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Camping Themed End of the Year Activities for 3rd & 4th grade - All Subjects
Do you want an engaging end of the year unit? Relate camping to science, social studies, math, and reading in 3rd or 4th grade!! All activities are rigorous, engaging, and upper elementary focused!You can transform your classroom into a campground or just work through a theme, either way these high level activities will keep your students engaged!How will this help the teacher and student?Engagement- Students will be engaged the ENTIRE time you are learning about camping and working with the the
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Also included in: End of the Year BUNDLE Activities, Awards, Writing, Camping, and more
Shark Tank Elementary Economics Project for Inventors and Entrepreneurs
Loosely based on the show, Shark Tank.... this is a great unit to use for late elementary and middle school students to learn economic terms while working through the planning process of designing a good or service as an entrepreneur. Includes planners for all steps of the process and links to Shark Tank snippets on YouTube as examples too! Thank you and enjoy! ⭐ CHECK OUT THE FULL PREVIEW ABOVE! ⭐ * Each section of the project below includes teacher directions * Links to Shark T
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2nd - 7th
ZOO ANIMALS Math Literacy Centers and Activities Theme Unit Preschool 132 pages
ZOO ANIMALS Theme Unit Pack for Preschool - This is a comprehensive set of activities with a ZOO ANIMALS theme - make hands-on, interactive centers and learning games for your preschool and pre-K classroom. 132 pagesClick on the PREVIEW link to see most pages, and to decide if this is the educational level you are looking for. Contents:Large zoo animal cut outs for small group recognition, description, bulletin board, flannel board, stick puppets etc. (16 zoo animals)Word/picture strips plus hea
Grades:
PreK - K
Also included in: HUGE BUNDLE 23 Big Theme Packs for Year Preschool PreK All Subjects
Personal Finance Project with Job Planning, Budgeting, and Financial Choices
This Independent Living Project for Job Planning, Budgeting, and Making Financial Choices includes math practice, realistic job choices, working within a budget, and making independent living decisions. What a well-rounded activity! When you finish the month-long project center/warm up activity, your students can pick a new job, try to make better choices, and you can run this project again - so easy to reuse, meaningful for students, and a great opportunity to work on functional skills.What You
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Not Grade Specific
Community Helpers and Their Tools
Community Helpers - What tools do they use? This is a collection of activities about Community Helpers and the tools that they use in their work, for preschool and Pre-K.45 pagesThis resource has been updated.The primary emphasisis the social studies aspect of furthering the understanding our community, and the fact that most adults have jobs in order to make money to support themselves and their family.The secondary emphasis with these activities is on oral language and discussion; vocabulary e
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PreK - K
Making Inferences Unit, Grades 3-5, Common Core Reading
This 60+ page Making Inferences unit focuses on identifying learning goals with students, teaching them how to develop strategies for becoming more effective readers, and then providing activities for them to practice these strategies in various ways. I've included fiction and nonfiction reading passages, anchor charts, graphic organizers, task cards, and other activities in this unit for inferring character traits, feelings, setting, author's viewpoint, and theme.*** Be sure to download the 20-
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3rd - 5th
Hibernation Migration Adaptation Winter Animals Kindergarten Science
Hibernation, Migration, and Adaptation of winter animals is the focus of this 10 day inquiry-based kindergarten science unit!
Also includes a shelter design challenge full of critical thinking and hands-on problem solving!
Next Generation Science Standards* aligned!
Literacy skills are embedded into the lessons: Non-fiction text, speaking/listening, writing response, and technology
A compelling question guides the unit and supporting questions help students to focus their knowledge and build
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PreK - 1st
Project Based Learning+End of Year FUN:Design A Dream House 4th Common Core Math
I designed this project to give my students (and myself!) some relief after standardized testing at the end of the year! It is a FUN and EDUCATIONAL math project based on Common Core Standards.
During this project students will get to tap into their creative side and design the house of their dreams! They will use design skills, budget and money skills, area and perimeter skills, and geometry skills--all while being engaged and having fun!
Included in this item are:
-Slide presentation to
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Beach Themed End of the Year Activities for 3rd & 4th Grade - All Subjects
Make the end of the year fun and rigorous with these engaging, hands-on beach week activities! This set includes a full week low-prep beach activities perfect for the end of the year. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make these activities perfect for keeping content rigorous and engaging at the end of the year. Your students will participate in activities in every subject that revolve around a beach theme. The activities are fun, so students don't even realize they are still le
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3rd - 4th
Also included in: End of the Year BUNDLE Activities, Awards, Writing, Camping, and more
Project Based Learning with STEM and Research: Animal Habitats and Enclosures
The zoo needs help! Students work cooperatively to design an animal habitat and enclosure for the zoo! In this STEM project, students use their imagination and creativity to build an animal habitat and enclosure designed to meet their animal's needs. A fabulous way to integrate science standards for animals into your classroom!Students work in collaborative units to design a proper animal habitat for their chosen animal. Their animal enclosures must meet the project requirements to be safe for t
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Zoo Animal Habitat Bundle: PBL, STEM, Writing, Literacy
Santa's Sleigh: A Science Unit on Force and Motion
We visited Santa’s top secret reindeer-training facility and discovered the secrets of Santa’s sleigh. It’s not all magic...some of Santa’s sleigh driving know-how is based on science. Teach your Santa fans about force and motion with this hands-on unit about Santa’s sleigh and the reindeer’s work. Based on the disciplinary core ideas of the Next Generation Science Standards: K-PS2 Motion and Stability. For more information, go to: http://www.nextgenscience.org.Note from Jayne…Friends, I'm so pr
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Seasonal Science Units: Force and Motion AND Rocks and Dirt
Gifted and Talented - Living on Your Own: Lessons in Financial Responsibility
Challenge your gifted and talented to play the “game of life” and survive financially during their first year in college. This concept-based unit allows students to “earn” an inheritance from a distant relative by repurposing items from a barn. With this “money,” students find affordable housing, transportation, furnishings, and other essentials. Then the “game of life begins with monthly reoccurring expenses, opportunities to buy additional necessities and/or wants, as well as challenges or o
Grades:
5th - 8th
Bill of Rights Activity | Criminal Justice | Rules and LAWS
Your students will love investigating the Criminal Justice System especially when they approach it in a fun and engaging manner.Play the marshmallow game to understand why we have laws... play BINGO with the Bill of Rights, what's not to enjoy?This resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™ (By purchasing this set you are saving 20% off the individual resources)If you're looking for just the Print and Go or Digital versions, click the links below:Criminal Jus
Grades:
4th - 6th
Project Based Learning - Animals in Winter | PBL | plans | rubric | assessment
Animals in winter is a perfect resource for project-based learning. Let your students explore the wonders of how animals use different strategies to survive changes in their environment.This project based learning unit focuses on the animals chosen by the students, two animals that hibernate (bear and hedgehog), two animals that migrate (monarch butterfly and duck), and two animals that adapt (rabbit and deer) during the season of winter. This PBL was “piloted” on a preK class and they had a GRE
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Grades:
PreK - K
Summer Reading Comprehension | Summer Bucket List | Logic Puzzles | CSI Mystery
Here's an easy-prep bundle of fun for End of the Year Activities, Summer School or substitute plans. Great for those, "What do we do now that grades are turned in at the end of the year" teaching opportunities...By purchasing this BUNDLE you are saving 20% off each individual resource!Check out the PREVIEWS for more details to see what is included in each resource.These activities are Just Print and Go! Or Click and Go!**Digital versions are included for use with Google Classroom.**With the digi
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Valentine's Day Activities - 5 Science Experiments for First and Second Grades
VALENTINE'S DAY SCIENCE LABSI'm really excited about this latest set in the holiday science series! This pack has five (5) Valentine-themed investigations for the primary classroom.There are enough to do one each day during the week of Valentine’s Day OR you can plan a fun Valentine Science Day with your teammates where each teacher's room becomes an Investigation Station. Children can have fun rotating from room to room exploring multiple science concepts such as states of matter, energy, force
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1st - 2nd
Fantastic Food Trucks: Flexible No-Prep Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Welcome to the Fantastic Food Trucks PBL project! This project will lead your students through an amazing and in-depth journey as they design all aspects of their very own food truck business. With the provided grade-appropriate support, your students will design their menu, plan the layout of their truck, consider startup costs as well as how to market their business. There is a wealth of information in this packet to guide you and your students through this incredible learning experience. Whet
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4th - 9th
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Gifted and Talented Projects and Activities | STEM Activities and Challenges
Need a creative and fun way to share information about being GIFTED with your gifted learners? This is a creative and differentiated resource for gifted students in grades 4-6. This "Outta the Box" Classroom Competition has been used as part of a Monthly GATE Pullout Program, but could also be part of your gifted curriculum that supports teaching students about their unique social and emotional characteristics. This 2+ hour workshop can be done on a Fun Friday or within the week during a GATE ro
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4th - 6th
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Aesop for High School! 2-Week Fables Unit
Aesop's fables are for kids, right? Wrong! Always intended for an adult audience (and performed at the royal courts of ancient Greek city states), Aesop's original fables are a GREAT way to teach literary interpretation in your high school and upper middle school classrooms. Plus, the fables are perfectly bite-sized for discussion and activities.Included in this 28-page packet are the following: -- a 2-page introduction to interpreting fables and a 1-page Aesop biography-- 40 hand-selected fa
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Five Senses Pack {Bundled}
Five Senses Packs Bundled!I have bundled both my five senses packs so you can save big! Here is what is included:• Vocabulary Cards: Introduce vocabulary at the beginning of the unit and refer to throughout learning. Print and place in a pocket chart or around the room.• Five Senses Lotto Game: Game boards for each of the senses and pictures to go with each sense. Students pick a card and place on the correct card.• My Five Senses Emergent Reader: A simple reader that teaches about the fiv
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Apples: An Inquiry Based Unit of Study
Increase student engagement and deepen understanding!
Do you want your students to explore, investigate, research, study, and pursue topics based on curiosity to increase their understanding of the world?
This Apples: Inquiry Based Unit of Study will help you do create a more engaged, self motivated, and collaborative group of little learners. Go beyond the “cute” apple activities and delve into answering the questions that students really are interested in. Students will work collaborativel
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PreK - 2nd
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Summer / Outdoors Language Passages for Vocabulary, Idioms, and Inferencing
This collection of EIGHT higher-level language and critical thinking flip books is perfect for students from upper elementary through middle school. Each of the 8 books in this set contains an original short story around which the following language activities are centered:Emotions & Problem Solving Answer questions about characters in the story to practice labeling and describing emotions as well as perspective taking. Use problem solving skills to answer questions about alternative soluti
Grades:
2nd - 7th
Insects: Science, Literacy, & Math An Integrated Unit
Are you looking for something to wow first graders and parents alike? Are you looking for something that will cover Common Core Standards in an exciting, interactive way?
Get into insects and metacognition with this science and language arts unit. This interactive unit is great for community events such as Open House, Back to School Night, or Science Night.
This insect unit includes:
An Insect Exploration Book lined & Cloze frames with Home Letter
A Student-made Insect Book, including
Grades:
K - 2nd
Back to School Project Based Learning | STEAM Activities | Team Building | PBL
Want to add a little STEM to the classroom when you go back to school? This "Outta the Box" Classroom Competition can be done on a Fun Friday or throughout the week during your science block. The theme is BACK to SCHOOL. Students will learn a few tidbits of information about the history behind school desks and school lunches, but best of all, they will be challenged with building a new desk and creating a new lunch for their teacher!CHECK OUT the PREVIEW for MORE Details!What are "OUTTA The BOX"
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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