about this mock trial based on Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game"! What better way to get students to practice literary analysis, argument development, and speaking and listening skills than with a mock trial
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Mock Election and Voting Simulation Unit
Let’s Get Out and Vote! This election simulation takes students from registering with paper applications or online, to researching the candidates, making campaign signs, voting in a mock election paper-based or online; you decide! Students collect the votes in a graph to decided who the winnign candidate is. Its a fun way to teach civil responsibility and learn about the election process. This unit is organized to be completed in 4-5 days. It has a plan at the beginning of each day along with
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3rd - 8th
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The Great Gatsby REVERSE Escape Room! Break IN to a New Unit with QR Codes!
Imagine a class Escape Room in REVERSE. Where student teams compete to break IN to a new unit of study, teaching themselves by solving asynchronous BYOD puzzles in a race against their peers and the clock.
Interested?
I've had a ton of fun designing and implementing themed escape rooms in my HS classes, but for as AMAZING as class escape rooms and tools like Breakout EDU can be (for real, they're fantastic!) -- I've found the traditional escape room to be somewhat limited when it comes to its
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9th - 12th
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Dealing with Murder Series: 2 Cases - Fatal Error and Dead & Breakfast
NOTE: While generally similar in process to the Unsolved Crimes cases, the Dealing with Murder cases have one significant difference. Rather than being given all of the case information at once, the information in the Dealing with Murder cases is provided in four sections in an effort to be more realistic and better represent the process of an actual investigation.
The Dealing with Murder cases merge science and literacy as students are required to be critical and active readers as they conduc
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7th - 12th
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To Kill a Mockingbird Escape Room: Escape from Bob Ewell (Breakout EDU)
Can you break the locks and make it safely back to Atticus Finch before Bob Ewell tracks you down to extract his revenge? Drive student engagement through the roof with this comprehensive Escape Room simulation in a race against the clock as students use knowledge of the plot, characters, setting, and events of To Kill a Mockingbird -- arguably one of the most beloved novels in all of American literature!
This Escape Room is designed to test your students’ knowledge of To Kill a Mockingbird in
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9th - 12th
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The Crucible Introductory Activity: Salem Cold Case Mystery Activity
Perfect for introducing The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, this three-day activity is the Salem Witch Hunt edition to the popular Cold Case File game. It encourages collaboration, critical thinking, and inference skills. This introduction activity puts your students in the shoes of Arthur Miller when creating the drama The Crucible based on this mark on America's History. This innovative lesson puts students in the driver's seat of their learning. They will analyze 14 pieces of historically accurat
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Crime Scene Investigation Reports Bundle Worksheets - True Crime - For Any Text
Unlock the door to real-world learning experiences with this Crime Scene Reports Bundle! It's the secret ingredient you've been missing for immersive learning that brings text and characters to life. This resource is perfect for inferencing skills, mock trials, pretend investigations, or any scenario where your students can put their critical thinking and creativity to the test.Included are three versatile templates in PRINT and DIGITAL:✅ Police/Incident Report: Dive deep into the world of law e
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7th - 10th
Coal Mining Simulation
This simulation is about coal mining, but does so much more than just having students take the chocolate chips out of a cookie!
Students have the opportunity to:
1. Build background knowledge of coal mining
2. Create a coal mining company and work with financial decisions
3. Go coal mining (yes, with chocolate chip cookies!), but coal companies will have events occur to them during and after the simulation (when they sell their coal)
4. Learn about strip/surface mining and reflect
5. Listen to a
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4th - 7th
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Reader's Theater: Honoring the Heroes of September 11th
Students will actively engage in dialogue that will increase their awareness of the events surrounding September 11th through a kid sensitive script based on a true story focusing on the human spirit. Stitches of Love tells the sweet story of the power of healing provided through a rescued flag from Ground Zero and the journey it made around our country to its final resting place in the 9/11 Memorial. By providing 16 individual parts, more students will have a chance to practice fluency, use th
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3rd - 6th
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Escape Room: Poetry of Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson (Breakout EDU)
Drive student engagement through the roof with this comprehensive Escape Room simulation in a race against the clock (and your classmates!) as students use knowledge of the poetry, biography, and literary impact of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to change the face of literature! Can you break the locks before the executors of Dickinson's Last Will and Testament see to it that her life's work is destroyed in the fire?For a sneak peek of the sort of adrenaline rush your classes can expect from t
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9th - 12th
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Escape The Room Where it Happens: Hamilton Escape Room (Breakout EDU)
Can you rewind time and save Alexander Hamilton from his fateful Weekhawken duel? Do not throw away your shot! Drive student engagement through the roof with this comprehensive Escape Room simulation in a race against the clock as students use knowledge of the plot, characters, poetic techniques, and events of Broadway's hip hop juggernaut, Hamilton: An American Musical.
This Escape Room is designed to test your students’ knowledge of Hamilton in a high-energy end-of-unit collaborative activity
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9th - 12th
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El Ecoturismo | Pre and AP | Not just for Earth Day | Día de la Tierra
El Ecoturismo is a content rich and engaging lesson created for mid and intermediate students preparing for the AP Spanish Language and Culture exam.Click HERE to see a Video Preview.El Ecoturismo has been formatted as Google Slides™, is appropriate for Homeschool, Activity Centers and Classrooms and includes the following:30 visually appealing slides to guide the teacher as facilitator in delivering this practice.the National Standards for Foreign Language Teaching for this particular resource.
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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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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Animal Farm Activity Bundle - Includes Mock Trial - Unit Plan - George Orwell
Immerse your students in the captivating world of Animal Farm by George Orwell with these FIVE resources! Encourage close reading, foster critical thinking, and spark lively discussions as students delve into the characters and events of the novel.Here are resources included in this bundle:⭐️ Animal Farm Character Trading CardsEach card features a vibrant illustration of a key character from the novel, along with essential details and quotes. Engage your students as they collect, analyze, and di
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7th - 10th
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Bird Activities for Preschoolers - Montessori Bird Unit
Introducing the All About Birds Bundle--Your preschooler’s ticket to a world of feathered fun!Are you looking for bird activities for preschoolers? This bundle of bird activities is a great supplement to a preschool bird unit.This collection of activities is going to make your kid into a real bird watcher, with engaging games and hands-on projects sure to excite even the most stubborn of sunup sitters.From bird facts, learning about the parts of the bird, types of nests, types of beaks, and math
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PreK - K
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Wassily Kandinsky Art Lesson K - 4th Grade Circles Art History and Project
This lesson plan introduces your students to Artist Wassily Kandinsky. The lesson is perfect for Kindergarten through 4th grade. Students will have the opportunity to practice scissor skills and design techniques using paper in a collage format or this can be used as a straight forward painting project. The lesson will invite the child to create a beautiful unique art piece based on the techniques used by Mr. Kandinsky and offers an opportunity to work with concentric circles. You can use this l
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Art Lessons 5 Pack Bundle Matisse VanGogh Kelly Klee Kandinsky Grade K-6
High Noon Books Set A-2 Bundle Complete Set!
This is a 6 book, end of chapter comprehension test bundle in use with the High Noon Books. High Noon Books are a great resource for a Montessori classroom or phonetic based reading programs. These end of chapter tests are a good tool for students to use to build comprehension and test-taking skills, while meeting their reading level as a sound-out reader. These comprehension tests are used in my multi-age classroom by both "on level" first graders and "behind level" third graders. The comprehen
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1st - 3rd
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Claude Monet Art Lesson Water Lilies Grades K-2 Art History Sub Plans
Claude Monet was a famous French painter whose work gave a name to the art movement called Impressionism, which was concerned with capturing light. The lesson is perfect for K through 2nd grade with some variations. Students will have the opportunity to explore directed line drawing and working with color and line. The lesson will invite the students to create a beautiful unique art piece inspired by Mr. Monet.You can use these lessons in the following ways:a unit on impressionism30-45 minute su
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PreK - 2nd
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Ohio 4th Grade Reader's Theater Mega Bundle!
Engage students with this yearlong set of Reader’s Theaters that follows the new learning standards for 4th grade Ohio Social Studies throughout the early history of our state and country! These 15 plays are perfect for the integrated classroom as they are each differentiated by reading level, contain a larger than normal number of character parts (for whole class participation), and are written with a high interest, historically accurate focus! Not only will students see major historical events
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3rd - 6th
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Morrie's Stories Lesson Book
When I began to teach essential literary concepts to my preschoolers, I found the need for some illustrations to help guide their understanding. I developed the Morrie's Stories Lesson Book to meet this need. This lesson book includes Montessori inspired cards to illustrate literary concepts, fully scripted lesson plans, and extension activities. This book contains four units and covers the basic elements of understanding literary fiction. The activities in each unit are designed to spread over
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PreK - 6th
Also included in: Literary Littles Reading Guides and Morrie's Story Lesson Book Bundle
Pablo Picasso Art Lesson Cubist Dogs Pre-K to 3rd Art History and Lesson
This art lesson features Pablo Picasso and his impact on Cubism and teaches your students to create a dog in Cubist style. This lesson is perfect for K-3rd grade students.In this lesson, your students will learn about Picasso's unique style of cubism and how he used simple shapes to create complex images. They'll also get to create their own mixed media art project inspired by the 'Dog and Rooster' painting.What teachers are saying:-Great! My students enjoyed!- A nice way to wrap up our Picasso
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PreK - 3rd
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Also included in: Picasso Art Lesson Bundle Guitar Mask Dog 2nd Grade Common Core
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